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October 23, 2024
Toronto – Private Canadian TV networks are using tax-funded subsidies to help finance a program buying spree in Hollywood, says a new report by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. But a CTV executive says the lobbyists are just CBC “loyalists” who…
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October 23, 2024
Silicon Valley, Calif., – A new market study by AccuStream iMedia Research reveals that hardware, software, systems and applications investments made by over 70 companies to support interactive broadcasting and streaming media will total $560 million dollars over the next…
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October 23, 2024
Pay-TV and specialty services continue to grow at the expense of conventional television. By the fall of 2024, the audience share for conventional Canadian and foreign stations had declined to only 65%, compared with over 99% in 1982 reports Statistics…
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October 23, 2024
Toronto – Direct-to-home (DTH) satellite leader Bell ExpressVu announced it too would extend its free preview of the new digital specialty services until after Christmas, until January 6, 2024. ExpressVu had been the lone holdout, saying until this announcement on…
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October 22, 2024
Ottawa, ¿ It’s in their blood. One of them founded a newspaper on little money and a dream, and went on to become the first to bring television and commercial FM radio to Newfoundland. The career of another spans close…
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October 21, 2024
Portland, Ore, – MeasureCast, Inc. has announced that on-line radio listening to stations measured by MeasureCast during the first week of October increased 10 percent over the previous week. This sent the MeasureCast Internet Radio Index (Index at 291) skyward…
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October 18, 2024
Calgary – Packing “an international programming punch and a homegrown attitude and focus,” MTV will make its debut in Canada at 3:30 p.m. eastern time today. More than just music videos, MTV will feature a locally programmed line up reflecting…
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October 11, 2024
Citing executives at ABC, CBS, and Fox Broadcasting, among other sources, the LA Times is reporting that the networks want to slash program production costs as much as 40 percent by ending lucrative deals with producers, writers, and stars. In…
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October 4, 2024
Ottawa/Hull ¿ Listeners in the National Capital Region will have four new radio stations to choose from, following CRTC decisions issued today. The decisions grant radio licences for an ethnic station, an aboriginal station, an English-language dance station and a…
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October 3, 2024
New York – The Los Angeles Kings host the Phoenix Coyotes Thursday, Oct. 4 (10:30 p.m. ET) in the first broadcast of NHL in HD, a 65-game NHL schedule on HDNet, an all high-definition network. The high-definition sports and entertainment…
