CALGARY - Shaw Communications announced plans to sell up to $600 million worth of senior unsecured notes due in 2014, pricing the bond offering at 6.50%. The company said in a... Continue Reading
CALGARY – Characterizing the results as "solid", Shaw Communications today announced second quarter fiscal 2009 subscriber results that saw digital television subscriber growth rise by more than double as compared... Continue Reading
MORE AND MORE, we’re beginning to realize that to provide the quickest, most robust broadband experience, fibre optics must penetrate far more deeply than most CFOs and others in charge... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Moody's Investors Service has upgraded Shaw Communications’ senior unsecured debt ratings to Baa3 from Ba1, after concluding a ratings review that began at the end of January. Shaw's ratings outlook... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The new Canada Media Fund (CMF) puts private companies in charge of a "key Canadian cultural fund", worries The Documentary Organization of Canada/l'association des Documentaristes du Canada (DOC).... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CNN International has been added to the list of eligible satellite services for distribution in Canada. The CRTC received a request from Shaw Communications in May 2008 to... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Reaction to the new Canadian Media Fund (CMF) was predictably mixed, but the consensus seems to be that the distributors got what they wanted. For starters, the CMF’s... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Getting funding to make television in Canada is about to get a whole lot different. Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore announced today the Canadian Media Fund, a combination... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – We’d almost forgotten about it, but the federal government just might release its decision on the Canadian Television Fund next week. A source with knowledge of the decision’s... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – The dangling carrot of more money for the Canadian TV system is always what’s at stake when the Regulator considers letting broadcast distribution undertakings sell the ad time... Continue Reading