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We’re just about ready to start the new era of NHL on Canadian TV, as the second 12-year Rogers deal finally gets under way.

Corus Entertainment, which owns Global TV, specialty channels like Showcase, YTV, History, W Network, Home and Flavour, and radio stations in Ontario and western Canada, is dying a slow death.

Yesterday, the NHL, Rogers and Quebecor finally settled the big missing piece of broadcast rights for the coming season (less than a month away), confirming that TVA Sports will remain the national French-language rights holder for the NHL, minus Wednesday

As it awaits approval for a plan to hand over the company to its debt holders, Corus Entertainment made another round of cuts this week in TV and radio, and announced changes to how local Global News newscasts would be produced in local markets.

Arsenal Media, already Quebec’s largest radio broadcaster by number of stations, has been given the green light by the CRTC to acquire BPM Sports, the network of French-language sports talk stations in Montreal, Gatineau and Quebec City.

Fans of country music in Quebec will have reason to celebrate today, though it will be at the expense of fans of classical music in the provincial capital.

It was just over three years ago that Bell Media announced it was shutting down a bunch of AM talk radio stations in markets like Vancouver, Calgary and Hamilton.

The news came in a brief, simple joint statement from Rogers Sports and Media and CBC, issued a day and a half after the end of the Stanley Cup Playoffs: “the public broadcaster will no longer carry NHL broadcasts after the current season…” Sunday’s game,…

As Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government has been tightening its belt on the public purse (while simultaneously making huge promises that push the country’s budget back in the red), various federal departments have been looking at things they can

If you hear Bell Media talk about it, it’s a “landmark” deal that “solidifies” its “position as Canada’s Home of the CFL.”