Joanna Padovano Tong

MONTREAL: Stingray Digital Group has inked a deal with UNITEL to acquire, operate and distribute its international, premium pay-TV channel Classica.

TORONTO: Rogers Communications and Sportsnet have partnered to bring fans more than 100 live sporting events, including Blue Jays, NHL and NBA games, in 4K next year.

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has elevated Owen Kelly, who joined the company's business affairs team last year, to international sales and acquisitions exec for feature films.

TORONTO: The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has launched a new pilot program to support the production of Canadian linear drama or children's and youth web series in their second or later seasons.

BURBANK: BUZZR, a vintage game-show network owned by FremantleMedia North America, is slated to become available on YES TV in Canada.

TORONTO: Bell Media's CraveTV has commissioned a third season of Letterkenny, a half-hour small-town comedy produced by New Metric Media in partnership with DHX Media.

TORONTO: United Front Entertainment has picked up the Canadian digital and home-entertainment rights for the horror film Bite from Breakthrough Entertainment.

TORONTO: marblemedia has teamed up with Omnifilm Entertainment to develop a remake of the 1990s scripted hit The Odyssey.

VANCOUVER/LOS ANGELES: Dennis Miller, who has extensive experience in venture capital and media investment, has joined Thunderbird's board as director and strategic advisor.

TORONTO: CTV has ordered the new crowd-sourced event broadcast Canada in a Day from Screen Siren Pictures to commemorate the country's 150th anniversary next year.