TORONTO – Telus has become the first wireless carrier in Canada to offer over-the-air DRM-free (digital rights management) music tracks to Canadians.
DRM-free music means that customers can now play…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has issued a report examining telecommunications, broadcasting, and the evolving converged world of communications in an effort to help shape future regulation.
Called Navigating Convergence: Charting Canadian Communications…
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BANFF, AB – British comedian and recent Golden Globe host Ricky Gervais will receive the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award at this year’s Banff World Television Festival.
The award acknowledges outstanding…
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TORONTO – Tom Hastings has been appointed head of drama for CBC Television, effective immediately.
He replaces Sally Catto, who was recently made executive director of arts and entertainment.
Hastings joined…
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TORONTO – Corus will launch its new channel W Movies, Canada’s first movie channel dedicated to women, on March 1st.
A rebrand of diginet Sex TV, W Movies plans to…
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VANCOUVER – With the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games just days away, Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium has released its digital viewers guide so that fans can…
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CALGARY – Shaw is making it easier for its Francophone customers to watch the Olympics.
Beginning this Friday, Shaw Cable customers in the Vancouver area will be able to watch…
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OTTAWA – Fire swept through CTV Ottawa early on Sunday morning causing at least $2.5-million in damage and gutting the newsroom.
The cause of the fire remains unknown and no one was…
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TORONTO – FreeHD Canada received CRTC approval Monday to provide national direct-to-home satellite TV and wholesale programming satellite distribution (SRDU) services in Canada.
However, the Commission declined to rule on certain…
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TORONTO – After a well attended President’s Reception in Toronto last week, CTAM will stage its first national teleseminar of the year on March 5, 2010.
Entitled “Keeping Customers…
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