REGINA – Saskatchewan’s Access Communications cable co-operative is launching its Access Digital Phone service in two new markets beginning May 1.
After a successful launch in Regina, Access Digital…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC today released financial results for the Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view television and video-on-demand services industry, which took in $2.7 billion in total revenues last year….
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TORONTO – New Canadians – South Asian and Chinese immigrants in particular – are connected to the Internet in above-average numbers, according to a new study by Toronto-based market…
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QUEBEC CITY – Remstar Corp., the future owner of the troubled Quebec TV network, TQS, caught its news staff by surprise Wednesday, announcing it intention to eliminate its entire…
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TORONTO – SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer and Drake & Josh will soon be available for download from iTunes, Corus Entertainment announced today.
Episodes of seven popular Nickelodeon children’s…
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GATINEAU – Sounding an awful lot like they’d be very interested in morphing one or both of LeafsTV and RaptorsTV into a more general purpose sports channel, Maple Leafs…
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GATINEAU – Shaw Communications is so opposed to any type of fee-for-carriage for conventional broadcasters that it wouldn’t even consider a hypothetical question on the matter yesterday.
During the…
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WHERE IS JIM SHAW? is what CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein wanted to know Wednesday morning when he moseyed into the hearing room in Gatineau and spied the Shaw…
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MONTREAL – Canadian cell phone subscribers looking to avoid paying early termination fees to cancel their contracts are getting some help from CellPlanDepot.com.
In anticipation of May’s wireless spectrum…
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TORONTO – OUTtv, Canada’s national gay and lesbian digital specialty channel, is licensing programming to OUTtv Media Group in the Netherlands, creating the first Dutch gay lifestyle television network….
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