CALGARY – Digital signs, such as big food court screens in malls or smaller ones at the gas pumps, are popping up everywhere.
So this week, Corus Custom Networks,…
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MELBOURNE, Fla. – Broadcast equipment maker Harris Corporation (which bought Leitch Technologies in 2005) has agreed to purchase Aastra Digital Video, which develops and markets video networking, encoding, decoding,…
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TORONTO – Toronto’s 92.5 Jack FM kicked off its new VIP loyalty program today, a first such promotion in Canada, it said.
Listeners can visit the station’s web site…
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OTTAWA – With the wireless number portability deadline about 10 months away (March 14, 2007), the CRTC on Thursday cleared up a number of issues related to WNP.
For example,…
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THERE’S LITTLE DISPUTING the fact Canada is a resource-based economy.
As oil and gas and mineral stocks go – so goes the Toronto Stock Exchange. Hundreds of thousands of…
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TORONTO – CTV has signed a deal with an American distribution company to find spots for its heralded Canadian sitcom, Corner Gas, in the United States.
CTV has announced…
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OTTAWA – Distributing separate feeds simultaneously is currently a no-no for national sports service The Sports Network, the CRTC said today.
In January, the CBC complained to the Commission…
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WASHINGTON – The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a decision last week against a Vancouver broadcast executive over a public company he was involved in between 1999 and 2002….
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OTTAWA – As the so-called "account stacking" proceeding progresses, reply comments were due in last week and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters let it be known again that the…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has told Shaw Cable it has to change its community channel ad policies.
After coming across a rate card and hearing about Shaw Cable selling…
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