All things Weekly Briefing from Broadcast Dialogue, Canada’s broadcast industry publication of record.
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The Weekly Briefing
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CityNews Edmonton has unveiled its talent lineup with the launch of nightly 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. MT newscasts, starting Sept. 4. Rogers...
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Close to two years after the CRTC approved CJCS Stratford's move from AM to FM, Vista Radio launched Juice FM on Aug. 3. Listeners...
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CBC News has announced the new The National host team including senior correspondent Adrienne Arsenault, based in Toronto; political reporter and host Rosemary...
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The CRTC’s latest financial data shows commercial radio stations in Canada experienced negative growth for the third consecutive year in 2016, especially when it...
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Global Edmonton station manager Tim Spelliscy is retiring after 42 years in news. Spelliscy began his career in 1975 at CFGP-FM Grande Prairie,...
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Statistics Canada has released its look at private radio broadcasting for 2016. Operating revenues fell 3.3 per cent (-$52.5 million) from 2015 to $1.6...
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Red Robinson is hanging up his headphones, after 64 years. The legendary Vancouver disc jockey has his last shift at CISL-AM on Aug....
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Castanet Media, which operates Kelowna news website castanet.net, has struck a deal with Vista Radio to buy Juice FM 103.9 (CJUI-FM) Kelowna. Pending CRTC...
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Peter Mansbridge anchors his last newscast July 1 after 29 years behind the desk at CBC’s The National. Mansbridge was famously working as...
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Wawatay Communications Society has announced cross-party support from several MPs asking Canadian Heritage Min. Melanie Joly to repeal the CRTC decision awarding radio licences...
