Tag: Media

All things Media from Broadcast Dialogue, Canada’s broadcast industry publication of record.

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...

Sign Offs

Craig Wallebeck, 66, on Jan. 14. After graduating from the Columbia School of Broadcasting in Calgary, Wallebeck started his radio career at CKRD Red...

Regulatory, Telecom & Media News – Competition Bureau abandons further appeals...

Matthew Boswell, the Commissioner of Competition, says the Competition Bureau is abandoning any further appeals of the proposed Rogers-Shaw merger following a Federal Court...

The Weekly Briefing

REVOLVING DOOR: Corus Radio has announced the launch of three new morning shows across Toronto stations Q107 (CILQ-FM), 102.1 the Edge (CFNY-FM), and Energy 95.3...

Regulatory, Telecom & Media News – CBC establishes permanent Lethbridge bureau

CBC is establishing a permanent bureau in Lethbridge, AB as it expands its coverage of southern Alberta. Ose Irete will be CBC’s permanent journalist...

Sign Offs

Alan Horn, on Jan. 16. Horn first joined Rogers Communications in 1990 after working as a tax consultant for Ted Rogers for over a decade....

The Weekly Briefing

REVOLVING DOOR: Donald Lizotte, General Manager and Chief Revenue Office, CBC & Radio-Canada Media Solutions, is set to retire March 31. Lizotte has been with...

Former broadcaster and Ontario Lt.-Gov. David Onley has died

Former television journalist, author and 28th lieutenant governor of Ontario David Onley passed away Saturday. He was 72. The first person with a disability to...

Regulatory, Telecom & Media News – Competition Bureau to argue legal...

The Competition Bureau says legal errors were made in a ruling to allow the Rogers-Shaw merger. The Bureau will argue at a Jan. 24...

Online & Digital Media News – Brandon Gonez startup acquires NOW...

Gonez Media (GMI), the digital media startup helmed by former CTV and CP24 journalist Brandon Gonez, has announced its acquisition of Toronto’s NOW Magazine....