TORONTO – XM Canada today said it is “diligently reviewing its options following the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to approve a merger between U.S. companies XM Satellite Radio…
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TORONTO – CBC Television announced today that U.S. broadcaster ABC has acquired the U.S. rights to 18 To Life, a new single-camera comedy series, whose pilot is currently in…
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WASHINGTON – While the Sirius-XM merger process officially ended on Friday, the debate continues on whether satellite radio is any closer to becoming mainstream.
After 17 months of deliberation and intense…
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MONTREAL – Prestige Telecom Inc, which provides construction and operation services for wireline, wireless and cable television networks, reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $2.2 million, compared to a…
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CALGARY – Shift Networks, a provider of VoIP business telephone services, says it is coming to the aid of customers who will be stranded when WebNet Global Communications terminates…
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CHICAGO – TVN Entertainment CTO Dom Stasi sounded a bit of an alarm when he spoke to delegates at the IPTV World North America conference by noting that sometime…
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NEW YORK – Three out of four digital video consumers said they would find it "reasonable" to include ads in the free digital distribution of full-length TV shows and…
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TORONTO – Canada’s next national wireless carrier, Globalive Communications Corp., has purchased long-distance operator Telehop Communications Inc. for nearly $10.7 million.
Globalive, which wound up with 30 licenses on Monday…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet has announced it will increase the number of Toronto Maple Leafs games it will televise to 28 this season, more than any other broadcaster. All…
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CHICAGO – Pete Kocks, chief architect of AOL Video and of AOL’s video search portal Truveo knows online video.
It’s a mass of various encoding techniques and metadata issues…
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