Canwest argues that financing partner Goldman Sachs & Co. has threatened its restructuring.
Columnist says a deal with General Electric to acquire a majority stake in NBC Universal sets stage for a new era of upheaval in television.
Columnist says mergers in the media business will be more sober and financially conscious than ones of the past.
Rogers pays $163-million to increase share in Montreal-based Cogeco to one-third and in Cogeco Cable to one-fifth.
Goldman Sachs wants Canwest's executives to stop taking orders from a handful of foreign funds and make building its TV networks a priority.
Astral chief executive officer that if Canwest's specialty television arm was to "become available, it certainly is of interest to us".
Columnist notes that Shaw recently paid $300 million for Mountain Cablevision in Hamilton, while Canwest sold the Hamilton television station, CHCH, for $6.
The Center for Digital Democracy has already called the potential union of Comcast and NBC Universal "the equivalent of Godzilla swallowing Rockefeller Center."
U.S. media activists and community groups are demanding access to the airwaves to combat the deregulation that concentrated media ownership into fewer hands.
Pending court and senior lender approval, the National Post will be transferred from Canwest Media to Canwest Limited Partnership, which operates 10 major city dailies across the country.
The chief executive officer of Astral Media says that his company will not seek to invest in Global Television.
Shaw Communications is poised to close its $300 million acquisition of eastern cable-provider Mountain Cablevision to become Canada's largest cable company.
Investment firm Beringer Capital has hired two notable players in the North American media business as part of a strategy to start shopping in the sector.
Columnist says a perfect storm of the recession, new technologies and shifting tastes has threatened the way conventional broadcasters like Canwest, CTV and the CBC have operated for decades.
Canwest says noteholders have given approval for further negotiations aimed at shifting the National Post to another division - a move that could prepare the company's newspapers for a sale.
Columnist says Canada's biggest media company never recovered from the $3.2 billion deal to purchase Conrad Black's daily newspapers.
The CEO of Corus says he would be interested in CanWest's cable television channels if they come up for sale as part of the company's financial restructuring.
Editorial says the U.S. broadcast regulator needs to ensure that customers have an array of choices among cable providers, and that there is real competition on price and program offerings.
Employees at one of British Columbia's oldest television stations have submitted a bid to buy CHEK-TV from Canwest.
Columnist says Canwest and Channel Zero are approaching the last hurdles to the license transfers of CHCH-TV Hamilton and CJNT-TV Montreal.
In a submission to the CRTC, FRIENDS supports Channel Zero's applications to acquire the television stations CJNT and CHCH.
Newfoundland Capital Corp. Ltd. (TSX:NCC.A) is selling its two FM stations in Thunder Bay, Ont. for $4.5 million, plus working capital.
Columnist say Canada's largest Internet providers are having a chilling effect on
independent filmmakers by slowing down certain Internet technologies
that enable producers to distribute movies and other programming
online, federal regulators heard Wednesday.
ZoomerMedia is spending $25-million to buy Vision TV, a small collection of multicultural and religious channels, with an injection of funds from Fairfax Financial Holdings.
ZoomerMedia says it has struck a deal to acquire religious broadcast channel VisionTV in a move that brings Moses Znaimer back into the television business.
Columnist says Pierre Karl Péladeau doesn't quite have the reach of Orwell's Big Brother, but in Quebec, he comes pretty close.
Canada's democracy would be enhanced if media organizations reformed some of their most basic practices and approaches, according to the winners of the 2009 Dalton Camp Awards.
Media executive calls a new trend in merging news operations of local TV stations and newspapers a "circling the wagons" approach.
Media Studies professor says the biggest challenge facing media companies is heavy debt load assumed to finance corporate expansion and media consolidation.
Columnist says the economic crisis should breed a new kind of journalism; one that is tougher, less knee-jerk, less beholden to elites, more beholden to the truth.
The national coordinator for the Campaign for Democratic Media says the current financial problems in the news business is caused by highly concentrated media ownership and a deepening bottom-line mentality of Big Media corporations.
Reports indicate Sirius XM Radio, the satellite radio giant that is on the brink of bankruptcy, is in preliminary talks with the company that controls DirecTV.
Journalism professor says it is time to stop focusing on the decline of newspapers and start worrying about the loss of mass media in general.
The tightening cash squeeze has forced CanWest to put its secondary television network, E!, up for sale, but the company says the stations may be shut down if a buyer can't be found in the next two months.
Canwest executive says the company is exploring options to sell, rebrand, reprogram or shut down TV stations in Montreal, Hamilton, Red Deer, Kelowna and Victoria.
Reports indicate the U.K. government is leaning heavily towards the creation of a British TV distribution giant from a tie-up between the two public broadcaster, Channel 4 and the BBC.
The U.K. Culture Secretary has signaled that the government would prefer an agreement between Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide to a merger with RTL-owned Channel Five.
Industry sources say both XM Canada and Sirius Canada have hired investment bankers to negotiate terms of a possible merger.
Newfoundland Capital has called off a $19-million purchase of 12 small-city FM radio outlets in Ontario, citing "seriously deteriorating credit markets."
The parent company of XM Satellite Radio Canada is giving no clear signal on its future, five months after XM Radio in the U.S. merged with rival Sirius Satellite Radio.
The head of Channel 4 has dismissed the idea of a merger with rival U.K. broadcaster Five as "a mess."
In a bid to avoid sharing license fees, BBC director general Mark Thompson is backing a proposed merger between public broadcaster Channel 4 and commercial broadcaster web Five.
