OTTAWA – The Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology is inviting lawyers and legal scholars to testify in phase three of its statutorily mandated review of the Copyright…
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OTTAWA – An instance of “mic-bombing” that saw a bystander shout a profanity during a live news report did not violate any broadcasting codes, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council…
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TORONTO – Sportsnet will drop the puck on its exclusive national English-language coverage of the 2018-19 CHL season this weekend.
Headlined by weekly CHL Saturday Showcase matchups from around the league,…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced $9 million in funding for 43 projects that applied for production funding through the 2018-2019 Convergent Digital Media Incentive.
The Incentive…
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OTTAWA – The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications met this morning for the fifth time to continue its examination of how the three federal communications statutes (the…
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HAMILTON – Channel Zero, the parent company of CHCH, has found a new home for the TV station after a two year search that ultimately met its goal of…
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LOS GATOS, CA – Shaking off reports of slowing growth, Netflix added 7 million new subscribers in its third quarter, ahead of its internal forecasts and pushing its worldwide…
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TORONTO – A number of Canada’s commercial television broadcasters are banding together to end a practice known as gross-net invoicing by the end of next year.
Instead, they will implement…
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HALIFAX – DHX Media’s animated children’s series Polly Pocket has been picked up by 16 broadcasters internationally.
Aimed at kids aged 6-9 and based on the Mattel toy brand, the…
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CANNES – How small media players can survive and thrive against Netflix or Amazon has occupied minds this week at MIPCOM, the annual TV market in the south of…
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