CHOI’s new owner approved
QUEBEC – With a stroke of the pen, the CRTC’s battle with Quebec City problem-child radio station CHOI-FM, hooked up to the “judicial respirator” for more than two years, are […]
Men guilty of satellite theft, says another court
QUEBEC – The long legal effort to pin charges of satellite TV-signal piracy on two Quebec men, and have them stick, has passed another judicial test. The Quebec Court of […]
Fillion gains larger platform
QUEBEC CITY – Infamous radio talk show host Jeff Fillion, who made his reputation with insult and ridicule on the airwaves of top-rated CHOI-FM, has signed an enriching five-year deal […]
Former Quebec jock loses Supreme Court battle
QUEBEC – Oft-sued former Quebec radio show host André Arthur, now an independent federal MP, has lost his bid for a judicial review of the libel judgement against him and […]
CHOI to be sold if legal troubles can be settled
QUEBEC – Genex Communications, owners of Quebec City radio station CHOI-FM, once considered a synonym for trash radio, has found a potentially profitable way out of its battle royal with […]
Tele-Quebec cutting a third of staff
QUEBEC – For the second time in 10 years, Quebec’s public cultural and educational network, Tele-Quebec, is being put through the re-organization grinder, this time cutting about one-third of its […]
Addressing the global digital divide
TUNIS, Tunisia – After three days of intense negotiations, the World Summit on the Information Society wrapped up November 16th in Tunis, Tunisia with a pledge to bridge the digital […]
Quebec market is too small for another station: CAB
OTTAWA – One might not think that an application to set up a community radio station in Chibougamau, a small community about 475 km northeast of Quebec City, would draw […]
MARKETING: Branching out into video portals
MONTREAL – BRANCHEZ-VOUS!, the Montreal-based Internet media company, today launched two new online video portals, banking on the belief that video advertising will fly. The two web sites, BRANCHEZ-VOUS.tv and […]
Movie classics, en francais
MONTREAL – Astral Media today launched a new French-language movie channel, Cinépop, aimed at Quebec movie buffs pining to see some of the older stuff. Not the real old grainy […]