TORONTO – The inaugural CSUA Broadcast Technology Awards were handed out this month by the Canadian Satellite Users Association.
The Awards are scholarship prizes of $5,000 each. CSUA established…
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MONTREAL – After announcing suspension of its monthly payments to the Canadian Television Fund (CTF), Quebecor Media now says it wants to opt out of the CTF entirely and…
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BY THE MIDDLE OF this year, Canada’s largest satellite operator, Telesat, will be a much bigger company.
When Loral Space Communications and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board said…
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HALIFAX – EastLink is investing $4.2 million to upgrade its network around the southernmost reaches of Nova Scotia and will soon launch local telephone service in Yarmouth and its…
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GATINEAU – In his first public statement since becoming chairman of the CRTC, Konrad von Finckenstein today told Shaw Communications and Videotron that they should resume their required monthly…
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TORONTO – In just over a year, satellite radio company Sirius Canada has surpassed the 300,000 subscriber mark.
That gives it 75% market share in Canada, says the company,…
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MONTREAL – Pierre Arcand has resigned as president of Corus Québec Radio in order to make the jump into provincial politics.
Arcand announced Tuesday he will be the Quebec…
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Karen Wirsig of the Canadian Media Guild (Letter to the Editor, January 30, 2007) makes several arguments that are self-serving and wrong.
1. It is untrue that the CTF…
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MONTREAL – Quebec’s film and television producers’ association today lambasted Quebecor’s proposal to re-direct its television program development money from the Canadian Television Fund (CTF) to its own self-directed…
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VANCOUVER – CBC Television and Thunderbird Films today announced that production is underway in Vancouver on The Quality of Life – A Dominic Da Vinci Movie.
The special two-hour…
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