Jam! was a Canadian website which covers entertainment news. It was part of the
Canoe.com online portal, formerly owned and operated by
Quebecor
Quebecor Inc. is a Canadian diversified media and telecommunications company serving Québec based in Montreal. It was spelled Quebecor in both English and French until May 2012, when shareholders voted to add the acute accent, Québecor, in F ...
through its
Sun Media
Sun Media Corporation was the owner of several tabloid and broadsheet newspapers in Canada and the 49 percent owner of the now defunct Sun News Network. It was a subsidiary of Quebecor Media.
On October 6, 2014, Quebecor Media announced the s ...
division, and now owned by
Postmedia Network
Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a Canadian media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, ne ...
.
Jam! was the only media outlet that published a comprehensive collection of the official Canadian record charts as compiled by
Nielsen SoundScan and
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems
Broadcast Data Systems (also known as BDS or Luminate BDS), is a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs. The service, which is a unit of MRC Data, is a contributing factor to North American charts published by co-owne ...
.
CKXT-TV
CKXT-DT was a broadcast television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that broadcast to much of southern and eastern Ontario. It was owned by Quebecor Media through its Groupe TVA unit. Although beginning as a general interest independent s ...
, Sun Media's television station in
Toronto
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, aired a nightly entertainment magazine series, ''Inside Jam!''. However, due to low ratings the program's airtime was reduced substantially. Effective March 24, 2006, the show went from a daily program to a weekend only show, before later being removed from the schedule altogether. One of the hosts of the show,
Chris Van Vliet, announced on the programme in February 2010 that he would be leaving the show to join the
CBS affiliate in
Cleveland
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as their entertainment reporter. His co-host
Tara Slone
Tara Kamala Slone (born September 7, 1973) is a Canadian rock vocalist, actress and television personality.
Early life and education
Slone was born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in Wolfville and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her stepfather Dr. Tomac ...
re-located in August 2010 to
Calgary
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to become co-host of
Breakfast Television
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on
CityTV Calgary.
See also
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Canadian Albums Chart
The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Monday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen SoundScan, and published every Tuesday by ''Billboard
A billboard (also called a hoarding ...
*
Canadian Singles Chart
The Canadian Singles Chart was a chart compiled by the American-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan, which began publication in November 1996. It was published every Wednesday and also published on Thursday by ''Jam!''/Canoe. It ...
References
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Canadian entertainment websites