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– New fan-focused podcast debuts this Friday, Oct. 14 on TSN.ca, iTunes, and SoundCloud, with new episodes every other Friday –   – BOBCAST has Bob answering fans’ questions on hockey…or just about anything else! –   – Fans can send their burning questions to bobcast@bellmedia.ca and Bob might just answer them* – TORONTO (October 11, 2016)   – TSN today announced the debut of an all-new and entirely fan-focused podcast,   THE TSN HOCKEY BOBCAST , featuring TSN Hockey Insider   Bob McKenzie   answering fans’ questions on hockey…or just about anything else! The first episode debuts this   Friday, Oct. 14   and will be available on TSN.ca ,   iTunes,   and   SoundCloud . Listen here   for Bob’s full take on   THE TSN HOCKEY BOBCAST , which he describes as “sort of like TSN Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie meets my summer persona, Bobby Margarita.” ...

CBC has unveiled the full schedule of its 2015-16 programming following up on its   initial announcement   regarding new shows. In continuation of its promise to host rich and original Canadian content, the channel’s lineup includes 11 new productions. It has also unveiled CBC Arts, a cross-platform art space with television and digital programming. New dramas include  This Life , a family drama based in Montreal about the journey Natalie Lawson (Tori Higginson), a columnist in her early 40s, whose terminal cancer diagnosis brings a tight-knit family together as they prepare for a life without her. There is also  When Calls the Heart , a drama set in a 19th century western frontier coal-mining town about Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a new school teacher who leaves behind a privileged upper-class lifestyle to arrive here, in the midst of a coal-mining accident and gets to know town constable, Jack Thornton (Daniel Lissing). Other dramas include ...

Canada’s most-viewed program, The Big Bang Theory has been picked up for three more seasons, giving CTV more opportunities to launch Canadian programming following the laugher’s 8 p.m. Thursday night time slot. So far original airings of the program have brought in an average audience of 4.4 million viewers for the fall of 2013. The Big Bang Theory , which targets adults aged 18 to 54 most recently kicked-off the new Dave Foley-starring PR comedy Spun Out , which premiered following Big Bang and is being brought back to the 8:30 p.m. slot for the final two weeks of March. Spun Out ‘s premiere brought in an average of 1.4 million viewers for its debut and dropped to 802,000 the following night for its regular time slot on Friday. On average, Bell Media representatives say that shows following Big Bang keep 50% of its lead-in audience. Phil King, president of programming and sports at CTV, tells MiC that Big Bang ‘s massive weekly audience has enabled the Bell Media chann...