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• A Prairie Giant Comes to VisionTV; Multi-faith network to air award-winning Tommy Douglas miniseries Sept. 25 and 27.

  - 2007-09-06

  TORONTO, ONTARIO, Sep 6, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- VisionTV, Canada's multi-faith and multicultural television network, will broadcast the provocative two-part miniseries Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story. The four-hour film, produced by Regina, Sask.-based Minds Eye Entertainment, will air as a special...

  Tags: Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, network, NETWORKING, TVs

• Crosby cementing status as superstar

  - 2007-06-15

  TORONTO -- Sidney Crosby skated away with the Hart Trophy on Thursday night, becoming the NHL's youngest MVP since Wayne Gretzky. The vote wasn't even close. The 19-year-old Pittsburgh captain -- who received his trophy from six-time winner Gordie Howe -- got 91 first-place votes and 1,225 points...

  Tags: Cable, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., CAREER, Detroit, Games, NETWORKING, NHL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Canada

  - 2003-01-01

  C ANADA B ASIC D ATA Official Country Name: Canada Region Map name: North & Central America Population: 31,592,805 ...

  Tags: Atlantic, broadcasting, Cable, Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., chamber, Government, MARKETING, media, NETWORKING, Ontario, programming, radio, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Toronto, TVs, U.S.

• Roy & HG put Smiggin Holes on the map.

  - 2002-02-14

  Feb 15, 2002 (The Courier-Mail ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia's Seven Network is once again reaping success with comedians, Roy Slaven and HG Nelson. The pair's current Olympic program, "The Ice Dream", earned an audience of 760,000 at its peak on 13 February 2002....

  Tags: Australia, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, NETWORKING

• Telesat, CBC Team Up For Another Broadcasting Milestone.

  - 2000-09-07

  OTTAWA, Sep 07, 2000 Almost 27 years after Telesat Canada helped the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation make history by using satellite technology to distribute television signals to all points across the nation, Telesat is once again paving the way for another "world's first" from...

  Tags: broadcasting, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., NETWORKING, satellite, TANDBERG Television, TV

• Teleglobe Wins Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Contract to Serve as Official Carrier for Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

  - 1999-02-03

  WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 3, 1999--The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. CBC has chosen Teleglobe Communications Corporation's global fiber optic and satellite network to support its broadcast, voice and data transmission needs during the Sydney 2000 Olympics Games, Teleglobe announced today at Satellite '99. Teleglobe was chosen from a field of finalists because...

  Tags: Canadian Broadcasting Corp., network, NETWORKING, satellite, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• A best-of-show hybrid - Canadian Broadcasting Corp's frame relay/leased line network - Company Operations

  - 1997-04-01

  Canada's CBC runs data, voice, live radio shows, voice over frame relay, and Internet applications over leased lines and frame relay. When the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC found the solution to network capacity and cost problems, they got more than they bargained for. Four years ago. CBC needed...

  Tags: bandwidth, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., network, NETWORKING, radio, voice

• Cancom's offer to help Canadian broadcasters solve the issue of violence on tv and proposes new financial assistance for the CBC

  - 1995-08-29

  MONTREAL--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 29, 1995--CANCOM (TSE, ME: SAT ) Responding to the wishes of its clients, both cable and direct-to-home DTH, Cancom (Canadian Satellite Communications Inc.) has proposed to use its Canadian satellite distribution system to ensure some control over violence on television.Cancom has suggested that its technical system could...

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• Canadian cable channels moving south to U.S. (Canadian cable television networks seek U.S. distribution)

  - 1995-01-16

  Two more would-be cable networks are headed this way from The Great White North. North American Television Inc., a joint venture of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Power Broadcasting Inc., is looking to distribute two new services on U.S. cable systems: Newsworld International, an...

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• Canada opens door to 10 new niche cable nets.

  - 1994-06-13

  OTTAWA -- One of the most anticipated contests in the Canadian television industry drew to a close last week with the award of 10 new niche cable channels -- several of which have U.S. company involvement. The Canadian cable industry was both relieved and...

  Tags: Cable, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., commission, NETWORKING, SALES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS