TORONTO - Consumers’ evolving media consumption habits are driving changes in the business models adopted by traditional media players, resulting in once-unlikely partnerships and new branded content opportunities for advertisers.... Continue Reading
THE SLINGBOX IS A cool little device – a neat-o box that lets users place shift their home TV – making their laptop into a second TV in the home,... Continue Reading
BANFF – The Canadian Television Fund, saying it was responding to “a concern” but declining to name whose concern, said it would put off any changes to its bylaws until... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Recognizing that there was probably no way out of last week’s CRTC decision that disallowed the purchase of the Citytv franchise by CTV (a story first broken by... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – While the Canadian TV world was concentrated on the portion of CTVglobemedia’s deal to purchase CHUM that was denied, the Commission also used Friday to announce decisions on... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CTVglobemedia may have declined all comment today on the CRTC’s decision to approve its takeover of Chum Limited – without CHUM’s key TV assets, the Citytv stations in... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will issue its decision on the purchase of CHUM Ltd. by CTVglobemedia tomorrow morning, Cartt.ca has learned. It's a stunningly quick decision, given the size of... Continue Reading
BANFF and TORONTO – While Canada's telecommunications leaders debate the future of telecom in Toronto at the Canadian Telecom Summit next week, the world's leaders in digital media and television... Continue Reading
THE ONLY EXISTING facilities-based wireless player advocating that Industry Canada come up with a different formula for auctioning off wireless spectrum than an open auction is MTS Allstream. The company... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Citing the "questionable business practices" of independent cable co-op Campbell River TV Association, Shaw Communications declined earlier this year to renew the contract of its Shaw Pay-Per-View service... Continue Reading