VANCOUVER – The 2010 Olympic Winter Games were a success no matter how you slice it, and that includes audiences.
According to Canada’s Olympic broadcast media consortium, 99% of the…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Television Fund has released its third quarter funding results.
To date, the CTF has approved $130.6 million applications of its English broadcaster performance envelope (BPE) stream, and…
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TORONTO – Canwest is bringing popular reality show Wipeout to Canada, where it will debut on specialty network TVtropolis during the 2011 broadcast year.
The Canadian format of the sometimes painfully…
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MONTREAL – With Parliament set to resume next week, the Liberal Party is calling on Prime Minister Harper to preserve the foreign ownership rules for Canadian broadcasting companies.
In an open…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is bumping up its Internet download limits in response to customer demand.
Effective March 1st, the company will increase its maximum speeds from 70GB to 100GB for…
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DELTA, B.C. – With competitor Shaw Cable overbuilding in its territory, Delta Cable upped the competitive ante with the launch of Delta Cable Video On Demand for customers in…
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RENO, Nev. – Canadian cable pioneer Peter Burchardt died January 29th at his home in Nevada of complications due to Alzheimers. He was 71.
Born in Germany, Burchardt emigrated to…
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EDMONTON – Globalive’s Wind Mobile officially set up shop in Edmonton on Thursday, opening six retail locations across the city with another one set to open next month in the…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has tightened up the rules around telecommunication ownership and control reviews.
After establishing a new framework last July, the Commission announced Thursday that it will…
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TORONTO – Andy Mendham and David Craig will be honoured with 2010 RTNDA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards in the Central Region.
The awards will be presented at the RTNDA Central…
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