TORONTO – BBM Analytics has released its top ten consumer trends in media technology, as based on its most recent Media Technology Monitor reports.
10. Internet Video: high reach,…
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TORONTO – Beleaguered Canwest Limited Partnerships (CLP) had its probability of default rating cut yet again.
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded its rating to Ca/LD from Caa2, and its corporate family…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has announced a public debt offering of senior secured debentures series ‘1’ worth up to $300 million.
The Canadian and Portuguese cable company set the…
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DARTMOUTH, NS – Newfoundland Capital Corporation (NewCap) saw its revenue grow 6% for the first quarter of 2009, led primarily by its broadcasting division.
For the quarter ended March…
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BANFF – While the economic downturn has left Canada’s over-the-air broadcasters complaining about their very survival, it has accelerated the move to Internet advertising and the use of social…
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BANFF – An optimistic Canadian Heritage minister said he was “not worried” about Canada’s culture, including its film and TV industries.
Opening the Banff World Television Festival Sunday night,…
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BANFF – Rescue Toya!, from Japan’s public broadcaster NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), picked up the Interactive Grand Prize and the Immersive Entertainment award on Saturday night at nextMEDIA.
Gaza-Sderot:…
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BANFF – When Nike wanted to win back customers it had lost to other running shoe manufacturers, it created Nike+ and turned to the online world. Nike+ was the…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – Reaction to the CRTC’s broadcasting in new media report has been swift, and predictably, mixed.
The news that the Commission will continue to exempt new…
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WE’VE READ ALL SORTS of dissenting opinions on CRTC from individual commissioners who don’t agree with their co-panellists. But a “concurring opinion”? That’s a new one for us.
Yesterday’s…
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