- CRTC to put broadcasters on short lead
- Canada's broadcast regulator says it wants to allow one-year licence renewals to conventional television broadcasters, such as CBC, CTV and Global in spring 2009, because of the financial issues faced by the industry.
- YouTube dabbles in video downloads
- YouTube has begun to offer users the chance to download some of its videos to their computers as an alternative to watching clips streamed online.
- How She Move among 4 nominees for best Canadian youth TV
- Indie dance film How She Move, hockey movie Sticks and Stones and two youth-oriented TV series have been nominated for the $50,000 Shaw Rocket Prize.
- Peter Gabriel drops out of Oscar gig over shortened set
- Dubbing himself "an old fart" able to "make a little protest," British recording artist Peter Gabriel has withdrawn from performing at the Oscars in protest of the truncated way the best-song nominees will be presented.
- Hudson tops winners at NAACP Image Awards
- Already honoured with her first Grammy Award earlier this week, actress and singer Jennifer Hudson gained a few more trophies Thursday night at the 40th annual NAACP Image Awards.
- Sci-fi classic Day of the Triffids set for U.K.-Canadian remake
- John Wyndham's mid-century dystopian tale The Day of the Triffids will be revisited in a new star-studded television remake, slated for broadcast later this year.
- Conventional broadcasters' profits dive
- Canada's conventional private broadcasters suffered a dramatic plunge in profit in 2008, according to figures from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
- Damhnait Doyle, Jian Ghomeshi to host East Coast Music Awards
- The 2009 East Coast Music Awards will have a homegrown host at the helm, as Newfoundland pop singer Damhnait Doyle joins CBC Radio's Jian Ghomeshi to emcee the upcoming gala — returning to a live telecast format this year.
- Heritage minister defends arts funding plan
- Canada's culture minister got a rough ride Monday over arts spending in an appearance before the parliamentary heritage committee.
- Playwright and CBC drama producer Leo Orenstein dies
- Leo Orenstein, a writer, director and producer who created more than 150 TV dramas for the CBC, has died at age 89.
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