By Connie Thiessen
The 2024 federal budget includes support for media and the cultural industries, with a focus on bolstering publicly-funded broadcasting, fortifying the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI), and championing…
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CBC/Radio-Canada announced Monday highlights of its planned coverage of the upcoming Olympic Games being held in Paris this summer from July 26 to Aug. 11.
“CBC’s comprehensive…
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APTN on Tuesday announced its spring lineup will feature several new Indigenous-language series alongside its English and French offerings, as well as some returning fan…
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As former U.S. president Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial begins in New York, Blue Ant Studios’ rights business announced Monday it has acquired…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Corus is urging the CRTC to hurry up and make a decision on a proposal to grant the media company temporarily relief on its financial obligations to…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Canada’s largest broadcasters are once again asking for a court order to actively block websites that are allegedly streaming their content without a licence.
The broadcasters, including Rogers,…
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Astral, Bell Media’s out-of-home advertising division, announced Wednesday it has renewed its long-standing exclusive advertising partnership with Transgesco, the subsidiary that manages advertising operations for…
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Corus Radio on Tuesday announced Daryl McIntyre, an award-winning reporter and anchor and currently the co-host of 630 CHED Edmonton’s This Morning with Stacey Brotzel and Daryl McIntyre,…
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Six years after Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (recently renamed as Friends of Canadian Media) raised the flag on a federal tax loophole that allows Canadian…
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U.S.-based film and TV studio FilmRise announced Monday that it has acquired the exclusive rights to Bell Media’s original comedy series Corner Gas for its ad-supported services.
The New York…
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