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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OTTAWA – Channel Zero has received CRTC approval to assume ownership of former Canwest E! stations CHCH TV Hamilton and CJNT TV Montreal.
The independent specialty service operator, which owns…
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VICTORIA – It could be a very long weekend for the employees of CHEK-TV, as they wait to hear whether current owner Canwest Global will accept their offer…
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OAKVILLE, ON – The Weather Network is making its WeatherEye Mobile application available for Windows Mobile and Google Android.
The free app, which provides weather information for over 10,000 cities…
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MONTREAL – Astral’s French-language music channel MusiquePlus will now allocate its annual contributions in support of music video development and production to MaxFACT.
MusiquePlus’ annual contributions match 3.4% of the…
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OTTAWA – Comments made by the hosts of Quebec City radio station CHOI-FM about homosexuality were neither abusive, unduly discriminatory, or unduly sexually explicit, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central is offering Bell TV subscribers a dedicated interactive scheduling channel called Movie Central Interactive (MCi).
The service features in-depth and long lead scheduling information…
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TORONTO – Mobile communications provider TerreStar Networks has completed its in-orbit testing for TerreStar-1, the world’s largest commercial communications satellite.
The satellite “met or exceeded all of its performance metrics”, the…
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