MONTREAL – Talks between Canadian film and TV producers and the actors they employ have broken off again as the two sides can’t decide how much the actors should…
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CALGARY – Saying he wants an accounting of exactly how the Canadian Television Fund money is spent and where the value is, Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw says until…
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CBC/RADIO-CANADA DOES NOT receive any money from the Canadian Television Fund (see "Shaw suspends TV fund payments"). The fund goes to independent producers to help them make Canadian…
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MONTREAL – Videotron announced late Tuesday afternoon that it won’t be making its regular monthly contributions to the Canadian Television Fund either.
In a letter to the CTF, Pierre…
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HAMILTON – Mountain Cablevision said Friday it will match the extended local calling area in Hamilton that city council has been urging telephone companies to implement.
Bell Canada has…
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MONTREAL – Videotron’s vice-president, television distribution content, VOD, internet and wireless, Claude Sauvé, is no longer with the company, Cartt.ca has learned.
The circumstances surrounding the departure of the…
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LAS VEGAS – Emerson Coleman, vice-president, programming, Hearst-Argyle Television, and Roma Khanna, senior vice-president, content, CHUM Television, have been nominated co-chairs of the board of the National Association of…
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TORONTO – If all goes as hoped, Corus Entertainment will have a new channel aimed at young women come this fall.
And the branding, Cosmo TV, could scarcely be…
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LAS VEGAS – The so-called new media space is regularly thought of as a playground for the basement producer making silly videos based on the slimmest of hope that…
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LAS VEGAS – Busy Blackberry users can now listen to news and entertainment on the go using thanks to Toronto mobile technology firm QuickPlay’s new audio streaming service.
Launched…
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