TORONTO – Last evening, the Shaw Rocket Fund announced that Degrassi: The Next Generation, produced by Toronto's Epitome Pictures, is the first ever recipient of the $50,000 Shaw Rocket Prize.... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Toronto 1 has reportedly cut at least 20 staffers as two of its main local shows have been axed, says The Toronto Star’s media columnist Antonia Zerbisias in... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Alliance Atlantis has hired David Lazzarato as its new executive vice-president and chief financial officer. He starts May 30th. Lazzarato replaces Judson Martin who, it was announced earlier... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Rogers Sportsnet recorded its highest-rated CHL audience ever last Saturday during the Memorial Cup’s opening game between the OHL’s London Knights and the Rimouski Oceanic. The game pulled... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Asian Television Network (ATN) today announced that it plans to launch, as part of its bouquet of South Asian Television Channels across Canada, one of India's specialty television... Continue Reading
CREIGHTON, ONT. – Broadcasting from two kilometres inside the Canadian Shield just might have set a world record, says the cbc.ca web site today. “Points North, CBC Sudbury's afternoon radio... Continue Reading
WE’RE NOT BLOWING SMOKE to say that Alan Cross is what many people think of when the term “New Music” comes to mind. His “Ongoing History of New Music” has... Continue Reading
TORONTO - More than 150 broadcast news executives and journalists will converge on Toronto in two weeks for the National Conference of the Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA).... Continue Reading
TORONTO – CanWest Mediaworks made a pair of new hires last week, bringing Zev Shalev and Christine Shipton on board to boost Global Television’s content offerings. Shalev is CanWest’s new... Continue Reading
TORONTO - CHUM Television has teamed up with The Dominion Institute to raise awareness of its Passages to Canada educational initiative with a new public service announcement (PSA), announced the... Continue Reading
