GATINEAU – Three more category two digital specialty channels (two fully HD) were approved by the CRTC today.
The Family Channel received a license for The Parent Channel,…
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WINNIPEG – Two former partners of the late Israel Asper are suing the company he founded, the Canadian Press reported this weekend.
“Seymour Epstein and Paul Morton have filed…
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SAN FRANCISCO – Dolby Laboratories announced today that the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has incorporated Dolby Digital Plus into the ATSC standard.
Specifically, says the press release, ATSC…
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TORONTO – Radio and ad agency veteran Willie Reiss has joined the Foxy 88.5 sales department as an account executive, the company announced today.
“Willie Reiss is a media…
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MONTREAL – Quebec authors, artists and cultural enterprises have demanded the federal government overturn the CRTC’s decision to license two satellite radio operators in Canada.
A group of 10…
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MONTREAL – Videotron keeps adding thousands of phone customers.
In its second quarter financial results announced today, the company reported it had 41,800 subscribers at the end of June,…
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TORONTO – Popular sportscaster Jody Vance has left Rogers Sportsnet.
The well-known, bespectacled 6 p.m. Sportsnetnews co-anchor (with Jim Van Horne) recently asked out of her contract early and…
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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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