TORONTO – CBC News is bumping up its local supper-hour newscasts to 90 minutes starting next month.
Beginning August 31, the newscasts will also move up to an earlier timeslot,…
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TORONTO – Canadian on-line advertising revenues exceeded expectations in 2008, growing 29% to just over $1.6 billion, says a report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB).
Publisher revenue from…
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OTTAWA – Telus executive Janet Yale has announced that she is seeking the federal Liberal nomination for the riding of Ottawa-Centre, where she has lived for the last 28…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The greater Montreal region will have another new area code starting next year.
The CRTC announced that new telephone numbers assigned in the 450 region may be given…
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TORONTO – Rogers Wireless will begin the Canada-wide deployment of a 21 Megabits per second (Mbps) high-speed HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Plus) wireless network starting next month.
The company…
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HAMILTON, ON – Canwest has told CHCH TV retirees that it will be winding up the CHCH TV pension plan effective August 31, 2009.
The retirees were also told that the plan…
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VANCOUVER – Novus Entertainment is the latest independent BDU to tangle with Shaw Communications.
The privately owned company said that it is “pursuing a formal complaint” to the Competition Bureau and…
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TORONTO and WINNIPEG – Rogers Wireless and MTS Allstream inked three new agreements Tuesday.
The first will see the companies partner on a shared 3.5G high speed packet access (HSPA) wireless…
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ENGLEWOOD, CO and TORONTO – Chalk up another strike against satellite signal piracy in Canada.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has granted judgment and issued a permanent injunction against Andrew…
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TORONTO – Astral Media Radio Sales has taken over national sales representation of The New AM 740 (CFZM) in Toronto, the adult standards formatted radio station owned by MZ…
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