CALGARY – Corus Entertainment said today that its controlling shareholder, the Shaw Family and entities owned or controlled by them, completed the purchase of an additional 126,200 class B non-voting... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Technology Cancon will begin airing south of the border this fall on G4techTV. Call for Help, the first Canadian-produced G4techTV Canada television production, will be back into the... Continue Reading
VICTORIA – Shaw Digital Cable customers can now see Fox HD if they have the correct box and television set. The company made the announcement today. The channel will be... Continue Reading
AT LAST COUNT, THERE WERE 103 submissions to the three-person panel in charge of Industry Canada’s Telecom Policy Review. Boy, do they have some summer/fall reading in front of them.... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Videotron is adding telephony customers as fast as it can keep up and the company announced today that it is rolling out its residential cable telephone service in... Continue Reading
EDMONTON – According to the Telecommunication Workers Union (TWU) and the B.C. and Alberta Federations of Labour, four Calgary radio stations refuse to run radio spots in support of locked-out... Continue Reading
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – Municipally-owned telco CityTel acquired the remaining Monarch Cable systems last week from owner Bill Yuill and announced an overhaul of its corporate governance, too. Monarch had... Continue Reading
CALGARY - Shaw Communications has teamed up with VOXCOM Security Systems to provide an end-to-end security solution for the cable company’s Digital Phone Service customers. VOXCOM is able to transfer... Continue Reading
SASKATOON – Just days after Shaw Communications made its announcement, SaskTel today said it, too, has entered into a video on demand agreement with Paramount Pictures in Canada for the... Continue Reading
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – Vista Broadcast Group, a single-station operation until recently, is ramping up its operations with several purchases, the most recent of which is its agreement to purchase... Continue Reading