MONTREAL – More than 270 members of Canada’s film and television industry are demanding that U.S. web-based media giants like Google, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon play by the same…
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OTTAWA – A cellphone video that showed students being stabbed at their BC high school should not have been included in televised newscasts, says the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council…
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TORONTO – Shaftesbury’s Scott Garvie was elected board chair of the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) for the second time Tuesday at the organization’s annual general meeting in Toronto. …
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – The Bell Fund is marking its 20th anniversary with the launch of the first of four pilot programs that will provide grants to Canadian media…
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ACCORDING TO REPORTS from France this week, the country will enact a new levy on all providers of online video, beginning January 1, 2018.
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OTTAWA – Canadians may soon have more teleshopping options after the CRTC was urged to reconsider its earlier decision denying U.S.-based television shopping service QVC a place on Canadian…
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TORONTO – Boat Rocker Media has acquired the principal assets of unscripted production and distribution company Proper Television and Proper Rights. Financial terms of the deal were not…
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BURLINGTON, ON – The Reverend David Mainse, founder of Crossroads Christian Communications and the first host of religious talk show 100 Huntley Street, passed away Monday after a five-year…
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TORONTO – Comedian and political satirist Rick Mercer said Monday that his comedy series Rick Mercer Report will launch its 15th and final season Tuesday on CBC.
In a rant…
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MONTREAL – Stingray is now offering direct and programmatic buying on its Stingray Music mobile app.
The company said Monday that it has partnered with the Google platform DoubleClick for…
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