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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ALEXANDRIA, VA – The finalists for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing annual awards have been announced for 2007.
The list of the 159 finalists out of 1,032…
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BANFF – If major broadcasters disagree over the direction of television over the next few years, how can any prognostications be correct?
ESPN chairman emeritus Herbert Granath began the…
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BANFF – In the world according to Garvie – that’s Wayne Garvie, Director of Content and Production, BBC Worldwide – two truths are front and centre: producers and broadcasters…
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TORONTO – Recognizing that there was probably no way out of last week’s CRTC decision that disallowed the purchase of the Citytv franchise by CTV (a story Continue Reading
BANFF – Heritage Minister Bev Oda told delegates Sunday afternoon that the government is renewing its contribution to the New Media Fund, earmarking $29 million over two years.
While…
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