Corus Radio has announced it will launch iNews880, an Internet-driven 24-hour all-news radio format in Edmonton on May 20. iNews880 on the radio will be powered by iNews880.com. The station will draw experiential content from citizen journalists to fill its hyper-local news coverage. "Corus Radio’s commitment has always been to provide credible and immediate news coverage to the people of northern Alberta and the world, on radio, online and on-demand," said Doug Rutherford, GM, Corus Radio Edmonton and Vice President, News-Talk Programming. "iNews880 will bring audiences news when they want it and how they want it, with their direct involvement." iNews880 will be found at 880 on the AM dial in Edmonton.

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The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed two appeals seeking overturn the CRTC’s decision on deferral accounts. In a March 7 ruling, the FCA ruled that the commission didn’t overstep its authority in order the use of the deferral account money for both broadband expansion and telephone customer rebates.

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Earlier this week Nortel Network Corp. unveiled a new 40 Gbps to 100 Gbps optical network system and has now kicked off a trial of the fast Internet equipment with Comcast Corp.

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Rogers Wireless has launched GSM services in the northern BC towns of Prince Rupert and Terrace with service to be expanded to the area airport by this summer. By summer, the network will be completed all along Highway 16, from Prince Rupert through to Prince George. The network expansion cost approximately $10 million.

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Digital video recorder creator TiVo Inc. has announced an agreement with YouTube that will offer access to the popular online video database directly from the TV via a TiVo DVR. The service will be available later this year to subscribers with TiVo Series3 DVRs. .  "Being able to make available YouTube videos to the TiVo subscriber base using one device, one remote and one user interface is another major step in our commitment to combine all of your television and web video viewing options in one easy to use service," said Tara Maitra, VP and GM of content services at TiVo in a press release. Once the service is launched, TiVo users will be able to search, browse and watch YouTube videos directrly on their TV sets through the use of the TiVo interface. They will also be able to log into their YouTube accounts directrly from their TiVo boxes and access their favourite YouTube channels and playlists.

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