OTTAWA – With social networking now one of the most popular online activities among Canadians, it is vital that industry experts understand what sites are the most popular, who is using them, and the way that the sites are being accessed, says a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
Social Networking: Analysis of the English-Language Market examines the use of social networks amongst Anglophone Canadians, and delves into how they are being used to share content, meet new people, and to connect with brands.
Highlights from the report include:
– Canadians are hooked on social networking, with 82% of social networkers being avid daily users;
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THIS MONTH’S CRTC DECISION TO regulate wholesale wireless roaming rates is just the latest in a long line of seminal processes and decisions which have come under the tenure of chairman Jean-Pierre Blais.
Just about 60% the way through his five-year term, Blais has had to digest major developments in the industry, technology, and political environment—which is pushing for more competition and consumer rights – while dealing with an often-cranky TV and telecom executives trying to steer their ships through the same choppy waters.
Here are many of the key CRTC developments since Blais, a lawyer and lifelong bureaucrat, was named the…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s federal opposition parties have agreed to participate in two debates on the major television networks, but it is unknown at this time if the federal Conservative Party will also join in.
The Broadcast Consortium, made up of CBC News, ICI Radio-Canada Télé, CTV News and Global News, said Thursday that they reached agreement in principle with the New Democratic Party of Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada, the Green Party of Canada, and the Bloc Quebecois to stage two debates, one in English and one in French, at the height of the 2015 federal election campaign.
It also announced…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment has inked a program supply arrangement with Bell Media's CTV that will see three of Corus' local television channels in Eastern Ontario offer CTV programming starting this fall. The channels have long been CBC affiliates.
Beginning August 31st, Corus’ CHEX-TV in Peterborough, Channel 12 in Oshawa, and CKWS-TV in Kingston will launch new broadcast schedules featuring CTV hit series The Amazing Race Canada and MasterChef Canada. In addition, CTV's one-hour daily national news program, CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme, will be integrated into the programming lineup along with the current local daily Newswatch newscasts. More details…
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HAMILTON, ON – Cable 14 has been honoured with a Media Award of Distinction by the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) for its live broadcasts of a variety of McMaster University sports, as well as OUA postseason and Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship events.
The Hamilton-based community channel, co-owned by Cogeco Cable and Rogers (formerly Shaw and Source Cable), began airing McMaster sports on tape delay in the early 2000's. In 2008, with the addition of a fibre link to the Ron Joyce Stadium building project, Cable 14 began live broadcasts from the McMaster campus on a consistent basis.
Since then, Cable…
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OTTAWA – A group of the country’s major broadcast news organizations have reaffirmed their commitment to organizing debates for the upcoming 2015 Federal Election, despite a report that the federal Conservative Party is refusing to participate.
The Broadcast Consortium, made up of CBC News, ICI Radio-Canada Télé, CTV News and Global News, issued a statement Tuesday promising to once again work together to ensure that the debates are offered to as many Canadians as possible “in the best interest of democracy”.
The statement appears to come in response to a Globe and Mail report that says the federal Conservative Party is opting…
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OTTAWA – With more ways of accessing TV content without a paid TV subscription in Canada than ever before, who’s cutting the cord, who’s not, and who’s never had a cord in the first place? A pair of new reports from Media Technology Monitor (MTM) explore those questions and examines these evolving trends.
The Living Without TV Service: Off-Air and Tuned Out Canadians report examines these two unique groups, and looks at why they have chosen to live without paid TV service, how the groups compare to each other, and how they compare to those who do pay for TV service.
Highlights from…
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OTTAWA–GATINEAU – Canadian local television stations saw profits plunge in 2014, according to the CRTC’s latest statistical and financial report for this sector released Monday.
According to the report Conventional Television – Statistical and Financial Summaries 2010-2014, profits before interest and taxes (PBIT) for private local TV stations dropped from -$2.3 million to -$138.7 million, and the PBIT margin decreased from -0.1% to -7.7%.
Revenues fell by 7.2% from $1.94 billion in 2013 to $1.8 billion for the broadcast year ended August 31, 2014. While revenues from the sale of local advertising declined 5% from $351.2 million in 2013 to $333.6…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada is the official broadcaster of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games and is promising Canadians some 750 hours of coverage across TV, online and mobile platforms in both official languages.
The Toronto 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games will see more than 10,000 athletes, coaches, and team officials in total from 41 countries and territories visit Canada to take part in 36 Pan Am sports and 15 Parapan Am sports, many of which will be qualifying events for the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics. Canada will be represented by its largest teams ever…
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GATINEAU – Earlier this month, a group of 14 broadcasters met for the first time to begin figuring out how to develop a subscription television set top box data measurement system.
In its TV Policy Review decision, the CRTC said building such a system would be a very good thing and set a deadline of April 13th for an industry-wide working group to start moving. Representatives from Bell Canada, Blue Ant Media, CBC, Cogeco, Corus, Eastlink, the Independent Broadcasters Group, MTS, Pelmorex, Quebecor, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw and Telus met on April 8th saying in its first…
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