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Global adds power of AirPlay to video app
SCN to become Citytv affiliate January 2
Broadcasters require “timely notice” of packaging, channels changes, CRTC warns BDUs
Shaw, “ET Canada” to reno Toronto food bank
Tuesday’s episode will see ET Canada reporter Kim D'Eon, interior designer Penny Southam, and a group of volunteers complete a two-day, top-to-bottom renovation of the food bank's small apartment-style kitchen. ET Canada Gives Back will air throughout the week of December 19 at 7:30pm ET on Global.
"Our staff at ET Canada…
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CALGARY – Shaw has added the high definition versions of Space, Business News Network (BNN), Bravo!, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet to its lineup.
The new HD channels are available on free preview until January 31, 2012 to Shaw HD cable customers, and those who currently subscribe to the standard definition versions of these channels will automatically receive the corresponding HD channel at no extra cost. For customers in the Edmonton and Vancouver areas, Animal Planet HD will become available over the next year as Shaw upgrades its network.
"Our customers can count on us to deliver the highest quality and…
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TORONTO – Global News and Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) are joining forces on a partnership designed to improve journalism in Africa.
Over the next year, Global News will deploy six of its journalists to JHR's offices across Africa for three weeks at a time. While there, they will assist JHR's team to train local journalists to report on human rights and governance issues more effectively.
"We are honoured to be partnering with Journalists for Human Rights to create a program that will both further the cause of democracy and provide our journalists with an opportunity no other broadcast organization offers,"…
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CORD-CUTTING, OR SHAVING, could take a big, 1.7-billion-dollar bite out of Canadian television distribution revenues by 2017, according to a new report from RBC Capital Markets.
While that sounds pretty painful, the reports authors call that a modest hit to an industry which pulls in some $10 billion annually. The real challenge will be after that, during what they call the 2017-’19 inflection period, where cord-cutting could really accelerate, especially if over-the-top video services grab much more of the premium programming and the traditional industry isn’t proactive.
“Prior to our OTT inflection period, we do not expect the financial impact of…
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OTTAWA – Some companies are telling Industry Canada that it shouldn’t rush to open up TV white spaces spectrum, while another is saying let’s get on with it.
In reply comments to the consultation (that we first reported on here), the majority urges the department to consider all the pros and cons, ensure over-the-air TV isn’t negatively affected and watch how rollouts in other markets go before making a final decision on how it’s going to proceed. They say this will best ensure Canada gets it right.
As was argued by several parties in…
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MONTREAL – Both of Canada's two French-language private television networks made commitments to increase local news programming as CRTC hearings concluded Friday in Montreal.
Remstar, which bought the TQS network out of creditor protection in 2008 and eliminated its news-gathering operations, read the writing on the hearing walls and committed to increase local news programming on its five owned-and-operated stations after spending the week resisting calls to do so.
In '08, the CRTC gave what is now called V Interactions three years of reduced local news minimums when the station was purchased (from…
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Shaw adds five new HD services
Global News partners with Journalists for Human Rights in Africa
BDU Outlook: OTT looks to trim $1.7 billion in revenue by 2017, but broadband income will compensate
SPECTRUM: We shouldn’t wait to move forward on white spaces spectrum deployment, says Shaw
French TV Hearing: TV networks commit to more local news during final appearance
