TORONTO – After 31 years with Goodmans LLP, senior partner and leading Canadian communications lawyer Kathryn Robinson has decided to retire at the end of 2007. Continue Reading
GATINEAU – CanWest Global’s unusually structured deal to acquire the broadcasting assets of Alliance Atlantis was approved today by the CRTC.
CanWest is buying the 13 specialty channels owned…
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TORONTO – Paul Ski was hired away from CHUM Radio by Rogers Broadcasting, his new company announced today.
Ski, who will be CEO of Rogers Radio, has a long…
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TORONTO – After securing carriage on Shaw Cable, Star Choice and Cogeco Cable, Teletoon Retro, a digital channel launched less than two months ago, already has over 4 million…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has scheduled a public hearing into the transfer of Bell Canada Enterprise’s broadcast licenses to an Investor Group led by Teachers Private Capital, Providence Equity…
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WINNIPEG – Craig Wireless Systems said this week it has won an auction for a total of 40 MHz of spectrum, in two separate lots, in the 2500-2520 and…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has added Teletoon Retro to its digital channel lineup.
Launched October 1st, the channel offers familiar friends like Fat Albert, Tom & Jerry, Rocky…
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GENEVA – While IPTV deployments are well under way around the world, standards surrounding the service’s technology have never been set. Until now.
Today the International Telecommunication Union released…
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HALIFAX – Thanks to EastLink and its programming partners from across Canada, the cable company’s customers will be able to hide from winter while watching up to 60 TV…
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WITH MORE AND MORE of the world’s telcos adding subscribers and services, the companies making the headends which deliver the video signals are enjoying a boom, says research firm…
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