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BCE posts lower Q3 results, despite ad bonus from London Olympics
The Bell Media division received an ad sales bonus during the latest quarter from airing the London Summer Olympic Games, even as the TV, radio and digital division continues to be impacted by a soft ad market.
Sportsnet petitions for the love of hockey
The sports channel played an impromptu game of hockey in the lobby of a Toronto mall to promote its online petition to bring back hockey.
Astral Media posts higher Q4 earnings, as BCE takeover stalls
CEO Ian Greenberg said the company will “maintain the same financial discipline that allowed the company to grow in fiscal 2012 and…continue to invest in content and new products.”
Specialty channels siphoning lost Hockey Night in Canada viewers
The NHL lockout has Canadian eyeballs moving to Teletoon and YTV to watch movies, The Comedy Network for laughter, and Sportsnet and TSN for pro baseball and football games.
Nomadic Pictures co-founders in talks to produce Copper
Cineflix Studios is near to a possible deal that will see Mike Frislev and Chad Oakes come on board as producers for hire on the second season shoot in Toronto for the period cop drama (pictured).
Mohawk Girls gets the greenlight
The six-episode dramedy, produced by Montreal-based Rezolution Pictures, is slated to begin production in spring 2013 and will air on both APTN and OMNI Television.
CRTC approves two new hockey channels
Hockey TV and Canal Hockey, both owned by Paul Girouard, received the greenlight from the broadcast regulator Tuesday on the condition that they not broadcast live NHL games.
BBC Worldwide Canada exec Hilary Read out in restructuring
“I’ve had a great career with BBC Worldwide and I wish the company the very best,” Read said in a statement.
Negotiations of new actors’ IPA underway
The previous three-year master pact with actors expires Dec. 31, and gave them 2% annual pay increases.
Silent ghosts to haunt Saskatoon, Regina
In the spirit of Halloween, members of Saskatchewan’s arts community will take to the streets to protest industry cuts.
RTA takes a Bite out of transmedia comedy
(UPDATED) Ryerson University’s RTA School of Bite will act as an idea lab and incubator for 10 participants to develop comedy programming for multiple delivery platforms.
CRTC’s Jean-Pierre Blais seeks trust of Canadians
The CRTC chair (pictured) told the IIC conference in Ottawa Monday that broadcasters and distributors are as much Canadian content creators as producers, directors and writers.
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