TORONTO – Sportsnet has nailed down the Canadian television, online and mobile rights to the more than 250 soccer matches leading up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.
Sportsnet’s…
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VANCOUVER – Telus is giving TV viewers more to ‘Tweet’ about with a free Twitter app on its Optik TV service.
The app wraps around part of the perimeter of…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada, Rogers Media and Shaw Media are teaming up on a new venture that allows advertisers to bid for space on their respective digital advertising inventory in real-time.
Called the…
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OTTAWA – Telemarketers could soon be picking up all of the costs related to the country’s national Do Not Call List if the government gets its way.
Industry Minister Christian…
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OTTAWA – While the media and telecom world grows exponentially in the digital age, some believe the CRTC may soon become a redundant organization attempting to adapt two Acts…
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by Steve Faguy
GATINEAU – It's the most important decision about private French-language television in Canada in years, but the CRTC's renewal of licenses for major broadcasters contained few surprises.
On…
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OTTAWA – There were a lot of numbers for the roomful of lawyers to digest Thursday morning, but the reality of those figures represent just how rapidly and jarringly…
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OTTAWA – Changes may be coming to Canada's foreign investment review process just as the government opens the door to more foreign investment in the telecom industry.
The federal government…
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TORONTO – Independent producers who attended a special Banff Media Festival preview event and reception in Toronto on Wednesday were likely very encouraged to hear top Canadian media executives…
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OTTAWA – Shaw Communications has received CRTC approval to buy out the half of specialty channels Mystery and The Cave that it doesn't already own.
Both English-language category A channels are…
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