Bell and Bloomberg in bed for business network rebrand

Media | 01/08/2018 3:41 pm EST

BCE Inc.’s Bell Media and Bloomberg LP have announced a joint effort to resuscitate the American financial brand’s Canadian TV presence, with a release on Monday outlining the details of a rebrand of Bell’s business channel, BNN, to BNN Bloomberg. The two have a history of rivalry. After Bloomberg’s business news channel launched in Canada in 2015, Bell refused to carry Bloomberg TV Canada, which competed directly with BNN. However, Bloomberg TV didn’t last long, with the channel requesting the CRTC cancel its Canadian broadcast license in August this year. According to the...

CTV joins local news expansion parade

Media | 06/07/2017 12:15 pm EDT

An additional nine local CTV stations across the country will begin airing an early evening newscast this fall, BCE Inc.’s media division said Wednesday. “Local news is an essential institution that unites communities across the country, and we are excited about our investment in more local news coverage with these daily 5 p.m. newscasts on all CTV stations,” Wendy Freeman, president of CTV News, said in a press release. “If you want to know what’s going on in your city or town, there’s no substitute for local news.” The newscasts will be added to CTV stations in...