Entertainment, Media & Sports

The B.C.-taxpayer-backed Times of India Film Awards, currently underway, are now known as the Lux Cozi Times of India Film Awards after a title sponsor was found at the 11th hour.

Vancouver animation producer Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. (TSX:RNK) has been given a 30-day extension, until May 1, to meet the listing requirements of the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), the exchange said in a statement April 2.

A lead time of 10 weeks meant the Times of India Film Awards was unable to sign a big Canadian sponsor, according to a marketing adviser hired for the taxpayer-funded, inaugural Bollywood awards.

The Surrey Board of Trade says it has been snubbed by the Times of India Group, which has scuttled a Surrey event during its taxpayer-funded celebration of Bollywood cinema, concluding next week in the main event April 6-8.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has issued a call for competitors for a proposed new radio station in Surrey, in response to an application for a new English-language commercial radio station.

The biggest women’s sports event in the world is coming to BC Place stadium on July 5, 2015.

Studio B Productions founder joins with group of entrepreneurs to bankroll sports training enterprise as baseball interest blossoms in B.C.

Global went live yesterday at 9 a.m. with BC1 – B.C.'s first 24-hour TV news channel.

Despite dark warnings from B.C.'s film and TV sector, B.C.'s film and production spend edged up 2.3% to $1.216 billion last year.

World-renowned sports psychologist Bruno Demichelis is suing the Vancouver Canucks for wrongfully dismissing him and Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini for being “negligent in making representations and promises.”