- Irate consumers set up online petition to junk the CRTC
- Media firms report Olympic ad revenue booming
- CrossIron, Calgary’s all new $500m, 200-shop emporium
- Cross border traffic hits record low
- CNE receives $3.75m grant from Industry Canada
- Approvals and Denials: Today’s CRTC decisions
- International
- CBS, Pepsi first to place video ads in paper magazines
- World Soundtrack Awards announces noms
- Technology/Marketing
- MySpace lands Facebook business with iLike buy
- YouTube, Time Warner sign content deal
- Studios battle RedBox even as DVD sales tank
- CNN demoted in NYC by owner Time Warner
- YouTube’s plans to keep viewers hooked
- Broadcasters dominate all screens with clickable TV
- How Nokia plans to reshape the music industry
- Nokia mulling a netbook launch
- Talent/Features
- Sheryl Crow sells publishing to asset fund for $10m
- Sweet Baby James donates festival earnings to symphony
- King of Country boots King of Pop from #1 on Albums chart
- Yellow Submarine goes 3D with new Disney partnership
- Hendrix biopic in development
- Ticketmaster to sell MJ ‘Opus’ tome with $165 SL
- LA Reid partners new publishing venture with EMI
- ‘The most anticipated music interview of the decade’
- ‘Boom Boom Pow’ sets Billboard chart record
- Whitesnake off Judas Priest tour due to illness
- How the Beatles became a video game
- Geldof created Sting’s Tantric sex legend
- Communication breakdown for Gallagher bros
- Michael Jackson comeback tour contract leaked online
- Obituaries
- TV news innovator Dan Hewitt, aged 86
Today’s headlines, Aug. 20
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