REGINA – In co-operation with the CBC and Shaw Communications, Access Communications Co-operative’s community channel, Access7, will re-telecast the CFL football game played on Saturday, August 18 between the…
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TORONTO – Flanked by some secret-agent look-alikes who were actually a Hollywood stunt team (below), Bell ExpressVu launched a pre-Christmas season campaign to educate Canadians looking to go HD….
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – This year’s Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual general meeting will happen next month in Mont-Tremblant, Que.
Following the AGM on the morning of Sept. 24 will be a bulk purchasing trade…
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TORONTO – It’s an open secret in the TV industry that too many people are bringing home a brand new high definition television set but are not getting HDTV….
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HALIFAX – EastLink today continued its consolidation of eastern cable companies by agreeing to purchase RuSh Communications, which owns cable systems in the Annapolis Valley and other rural Nova…
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TORONTO – With the deal now mostly closed – pending CRTC approval of the regulated broadcast assets, of course – a number of Alliance Atlantis senior folks have left…
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WINNIPEG – One of the competitive advantages cable companies often speak of is their cable community channels – the volunteer-driven, low on the dial micro-locally-focused channels that only they…
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HALIFAX – EastLink announced Thursday the introduction of a new and faster high speed Internet product for its customers in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Boasting downloads of…
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WINNIPEG – CanWest Global said today that Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) approved CanWest’s request to exchange its ordinary shares and convertible debentures of The Ten Group for…
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NEW YORK and TORONTO – As we first reported last week, Hearst Corporation and Corus Entertainment have CRTC approval to launch Cosmo TV.
The two companies issued a…
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