By Robert Rabinovitch, CBC
THE CHALLENGE BROADCASTERS FACE today is strikingly similar to the one faced by newspapers in the 1920s with the dawn of radio; by radio, in…
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VANCOUVER – Wireless and wireline operations at Telus Corp. will be combined under one executive roof, the company announced this morning.
The integration (which the company had taken stabs…
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ILE-DES-SOEURS, VERDUN, QC and TORONTO, ON – XM Canada, officially launched Wednesday, despite the fact its hardware won’t be widely available until next week.
Its first subscriber, Michel Leblanc…
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CAMPBELL RIVER and CALGARY – As of Wednesday afternoon, 10,000 Campbell River TV customers were still without most of their TV channels.
As reported by cartt.ca yesterday, Shaw Communications, which…
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MONTREAL – Digital broadcast gear manufacturer Miranda Technologies announced Wednesday that Terry Nickerson (right) will be appointed as a member of the board of directors, and chair of the…
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MONTREAL – Today, Quebec MSO Videotron began rolling out voice service on the North Shore of Montreal.
In under a year after its launch, Videotron’s voice over Internet protocol…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable announced this morning that it has added its 100,000th high definition television customer, doubling the amount it had in January of 2005.
As the holiday…
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DARTMOUTH, N.S. – The CRTC has approved Newcap Inc.’s $1.8-million purchase of Winnipeg station CHNR-FM “The Breeze” from CKVN Radiolink System Inc.
The transaction, originally announced in February, is…
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OTTAWA – Today, the CRTC added six new foreign, third-language TV channels to the eligible satellite list.
Sponsored by the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, the new additions are: Channel…
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CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Shaw Communications to restore the TV signals to Campbell River TV.
Due to an acrimonious dispute over…
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