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  Canadian Learning Television: About CLT
Canada's only national educational television specialty service, offers a unique blend of enlightening and entertaining programming designed to challenge and inform, enrich and educate.
Many CLT programs are connected to credit courses at universities across Canada.
Learn as you watch some of the best programming TV has to offer in the areas of Careers, Film and Media Studies, War and History, Science and Nature and more.
www.clt.ca /About.aspx   (114 words)

  
  Canadian Learning Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian Learning Television or CLT is a Canadian specialty channel.
It is currently the only national educational television network.
CLT is owned by CHUM Limited and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Learning_Television   (64 words)

  
 Mediascope Issue Briefs - How Children Process Television
Television is an important learning tool for children, as well as a primary instrument in their socialization.
Babies can pay attention to a television screen for very short periods of time but are easily distracted by toys and other activities.
Adolescents watch less television than younger ages, and their tastes change dramatically in the types of programs they do watch.
www.mediascope.org /pubs/ibriefs/hcpt.htm   (689 words)

  
 CHUM Limited | Press Releases | CHUM Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Toronto, ON, January 23/CNW/ - Learning and Skills Television of Alberta (LTA), which is majority owned by CHUM Limited and is the owner of ACCESS The Education Station and Canadian Learning Television (CLT), Canada's national learning television specialty service is pleased to announce the acquisition of The Learning Annex of Canada.
The Learning Annex is a continuing education school offering short, inexpensive courses in health and healing, media and communications, sports and fitness, spirituality, relationships and high tech for personal growth, business and career opportunities.
Learning and Skills Television of Alberta Ltd. is a private sector business model for the financing and efficient operation of educational television in Alberta through Access Television and across Canada with Canadian Learning Television.
www.chumlimited.com /press/releasetelevision.asp?stationID=25&pressID=16   (659 words)

  
 Canadian Learning Television: Our Schedule
Aina became one of many Finnish Canadians to fight for the franchise.
For 5 years, Gladys Arnold watched and wrote of a war she knew was coming, but others denied.
In 1935, she was a Canadian reporter in France, sure of 2 things: her objectivity and pacifism.
www.clt.ca /Schedule.aspx   (1491 words)

  
 the NODE: networking May 1999
Canadian Learning Television (CLT) is the work of Ron Keast and Moses Znaimer, who are (respectively) the president/CEO and the chairman of Access, Alberta's educational television station.
CLT promises to be "television that gives you credit." Much emphasis is given on the website to CLT's career-leveraging role.
The Learning Company, an educational software developer, publisher and marketer which boasts Madeline, Sesame Street and Reader Rabbit among its brands, has announced a partnership with the Centre for the Study of Computers in Education at Toronto's York University.
www.thenode.org /networking/may1999/briefs.html   (961 words)

  
 Strategymag.com - Canadian Learning Television to add energy to educational TV
CLT's tagline is "Television that Teaches." The mandate: to deliver educational programming for adults who are interested in improving their level of education or upgrading their knowledge base and skills.
CLT is currently in the process of developing partnerships with a number of educational institutions.
Canadian Learning Television is this country's first-ever nationwide educational television service.
www.strategymag.com /articles/magazine/19990719/26163.html   (795 words)

  
 Labour Video Communications Producing Independent Canadian Labour Videos.
Both Videos were produced in 2002 and were broadcast nationally on Canadian Learning Television and ACCESS - the Education Station in 2003.
While the quality is less than desirable than one would expect from a professional filming, the spirit and content of the celebrations are captured in their rich texture and authenticity.
This video was broadcast on a local cable television station for a local labour television program in the Toronto area in 1988 and distributed to various unions across Ontario.
www.labourvideo.com /lvc3.html   (935 words)

  
 CAB-Submission:PN CRTC 1998-37
In the Fall of 1995, prior to the filing of the last round of specialty applications, the Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA) distributed a letter to all potential applicants, suggesting that their business plans would have to be predicated on digital, due to severe shortages in analog capacity.
By approving the applications by MuchMoreMusic, Star TV, and Canadian Learning Television to amend their COLs, and the application by ROBTV to delete its COL, the Commission will encourage Canadian cable operators to launch these services at the earliest possible opportunity.
By making it possible for more and more Canadian programming services to reach their viewers, the CRTC and cable operators will be contributing to increased employment, higher commitments to Canadian programming through greater exposure and increased expenditures, and the broader reflection of Canadian values.
www.cab-acr.ca /english/research/98/pn_1998_37.shtm   (1243 words)

  
 CANADIAN LEARNING TELEVISION (CLT)
Canadian Learning Television is Canada's only national educational television specialty service.
ยท Learning and Skills Television of Alberta Ltd. (LTA) headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is the centre of operations for broadcasting ACCESS - The Education Station provincially.
Our television programming is integrated with other interactive media, including online course materials and extensive web site information for all channels broadcast.
www.medialin.com /card/Edu0243.htm   (431 words)

  
 Athabasca University And Canadian Learning Television Collaborate On Series Examining Future Of Canadian Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The series was taped at the CHUM Television studios in Toronto with an audience of Athabasca University's Executive MBA students and alumni.
Canadian Learning Television is owned by Learning and Skills Television of Alberta, which is majority-owned by CHUM Limited.
Additional information on CLT is available at www.clt.ca or www.accesslearning.com.
www2.cdn-news.com /newsnet/2002/05/31/0531028n.html   (421 words)

  
 sub59.html
CHUM Television is licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ("CRTC") to operate local, over-the-air, and national specialty television stations.
CHUM Television's comments are primarily focused on the role that Canadian television stations now play in the broader dynamic of the Canadian English-language film industry.
The role of local television stations in the support of other genres of programming, be it drama, sports, or children's programming, must always be complementary to, and not detract from the ability of broadcasters to fulfill their fundamental local programming responsibilities.
www.patrimoinecanadien.gc.ca /progs/ac-ca/pol/cinema-film/pubs/sub59.htm   (2474 words)

  
 Funding Results - Canadian Television Fund
CLT - Canadian Learning Television Alberta, CHUM (CityTV), Knowledge Network
Legal Television Network, SRC, SCN - Saskatchewan Communications Network, CLT - Canadian Learning Television Alberta
Legal Television Network, SCN - Saskatchewan Communications Network, CLT - Canadian Learning Television Alberta
www.canadiantelevisionfund.ca /archives/0203/funding/0313   (497 words)

  
 CHUM Limited | Press Releases | CHUM Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Tuesdays, June 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th at 4pm and 9pm ET / 2pm and 7pm MT (Canadian Learning Television) is Canada's only national educational television specialty service.
CLT provides entertaining, informative and educational programs to adult viewers and lifelong learners in all parts of Canada.
CLT is owned and operated by access media group.
www.chumlimited.com /press/releasetelevision.asp?stationID=25&pressID=1177   (383 words)

  
 February 8, 2005 - CHUM eyes Learning and Skills Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Learning and Skills Television (LTA) owns and operates Canadian Learning Television, ACCESS Television, CourtTV Canada and BookTelevision, as well as a 70 per cent interest in The Learning Annex, a school for continuing education and personal growth.
"The purchase of the remaining interest in LTA is particularly beneficial to CHUM given the recent acquisition of new television stations in the west formerly owned by Craig Media Inc.," CHUM chief financial officer Alan Mayne said in a statement.
CHUM Ltd. is one of Canada's leading Media companies and content providers, with 32 radio stations, 12 local television stations and 21 specialty channels, as well as an environmental music distribution division.
www.friends.ca /News/Friends_News/archives/articles02080505.asp   (270 words)

  
 Canadian Democratic Movement :: Putting Canadians First
The federal government must restore a ban on cross-ownership of newspapers and broadcast outlets, impose market-share caps on media companies and ensure the survival of The Canadian Press (CP), TNG Canada says in an authoritative brief submitted to a Senate committee that is at a crucial point in its study of media concentration.
In a series of recent television reports Fox News has derided the firebrand leftist leader, presenting the current Venezuelan political habitat entirely from the perspective of the country’s conservative middle-class opposition as well as the Bush administration.
The comments are property of their posters, and as such do not reflect the opinion of the Canadian Democratic Movement.
www.canadiandemocraticmovement.ca /Topic13.html   (1005 words)

  
 the Node: networking December 1999
Currently, Waterloo, Carleton University, and Mount Saint Vincent re offering distance learning courses through CLT and are the main educational providers for the CLT Academy.
CLT also has "online connections" with Acadia University, Athabasca, Laurentian University, the University of Guelph, the University of Victoria and a number of distance learning institutions in the United States.
The ITC is a not-for-profit organization established in 1977 to support instructional technology, communications and distance learning in post-secondary education.
www.thenode.org /networking/december1999/briefs.html   (504 words)

  
 Canadian Learning Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
CLT, a national version of Access Alberta, is an educational television service.
Programming is shared with the provincial educational broadcasters.
CLT went on the air for the first time on September 1, 1999.
members.shaw.ca /nelsonmedia/Special/CLT.htm   (72 words)

  
 Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada: The shaky future of public broadcasting in Alberta
The prime recommendation for the TV side of the operation is to pass its reins to a private educational channel which has yet to win a licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
If Canadian Learning Television lands a licence, and if the Alberta government eases the transition with $8 million annually for three years, the new network would set up shop in Edmonton.
ACCESS TV began as an educational station, says Hinchliffe, but "got off track." If the Canadian Learning Television option falls through, the back-up proposal is to scale down the television side.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1319/is_n4_v28/ai_15837266   (1006 words)

  
 VOXCOM, ACCESS TV, And Canadian Learning Television Announce Safety Web Site :: Distance-Educator.com's Daily News :: ...
"As the television business in Canada continues to change, we are constantly looking to develop new partnerships for our stations'', says Richard Hiron, Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Access TV and CLT, "and as Canada's foremost educational broadcaster we strive to provide our viewers with entertaining and educational programs and services.
Canadian Learning Television is a national multi-media academy for distance learning and a 24-hour English-language network devoted to providing educational services for adults.
CLT is The Learning Connection for millions of Canadians, connecting viewers with credit courses and additional learning opportunities.
www.distance-educator.com /dnews/Article3377.phtml   (823 words)

  
 Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL) - Literacy.ca Newsletter - October '99 - Page 19
Television is currently the most accessible medium in the world.
This is an opportunity to listen, discuss, exchange and challenge ideas and practices connected to the uses of technology in adult literacy and basic skills education.
Partners in the Institute are The Centre for Literacy, Frontier College, Canadian Learning Television, and the Lifelong Learning Network at Georgia Tech.
www.literacy.ca /public/litca/feb00/pg19.htm   (401 words)

  
 CHANNEL CANADA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Access Media Group television services, which include ACCESS, Canadian Learning Television, BookTelevision and CourtTV Canada, will be integrated with CHUM's recently acquired A-Channel Edmonton, and be co-located in The Bay building at 10212 Jasper Ave.
Master control and traffic for ACCESS, Canadian Learning Television and BookTelevision will be moved to A-Channel Calgary's state-of-the-art operations centre in downtown Calgary, which already also provides master control for A-Channel Edmonton.
The addition of four television services and the new CHUM/Milestone radio station to downtown Edmonton will further support the on-going efforts to rejuvenate and re-vitalize the downtown core.
channelcanada.com /PrintArticle783.html?POSTNUKESID=43716fdd8e4eb295...   (393 words)

  
 Business Wire: CHUM Television and Shaw Cablesystems G.P. - Re... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
MuchMoreMusic is Great Music on Television: Canada's highly-anticipated music programming and entertainment channel, delivering 24 hours a day of adult contemporary music, light rock, classic hits, soul, R & B, as well as some reggae, jazz and new age music videos, plus concerts and specialty programming.
Local television stations include Toronto's Citytv, The New VR in Barrie, CFPL, CKNX and CHWI television stations in South Western Ontario and CHRO in the National Capital Region.
SHAW is a diversified Canadian communications company whose core business is providing cable television services to approximately 1.5 million customers.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:21118228&refid=ink_tptd_g1   (529 words)

  
 Television Stations in Canada / mandy.com film TV services
Television station with State of the art digital production facilities, a complete internal creative powerhouse.
Channel M is a free over the air television station, broadcasting to 3 million Vancouver Extended Market residents.
Television produced for and concentrating on the local market with a caliber of expertise that allows it to compete on the national stage.
www.mandy.com /1/services.cfm?c=tvst&t=can   (612 words)

  
 Toronto Television Stations - Toronto TV Stations
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. is a vertically integrated Canadian broadcaster, creator and international distributor of filmed entertainment content with significant ownership interests in the Canadian specialty broadcast industry.
Canada's only national educational television specialty service, offers a unique blend of enlightening and entertaining programming designed to challenge and inform, enrich and educate.
CTV Inc. is Canada's pre-eminent broadcast communications company with conventional television operations across Canada and a leading position in the specialty television sector.
www.toronto-businesses.com /tv_stations.htm   (300 words)

  
 E-learning Program
From 1999 to 2004, CANARIE funded 32 projects through its $29-million, cost-shared E-learning Program (with funding support from Industry Canada and from the Office of Learning Technologies, HRSDC).
The goal of the Program was to reduce structural barriers to the use of advanced networks in education and training.
(Canadian Learning Television prepared a video of this workshop - view it here)
www.canarie.ca /funding/elearning   (204 words)

  
 Kathleen Vaughan, Educational Television in Canada - www.akaredhanded.com
Through interviews, statistical comparison, and background discussion, Educational Television in Canada: 'Television that matters' profiles Canada's five provincial educational broadcasters, Knowledge Network, ACCESS Alberta, the Saskatchewan Communications Network, TVOntario, and Télé-Québec, and previews the then-new national specialty service, Canadian Learning Television.
Canada's 30-year tradition of publicly-funded educational television is under close scrutiny as governments evaluate the return on their investments, re-prioritize the allocation of scarce resources, and determine how best to meet their constituents' educational and cultural needs....
Essentially by providing high-quality educational television programming that is unusual in its market; occasionally risk taking and provocative, but frequently crowd-pleasing; and responsive to specific provincial needs and realities.
www.akaredhanded.com /kv2a-edtvincanada.html   (949 words)

  
 Moses Znaimer
Domestically, he participated in the historic privatization of Alberta's public educational television station, ACCESS, of which he is now Chairman; and took on the creative transformation of CKVR Barrie, a 40 year CBC network affiliate which was changed into an independent station for Toronto and Central Ontario known as The New VR.
His Exhibition "Watching TV: Historic Televisions and Memorabilia from the MZTV Museum" has been on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa/Hull, the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies and at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal.
His "TVTV: The Television Revolution", a three-hour blockbuster personal video essay and exploration of the struggle between the image and the printed word, had its premiere on Canada's Public Television Network, the CBC; and has since been seen in other world markets such as Portugal, Australia, Hong Kong and China.
www.mztv.com /moses.html   (684 words)

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