OTTAWA – The CRTC has officially blessed the proposed merger of satellite radio companies XM Canada and Sirius Canada.
After holding a hearing in early March to examine the transaction, the Commission signed…
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LAS VEGAS – The Ultraviolet consortium is nearly 70 companies strong and includes the likes of Microsoft, Intel, Netflix, IBM, Cisco, Best Buy, Adobe, Dell, Fox, Sony, NBCU, Panasonic,…
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TORONTO – Former Alliance Atlantis president and CEO Michael MacMillan is getting back into the industry he knows so well.
His company, Blue Ant Media, announced today it has entered…
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MONTREAL – U.S. MSO Insight Communications will add the Galaxie Digital Music Service for its digital cable customers, announced Stingray Digital, the Montreal-based music provider.
Galaxie, Your Musical Universe, is…
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MONTREAL and QUEBEC CITY – Radio broadcaster Cogeco Diffusion announced Monday afternoon it was granted an interim injunction by the Superior Court of Québec against two former employees.
Sébastien Lavoie…
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LAS VEGAS – Is the growth of web-connected TV sets in viewers’ homes a destructive force, or will it just build viewership as new business cases develop around them?
The…
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GATINEAU – The Independent Broadcast Group has called on the CRTC to establish a new, flexible framework for smaller and independent Canadian broadcasters.
Appearing before the CRTC last Thursday during…
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Dear Greg,
I just read your article on Pierre Juneau. As you may know I worked with him in different capacities from 1968 till 1982. I have great respect…
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HAMILTON – Cable industry veteran Owen Boris died Saturday night at his home in Hamilton after suffering a heart attack. He was 79.
Boris founded Hamilton’s Mountain Cablevision in 1959…
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PRINCE RUPERT, BC – City West Cable and Telephone has named William R. Craig as its new CEO. Craig, who will begin on April 18, takes over from Rob…
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