TORONTO – One year after its devastating earthquake, Astral Radio hosts will report live from Haiti on the relief efforts led by Red Cross volunteers.
NEWSTALK 1010 hosts John Moore,…
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TORONTO – Telehop Communications has hired Fred Panet as president of its calling card division Card Tel Corp.
Panet will focus his efforts on growing the division into a major…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has announced plans to take a closer look at the proposed Canadian merger of satellite radio companies Canadian Satellite Radio Inc. (XM Canada) and Sirius…
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LAS VEGAS – The onslaught of new tablet PCs continues at CES with the announcement from Dell Thursday of the Streak 7 with Android 2.2. It’s Dell’s first 4G…
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TORONTO – This week, Rogers Television (the community channel arm of Rogers Cable) announced the cancellation of its local news and information show, First Local, effective immediately.
Local versions of…
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TORONTO – Rogers can move forward with its $425 million purchase of Atria Networks after receiving approval of the deal from the Competition Bureau.
Kitchener-based Atria owns one of Ontario’s largest…
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BANFF – The Banff World Television Festival has been renamed the Banff World Media Festival after formalizing a partnership with the nextMEDIA digital media conference.
Organizers say that the festival’s new name…
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EXTON, PA – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is planning to revamp the structure of its board of directors.
In a note to members this week, the SCTE noted that…
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ENGLEWOOD, CO – A month after allowing customers to watch live TV on their Apple iPads, Dish Network has extended the same courtesy to customers with the higher-pixel…
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