OTTAWA – Nearly three out of every 10 Canadian adults (29%) reported that they watched on average 15 or more hours a week of television, or more than two…
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TORONTO –Domenic Vannelli has been appointed as executive producer of French-language coverage as part of the CTV-Rogers Media Consortium covering the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Winter Games.
As…
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TORONTO – Telehop Communications Inc. announced Wednesday an arm’s length strategic industry participant has offered to buy all the outstanding shares of the company.
The aggregate offer price will…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canada’s TV distributors generated $8.95 billion in revenues in 2007, according to the CRTC’s statistical and financial summaries for Canadian broadcasting distribution companies released Wednesday.
The cable…
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OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday reserved judgement on an appeal of the $53-million takeover of BCE Inc. by a consortium, including the Ontario Teachers’ Pension…
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CTS 2008: A new way to do TV shows?
By Greg O’Brien
TORONTO – If he’d known then what he knows now, the mega-popular TV franchise Canadian Idol might…
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OTTAWA – More Canadians are going online, with 73%, or 19.2 million aged 16 or older going online for personal reasons in 2007, according to the Canadian Internet Use…
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MISSISSAUGA – Pyman Video Productions is rebranding as Pyman Media Group (PMG) as it re-positions itself for growth in new media and interactive broadcast technologies.
Pyman CEO Andrea Pyman…
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MONTREAL – RDS will be enabling its commercial inventory on both its standard digital and high-definition TV signals with the etc.tv advertising solution from September 1, the French-language sport…
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TORONTO – Industries have converged. Companies have converged. It’s about time the laws and regulations covering the telecom and broadcast worlds converged, too.
That’s the message CRTC chairman Konrad…
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