UPDATE: REPORT ON BUSINESS TELEVISION
By Adnews Staff
With the September 1 launch date of the new Canadian business channel, Report on Business Television, slowly approaching, additional details are being confirmed. ROBTv, which will focus on business, finance and economics with a special emphasis on Canadian business news, is jointly owned by The Globe and Mail Business News Limited, WIC Television Ltd. and Canadian Satellite Communications Inc. Michael Vaughan will join ROBTv as host of a daily prime time business talk program called Bottom Line With Michael Vaughan. The program will air every weekday evening from ROBTv's downtown Toronto studio. Vaughan has spent the last several years as president of Tier One Communications Corp., which has produced more than 300 half-hour episodes of original programming for specialty television channels. Gary Greenway also joins ROBTv as vice president, sales and marketing. Greenway, who will join ROBTv on a short term contract, was previously senior vice president of sales and marketing at CTV. WIC Television will also be handling the national sales for the new Canadian business channel, Lori Legault, executive vice president, told Adnews.