TORONTO – Starz Media, parent company of Anchor Bay Entertainment and Starz Animation will this week purchase Starz Media’s Canadian operations, including Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada.
Starz Media is…
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OTTAWA – The consumer groups who appealed the CRTC’s February decision directing monies in so-called "deferral accounts" to rural broadband builds learned today the Federal Court of Appeal has…
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TORONTO – A new three-year $7.5 million "entertainment and creative cluster partnerships fund was launched Friday by Culture Minister Caroline Di Cocco.
The fund is geared towards helping Ontario’s…
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OTTAWA – Thirty-three million dollars that was once part of the Canadian Heritage Ministry’s budget yesterday is no longer there today.
While on the face of it, the budget…
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CALGARY – "Every 96 seconds we are installing a new Shaw Digital Phone customer," said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications, in kicking off the company’s fall marketing campaign…
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OTTAWA – Corus Radio Montreal’s host Pierre "Doc" Mailloux continues to ignore the CAB’s Code of Ethics.
On Friday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said his open-line program on…
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – Motorola, Inc. acquired Vertasent, LLC on Monday, boosting the company’s switched and IP video capabilities.
Based in Colmar, Pa., Vertasent is a privately-held developer of software…
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IT FIGURES THAT THE first newsroom to take the high definition plunge would be a sports newsroom.
After all, sports is the leading driver when it comes to HD…
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TORONTO – "It wasn’t so long ago that we lived in a society dominated by broadcast mass media operating with analog technology," reminisced Canadian Association of Broadcasters CEO Glenn…
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WASHINGTON – Thanks to the entry of cable companies and other voice over IP providers into the local telephony market, consumers and small businesses could save a total of…
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