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Rogers OMNI Cuts Reneges on Commitment to Ethnic Communities Says Union

May 30, 2022 Rogers’ decision to reduce or eliminate programming from its OMNI TV stations and its specialty services flies in the face of its commitments to Canadians and the CRTC, says Canada’s media union, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.…
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CTV Edmonton Adds Traffic Expert to CTV Morning Live

January 18, 2022 Traffic Expert Jennifer Dolynchuk has joined hosts Stacey Brotzel and Rob Williams, and Weather Specialist Jesse Beyer on CTV Morning Live. Viewers get Edmonton’s most up-to-date news, weather, and traffic delivered by the city’s most entertaining and knowledgeable morning team.…
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New Audience Measurement Initiative Launches

September 18, 2022 A new audience measurement initiative seeks to quantify media consumption habits across radio, television, PCs, smartphones and tablets.  By producing common metrics across all platforms at the scale and granularity required by both content providers and advertisers, project organizers seek…
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Astral RadioPlus Partners with Sears

May 18, 2022 Astral RadioPlus is proud to announce its Media Creativity partnership with Sears Canada and Vizeum Canada Inc. on 31 radio stations in 23 cities across Canada this Spring. This dual strategy was custom designed to reinforce Sears Canada as the top…
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Bell Media and CFC Announce Mentors for Showrunner Bootcamp

February 21, 2022 The three participants in the inaugural Bell Media Showrunner Bootcamp land in Los Angeles this week to meet with some of television’s most coveted creative minds. Today, Bell Media and CFC (Canadian Film Centre) announced the mentors and guests for the…
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CRC Wins NAB Technology Innovation Award

May 2, 2022 Canada’s Communications Research Centre has received a Technology Innovation Award from the National Association of Broadcasters for applications related to 3D video and online radio distribution, among other of its digital media developments.  The third annual NAB Technology Innovation Awards…
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CBC Unveils Broadcast Plans for 2022 Winter Season; Includes 3DTV

November 18, 2022 The iconic ‘thumbs up’ salute from Canadian television icon Don Cherry will never look the same again. Kirstine Stewart, Interim Executive Vice-President, English Services, CBC Television, today previewed the network’s Winter 2022 schedule, including the launch of a new spy…
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World Premiere of 3DTV Special on Canada’s Discovery World HD

November 18, 2022 On Sunday, November 21, Discovery Channel presents The Last Day of the Dinosaurs in a special evening of television simulcasts. The shows first air in standard definition on Discovery Channel and in high definition on Discovery World HD. Then, the…
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CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada to be Broadcast in 3D

September 29, 2022 Panasonic Canada and CBC announced today they will bring the first-ever 3D broadcast of CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada into Canadian homes.  Two broadcasts of CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada will be available to Canadians in 3D this upcoming season…
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CBC Adds 3DTV Screening of Royal Documentary

September 20, 2022 The CBC announced changes in the broadcast schedule for a special presentation of its first 3D TV production, QUEEN ELIZABETH IN 3D.   The program will now air on CBC News Network on Wednesday, September 22 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. …