TORONTO – On day one of the Toronto International Film Festival, Rogers Group of Funds announced today that it will partner with CBC and Telefilm Canada in their Feature-Length…
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TORONTO – Tomorrow night, Canadian broadcasters will simulcast Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast.
All six U.S. broadcasters will air the benefit concert and according to…
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OTTAWA – The CCTA has asked the CRTC to add nine more Asian TV channels to the eligible satellite list for digital distribution in Canada.
Dragon TV, Southeast TV Station…
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OTTAWA – Writer Guy Fournier has been proposed as the next chairman of the board of the CBC by Canadian Heritage Minister Liza Frulla.
Fournier will now face the…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Media Guild continues to call negotiations between itself and CBC “constructive” as the two sides continue to negotiate.
“Modest progress was made at the bargaining…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today approved Bell ExpressVu’s request to distribute partial or omnibus channels which contain original local and regional programming.
Satellite providers simply don’t have the transponder…
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LET’S SAY YOU’RE AN MP, a cabinet-member even. You’re no dummy, despite the reputation politicians have. You know a lot about a lot of things. As a cabinet member,…
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OTTAWA – Cheers for the upswing in scripted dramas, cheers for the downturn in reality, scorn for the plague of ‘amber alert’ series and Lost imitators, howls for the…
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WINNIPEG – As has been long rumored, CanWest Global Communications announced today it will offer an interest in its Canadian newspaper and interactive media businesses (with the exception of…
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WINNIPEG – TV3, the primary television network of CanWest Global’s New Zealand broadcast company, has emerged atop the ratings leaderboard in the country.
It led its main rivals, the…
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