WINNIPEG – Canwest Global Communications said that the CRTC’s preliminary determinations relating to its 2009 conventional television licence renewal announced last week “represent a significant positive step forward for local television”….
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OTTAWA – Despite gains in consolidated revenues and adjusted EBITDA, Telesat Holdings posted a net loss of $39 million for its first quarter of 2009.
The company announcement said…
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WINNIPEG – MTS Allstream has launched its new ‘Internet To Go’ plan, giving its residential and business high-speed Internet customers unlimited access to Wi-Fi and evolution data optimized (EVDO), where…
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TORONTO – Telus has been granted the exclusive Canadian license to host and operate Microsoft’s HealthVault platform for the development of a consumer-focused e-health service in Canada.
The service,…
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SAN JOSE, CA – Former Telus executive Aamir Hussain has been named Chief Technology Officer of Covad Communications, an American national provider of integrated voice and data communications.
Hussain…
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WITH THE ENTIRE TV industry in turmoil, all of us supposedly pondering structural reform while audience fragmentation proliferates as the economy sputters and advertising budgets shrivel, everyone is wondering what…
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GATINEAU – Canadian convention broadcasters have had their licenses renewed for a year, won’t face a one-to-one foreign-Canadian programming spend requirement – and will have a LOT of regulatory…
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TORONTO – ACTRA said that its “pleased” and “optimistic” by the CRTC’s announcement that it will consider reinstating programming expenditures for Canadian programming this Fall.
But the actors…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has approved the sale of Look Communications’ spectrum and broadcast licence to Bell Canada and Rogers Communications, through…
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TORONTO – In what could be its last actions, the Canadian Television Fund (CTF) has announced the renewal of its digital media program and production incentive program for the…
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