CARAS and CTV today announced a revision to Sunday's telecast of The 2007 JUNO Awards. This revision follows a comprehensive review of the feedback that CARAS and CTV received today from Canada's music community.

As a result, CARAS and CTV announced that The 2007 JUNO Awards will now air from 7-9pm ET, following a live 30-minute eTalk Red Carpet special at 6:30 p.m. ET. The broadcast will now be delivered live to air across Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada, with the show being tape delayed, as in past years, and presented at the following local times:

 In Alberta - 7-9pm

In Atlantic Canada - 8 - 10 p.m. (live)

In BC/Saskatchewan/Manitoba - 9-11 p.m.

"We applaud CTV for working with us so quickly to revise our initial joint decision on the broadcast times of The JUNOS," said CARAS Chair Stephen Stohn. "Today's news follows the overwhelming feedback we received from Canada's music community and together with CTV we have arrived at this alternative broadcast plan for the eastern time zones."

"We're here to support and celebrate the music community. The artists have spoken and we've listened. This is their showcase and we're proud to be part of it," said Susanne Boyce, CTV President of Programming and Chair of the CTV Media Group.

From eTalk on CTV and MTV Live on MTV, to TSN's first-ever JUNO coverage and The CTV Broadband Network that links them all together, in the days leading up to The 2007 JUNO Awards Canadians right across the country will have a front row seat to almost every JUNO Awards event in Saskatoon this weekend.

Below is a snapshot of The 2007 JUNO Awards programming initiatives from CTV Inc:

eTalk paves the Road to the JUNOS leading right up to the Red Carpet pre-show

eTalk's annual Road to the JUNOS coverage prepares for Canada's Music Awards, featuring special interviews with the nominees and host of The 2007 JUNO Awards, Nelly Furtado. Road to the JUNOS culminates with eTalk's industry-leading Red Carpet arrivals special, eTalk at the JUNOS.

eTalk is also thrilled to announce that in addition to having Ben Mulroney, Tanya Kim and Elaine "Lainey" Lui on the ground reporting, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton will be in Saskatoon to cover The 2007 JUNO Awards exclusively for eTalk. The self-professed "Queen of all Media" is leaving celebrity-soaked Los Angeles to walk the red carpet Canadian-style and blog from the eTalk Pontiac Lounge backstage.

Canada AM

Canada AM celebrates The 2007 JUNO Awards with a week full of performances from a different artist each day nominated in the "Best New Artist" category, including Neverending White Lights (Wednesday), Eva Avila (Thursday) and Patrick Watson (Friday). Also, Seamus O'Regan will co-host a live broadcast of Canada AM, direct from Saskatoon, on Monday, April 2, the morning following the big show.

Interactive TV offers viewers a "play along" experience at JUNOS.ctv.ca

Don't just watch The 2007 JUNO Awards, play along! Audiences looking for new ways to become fully engaged with Canada's Music Awards can get the ultimate JUNO Awards experience at CTV.ca. Powered by TANDBERG Television, viewers can interact with The 2007 JUNO Awards telecast by playing an interactive TV feature. By visiting JUNOS.ctv.ca while The 2007 JUNO Awards are televised on CTV, viewers can guess who will win an award, answer trivia, guess the mystery tune and much more - all live and in sync with the TV broadcast. Viewers scoring points for correct answers can become eligible to win one of two Vespa scooters.

The CTV Broadband Network at CTV.ca, MTV.ca and TSN.ca

Already brimming with JUNO Awards features, The CTV Broadband Network will present an exclusive one-hour live version of eTalk at the JUNOS. The red carpet arrivals special will air exclusively on CTV.ca and MTV.ca beginning at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday, April 1. Co-hosted by eTalk's Red Carpet team along with MTV Live hosts Aliya-Jasmine Sovani and Johnny Hockin (from 7-7:30 p.m.), eTalk at the JUNOS features interviews with the who's who of Canadian music as they prepare to partake in the year's most-anticipated industry event. For complete coverage of The 2007 JUNO Awards on The CTV Broadband Network, visit www.junos.ctv.ca.

MTV celebrates Canada's Music Awards, beginning March 26

MTV celebrates The JUNO Awards with an entire week of JUNO programming continuing today. Featuring several of MTV's hit original Canadian series, including Cribs and Diary, viewers are able to go behind the scenes with some of the biggest names in Canadian entertainment including several past and current JUNO nominees and winners. In addition to the on-air broadcast, the channel's online component, MTV.ca, will highlight several Canadian musicians whose music has taken the industry by storm, including 2007 JUNO Awards host Nelly Furtado, K-OS, Avril Lavigne and many more.

MTV will also be on site at the JUNO Cup hockey game to produce a one-hour special airing Thursday, April 5 at 6 p.m. ET on MTV and Saturday, April 7 at 3 p.m. ET on CTV. Hosted by MTV Live personalities Daryn Jones, Aliya-Jasmine Sovani and Johnny Hockin, MTV Live at the JUNO Cup will feature in game interviews with the musicians, hockey players and host Michael Landsberg.

For added entertainment and insight into the game, select players will be equipped with helmet-cams and microphones to bring the essence of the game to the screen and provide viewers with an ongoing dialogue with the hosts. For complete day-to-day highlights of MTV's coverage of The 2007 JUNO Awards, visit http://media.ctv.ca/mtv/.

TSN brings Juno Cup hockey game into the homes of viewers across the country

For the first time ever, TSN gets onto the JUNO bandwagon with the first television broadcast of The Juno Cup hockey game, a one-hour special airing Saturday, March 31 at 12 noon ET on TSN. Two of Canada's favourite pastimes - hockey and music - are rolled into one with the JUNO Cup hockey game. The fourth annual charity hockey game featuring The NHL Greats vs. The Rockers will also air live on The CTV Broadband Network at TSN.ca, CTV.ca and MTV.ca on Friday, March 30 at 9 p.m. ET. Highlights from The Juno Cup will also be seen on SportsCentre and the NHL on TSN during coverage of the Tampa Bay @ Carolina game that night.

Hosted by Off The Record's Michael Landsberg with play-by-play from TSN's Dave Randorf, The Juno Cup will be held at the Art Hauser Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, with proceeds from the event going to support CARAS' music education program, MusiCan. The celebrity hockey fundraiser features big names such as Wendel Clark, Paul Coffey, Bob Probert and Russ Courtnall for The NHL Greats; and Brent Butt, Jim Cuddy, Sam Roberts and Zack Werner for The Rockers.