QUISPAMSIS, NB – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) has finalized a five-year master affiliate agreement with Thema Canada Inc. for the distribution of French-language hunting and fishing channel…
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TORONTO – While the virtual reality sector is still in the early stages of its development, there has been a 22% increase in the number of Canadian companies working…
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TORONTO – The Writers Guild of Canada is appealing to Cabinet to reject the CRTC’s “potentially disastrous” broadcast policy changes and licence renewals announced last month.
WGC said Tuesday…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment CEO Doug Murphy says the company is making progress on its goal of “returning to growth” after posting double-digit gains in third quarter revenues and…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Football League (CFL) says it’s the first Canadian sports property to team up with Twitter Canada on a live streaming deal.
Starting June 28 at 3:00…
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MONTREAL – Videotron has named Philippe Cloutier as senior vice president and chief financial officer, replacing Hugues Simard who left the organization last month for a role at Indigo…
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GATINEAU – In an email to staff this morning, the CRTC’s vice-chair, telecommunications Peter Menzies announced he is resigning as of July 15th, 2017.
After a career in publishing, Menzies…
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HAMILTON – When Comcast, the largest cable company in North America, needed to upgrade its network to handle the massive demands of delivering IP video at scale, there was…
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HAMILTON – It’s clear broadband is essential to economic prosperity, quality of life and community development but there is little consensus around what the definition of broadband should…
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MONTEREY, CA – Streamed bundles, online subscription services, self-aggregation and over-the-air delivery are helping to erode the number of traditional multichannel subscribers in the U.S., says new research by Kagan, a…
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