HALIFAX – EastLink is offering its digital cable customers free previews of Setanta Sports and TSN HD, just in time for the holidays.
Setanta Sports, which bills itself as the…
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GATINEAU – Canadian content again took centre stage at Wednesday’s CRTC hearing.
Both the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) and ACTRA pinned the blame for our broadcasting system’s issues…
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GATINEAU – Canadian cable, satellite and telco TV carriers can now add Al-Jazeera English to their channel lineups.
This morning the CRTC added the international news channel to the lists…
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TORONTO – Could Rogers and Cogeco be joining forces?
Rogers announced Thursday that it has purchased 3.2 million subordinate voting shares of Cogeco Cable, and 1.62 million subordinate voting shares…
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CALGARY – Shaw intends to purchase for cancellation 1.5 million of its outstanding Class B non-voting participating shares for an aggregate purchase price of almost $28 million.
This represents approximately 0.36%…
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TORONTO – Ericsson and Kapsch CarrierCom AG have jointly purchased Nortel Network’s GSM wireless technology business for US$103 million in cash.
Approximately 680 Nortel employees will receive offers of employment…
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MISSISSAUGA – Nearly 1,600 client care workers at Bell Mobility in Mississauga will be voting on union representation next week.
The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, which already represents almost…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has dismissed a complaint made against Bell TV by Quebecor Media Inc. over the way the DTH provider is combatting signal theft.
In a complaint dated March 23,…
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VANCOUVER – Now that Telus and Bell also operate HSPA wireless networks, too, Rogers Communications can’t call itself “Canada’s most reliable network” any more without proper qualifiers.
As we…
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GATINEAU – The sale of advertising time on American cable channels, by a new third-party company, can help fix what ails the broadcasting system, says former Canadian Association of…
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