TORONTO – Groupe Média TFO has been delivering quality French-language educational and cultural media content free of charge for 25 years and to celebrate it’s launching the Mini TFO interactive Web platform. A dynamic interactive space for younger children made possible through the support of the Ontario Ministry of Education
The new edutainment offering from TFO invites pre-school children to explore a variety of educational concepts through original, entertaining games and videos, along with songs and nursery rhymes. Together with characters from their favourite TFO television series and Mini TFO hosts Louis and Josée, children will discover how situations…
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OTTAWA – The CBC says it's “fiercely opposed” to BCE’s proposal to double the amount of its tangible benefits package to create a new Category C French language national news service, calling it an “abuse of process” and an “extraordinary attempt to undermine competition.”
The CBC contends that BCE's proposed change to its tangible benefits package from its proposed purchase of Astral Media was made without notice to the commission or interveners, or to other interested parties such as the CBC, which might have intervened if the proposal had been…
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TORONTO – Businesses can connect with leading charities and philanthropic organizations to learn how investing in their communities can lead to success at Telus’ Celebration of Giving breakfast SMB event this September 20.
Marc Kielburger, co-founder and co-CEO, Me to We and Free The Children and Tal Dehtiar, President and Founder, Oliberté Footwear will educate small-and medium-businesses on how investing in your community can not only improve employee morale, but positively impact your business, while creating a powerful force for positive change.
Strengthen Your Business with Social Responsibility – A Celebration of Giving takes place on Thursday, September 20. Registration…
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OTTAWA – Innovation, investment and infrastructure will be the key themes at the 11th Annual International Institute of Communications (IIC) 2012 Canada Conference at the Ottawa Convention Centre, October 29-30.
The conference will explore the questions around where network pressure will emerge, what engineering or other 'physics' solutions exist to stay ahead of that demand curve, where the financing will come from to maintain infrastructure at a necessary level to meet those pressures, and what the corollary impact will be on the ability of government to achieve policy goals.
Pre-registration is mandatory and space is limited. Registrations will be…
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MARKHAM, ON – Taiwanese chipmaker VIA Technologies is teaming up with Capital Networks through VIA’s Embedded Digital Signage ISV Program to create a complete Android OS digital signage solution. Capital wants to further tap into the expanding range of digital signage applications from kiosks, POS systems, video walls, and menu boards to TVOIP, cloud streaming, and Out of Home Advertising across a broad spectrum of retail, hospitality, education, and entertainment environments.
Capital’s Audience for Android software package allows users to create, control, distribute and display content with enhanced features including real-time scheduling, automated data feed ingestion, as run…
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TORONTO – Viewers of CBC’s Over the Rainbow can click their smartphones, in place of ruby slippers, to travel an interactive yellow brick road via an app that syncs in real time with the new live competition series debuting Sunday, September 16 at 8 p.m.
Available for both iPhone and Android users, with a web version in development, the app automatically syncs with the show’s live broadcast enabling viewers to interact in real time, and have their comments shared with other viewers. App users can also access exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, get insider sneak peeks, plus earn more votes for their favourite Dorothy.
Canadians can…
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MONTREAL – One wants the Bell deal to purchase Astral stopped, the other doesn’t – but in the end, independent cable group CCSA and Independent Broadcaster Blue Ant both say Bell is big enough to need to be held back.
Up first on Friday morning, the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance demonstrated directly how, in its view, the existing market power of Bell Canada (without Astral) negatively impacts the price and availability of choice available to its member companies’ customers. The CCSA represents independent distributors who collectively serve about 750,000 Canadians and is worried the addition of Astral Media to Bell…
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MONTREAL – One of the open questions about CBC/Radio-Canada as it heads into its CRTC licence renewal hearing in November has been the fate of its president and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix.
His original five-year contract to head the public broadcaster expires in December of this year and it would be unusual to the extreme to have Lacroix lead the CBC team to a hearing with his personal job status either unknown, or to have a CEO push through a hearing knowing he won’t be in the position a month later.
However, Cartt.ca has determined through a number of Montreal media executive sources who…
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MONTREAL – We have a real soft spot in our hearts for those regular citizens, the ones with no industry background, with nothing to gain financially, who are concerned enough about a broadcasting or telecom, issue before the CRTC that they choose to appear publicly to make their case officially.
A few years ago, it was Ottawa’s Marjorie Lemieux at the fee-for-carriage kerfuffle. Thursday in Montreal it was Rahul Majumdar, just a regular Montrealer who doesn’t want to see TSN Radio 690 (formerly 990) turn into RDS Radio. The Montreal sports fan bears the French sports…
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MONTREAL – Sensing the opposition to its proposed benefits package was pretty strong, the first thing Bell Canada did Monday morning when it faced the CRTC was to boost that package – making it bigger and, in the opinion of its executives, better.
As many companies which have faced the CRTC over the years are wont to do, Bell looked at the opposition to its benefits package filed with written comments to the CRTC prior to the hearing and boosted what it originally proposed by $41 million dollars, increasing the overall value of the package to $241.3 million, to be…
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