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    Family Channel’s Stand Up! Campaign Returns

    September 7, 2024 Family Channel is starting a conversation about bullying with the launch of its 14th annual Bullying Awareness Week campaign, encouraging students to stand up, not stand by when they see bullying happen. Family is showcasing the commitment of its network stars…
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    Bell Fibe TV to be a Standalone TV Service in early 2024

    September 7, 2024 Bell announced that by the end of Q1 2024,  Fibe TV customers will no longer be required to sign up for Fibe Internet service to access Canada’s fastest-growing television service. “As we align our next-generation IPTV technologies, we’re bringing exclusive…
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    Corus Revamps Treehouse App

    September 7, 2024   Corus Entertainment announced the newly refreshed Treehouse App, formerly Treehouse Classic, available on iPhone, iPad, iPod and now the new Apple TV. The App offers parents and kids more than 1,500 episodes of favourite series from the  vast library…
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    Mansbridge’s Departure Primes ‘The National’ for Revamp

    September 7, 2024 Veteran anchor Peter Mansbridge’s departure from “The National” is ushering in “the next phase” of CBC’s flagship news program, the public broadcaster’s editor-in-chief said Tuesday.  In a letter to staff, Jennifer McGuire said that she will personally oversee “a process…
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    CACTUS Asks CRTC to Reconsider Community and Local TV Decision

    September 6, 2024 The Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations has asked the CRTC to reconsider its June 15th decision to reallocate funding from community TV to private broadcasters1. The group cites inadequate data about community TV channels operated by large…
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    CTV Announces New Host and Managing Editor of W5

    September 6, 2024   Canada’s pre-eminent investigative series, W5, launches its 51st season with new Host and Managing Editor Kevin Newman at the helm on Saturday, Octtober. 1 on CTV, the CTV GO app, and CTVNews.ca. One of Canada’s most respected journalists, Newman…
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    Bell Media Ventures Into Live Theatrical Production

    September 6, 2024       Bell Media announced today it is entering into live theatrical production in a partnership with legendary Canadian producer Michael Cohl’s Iconic Entertainment Studios (Spamalot; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark; Rock of Ages: The Musical). The first production…
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    CRTC To Begin Public Hearing on Skinny Basic TV

    September 6, 2024 The CRTC  and the country’s four biggest television service providers are in for an earful this week over the rollout earlier this year of  skinny-basic TV. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will kick off a public hearing Wednesday to discuss…
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    OAB Calls for Nominations For Community Service & Promotion Campaigns Awards

    September 6, 2024 The Ontario Association of Broadcasters invites all Ontario member stations to enter their best public service campaign(s) and best station promotion to the OAB Awards.  Winners will be selected in both Large and Small Market categories.  Awards will be presented at the…
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    Federal Court Sets Aside Harassment Findings Against Rai Shoan

    September 6, 2024 A former commissioner of the CRTC was treated unfairly by an investigator who found he had harassed a woman, Federal Court ruled Friday.  In a ruling critical of both the investigator and the chairman of the federal agency, Judge Russel Zinn…