CanWest Global Communications News

The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission has approved the sale of Canwest's CHEK-TV station in Victoria to a group of investors for $2. The federal regulator said Monday that the TV operations and related transmitters can be sold to a private numbered company owned by a consortium of local investors, 39 employees of the TV ...

Angelo Gordon & Co. LP, a New York- based investment firm, is buying bonds in Canadian media company Canwest Global Communications Corp.

On 6-7, evil-doing satirists spoofed one of Canwest Global's shining towers of trutha 'the Vancouver Sun .

Canwest Global Communications Corp.'s holding company has been granted creditor protection as it continues to work on a plan to recapitalize the country's largest media conglomerate.

New York- based investment firm, Angelo Gordon , has been buying bonds in Canadian media company, Canwest Global Communications , Globe and Mail reports.

The Globe and Mail has a fascinating article on how just a few missteps cost the Leonard Asper a chance to save Canwest .

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An Ontario judge has allowed insolvent media giant Canwest Global Communications to shuffle the money-losing National Post into a group alongside its other daily papers, which Canwest has said is the best hope of saving the daily newspaper from going under.

During its 11-year history, The National Post of Toronto has never shied away from using its news pages to present bold opinions, either for self-promotion or to challenge critics.

CHICAGO A Canadian court overseeing Canwest Global Communications' bankruptcy proceedings on Friday approved the transfer of the National Post to the media giant's newspaper division in a move Canwest said avoided the threatened immediate shuttering of the daily.

Ottawa has decided to cap regulatory fees it collects from Canada's television industry, settling a long and contentious legal fight it has waged against cable companies and broadcasters.

Canadia's conservative National Post newspaper has been saved from closure after a judge agreed to move it to the solvent publishing division of the collapsed CanWest Media company.

Just minutes ago, an Ontario judge allowed Canwest Global Communications to save the hemorrhaging National Post by moving it the paper into a group with its other dailies.

TransLink may have fallen on hard times financially, but that hasna TMt stopped it from pumping huge sums of money into large publishing companies this year.

The National Post, the flagship daily newspaper of Canada's beleaguered Canwest Global Communications, will likely be forced to close after Friday if it isn't transferred to a new holding company, Canwest said in a court filing.

Taxi firms, a florist and television production houses are among the companies owed money by Canwest Global Communications.

If CanWest Global Communications Corp. is looking for a white knight investor, it won't be Ian Greenberg.

Lawyers involved in Canwest Global Communication's restructuring appeared in a downtown Toronto court on Tuesday to iron out how severance payments owed to the media conglomerate's former employees will be handled as the company restructures under creditor protection.

Greed is good. For a few people, at least. Greed has certainly been good for Canwest executives and directors who have been looking after themselves while ordinary workers get screwed as the company restructures.

Call it a case of the vaccine jitters or simple indifference -- getting an H1N1 flu shot doesn't appear to be a priority for Canadians.