Radio / Television News

14 new digi-nets granted licenses

OTTAWA-GATINEAU –Teletoon Retro, D.I.Y. and Nostalgie are just three of the 14 new category two digital specialty channels approved by the CRTC Friday. A few of the new licenses… Continue Reading

Astral gets Tele-Vitesse license

OTTAWA – The CRTC Thursday granted a category two digital specialty service license to Astral Media for French-language speed channel Télé-Vitesse. Astral’s application proposes a service that would be… Continue Reading

Revenue and EBITDA climb at ATN

TORONTO – Led by a growing stable of digital specialty channels, Asian Television Network posted large increases in revenue and earnings. Revenues for first nine months of 2005, ended… Continue Reading

Mudryk joins TSN on-air team

TORONTO – Sports anchor Brian Mudryk is making the move from CTV Edmonton to TSN in Toronto. He makes his TSN debut tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 22) on the 2… Continue Reading

Shipton to lead Cancon at CanWest

TORONTO – Effective immediately, Christine Shipton will oversee all original programming, both fiction and non-fiction, for CanWest MediaWorks, as vice-president, original programming. Since joining Global last… Continue Reading