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Budweiser Stage At Home
''Budweiser Stage at Home'' is a Canadian music performance series which aired on Citytv in 2020. Created in partnership with Live Nation Entertainment as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the series broadcast live concert performances by the artists who had been scheduled to play Toronto's annual summer Budweiser Stage concert series before the pandemic forced the cancellation of public events."Black Crowes, the Trews among artists in Budweiser Stage at Home TV concerts" '''', May 25, 2020. The series was broadcast in Canada by Citytv, and str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citytv
Citytv is a Canadian television network owned by the Rogers Sports & Media subsidiary of Rogers Communications. The licence of the original Citytv station, granted the callsign of CITY-TV by the CRTC on November 25, 1971 to Cable Television Association executive and former print journalist Phyllis Switzer, who moved with her family from western Canada (Alberta) to Toronto in 1967. The application was granted based on the argument that Toronto needed a locally oriented broadcast television station History CHUM Limited announced plans to sell its broadcasting assets to CTV parent CTVglobemedia on July 12, 2006. CTVgm intended to retain CHUM's Citytv system while divesting CHUM's A-Channel stations and Alberta cable channel Access to get the CRTC to approve the acquisition. On the same day that the takeover was announced, Citytv cancelled its supper-hour, late-night and weekend newscasts at its local Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary & Winnipeg stations, laying off hundreds of new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Smith
Dallas Hendry Smith (born December 4, 1977) is a Canadian singer and songwriter, who performs both as a solo country music artist and as lead singer for the hard rock band Default. He is currently signed to Big Loud Records. Smith is the current record holder of most #1 hits among all male Canadian artists on Billboard's Canada Country chart, at eleven. With ''Side Effects'', Smith also became the first Canadian country artist in the Nielsen BDS era to chart four consecutive No. 1 singles from one album (Shania Twain charted three consecutive #1 hits from her 1997 release Come On Over), a feat he would then top with his next album, '' Timeless''. At the end of 2012, Mediabase named Smith the most played Canadian country act and number eight overall at the format. Music career Early career Dallas Smith always had a passion for music growing up. Some of his main influences were The Beatles and female country singers Reba McEntire and The Judds. Due to his shyness, Smith was relu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s Canadian Music Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ET Canada
''ET Canada'' (previously referred to as ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series, using the same format as the American entertainment newsmagazine ''Entertainment Tonight''. ''ET Canada'' is a broadcast show that airs back-to-back with the American version on most of Global's stations. ''ET Canada'' is hosted by longtime Global Toronto entertainment host Cheryl Hickey and presented by reporters Roz Weston, Sangita Patel, Carlos Bustamante and Keshia Chanté. ''ETC Live'' is an online show in connection with ET Canada, that airs weekdays via Facebook and YouTube, shot live with expanded coverage of entertainment news. It is an interactive show, allowing viewers to submit commentary as Weston, Chanté and Graeme O'Neil debate topics. In 2021, Global announced the launch of a weekend edition of ''ET Canada;'' this version aired on Saturdays with host Sangita Patel and premiered on 18 September 2021. The weekend edition wasn't renewed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Canadian Screen Awards
The 9th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held in the week of May 17 to 20, 2021, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2020.Barry Hertz, "How one Canadian arts institution is rebuilding amid the pandemic". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 5, 2020. Due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, and the partial but incomplete progress of public vaccination, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced that the ceremony would proceed virtually, but Academy CEO Beth Janson stated that "it’s not going to be just a Zoom call of an awards show. We have a lot of exciting and creative things in store." Most nominations were announced on March 30, 2021;Victoria Ahearn"‘Blood Quantum,’ ‘Schitt’s Creek’ top Canadian Screen Award nominations" ''Toronto Star'', March 30, 2021. however, the nominations and winners in sports broadcasting categories were announced at a later date. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, the awards recognize excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The awards were first presented in 2013 as the result of a merger of the Gemini Awards and Genie Awards—the Academy's previous awards presentations for television (English-language) and film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award for Canadian entertainers, artists, and filmmakers, often referred to as the equivalent of the Oscars and Emmy Awards in the United States, the BAFTA Awards in the United Kingdom, the AACTA Awards in Australia, the IFTA Awards in Ireland, the César Awards in France and the Goya Awards in Spain. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkells
Arkells is a Canadian rock band, formed in Hamilton, Ontario. In 2006, they signed with Dine Alone Records, and have since signed with Universal Records Canada and Last Gang Records. They are managed by Last Gang Management. They have released six albums, two EPs and a number of singles that have charted in Canada. The band has won multiple Juno Awards, including one for their album ''High Noon'' in 2015. The band headlined the 108th Grey Cup halftime show in Hamilton, Ontario on December 12, 2021. History Formation (2006–2008) During their first few live shows the band called themselves Charlemagne but changed their name when another band of the same name threatened to sue them. The band is named after Arkell Street in the Westdale neighbourhood of Hamilton, near McMaster University, where they lived and would practice their music. All five original band members attended McMaster where lead singer Max Kerman graduated with an honours BA in Political Science. Kerman met g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beaches (band)
The Beaches are a Canadian Rock music, rock band formed in Toronto in 2013. Named after the The Beaches, Toronto neighbourhood where three of the four members grew up, the band consists of Jordan Miller (lead vocals, bass), Kylie Miller (guitar), Leandra Earl (keyboards, guitar), and Eliza Enman-McDaniel (drums, percussion)."The Beaches fight for agency in a male-dominated music industry" ''Now (newspaper), Now'', November 29, 2017. The band released two EPs, ''The Beaches'' (2013) and ''Heights'' (2014), before releasing their debut album ''Late Show (Beaches album), Late Show'' (2017) and winning the 2018 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year. Following their debut album, they released two further EPs, ''The Professional'' (2019) and ''Future Lovers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two dance-pop albums. In 1995, she released ''Jagged Little Pill'', an alternative rock-oriented album with elements of post-grunge, which sold more than 33 million copies globally and is her most critically acclaimed work to date. It earned her the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1996 and has been made into a rock musical of the same name in 2017, which earned fifteen Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical. The album was also listed in the 2003 and 2020 editions of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Guide. The lead single, "You Oughta Know", was also included at #103 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. A highly anticipated, more experimental follow-up, electronic-infused album, ''Supposed Former Infatuatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CHDI-FM
CHDI-FM (102.9 FM, ''Sonic 102.9'') is a radio station in Edmonton, Alberta. Owned by Rogers Sports & Media, it broadcasts a modern rock format. Its studios are co-located with its sister stations on Gateway Boulevard. As of February 28, 2021, CHDI is the 8th-most-listened-to radio station in the Edmonton market according to a PPM data report released by Numeris. History The OK Radio Group Ltd. was granted this license in 2005 as one of three new FM stations in Edmonton. The station spent its first year broadcasting from a run down oil-field trailer on the property of the Airways Country Inn in Nisku, Alberta. The station founders wanted to get the station on the air as quickly as possible so it was decided they would broadcast from the trailer until their Gateway Boulevard studios were complete. Local media latched on to their "pirate" story, giving them a huge shot in the arm in their first year. In November 2006, Rogers Media acquired CHDI, and sister station CKER-FM. Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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