OTTAWA and COPENHAGEN — Canadian satellite operator Telesat and Denmark’s Cobham SATCOM announced today an agreement to deploy Cobham SATCOM 3-axis TRACKER 4000 terminals for Telesat’s Lightspeed low-Earth orbit (LEO) landing station network.
Under the terms of the agreement, “Cobham SATCOM will manufacture, integrate, and install advanced Ka-band tracking antennas at Telesat’s sites throughout the world, and provide long-term logistics and maintenance support,” reads a press release.
Cobham SATCOM’s radome-protected antennas “will provide accurate tracking in the most adverse weather conditions, ensuring high availability and throughput for carrier-grade performance,” the release says.
“Cobham SATCOM’s innovative antenna technology delivers robust, resilient and…
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) today announced more details for its virtual Prime Time event, which gets underway Wednesday, Feb. 2.
The conference’s opening reception will be held online at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT on Feb. 2 and will feature comedy from Debra DiGiovanni, appearances by Mark Critch (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Son of a Critch) and Andrew Phung (Kim’s Convenience, Run the Burbs), and trivia from the cast of Amazon Prime Video’s LOL Canada.
On Thursday, Feb. 3 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT, CMPA president and CEO Reynolds Mastin will moderate a virtual session…
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“Language is at the heart of cultural identity; it shapes who we are and our perspectives. When we speak our languages, we share stories, pass on knowledge and create bonds for generations.” – Patrimoine canadien – Canadian Heritage, Ottawa, June 14, 2021
EARLY LAST YEAR a group of organizations came together to advocate for inclusion of diverse communities and ethnic programming in Bill C-10. We called ourselves the Canadian Ethnocultural Media Coalition (CEMC). The initial group has expanded and now includes the most active and prolific ethnic media organizations in the country (see list of members below).
As Parliament…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU — The Department of Canadian Heritage announced today it is postponing a national summit on arts, culture and heritage that was announced last month and was originally scheduled to take place in Ottawa on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.
The focus of the two-day summit was to be on the arts and cultural sectors’ recovery from the pandemic.
“Due to recent developments in the Covid-19 pandemic, we have refocused our attention on the immediate challenges facing Canadian artists and cultural workers,” says Canadian Heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez in a statement released by the department.
“The Government of Canada will continue to support…
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GATINEAU – Revenue from Canadian broadcasting services declined 6.6% to $15.8 billion in 2019-2020 compared to 2018-2019, the CRTC says.
This is highlighted in the broadcasting portion of the CRTC’s Communications Market Report (CMR; formally the Communications Monitoring Report), released last month, which covers the broadcast year spanning from Sept. 1, 2019, to Aug. 31, 2020, and as such includes around six months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The $15.8 billion in revenue does not include revenues from Internet-based services, known as over-the-top services (OTT), operating under the CRTC’s digital media exemption order.
Over half of the revenues were generated by broadcasting distribution…
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By Denis Carmel
HAWKESBURY – Quietly, on Dec. 29, Judith LaRocque (above) passed away, in her home in Hawkesbury, Ont.
Judith received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Carleton University in 1979, and a Master of Arts degree in Public Administration from the same university in 1992.
But most of us knew her at Canadian Heritage where she was deputy minister (2002-2010) and, previously as associate deputy minister.
A respected civil servant, she started her career at Rideau Hall, as secretary to the Governor General, (1990-2000), where she followed Ray Hnatyshyn, after he had been appointed GG. She had…
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By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – Last week, the Canadian Government published the mandate letters the prime minister gives to cabinet ministers.
Mandate letters have existed in many shapes and forms for a long time but in 2015, the Liberal Government made them public for the first time. They have now become part of the government’s ritual after each election. It starts with the electoral platform, followed by the appointment of ministers, the Speech from the Throne that flows right into the mandate each minister is given.
Lobbyists and corporations work diligently to ensure their issues are mentioned. Considering the…
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By Denis Carmel
After the election on Sept. 20, 2021, the appointment of ministers on Oct. 26 and the appointment of critics on Nov. 11, the House of Commons reopened with the Speech from the Throne on Nov. 23. The parliamentary secretaries were later named on Dec. 3, the members of the Heritage and Industry committees were chosen on Dec. 9 with the chairs of these committees being elected on Dec. 13 and 14 respectively.
Despite the fact this is the continuation of the old government and some cynics could say the election did not change anything,…
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OTTAWA — Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez (above) announced today the federal government will hold a two-day national summit in Ottawa on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2022, with members of the arts, culture and heritage sectors to discuss their recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Our artists and creators were hit hard by the pandemic. But they did not give up and continued to make us laugh, cry, and dream,” said Rodriguez, in a government press release.
“We’ve been there for them from the beginning and now it’s time to have a national conversation about how to rebuild our…
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SUDBURY – Production has begun in Sudbury on the all-new Letterkenny spin-off Shoresy, Bell Media’s Crave announced today.
Shoresy is a six-episode, half-hour hockey comedy created and written by Jared Keeso, who also stars in the series. It “sees the foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving fan favourite character, Shoresy (above), join a senior AAA hockey team in Sudbury on a quest to never, ever lose again,” a press release says.
The series is produced by New Metric Media in partnership with WildBrain and Playfun Games in association with Bell Media with participation from the Canadian Media Fund, OMDC Tax Credits, and the Canadian…
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