OTTAWA – The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has filed an application with the CRTC asking that a number of new regulations be applied to cable company ISPs who are not fairly treating its members acting as third party internet access providers.
The independent TPIAs (such as Teksavvy, Primus and Telnet) who provide internet service to their customers by purchasing wholesale high speed access service from the likes of Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron say that either through malice or indifference their businesses are being seriously harmed by the cable companies and the CRTC must step in.
“This is necessary because ISPs,…
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TORONTO – Just in time for holiday gift giving, CBC/Radio-Canada has re-launched its e-commerce websites CBCShop.ca and boutique.radio-canada.ca plus secured licensing agreements with Canadian retailers including Indigo/Chapters and Sears.
Both websites will feature new products as well as returning favourites such as the Hockey Night in Canada, Gem and Retro Collections. In addition, products from the CBC Retro Collection will soon be available at Indigo/Chapters nationally, The Drake General Store, redcanoebrands.com and other specialty/boutique retailers in Ontario.
Hockey Night in Canada merchandise will be available at The Hockey Hall of Fame, Sears…
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TORONTO – With the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia some five months away, Canada’s official broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada has revealed 17 confirmed Olympic media partnerships.
That list includes heavyweights Visa, Samsung, P&G, Coca-Cola, Bell, Canadian Tire Corporation (parent company of Canadian Tire and Sport Chek), Air Canada, Suncor Energy and their retail brand Petro-Canada, Panasonic, and Mondel?z Canada (makers of brands such as Oreo, Dentyne, and Cadbury). Additional media partnerships will be announced closer to the start of the Games.
Monday’s announcement detailed that CBC’s coverage will integrate Canadian Tire, Sport Chek and P&G’s athlete relationships into its broadcast and digital content…
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TORONTO – Nataline Rodrigues has left the CBC to take on the role of director of original programming at Rogers Media starting October 1st.
Rodrigues (pictured) will manage the submission, development, and production of original Canadian programming for all Rogers Media non-sports television brands. In addition to working with the independent community to evaluate pitches and proposals for both development and production, she will oversee the current slate of original series including Package Deal, Seed, Storage Wars Canada, The Project: Guatemala, Mother Up!, and The Bachelor Canada. Rodrigues will report to VP of programming & content Hayden Mindell.
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada officially announced Thursday that Heather Conway has been named executive vice-president of English Services, and will join the Corp in December.
As Cartt.ca reported earlier this week, Conway is currently chief business officer at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her previous experience includes president of Edelman Public Relations, executive vice-president at Alliance Atlantis, executive vice president of TD Financial Group, vice president of Hill and Knowlton and of The Neville Group and special assistant to the Minister of Finance.
"At a time when we have great momentum, Heather with her exceptionally broad experience and proven expertise and success…
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TORONTO – The CBC will announce Thursday morning that it has hired the Art Gallery of Ontario’s chief business officer, Heather Conway, as its new head of English Services.
Conway (right), 51, was with Alliance Atlantis as executive vice-president of corporate communications, marketing and affiliate relations from 2001 to 2007 and was also CEO of the Canadian arm of Edelman Public relations after that until her two-year stint at the AGO.
She replaces former EVP English Services, Kirstine Stewart, who left the…
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MONT TREMBLANT – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance celebrated its 20th anniversary in grand style Monday with top notch seminars, a well-attended trade show, awards and a gala dinner which featured Canadian comic Sugar Sammy.
After an opening speech by CRTC vice-chairman telecom Peter Menzies, “unmarketing” pro Scott Stratten wowed the audience with an entertaining take on how in order to go viral, you have to give up control (and don’t sweat your logo too much). Then, with over 300 delegates at this year’s conference, the trade show floor was packed through mid-day then customer service…
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SASKATOON – CBC Radio One's Saskatoon Morning will make its on-air debut on Thursday morning following the approval of its broadcast license by the CRTC on Monday.
Starting September 26 from 6:00am to 8:30am on 94.1FM in Saskatoon, host Leisha Grebinski, online host Matt Kruchak and newsreader Dan Kerslake will provide listeners with a fresh, new conversation on-air and online each weekday with up-to-date local news, weather, traffic and community events.
"As a new morning radio show and digital service, Saskatoon Morning is unparalleled in the market," said John Agnew, managing director for CBC Saskatchewan, in the announcement. "We're…
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OTTAWA – As Canadians continue to embrace a multi-screen world, which screen will consumers choose to watch content on when all four screen options are available?
According to the latest report from Media Technology Monitor, entitled “4-Screen Canadians: A Glimpse into Multi-Screen Media Behaviour”, only one in ten of Canadian Internet users currently own four screens connected to the Internet – a computer, smartphone, tablet and TV.
The report says that the computer continues to be an important device for the consumption of content, even with three other screen choices, while the smartphone remains primarily a communications medium for the likes of calls, text, e-mail, and Facebook. However, the smartphone is…
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GATINEAU – Broadcasters, distributors and special interests all took predictable stances on the CRTC's proposed framework for the distribution of national news services in interventions published this week.
The comment period for the framework, which launched from the Commission's August decision to deny mandatory distribution to Sun News Network, ended on Monday night. Last-minute submissions were posted to the CRTC site Tuesday and Wednesday. The Regulator’s proposals include rules on carriage, packaging and channel placement for national news services licensed as Category C, which would categorize all such services – new and…
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