CALGARY – Shaw is keeping the home fires burning for the holidays again. Yesterday it put its virtual fireplace on screen on Shaw Digital Digest, and analog customers can…
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TORONTO – As part of its acquisition of OMNI TV B.C. and Manitoba, Roger OMNI Television has announced a benefits package totalling $950,000 for independent producers based in the…
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GATINEAU, Que. – Aboriginal Voices Radio Inc. has applied for another extension to the CRTC to begin broadcasting programming in aboriginal languages in Vancouver, Abbortsford, B.C., Calgary, Ottawa, and…
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CHARLOTTETOWN – Aliant is teaming up with the Charlottetown Police Department to help potential victims of domestic violence.
The telco is donating refurbished cell phones, which police will provide…
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MONTREAL and TORONTO – The National Film Board of Canada has issued a call for proposals from independent filmmakers to make documentaries from a new fund.
The NFB’s $800,000…
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TORONTO – Industrial design students at three Ontario institutions will be able to compete for cash prizes donated by Bell Canada by designing futuristic communications products.
Third-year students enrolled…
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MONTREAL – The biography of Nathalie Simard, a former child star who was molested by a television broadcaster when she was a girl, will premier on Dec. 9 on…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rapper Snoop Dogg has been named the producer of the classic hip-hop channel The Rhyme on the XM satellite service originating in the U.S. and carried…
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LINDSAY, Ont. – Greg Walling, who was the last president and CEO of former equipment distribution company Cabletel (which was once the largest distribution company in Canada but suffered through…
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WINNIPEG — CanWest Global Communications’s Australian operations report its second-best quarterly results ever.
The TEN Group pty Limited (TEN), the company that owns CanWest’s Australian television and out-of-home advertising…
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