Tag: Postmedia

Online & Digital Media News – Overstory ordered to pay $270K...

Overstory Media Group has been ordered to pay more than $270,000 in unpaid wages to a group of nine former employees of Vancouver alt...

Online & Digital Media News – Village Media launches wait list...

Village Media has launched the wait list for Spaces, a local, community-powered social network, set to be integrated with Village Media’s local news sites....

Online & Digital Media News – ‘Regulatory and financial uncertainty’ leads...

Nordstar Capital, owner of Torstar (the Toronto Star and Metroland Media Group), and Postmedia Network have terminated discussions regarding a potential merger. The companies...

Online & Digital Media News – Postmedia in merger talks with...

Postmedia is in talks with the owners of the Toronto Star, discussing a potential merger. Nordstar Capital, owner of Metroland Media Group and the...

Online & Digital Media News – Postmedia plans layoffs, more digitization...

Unifor says it is looking at all options to protect media workers following Postmedia’s announcement that it plans layoffs. Planned cost-cutting over the coming...

Radio & Podcast News – Rogers and Pattison make rebrand moves...

Rogers Sports & Media is expanding its SONiC RADiO brand as it introduced the alternative format to Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Thursday morning....

Antica Productions and Postmedia strike streaming content partnership

Antica Productions and Postmedia Network have formed a strategic content partnership that will see podcasts and unscripted television and film adapted from Postmedia journalism. Toronto-based...

Regulatory, Telecom & Media News – Postmedia acquires Brunswick News

Postmedia has entered into an agreement with J. D. Irving, Limited (JDI) to purchase  Brunswick News. The proposed acquisition includes daily and weekly newspapers,...

Online & Digital Media News – Videotron to launch ‘Vrai’ unscripted...

Videotron is launching a second subscription video on demand (SVOD) platform, focused on French-language unscripted programming. Set to launch later this year, Vrai will...

Regulatory, Telecom & Media News – Liberal government sides with big...

Innovation, Science and Industry has sided with the incumbent telecom operators in their fight to overturn the CRTC’s Aug. 2019 ruling lowering the wholesale...