MONTREAL – Reading the writing on the virtual wall, Transcontinental Media announced Thursday it will stop producing a hard copy of TV Guide.
The brand will become a web…
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VANCOUVER – Telus announced this week it will invest $800,000 to launch mobile phone service to four small coastal B.C. communities in the coming months.
The company is upgrading…
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TORONTO – Saying the existing collective agreements between producers and actors were written "for a bygone era," Canada’s film and TV producers today warned ACTRA that major structural changes…
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TORONTO – Investors have bid up CanWest Global Communications shares 24% over the past three weeks in anticipation of a big move in Australia.
CanWest shares closed at $10.65…
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TORONTO – The spiffy new Treo 700wx from Palm was launched in Canada with Bell Mobility today.
It has a big (for a handheld), bright touch-screen. It’s a smart…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Communications chairman Alan Horn has been elected to the board of directors of March Networks.
The election took place at the company’s annual general meeting on…
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TORONTO – CanWest MediaWorks said today it will expand the chopper coverage for its Global News and CH News properties in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Hamilton.
In conjunction…
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TORONTO – The owners of Bridges TV took their fight for carriage on Rogers Cable to the media late on Wednesday.
An incendiary press release from the English-language Muslim…
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WHEN NBTEL FIRST CAME to market in 1998 with a digital TV product serving customers in Moncton and Saint John, N.B., the cable industry laughed.
Sure, it was all-digital…
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TORONTO – Travel + Escape, the re-branded CTV Travel channel, will launch Monday, October 30 at 12:01 am ET.
Said to be "an edgier evolution of its predecessor," according…
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