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Fall 2019 PPM Ratings for Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, & Montreal

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Harvard Broadcasting parent Hill Group acquires Regina’s Carbon Marketing

The Hill Group of Companies, the parent company of Harvard Broadcasting, has acquired Regina-based agency Carbon Marketing to form Harvard Media. Harvard Media will provide...

Bell’s proposed ‘V’ acquisition threatens to crush competition, says Quebecor

Quebecor is asking the CRTC to outright deny Bell Media's application to acquire the French-language V network. In its intervention to the commission, filed Friday,...

1 in 10 monthly Canadian podcast listeners have donated to a podcast: CPL

One in 10 monthly podcast listeners in Canada say they have donated money to a podcast through a crowdfunding service, according to the findings...

Broadcast Dialogue – The Podcast: Jeff Vidler on the 2019 Canadian Podcast Listener Study

On this episode of Broadcast Dialogue - The Podcast, we welcome Jeff Vidler of Audience Insights Inc. back to the podcast to talk about...

Telecom and TV customer complaints up 35%, according to CCTS year-end report

The latest report from the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) indicates complaints from Canadian telecom and TV customers were up another 35%...

Stabbing footage aired without warning violated code: CBSC

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) says CTV Toronto violated several codes when it aired cell phone footage of a stabbing without warning to...

Grey Cup TV audience up 19%: Bell Media

Sunday night’s 107th Grey Cup drew an average audience of 3.9 million viewers on TSN and RDS, up 19% over 2018, according to Numeris...

Hodan Nalayeh posthumously receives JHR human rights reporting award

Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) has posthumously awarded its 2019 JHR Award in Extraordinary Achievement in Human Rights Reporting to Hodan Nalayeh. Nalayeh, a Somali-Canadian journalist,...

CRTC opens public Facebook consultation on CBC/Radio-Canada

The CRTC is asking Canadians for their opinions on CBC/Radio-Canada programming as part of the public broadcaster's licence renewal process. "CBC/Radio-Canada plays an important role...

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