OTTAWA – Broadcasters’ requests to be paid for their signal by cable and satellite companies will remain a part of the TV Policy Review, the Commission told Telus this…
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OTTAWA – Moses Znaimer has now officially returned to broadcasting.
Today the CRTC approved his company’s purchase of classical music radio station CFMX Toronto from Trumar Communications, which is…
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OTTAWA – For all the concern about MP3s, streaming, wireless listening and other new technologies that are supposed to hammer radio, there sure are a lot of companies and…
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WINNIPEG – CanWest Global completed the sale of its 45% interest in Irish broadcaster TV3 today.
Officially, it sold "CanWest Granada Media Holdings Limited, which owns and operates the…
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TORONTO – Yeah, we know it wasn’t called "Sportsline" anymore, but that’s how Ontario sports fans of a certain age will remember it.
We fondly recall the years in…
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TORONTO – Delivering a message that smoking a less than intelligent choice for your health, MTV and the Ontario Ministry of Health unveiled a 50-foot banner on the east…
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EDMONTON – When the expanded four-hour BreakfastTelevision debuts Tuesday, September 5th on Citytv Edmonton, news anchor Rob Hislop and Weather Host Wendy Sandwith will share lead hosting duties.
Hislop is…
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TORONTO – Astral Media’s recently-launched high-definition classics movie channel MHD will offer high-definition programming ’round the clock starting Friday.
The new 24-hour high-definition schedule consists of programming from the…
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TORONTO – After passing the Competition Bureau and CRTC tests, Bell Globemedia announced today that it has completed the closing of its new ownership structure.
The CRTC approved the…
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WINNIPEG – Political and business heavyweight Derek H. Burney, O.C., has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of CanWest Global.
He joined the Board of CanWest in…
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