MONTREAL – More than 50,000 children are reported missing in Canada every year, so Avis de recherche (ADR.tv), the television channel devoted to public safety, today launched Child Alert,…
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OTTAWA – CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein said Monday that Bell Media is taking a “one step forward and two steps backward” approach to its Canadian content commitments during…
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GATINEAU – Rogers Media’s proposed Canadian program expenditures and programs of national interest spending drew the ire of the CRTC during the second day of hearings into the group-based…
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GATINEAU – Corus Entertainment must be included in the group-based licensing regime so as to better compete with its fellow broadcasters, the company said during its licence renewal hearing…
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TORONTO – Watch for more Canadians to dump their traditional phone and TV subscriptions, says a new report from Toronto’s Convergence Consulting.
Canadian telco residential wireline telephone line loss was…
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KELOWNA and RED DEER – Telus has revived the long-dormant Clearnet brand in two western Canadian cities, Red Deer, Alta. and Kelowna, B.C.
However, the company is mum on what…
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REGINA – SaskTel will invest $199 million in its core network this year, plus announced plans to roll out fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) to the province’s nine largest urban centers over…
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MONTREAL – Bell wasted no time in consummating its marriage to CTV, adding some of the broadcaster’s top-rated programming to its Bell TV on-line portal and mobile TV service on Monday.
Bell…
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TORONTO – Former Rogers Communications company director and well-known lawyer John A. Tory died early Sunday morning. He was 81.
Tory helped to co-found the Toronto-based law firm Tory and…
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CANNES, FRANCE – Montreal-based music and broadcasting company Stingray Digital is buying Music Choice Europe Ltd. from a European private investment group, the company confirmed Monday. Financial terms of…
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