CALGARY – Canadians like hockey, Facebook, and playing the lottery, while Americans like football, MySpace, and text messaging. And both are heavy users of the Internet.
These are some of the…
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TORONTO – Nortel Networks’ global system for mobile communications (GSM) business, the popular wireless technology standard for mobile phones, is the next business on the auction block.
The company has filed…
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BRANDON – The final newscast of CKX-TV Brandon will happen tomorrow at 6 p.m., station owner CTVglobemedia told staff Thursday evening. Thirty-nine employees will lose their jobs.
The company that…
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WINNIPEG – APTN HD is now available to Citywest cable subscribers in the cities Terrace and Prince Rupert, B.C.
APTN HD, which launched April 8, 2008, offers much of the…
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OTTAWA – Adult specialty channel Penthouse TV will be launching on Rogers Cable next month.
Offered by Ten Broadcasting, Penthouse TV features the a selection of choice adult movies from…
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EDMONTON – Using some of the most inflammatory language we’ve seen in a press release (invoking both a rodent and the seal hunt), supporters of pay TV service Super…
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DARTMOUTH, NS – Radio broadcaster Newfoundland Capital Corporation will ask its shareholders to approve a three for one stock split.
NewCap has scheduled a meeting on November 13, 2009 at…
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TORONTO – MTS Allstream has bought Montreal-based VisionIP Technologies Inc. to help bolster its unified communications solutions delivery and service capabilities in Quebec.
Financial terms of the acquisition…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is asking for comments on new draft regulations to replace its current broadcasting and telecom rules.
Due to increasing convergence in the broadcasting and telecommunications services…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications has announced a senior note offering of $1.25 billion which it says will be used to repay debt, and could be used for “potential acquisitions”.
The…
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