TORONTO – Karen Gelbart has been promoted to senior vice-president content, lifestyle channels at Alliance Atlantis.
It was the position vacated recently by Kirstine Layfield who, as previously…
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MONTREAL – "Quebecor Media posted a very strong performance in 2005, spearheaded by surging results at Videotron, driven by positive consumer response to its products, particularly the residential telephone…
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WINNIPEG – CanWest MediaWorks New Zealand announced today it has agreed to purchase Q92FM, which serves the areas of Queenstown, the Wakatipu Basin and Central Otaga, New Zealand, with…
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LOS ANGELES – The Walt Disney Company, Intel and Cisco have revived video on demand company MovieBeam and this time, customers will be able to order movies in high…
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TORONTO – Gabrielle Free has been hired as director of communication for CHUM Television’s music and youth services. She starts today.Free (left) will oversee all communication strategy…
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GATINEAU – As part of its overall restructuring, the CRTC issued an unusual call for comments on Friday, asking the industry for input on setting service standards for…
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ASTRAL TELEVISION’S THE MOVIE NETWORK was one of the first, if not the first Canadian TV channel to show a regular diet of high definition content, dating back to…
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DESPITE THE IMMINENT SHUTDOWN of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, a move which will cost 26 jobs, Canada’s smaller independent operators have already decided they must have a continuing…
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – Yesterday, former Bell Canada executive Michael Neuman resigned as president and chief operating officer of number two U.S. satellite company EchoStar Communications.
A short announcement yesterday by…
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MONTREAL – Subscribers to Videotron’s illico digital cable are able to access Olympic coverage from Radio-Canada, the French-language network of the CBC, via video on demand.
Under an agreement…
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