TORONTO – Radio and ad agency veteran Willie Reiss has joined the Foxy 88.5 sales department as an account executive, the company announced today.
“Willie Reiss is a media…
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MONTREAL – Quebec authors, artists and cultural enterprises have demanded the federal government overturn the CRTC’s decision to license two satellite radio operators in Canada.
A group of 10…
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TORONTO – Popular sportscaster Jody Vance has left Rogers Sportsnet.
The well-known, bespectacled 6 p.m. Sportsnetnews co-anchor (with Jim Van Horne) recently asked out of her contract early and…
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CALGARY – “The signs are going up, all our vehicles have been painted” says Al Thorgeirson, regional vice-president, CHUM Television, Alberta/Manitoba, referring to the few last details on his…
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VIEWERS IN BARRIE, LONDON, Windsor, Ottawa, Wingham, Victoria, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary will wake up to new channels on their dials this morning.
Thanks to the company’s acquisition of…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today granted a license for a new FM radio station in Pembroke, Ont., which is about 140 kms northwest of Ottawa, to My Broadcasting Corp….
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EDMONTON – The official switch from A-Channel to Citytv Edmonton doesn’t happen until Tuesday, but yesterday the channel announced that MuchMusic/MuchMoreMusic personality Bill Welychka and A-Channel’s weekend anchor Stacey…
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GATINEAU – A report on street gangs which aired on Tele-Quebec in January was not abusive, despite the use of the term “nigger gangs”, but was contrary to Broadcasting…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC will hear applications for four new English category two digital specialty channels in October.
Michael Garrow, owner of the Fight Network (which is scheduled to…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC will hold a hearing October 3rd in Charlottetown, to consider nine radio license applications, among other items.
In January, the Commission issued a call for…
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