TORONTO – Internet movie subscription service Netflix launched in Canada on Wednesday morning with a streaming-only service priced at $7.99 a month.
As part of the launch, Netflix also announced…
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OTTAWA – TV viewers could soon have another children’s channel added to their dials.
The CRTC approved TVO Kids+ on Wednesday, a national, English-language Category 2 specialty station aimed…
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GATINEAU – Canada’s public and private broadcasters are urging the CRTC to implement a local-into-local signal carriage regime for the country’s direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast distributors, saying the time has…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – CBC and Astral are joining various cultural organizations across the country to celebrate the arts and cultural life of their communities.
The inaugural Culture…
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REGINA – SaskTel subsidiary DirectWest is spearheading Saskatchewan’s first on-line group buying service called mysaskdeals.com.
With help from local Saskatoon software company VendAsta, DirectWest said that the new…
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PRINCE RUPERT, BC – CityWest Cable and Telephone has flipped the switch on its first private gigabit network, which it hopes will serve as a pilot project for its new…
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HALIBURTON, ON – Haliburton Broadcasting Group has picked up three more radio stations in Ontario.
The company told Cartt.ca on Wednesday that it has finalized deals to buy the…
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CALGARY – Shaw’s application to buy Canwest excludes Canadians with disabilities, according to Media Access Canada (MAC).
MAC, the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians, the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association…
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WE’RE NOT USED TO what we saw Tuesday. When Shaw Communications appears before the CRTC, we more often than not witness quarrelsome company executives facing off against sometimes testy…
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MARKHAM – Broadcasters will be offered a sneak peak at the new Canadian Association of Radio Broadcasters (CARB) when former CAB chair Elmer Hildebrand keynotes the annual general meeting of…
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