Media Industry News

TORONTO — Content from specialty channels bound for Rogers including Cooking, OWN, Discovery Science, Motor Trend and Animal Planet will be streamed and on demand when the brands switch to the media giant next year. Rogers Communications Inc.

It's an attractive proposition — being able to work from home and earn commission on sales, with the flexibility to work as little or as much as you want.

NEW YORK (AP) — Disney is no longer asking a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the victim’s family had signed up for its streaming service Disney+.

TORONTO — Corus Entertainment is making several structural changes to cut costs, including shuttering its 900 CHML radio station in Hamilton after decades on the air.

Corus Entertainment Inc. has filed a complaint with Canada's broadcasting regulator alleging Rogers Communications Inc. is "engaging in predatory behaviour" to suppress potential competition and breaching its regulatory requirements.

For friends of Rebecca Godfrey, the writer's final novel is more than a posthumous stamp on a career cut short — it's another piece of her to savour now that she's gone.

CBC says 27 million TV viewers tuned in to the Paris Games over 17 days of coverage on CBC and its broadcast partners, including Sportsnet, TSN and RDS.

TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. continued to feel the impacts of twin Hollywood strikes in its second quarter, but the end of the period marked a turning point.

TORONTO — A four-part docuseries on The Tragically Hip and film shorts from Oscar-winner Torill Kove and actor Connor Jessup are among the homegrown additions to the Toronto International Film Festival.

Quebecor Inc. says it's pushing Canada's telecom regulator to help resolve network access issues that are holding back the Quebec-based company's expansion plans.