MONTREAL – Jacques Bensimon will helm the National Film Board of Canada through the end of the year.
His term was due to expire on June 17th but the…
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TORONTO – The Score’s ever-present ticker was updated today.
The always-on sports information (even when ads are showing) is faster and easier to read and this next-generation ticker will…
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TORONTO – This is not your grandma’s upfront market.
Looking back at the good-ol’-days of the fall season’s upfront market – you know, 2003-’04 or so (when it was…
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TORONTO – With an announcement today that XM Canada has 80,000 subscribers, the market is officially reversed, as compared to the U.S.
Down south, XM is the market leader…
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TORONTO – Comcast-owned cable channel G4 has acquired CHUM Television’s strange and silly “Ed the Sock’s Night Party!”
The half-hour show will air on G4 (formerly G4techTV, formerly Tech TV),…
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TORONTO – The TV host who’s been synonymous with CBC Sports – especially the Olympics – for 30 years, Brian Williams, will start work for CTV this December.
In…
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TORONTO – Visitors to the CBC’s popular web source, www.cbc.ca, over the past few days will have noticed a dramatic overhaul of the service.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the…
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MONTREAL – The Alliance for Children and Television handed out its annual awards for excellence in French language youth television in Montreal on Thursday.
A total of 10 awards…
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TORONTO – Krista Harris, executive director, digital programming and business development for CBC’s English Networks, died suddenly on the weekend in her home town of Barrington, N.S. She was…
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BEGINNING WITH THE BIRCHBARK CANOES of the First Nations, exploring the interior of this continent, to the satellites in orbit transmitting news from Victoria to Signal Hill, Iqaluit to…
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