CALGARY – “The signs are going up, all our vehicles have been painted” says Al Thorgeirson, regional vice-president, CHUM Television, Alberta/Manitoba, referring to the few last details on his…
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VIEWERS IN BARRIE, LONDON, Windsor, Ottawa, Wingham, Victoria, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary will wake up to new channels on their dials this morning.
Thanks to the company’s acquisition of…
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MONTREAL – Partially led by the growth of Videotron’s new residential telephone service (at 41,800 customers at the end of June), Quebecor Media posted gains in revenue and operating…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today granted a license for a new FM radio station in Pembroke, Ont., which is about 140 kms northwest of Ottawa, to My Broadcasting Corp….
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Yahoo! Inc. announced content deals with both CNN and ABC News today.
Both news organizations will provide daily video news feeds to Yahoo! News beginning September…
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VANCOUVER – In a decision rendered late Wednesday, the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta issued an interim order that addresses the concerns that led to Telus disabling access…
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GATINEAU – Full marks for decision speed on this one as Telus today received its broadcast distribution undertaking license.
The hearing on the license was on June 6th.
The…
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EDMONTON – The official switch from A-Channel to Citytv Edmonton doesn’t happen until Tuesday, but yesterday the channel announced that MuchMusic/MuchMoreMusic personality Bill Welychka and A-Channel’s weekend anchor Stacey…
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WINNIPEG – Revenue and earnings continued to grow in the second quarter of 2005 for Manitoba Telecom Services, the company announced Thursday.
Consolidated revenues for the quarter were $502.2 million,…
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GATINEAU – A report on street gangs which aired on Tele-Quebec in January was not abusive, despite the use of the term “nigger gangs”, but was contrary to Broadcasting…
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