GATINEAU – The main attraction on Tuesday, day 10 of the hearing into the policies governing specialty channels and their carriers, was a posse of independent broadcasters arguing that…
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OTTAWA – The craft and services employees who yesterday rejected Bell Canada’s latest contract offer by a 59-per-cent majority were in essence rejecting the concession demands put forward by…
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OTTAWA – CTVglobemedia has penned its own letter to the Prime Minister asking that Stephen Harper not follow the advice of Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw and instead let…
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VANCOUVER – Ten-digit dialling is coming in June to British Columbia and Alberta, and businesses and residents in those provinces need to prepare now, says the Telecommunications Alliance.
To…
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MONTREAL – Bell Canada technicians represented by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers’ Union of Canada (CEP) have voted at 59.1% to reject a final contract offer presented by the…
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ALTHOUGH WORLDWIDE MOBILE TV broadcast subscription revenue is predicted to reach US$12 billion in 2012, the current fragmentation of standards in mobile TV broadcasting may impede rollout. Certainly, standards…
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MONTREAL – GM Optimum announced today it is launching a “telescopic” advertising campaign on etc.tv’s ads-on-demand network in Quebec.
Developed by Cossette Media, the campaign allows TV viewers to…
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OTTAWA – A 2007 episode of the dramatic action program 24 – in which terrorists use a drill to torture Carlo Rota’s character – did not violate the Canadian…
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TORONTO – While calling for other Canadian companies to follow his lead and grow abroad, Cogeco Inc. CEO Louis Audet added that recent changes to certain tax rules make…
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OF ALL THE CONFLICTING complaints we’ve heard so far about the hearing still ongoing in Gatineau which will decide the future policies to govern specialty channels and BDUs, the…
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