MONTREAL – Astral Radio is appealing the CRTC’s decision to allow Cogeco to maintain a third radio station in the Montreal market, claiming the move “disrupts the competitive equilibrium”.
In a motion…
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TORONTO – Rogers has attached its Sportsnet television brand to its sports radio stations in Toronto and Calgary. Effective immediately, the former FAN stations will be known as Sportsnet…
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HALIFAX – Nova Scotia has begun testing a provincial emergency alerting system that could send urgent public safety alerts directly to air on radio stations across the province.
"This new…
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TORONTO – Kick off 2011 with CTAM Canada’s President’s Reception in Toronto.
This popular event will be held in the Mezzanine Lounge of the Park Hyatt hotel, located at 4…
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OTTAWA – The use of a derogatory word for gays in a song breaches broadcast codes, and so does any radio station that plays it, the Canadian Broadcast Standards…
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TORONTO – Teletoon Retro has cracked the 8 million subscriber mark for its English and French services, making it highest penetrated all-digital Canadian specialty channel.
"Teletoon Retro’s founding vision was…
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TORONTO – The Canadian broadcast and telecom industries appear to have plenty to say about the proposed merger of Bell and CTV. With comments and interventions due on Tuesday,…
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OTTAWA – The Commission has approved revisions to the monthly recurring rates and service charge rates for wholesale unbundled loops in Bell Aliant’s and Bell Canada’s incumbent operating territories…
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OTTAWA – It was good to be a TV distributor in 2010.
That’s the message we see in the CRTC’s aggregate financial data recently posted on the Commission’s web site….
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TORONTO – Gains in its television and radio operations helped to drive up first quarter revenues at Corus by 8% over last year to $240.6 million, the company said…
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