TORONTO – For baseball fans, it was a week late in coming, but on Friday, Rogers Sportsnet announced that Sunday Night Baseball will return to the sports channel this…
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WINNIPEG – After reporting a consolidated net loss of $19 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2006 (way off the $28 million earned during the same time last…
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I FIND CARTT.CA AN EXCELLENT source of timely information about the exciting communications industry in Canada and occasionally we subscribers are treated to one of your humorous diversions, or…
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NEW YORK – Featuring user-generated content, Discovery Communications today showed off what will be its first broadband channels: Discovery Channel Beyond and Travel Channel Beyond.
Unveiled as a sneak…
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OTTAWA – In what’s got to be a first, a Canadian group is actually calling for a bigger CRTC.
The 150,000-member Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada said…
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OTTAWA – Governor-General Michaelle Jean mentioned the Environmental Protection Act, the Federal Accountability Act, the Canada Health Act, the Bank Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Despite much recent rumblings…
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SHOULD BROADCASTERS RECEIVE a wholesale fee for their signals from BDUs?
That will be one of the key questions for the industry and the Commission to answer in the…
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VANCOUVER – Tuesday was a rough day inside Corus Radio’s Vancouver cluster.
Twelve people were let go in a round of cost-cutting at stations CKNW, Mojo Radio, The Fox,…
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CALGARY – Canadian Video iPodders will soon have shows to download and view.
Calgary-based MoboVivo Inc. will begin offering legal downloadable television shows for the Apple Video iPod next…
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GATINEAU – The Commission granted licenses to a dozen of new category two digital specialty channels.
They are (with descriptions where needed and owners):
Soccer Television (Telelatino)
RCS Television (Rugby,…
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