TORONTO – CTV’s new music TV format The Launch is headed across the pond and beyond after Sony Pictures Television (SPT) acquired the worldwide distribution rights to the format.
Bell…
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OTTAWA – Hunter Communications has won a contract to provide CBC/Radio-Canada with satellite space segment services.
Using a powerful Ku-band beam that Hunter designed to service Canada and specifically the…
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TORONTO – Just in time for the spring thaw, Blue Ant Media’s Cottage Life is kicking off an eight-week free preview that will include new original Canadian series showcasing…
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TORONTO – Amazon confirmed today new drama The Looming Tower will be coming to Canada on March 1st as an Amazon Prime Video exclusive.
Starring Jeff Daniels…
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OTTAWA – SiriusXM has been rebuked by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) for playing a 60-year-old country song containing demeaning descriptions of Indigenous women.
The CBSC said that the…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has granted stakeholders more time to comment on the idea of an Independent Piracy Review Agency (IPRA) that would help to identify websites blatantly engaged…
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VANCOUVER – OUTtv is teaming up with New Zealand broadcaster TVNZ on a new AVoD service offering its LGBTQI+ series, movies and documentaries.
The national LGBTQ television network said Wednesday that…
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TORONTO – Some 29 million Canadians (or 82% of the population) have watched some part of CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 across all English and…
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OTTAWA – The Federal Court of Appeal ruled late yesterday that a Montreal man was indeed enabling the pirating copyrighted content by making TV shows from Rogers, Bell and…
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Part IV in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom Acts
THE CANADIAN TV INDUSTRY faces a growing crisis. Financial contributions from the broadcast distributors to support the production…
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