OTTAWA — The CRTC’s decision last week that Vidéotron’s Montreal MAtv community channel is in violation of community television policy and thus must rectify the situation before its cable…
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LAST WEEK WE SPECULATED that the big, vertically integrated Canadian telecom, cable, wireless and media companies could get out of media.
We talked to a few…
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VANCOUVER — Online entries for the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters (BCAB) Awards of Excellence are open now and will close on Monday, March 9 at noon Pacific time.
The…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. — The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance Inc. (CCSA) and World Media Ministries have completed an agreement to distribute Daystar Canada’s Christian faith-based programming.
CCSA is a not-for-profit buying…
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HAMBURG, GERMANY — Europe’s radio.net has launched an English-language Internet radio app, offering one-click access to more than 20,000 international stations, web radio stations and podcasts.
From the single radio.net…
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TORONTO — Bell Media announced today an exclusive content agreement with Twentieth Century Fox that will deliver past seasons of Homeland, Legends and Sirens, among other TV shows, to…
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OTTAWA — Consumers who want to sign up for CraveTV or shomi without first being Bell or Rogers/Shaw customers could be the potential beneficiaries of applications filed with the…
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OTTAWA — Drumheller, Alta.’s CHOO-FM must continue to include folk and folk-oriented music in its weekly playlist rotation after the CRTC denied the radio station’s application to amend its…
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MONTREAL — Strong wireless growth helped to drive up BCE’s fourth quarter and annual 2014 results, with the company reporting today a 3.1% increase in operating revenues…
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THERE WAS TOO MUCH symbolism to ignore with the choice of London, Ont., as the place where CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais chose to begin dismantling simultaneous substitution and to…
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