TORONTO – Shareholders of Leitch Technology approved the acquisition of the company by Harris Corporation for about $590 million at the special meeting of shareholders held this morning.
Over…
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TORONTO – Maintaining it’s long-standing support of Bullying Awareness Week, Astral Media’s Family Channel is launching its 2005 "Take the Pledge" campaign.
The week is November 14 to 20,…
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NEW YORK – Rogers Communications Nitasha Kalra has joined the board of directors of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications.
"With the incoming members, NAMIC strengthens the board’s diversity…
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TORONTO – Asian Television Networks has acquired the exclusive Canadian rights to the Videocon Cup, a twelve game cricket series with India vs. South Africa and India vs. Sri…
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OTTAWA – Major backers of an international convention on cultural protection are delighted it was adopted by the U.N.’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) last Thursday in Paris,…
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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…
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OTTAWA – After enduring a winter of cranky Canadian curling fans, frustrated at how and where their beloved game was being put on TV, the Canadian Curling Association officially…
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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…
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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…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Broadcaster Crossroads Television (CITS) will stay on basic cable on Videotron’s Quebec-Ontario border systems, the CRTC told the company today.
Videotron wanted to distribute the Christian broadcast…
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