Yesterday, Rogers Communications has closed the deal with CTVGlobemedia and have officially taken over the CityTV stations and websites. Even though their 24 hour Toronto News Station Cablepulse 24 is owned by CTVGlobemedia (though there is word that Rogers is interested in a stake in it), it leaves it in a bit of limbo since it continues to run most content provided by CityTV. So for now, no changes to report. But, if you check out some of City’s website, notably citynews.ca, at the bottom, where the usual copyright notice is, you will see the Rogers logo replace the CTVGlobemedia Logo. Funny enough as of the time of the post, the alt text still says CTVglobemedia.

As promised, here’s the first ever K-Max Media blog entry of the four-oh era talking about media stuff on the net and with some interesting news and stuff that I found on the net. Microsoft has brought into Facebook, Wired has once again gone Manga and it’s all about Drew’s Beauties.

Just this past week Facebook did something that I would never have thought it would do considering it runs on a LAMP system. LAMP meaning, a system comprising of Linux with the Apache web server, mySQL Database system and the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. Don’t be afraid if you don’t know all of that right away, just keep reading. Facebook sold a stake of its company to Microsoft, you know, the guys that makes Windows, Internet Information Services web server along with SQL Server and ASP.NET. This is what I would call the WAIS? Er– ASIW? Um… SIAW? WISA… YES. A WISA system. Take that LAMP! WISA is almost like credit except for one letter!

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