OTTAWA and TORONTO – For a guy whose new company is about to jump into the competitive world of mobile communications – but only after it has been scrutinized in a…
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MONTREAL – Telefilm Canada will fund 56 new media projects through the product assistance component of the Canada New Media Fund (CNMF) for 2009-2010.
The projects selected from across Canada…
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MONTREAL – Videotron has inked an exclusive roaming agreement with Rogers Wireless which will see Videotron’s future wireless customers roam exclusively on the Rogers network while outside Videotron’s coverage…
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TORONTO – TSN is making its broadcasts of CFL games available for download at the iTunes store in Canada.
Individual regular season games are available for $2.49 per match-up -…
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OTTAWA – The CBC has formerly applied to amend the broadcast licence of its specialty channel ‘bold’, formerly known as ‘Country Canada’.
The pubcaster re-launched its category 1 specialty Country…
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TORONTO – After more than 40 years at CTV, Malcolm Fox will retire as executive producer of W-FIVE effective September 1, 2009.
Fox’s career began in the late 1960s with…
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WINNIPEG – While CHBC TV Kelowna will live on – rebranded from E! to part of the Global TV network – CHEK-TV Victoria and CHCA-TV Red Deer will be…
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MONTREAL – VoiceAge Corp. will create a patent pool for speech compression standards.
The pool of AMR-WB/G.722.2 patents will provide users with convenient, fair, reasonable and non- discriminatory access to…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC will review the structure service rates charged by some of Canada’s biggest telephone companies.
Telus sent an application to the Commission last October asking for it…
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NEW YORK, NY – An affiliate of global private equity franchise MatlinPatterson has made a bid for Nortel’s wireless business worth US $725 million, saying that it would use the division to…
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