By Malcolm Dunlop, Rogers Media Television
CANADA – WHAT A GREAT COUNTRY when it comes to audience measurement. Where else would you have two competing television ratings services to…
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OTTAWA – Not every intervention filed with the CRTC over the four new pay TV license applicants were negative. Many were overwhelmingly supportive.
As reported previously, four groups are…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC today granted a new FM radio license to The Haliburton Broadcasting Group today.
Serving, well, Haliburton, Ont., and region, the station – to be an…
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Desperate Housewives, Lost, That’s So Raven and other TV shows can now be downloaded for US$1.99 to Apple’s brand new video iPod.
Apple today unveiled…
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TORONTO – 102.1 the Edge’s annual listeners’ choice awards will be hosted this year by actor/comedian/rap artist(?) Tom Green.
“Returning to his musical roots (his rap group Organized Rhyme had…
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TORONTO – A transaction begun yesterday will see Microsoft Corp. take ownership of 6% of Rogers Communications shares.
Officially, RCI “announced that it has given a notice of redemption…
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OTTAWA – A-Channel Ottawa announced today the appointment of Peter Angione as news director.
Originally an easterner, Angione has worked in a number of roles in newsrooms across the…
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WINNIPEG – Knighted cell phone service, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Mobile, today launched in Manitoba.
Virgin offers lower rates and no contracts or additional fees. It runs as an…
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CALGARY – At a press conference later today, Shaw Communications will officially launch Shaw Digital Phone in Victoria, B.C.
The service, already available in Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg, offers…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Digital Phone launches in Kingston, Ont. today.
“Like Burlington, Oakville and Windsor residents, Ontario, and with those in Trois-Rivières, Drummondville and Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, this appealing offer…
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