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Archives for: March 20105
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Rogers to launch new sports channel
Wednesday March 03rd 2010TORONTO — The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games may have wrapped, but there appears to be no end in sight for Canada’s appetite for TV sports. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on Tuesday gave domestic broadcaster Rogers Broadcasting the go-ahead to launch a digital cable sports channel featuring NHL[…]
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Former Chum CEO aims to run new channels
Wednesday March 03rd 2010TORONTO — Former Chum CEO Jay Switzer has resurfaced as head of a local consortium bidding to run four new Canadian cable channels. Switzer, head of Canadian broadcaster Chum Ltd. until it was acquired by Rogers Media in 2007, has applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for[…]
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Sarah Polley pulls name from ‘The Heart’
Wednesday March 03rd 2010Sarah Polley’s heart just isn’t in it. The Canadian actress-turned-director on Tuesday withdrew her name from “The Heart,” a two-minute film she shot on female cardiac health to air this Sunday on Canadian broadcaster CTV’s nationwide telecast of the Academy Awards. Polley said she pulled her credit from the Oscar short after she learned that the project from Canada’s Heart and Stroke Foundation might indirectly market the Unilever brand margarine Becel.
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‘Locker’ producer banned from Oscars show
Wednesday March 03rd 2010In the highest-profile effort this Oscar season by the Academy to police overzealous awards campaigning, “The Hurt Locker” producer Nicolas Chartier has been banned from the Awards ceremony. If his movie wins best picture on Sunday night, Chartier will not be at the Kodak Theatre to accept the award with[…]
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Sundance Channel gets Canuck go ahead
Tuesday March 02nd 2010TORONTO — Sundance Channel on Monday finally got round protectionist barriers to launch in Canada under a licensing agreement with Rainbow Media Holdings. Sundance Channel Canada broke out of the gates here with a screening of Quebec director Robert Lepage’s 2000 indie feature “Possible Worlds,” which starred Tilda Swinton and[…]
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Archives for: March 20105
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Rogers to launch new sports channel
Wednesday March 03rd 2010TORONTO — The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games may have wrapped, but there appears to be no end in sight for Canada’s appetite for TV sports. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on Tuesday gave domestic broadcaster Rogers Broadcasting the go-ahead to launch a digital cable sports channel featuring NHL[…]
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Former Chum CEO aims to run new channels
Wednesday March 03rd 2010TORONTO — Former Chum CEO Jay Switzer has resurfaced as head of a local consortium bidding to run four new Canadian cable channels. Switzer, head of Canadian broadcaster Chum Ltd. until it was acquired by Rogers Media in 2007, has applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for[…]
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Sarah Polley pulls name from ‘The Heart’
Wednesday March 03rd 2010Sarah Polley’s heart just isn’t in it. The Canadian actress-turned-director on Tuesday withdrew her name from “The Heart,” a two-minute film she shot on female cardiac health to air this Sunday on Canadian broadcaster CTV’s nationwide telecast of the Academy Awards. Polley said she pulled her credit from the Oscar short after she learned that the project from Canada’s Heart and Stroke Foundation might indirectly market the Unilever brand margarine Becel.
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‘Locker’ producer banned from Oscars show
Wednesday March 03rd 2010In the highest-profile effort this Oscar season by the Academy to police overzealous awards campaigning, “The Hurt Locker” producer Nicolas Chartier has been banned from the Awards ceremony. If his movie wins best picture on Sunday night, Chartier will not be at the Kodak Theatre to accept the award with[…]
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Sundance Channel gets Canuck go ahead
Tuesday March 02nd 2010TORONTO — Sundance Channel on Monday finally got round protectionist barriers to launch in Canada under a licensing agreement with Rainbow Media Holdings. Sundance Channel Canada broke out of the gates here with a screening of Quebec director Robert Lepage’s 2000 indie feature “Possible Worlds,” which starred Tilda Swinton and[…]
ARCHIVES
Archives for: March 20105
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Rogers to launch new sports channel
Wednesday March 03rd 2010TORONTO — The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games may have wrapped, but there appears to be no end in sight for Canada’s appetite for TV sports. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on Tuesday gave domestic broadcaster Rogers Broadcasting the go-ahead to launch a digital cable sports channel featuring NHL[…]
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Former Chum CEO aims to run new channels
Wednesday March 03rd 2010TORONTO — Former Chum CEO Jay Switzer has resurfaced as head of a local consortium bidding to run four new Canadian cable channels. Switzer, head of Canadian broadcaster Chum Ltd. until it was acquired by Rogers Media in 2007, has applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for[…]
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Sarah Polley pulls name from ‘The Heart’
Wednesday March 03rd 2010Sarah Polley’s heart just isn’t in it. The Canadian actress-turned-director on Tuesday withdrew her name from “The Heart,” a two-minute film she shot on female cardiac health to air this Sunday on Canadian broadcaster CTV’s nationwide telecast of the Academy Awards. Polley said she pulled her credit from the Oscar short after she learned that the project from Canada’s Heart and Stroke Foundation might indirectly market the Unilever brand margarine Becel.
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‘Locker’ producer banned from Oscars show
Wednesday March 03rd 2010In the highest-profile effort this Oscar season by the Academy to police overzealous awards campaigning, “The Hurt Locker” producer Nicolas Chartier has been banned from the Awards ceremony. If his movie wins best picture on Sunday night, Chartier will not be at the Kodak Theatre to accept the award with[…]
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Sundance Channel gets Canuck go ahead
Tuesday March 02nd 2010TORONTO — Sundance Channel on Monday finally got round protectionist barriers to launch in Canada under a licensing agreement with Rainbow Media Holdings. Sundance Channel Canada broke out of the gates here with a screening of Quebec director Robert Lepage’s 2000 indie feature “Possible Worlds,” which starred Tilda Swinton and[…]
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