WINNIPEG – Canwest Global Communications’ subsidiary Canwest Media Inc. (CMI) has been granted another extension by its lenders on a recapitalization transaction.
CMI now has until September 11 to meet…
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TORONTO – A scrimmage between Team Canada’s red and white teams saw 40,000 unique visitors to “digital hubs” CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca to follow the single-camera, natural-sound live stream last Thursday.
In…
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WINNIPEG – Craig Wireless’ Greek operating subsidiary, CWS Hellas, has filed a formal response to refute allegations made against it by Lannet Communications.
CWS Hellas received a notice of arbitration proceedings at the…
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PRINCE RUPERT, BC – CityWest will build a 65 km fibre-optic link between Kitimat and Terrace, the final phase of its ‘Kitimat upgrade project’ announced in January.
Local cable…
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OTTAWA – Avalite Inc., the former Ramtelecom, reported a net loss of $1.81 million for its second quarter ended June 30, 2009.
Cash flow for the period was $698,202 with…
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TORONTO – The Toronto Sun is reporting that a dozen employees have been cut from Toronto-based talk radio station CFRB.
The cuts were made to producers, news-staffers and on-air personalities at the…
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WINNIPEG – Canwest Broadcasting has aligned its sales representation for its conventional and specialty stations in the US under one firm.
Starting September 1st, Canadian Television Sales will expand their…
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TORONTO – Showcase will debut a new logo and on-air look starting Monday, and will roll out a national consumer marketing campaign promoting itself as “the home of bold hits”.
Over the…
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TORONTO – Canadian telecom industry insider Jeff Wiener has taken the unusual step of writing to the U.S. Department of Justice to ask them to allow the acquisition…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from Bell Canada and Bell Aliant to revoke telephone service providers’ (TSP) authority to cancel local and long-distance services with…
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