TORONTO – Access Communications and SaskTel are adding Family Channel’s on demand platform to their digital lineups.
Astral’s Family OnDemand offers programming from both Family Channel and Playhouse Disney,…
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OTTAWA – Before the “economic downturn,” before the impressive decline in advertising revenues and even before the 2008 upfront ad sales began in earnest, the volume of Canadian television…
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TORONTO – Tony Burman, managing director of Al-Jazeera’s English language channel – and former head of CBC News – was in Toronto this week to say that Canadians should…
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TORONTO – With several reporters pursuing tips and rumours asking if and when Canwest Global will seek bankruptcy protection (this reporter, too), company CEO Leonard Asper sent a memo…
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TORONTO – CanWest Global Communications CEO Leonard Asper is desperately trying to secure hundreds of millions in new credit in an attempt to shore up the ailing newspaper and…
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Exton, PA – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) will develop standards for the carriage of next generation 3D content on cable networks.
The SCTE engineering committee, which oversees the…
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TORONTO – CTV’s Dave Devall, and Peter Silverman from Citytv Toronto have been chosen as this year’s recipients of the Radio-Television News Directors’ Association (RTNDA) Lifetime Achievement Award by The Association…
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LOS ANGELES and TORONTO – CTV’s original Canadian drama series ‘The Bridge’ has been picked up by CBS for broadcast in the US.
In development since 2005, CTV originally…
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EDMONTON – Super Channel has launched on Delta Cable and Coast Cable in B.C.
The national pay television network, which offers two HD and four SD channels dedicated to…
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TORONTO – ‘Harmonization in the Digital Age’ is the theme for this year’s North American Broadcasters Association’s (NABA) annual conference to be held June 3-5 in Washington, DC.
Other…
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