BANFF – I *heart* local cable will be a focal point for the 2014 Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual conference to be held this year at the Banff Fairmont Springs starting Sunday.
The successful cable community channel awards, now in their second year, will honour not just excellent community channel programming, but excellent television that can stand up to any other professional productions (we’ve seen them).
After 350,000 votes cast from coast to coast for member company programming by viewers, the CCSA announced the award winners in July and they will be lauded by their peers Monday evening at the board of directors’ gala dinner. Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien will present the awards.
However, there’s more to Connect than awards. The event kicks off Sunday with a number of member-only meetings, culminating in an evening “Wild West Social” cocktail party.
Monday morning will kick off with a breakfast speech by CRTC vice-chair broadcasting Tom Pentefountas followed by the Showcase Trade Show floor. The luncheon speaker is Charlton Strategic Research’s Gord Hendren, who will present the results of the surveys he has undertaken for CTAM Canada.
After Hendren will be a session on customer care and then Laura Martin of Needham & Co., will speak about the future of television. Monday’s final seminar is entitled “interactive conversation on challenges, opportunities and strategies for thriving in change.”
Connect will finish off on Tuesday with the annual CCSA golf tournament at the Fairmont Banff Springs Golf course, or a Bow River Float trip for the non-swingers.
For more information, go to www.ccsa.cable.ca
