OTTAWA – CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein has rejected the primary thrust of a private member’s bill to reduce violence on television, saying there is no need for the…
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TORONTO – The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) has named Leonardo Ramos Mateos, Director of High Technology with Grupo Televisa Mexico, as its new president. He succeeds Ray Carnovale,…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – While the CRTC said Monday it established “a new framework for wholesale services that will promote competition in wholesale and retail telecommunications markets based on…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – Canada’s private conventional broadcasters recorded their highest ever revenue total in the 2007 broadcast year (ended August 31st) at $2.17 billion, says the CRTC.
That…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Cable has launched Family On Demand, announced Family Channel’s owner, Astral Media, today.
The new service will offer a minimum of 30 hours of programming from…
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VANCOUVER – Earlier this month, media activist group Adbusters lost the court battle it launched against CBC and Canwest Global when the two broadcasters refused to sell the group…
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TORONTO – The Ontario government has reappointed Lisa de Wilde, CEO, and Peter O’Brian, chair of the TVO Board of Directors, to second three-year terms.
De Wilde and O’Brian…
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HAMILTON – Source Cable and Cable 14’s Mike Fortune took part in the Media Idol competition in support of the Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club “Send a…
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WINNIPEG – MTS TV and Asian Television Network International announced the addition of B4U Movies, the leading Bollywood television network, to its channel lineup this week.
"B4U Movies is…
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TORONTO – Gord Cutler and Don Young have been named executive producers, features for the CTV-Rogers’ coverage of the 2010/2012 Olympic Games in Vancouver and London.
Reporting to Rick…
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