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Epic gaffe sees wrong phone number shown on TV to millions 27 Aug 2013 | 10:14 am
It was supposed to be one of those feel-good stories. Artists, touched by the tragic events of Lac-Mégantic, gathered for a benefit concert at the Bell Centre earlier this month. The show was recorded...
The Beat hires Kim Sullivan for evening show 26 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
The Beat has grabbed yet another personality from Virgin Radio. Although this one had a few in-between steps first. Kim Sullivan, who was part of CJFM when it rebranded to Virgin Radio in 2009, took a...
Breakfast Television will crack some eggs – but whose? 24 Aug 2013 | 02:40 am
In case you haven’t been following the hype machine being run by Elias Makos and the Rogers Media PR team, you should know that Montreal is getting its newest television show on Monday. Breakfast Tele...
Photos: Inside the Breakfast Television studio 24 Aug 2013 | 01:15 am
City Montreal finally launches its flagship show Breakfast Television on Monday. This week, I was among those invited to the new studio in the Rogers building on McGill College Ave. to take a peek. (I...
CBC expands Sunday local newscasts starting Sept. 1 24 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
Few people really paid attention to it when the CBC’s broadcasting licences were renewed this spring, but the public broadcaster committed to expanding local programming in large markets like Montreal...
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Colbert Report’s time on CTV comes to an end: “exclusive to Comedy” 23 Aug 2013 | 10:40 am
I remember when the Colbert Report first launched in 2005. I remember the three weeks between the time it debuted on Comedy Central in the U.S. and the time that CTV began airing it in Canada. I remem...
New ethnic TV station ICI begins over-the-air transmission 22 Aug 2013 | 12:35 pm
Montreal’s tenth over-the-air television station has begun transmitting. CFHD-DT, which wants to operate under the brand International Channel/Canal International (ICI) but is in some legal trouble wi...
CRTC dismisses complaints against Explora, Illico Club Unlimited over genre exclusivity violations 21 Aug 2013 | 10:06 am
Genre exclusivity, one of those dinosaurs of the Canadian broadcasting system, was put to the test recently thanks to two complaints from companies that profit from this protection, and on Tuesday the...
Hudson FM station ready to start “within weeks” 18 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
The western off-island communities of Hudson, Saint-Lazare and Vaudreuil could see their first English-language local station later this fall if the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Co...
