TORONTO – Victoria radio host Brittany King has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Allan Waters Young Broadcaster of the Year Award in memory of Steve Young.
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BARCELONA – A new industry consortium known as the DASH Promoters Group has announced plans to drive the broad adoption of MPEG's DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) standard.
Ratified…
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VANCOUVER – Telus has pledged to invest $3 million in British Columbia over the next three years to further expand its wireless and wireline broadband networks, and on the…
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TORONTO – Rogers has begun offering live streaming of select Toronto Raptors games.
On-line through Rogers Anyplace TV or via the Rogers Live Mobile app, fans will be able to watch…
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TORONTO – GlassBox Television has named Vanessa Case as executive vice president of programming, effective immediately.
Case joins GlassBox with over with over 17 years of experience in the broadcast…
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CALGARY – Corus Entertainment’s corporate secretary and prominent Calgarian Jack Perraton died February 19th after a brief battle with leukemia. He was 65.
Throughout his career, Perraton (pictured) worked as…
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OTTAWA – Establishing a carriage relationship with Netflix, YouTube, Google, Yahoo! and others as well as reworking how money is distributed to fund online entertainment are two ways to…
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TORONTO – Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. (CNOC) is appealing two CRTC decisions around wholesale Internet rates plus wants greater transparency in the regulatory process going forward.
Referring to the…
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OTTAWA – Despite Rogers’ promise to drop its Internet traffic management practices (ITMP) this year, it appears as though the company still has a little explaining to do…
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OTTAWA – The biggest challenge the Canadian broadcasting industry is facing is a subset of distributors who are seeking lower rates for specialty services, Kevin Crull, president of Bell…
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