OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canada’s commercial radio stations held their own in the face of competition from satellite, online and mobile services, with revenues dipping slightly for the 2015 broadcast year,…
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TORONTO – The Pet Network is on its last legs.
Parent-company Stornoway Communications applied to the CRTC on March 29, 2016 to revoke the broadcasting licence for the specialty…
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HALIFAX – DHX Media has unveiled a multi-platform network of popular kids content that also connects content owners with advertisers on platforms such as YouTube and Dailymotion.
An incubator project since 2012,…
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OTTAWA – Bell Media Radio has promoted Evan Solomon to its first-ever national affairs specialist.
Effective immediately, this new appointment broadens Solomon’s current role as host and executive producer of Ottawa…
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REGINA – SaskTel is in the final stages of a three year, $30 million project to rebuild the backhaul network in Northeastern Saskatchewan.
As part of this project, SaskTel, in partnership with…
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Looks like everything Cancon is on the table
OTTAWA – Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages Mélanie Joly has instigated public consultations into the feds’ support of Canada’s cultural…
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GATINEAU – Broadband has become, as CRTC chair Jean-Pierre Blais put it earlier basic service objective hearing, “vital” to Canadians, all Canadians. It’s perhaps even more essential to those…
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OTTAWA – The Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) is awarding more than $200,000 to 21 campus and community radio stations through its Youth on Air! program.
Now in its…
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TORONTO – SiriusXM Canada is paying tribute to Prince with a limited-run channel featuring music from his legendary career that spanned over 30 years. The American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record…
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OTTAWA – The Copyright Board of Canada has set the royalty rates that commercial radio stations must pay to six collective societies for the use of copyrighted musical works…
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