TORONTO – After over a month of uncertainty and facing a serious funding shortfall, the Canadian Television Fund said today it welcomes the CRTC Task Force on TV production…
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OTTAWA – Canadian satellite service provider (business voice and data) RAMTelecom said today it has signed a deal with Houston, Texas-based SkyPort Global Communications to sell the Canadian company…
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IT’S GOT TO BE TOUGH being the new guy. Especially the new, much smaller guy, in a market of giants.
Right now, this is Ciel Satellite, Canada’s upstart satellite…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Well, this will douse some of the fire that was sure to burn at this week’s Canadian Film and Television Producers Association Prime Time conference in Ottawa…
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MONTREAL – The results were so good, Videotron issued its own press release today.
The cable company’s 2006 drove parent Quebecor Media, posting strong growth in 2006 in terms…
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VANCOUVER – Well-known Canadian broadcast engineer and technologist Ed Yiu has joined Olympic Broadcast Services Vancouver (OBSV) as director of broadcast telecommunications.
Yiu (pictured) brings over 30 years of…
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WASHINGTON and NEW YORK – With both companies still awash in a sea of red ink, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio today announced they will merge in…
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KELOWNA – The second annual Canadian CommTech Trade Show and Training Seminars returns to Kelowna, B.C. and the Okanagan Valley this May 30th and 31st bigger and better than…
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OTTAWA – Saying he is "sufficiently assured" that change is in the works with the Canadian Television Fund, Jim Shaw told the Standing Committee of Canadian Heritage this morning…
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GATINEAU – Saying the proposed new digital channel infringed on the genre protection of existing Canadian specialties, the CRTC denied a category two digital specialty service license to Cosmo…
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