VANCOUVER – TELUS announced on Thursday a proposed offering in Canada of $500 million worth of seven-year senior unsecured Notes.
The Notes will be sold through a syndicate of…
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TORONTO – CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada will be broadcasting live and on-demand select games of the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs in Mandarin at CBCSports.ca.
“CBC is committed to…
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OAKVILLE, ON – The Weather Network and MétéoMédia are introducing TrafficEye Mobile to Canada in what is being billed as the first time a service with immediate weather and…
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LEAVE IT TO SHAW to not only demand genre protection go away, but to use a lovely incendiary word that broadcasters have long used against cable: monopoly.
When Shaw…
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TORONTO – The CRTC must maintain its Canadian content spending requirements for Canadian pay and specialty TV services, the Coalition of Canadian Audio-Visual Unions (CCAU) stated Wednesday in a…
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WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE highest profile issue CRTC commissioners will tackle beginning next week’s policy hearings on broadcast distribution undertakings and specialty services is fee-for-carriage. That is, paying a…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance’s 15th annual general meeting and conference will be held September 21-23 in Mt. Tremblant, Quebec.
“Following the success of the 2007…
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It has been argued in the media that “Cable companies have built profitable businesses based on the exploitation of free programming supplied by local broadcasters without giving any…
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WINNIPEG – MTS TV has added 10 new channels to its lineup, including NASA TV and Cosmopolitan TV.
“We are excited to offer MTS TV customers even more by…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will be questioning commercial radio station CJMS Saint-Constant over its failure to once again meet its contributions to Canadian content development.
The CRTC has added…
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