HuffPost TV channel approved for Canada

Media | 06/12/2015 4:18 pm EDT

The television channel of AOL Inc.'s Huffington Post, called HuffPost Live, has been approved for distribution in Canada, the CRTC said Friday. A notice on the commission's website, said an application put forward by the channel's Canadian sponsor Kosiner Venture Capital Inc., received no opposing interventions for being approved as a non-Canadian TV service available for distribution. The application from Kosiner, filed late last year, said the channel is about 60 per cent news with the rest devoted to things such as lifestyle and human interest. A CRTC hearing was scheduled...

CRTC denies distribution for Saudi channel

Media | 07/16/2014 6:02 pm EDT

The CRTC has denied the addition of Arabic-language channel OSN Ya Hala HD to the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution. The commission said in a decision Wednesday that there was not enough evidence on the record that the channel’s Canadian sponsor, Soundview Entertainment Inc., has the necessary rights to distribute the Saudi Arabian general-interest channel in Canada. In separate decisions the same day, the CRTC said it had approved BCE Inc.’s application to add Canal Antena 3 Internacional, a Spanish general-interest channel, as well as...