BANFF – The Banff World Media Festival has put out a call for program competition entries for its June 2013 international Rockies Program Competition.
Known…
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TORONTO – Finally a hockey deal has been reached somewhere this season. TSN and the Hockey Hall of Fame have reached an agreement extending their long-lasting partnership…
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DARTMOUTH – Newfoundland Capital Corporation recorded a loss of $1.1 million in the third quarter compared to a profit of $4.3 million in 2011. The company…
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MONTREAL – Could an AM talk-radio war be brewing in Montréal? Looks that way with the city’s top-rated English-language radio station CJAD 800 AM now facing…
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GATINEAU – The small telephone companies and their larger competitors are seeing eye-to-eye on some aspects of proposed changes to the regulatory framework for small incumbent local exchange carriers…
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NEW YORK – A court ruling denying Fox Broadcasting’s attempts to bar Dish Network subscribers from using ad-skipping features found on its whole-home DVR is an “early win…
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by Steve Faguy
GATINEAU – With the recent, unexpected and much-publicized denial of Bell Canada’s purchase of Astral Media (because the players didn't prove the transaction to be a net…
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OTTAWA – Wireless carriers are taking action to create a national system in Canada that would blacklist lost or stolen smartphones and keep them from being reactivated.
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OTTAWA – The government has announced new regulations exempting microSD memory cards from levies under the private copying regime.
"Our government is committed to building a…
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OTTAWA – A coalition of American border television stations has banded together calling for fair compensation for their over-the-air programs that are being imported and retransmitted in…
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