TORONTO – IMG senior executive Kevin Albrecht has joined Insight Sports Ltd. as president and CEO, the company announced Tuesday.
Current CEO Ron Bremner will become the new vice-chairman…
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CALGARY – Provincial telco SaskTel will finally face some local phone competition as Shaw Communications has launched its Digital Phone service in Saskatoon while Regina’s cable co-operative Access Communications…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has added six new foreign ethnic channels have been added to the eligible satellite list.
All were sponsored by Rogers Cable and they are:
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NEW YORK – On December 11th, Nielsen Media Research will begin to measure nationally distributed video on demand content, in part to figure out how VOD viewership of certain…
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ST. LOUIS – The fourth-largest cable operator in the U.S., Charter Communications, launched an experiment last week that dynamically rotates ads into video on demand content.
In the trial,…
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VANCOUVER – Syntagma Network Services, led by former Telus executive Theresa Carbonneau, last week launched on the Canadian telecom scene.
It says it has "Canada’s first independent, fully integrated…
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TORONTO – One of the founders of online dating service Lavalife has founded a company selling a unique way to take advantage of wireless companies’ "unlimited incoming calls" plans…
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TORONTO – David Corey has been hired as program co-ordinator for 104.5 CHUM FM.
He will be responsible for the management of the CHUM FM brand in Toronto, "working…
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TORONTO – Vibika Bianchi has been promoted to director of original productions at W Network, Corus Entertainment’s specialty channel for women.
"Bianchi has been an integral member of the…
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TORONTO – TSN Extra and CBC News Plus, two new interactive TV services have been added to Bell ExpressVu’s service.
Customers can now choose the news and sports they…
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