OTTAWA – Members of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) feel that a government stimulus package would be best spent on programs that support the development of a “smart infrastructure”…
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BURNABY, BC – Douglas Fast has been promoted to president of Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima.
Fast spent 15 years at Vecima, Spectrum’s parent company, most recently as executive vice…
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OTTAWA – The third Virgin radio station has launched in Canada, this time in Ottawa.
Astral Media-owned radio station The Bear 106.9 flipped to Virgin Radio 1069 late on Friday….
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TORONTO – Sports broadcast veteran Brian Williams will head up the 91 broadcasters and former Olympic athletes who will cover the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
English-language coverage will…
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VANCOUVER – Astral media launched its second Virgin radio station Thursday as Virgin Radio Vancouver replaced 95 Crave at the 95.3 location on the dial.
The station will focus on…
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TORONTO – The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) will invest up to $50 million in new wireless company BMV Holdings.
BMV was created last July following its purchase…
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TORONTO – Score Media reported a $1.2 million increase in revenue in their first quarter of fiscal 2009, a 13% jump over their first quarter of last year.
Revenue…
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MONTREAL – Radio-Canada received so many complaints about a show called ‘Bye Bye 2008’ that aired on New Years Eve, including a critical column in Tuesday’s Globe and Mail,…
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WASHINGTON – With 40 days to go before American TV broadcasters are supposed to shut off their analog transmissions, incoming U.S. president Barack Obama has indicated he wants to…
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Exton, PA – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) kicked off a year long celebration in honor of its 40th anniversary of “providing quality service and technical leadership…
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