BANFF – By Susan Tolusso – Documentary filmmakers from a hot shop in Montreal locked up first and second prizes Wednesday in the richest pitching event at the Banff…
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BANFF – It will be October before Dawn Airey, the opening keynote speaker of this year’s Banff World Television Festival, starts her new job in charge of global content…
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TORONTO – Consumers’ evolving media consumption habits are driving changes in the business models adopted by traditional media players, resulting in once-unlikely partnerships and new branded content opportunities for…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – Canada’s largest private equity company, Onex Corp., announced today it is joining Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, and…
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THE SLINGBOX IS A cool little device – a neat-o box that lets users place shift their home TV – making their laptop into a second TV in the…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Seven months after XM Radio Canada owner John Bitove applied for a license for a new national over-the-air digital/high definition television license, the CRTC today called for…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Rogers Cable has asked the CRTC to change the rules for airing commercials and affiliated programming on its VOD service to grab back revenues from advertisers moving…
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OTTAWA – Rogers should spend as much money proportionately on Canadian programming on Citytv as it does on baseball players, says the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada….
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MONTREAL – Astral Media has met its goal of donating more than $3 million in advertising time to Dr. Clown, a Montreal-based non-profit, therapeutic clown organization.
Astral launched the…
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BANFF – The Canadian Television Fund, saying it was responding to “a concern” but declining to name whose concern, said it would put off any changes to its bylaws…
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