TORONTO – The Toronto chapter of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has thrown its support behind the private member’s Bill 165 which would see…
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TORONTO – The Banff World Television Festival has added a ‘Kids and Animation’ series to its agenda, which will feature top television program creators, broadcasters and executives in the…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Premium movie service Starz today launched "Enteract Now," a new service that gives viewers the ability to instantly link from a movie they are watching on…
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LOUISVILLE, CO – CableLabs will release a source code reference implementation of its tru2way specifications later this year that it says "will accelerate the development and deployment of tru2way devices…
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TORONTO – Stornoway’s dance channel bpm:tv is available on free preview for the month of April across “every cable or satellite system that currently carries the channel”, the company…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet is adding the ‘game-in-the-game’ feature seen in NHL hockey broadcasts to some of its Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts.
The interactive entertainment platform, known as NanoGaming, allows fans…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Maybe cable companies won’t rob broadcasters of any revenue after all with the addressable advertising they are about to launch.
Maybe they will actually grow the…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Saying cable has a central role to play in any coming economic recovery, executives here know how fortunate they are to be leading the firms they…
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DURING A SESSION called “Online, On Demand and On TV, Rogers Cable VP and GM Television, David Purdy, noted that when households showing a high rate of P2P sharing…
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QUEBEC CITY – Canadian telecom test and measurement equipment manufacturer EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering saw no change in its sales from its first quarter to its second quarter of fiscal…
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