TORONTO – GlassBox Television has named Jennifer Mason as its marketing and communications director.
Mason (pictured) was most recently senior manager of marketing strategy for Shaw Media’s specialty television division. Prior to that, she held roles with Alliance Atlantis, CFC and at CBC. In her role at GlassBox, Mason’s responsibilities include building awareness for the company’s media brands Bite TV, Aux TV and Travel and Escape Channel.
“Jennifer’s extensive marketing experience and success in building strong awareness of specialty brands, together with a great track record of working…
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TORONTO – Veteran radio broadcaster Costas Halavrezos will be honoured with the 2011 RTNDA Lifetime Achievement Award in the Atlantic Region.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was created in 2002 to recognize individuals who have distinguished themselves through outstanding service and continued excellence during the course of their career in broadcast journalism.
Halavrezos, who retired this fall from CBC Radio, was one of the best known broadcasters in the Maritimes. After freelancing for the CBC in the 1970’s, he then took on a full time producer job in his native Saint John. In 1982, he went in front of the microphone, first…
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WASHINGTON – CTV British Columbia, CBNT St. John’s, NL, 680News Toronto and CHYM-FM/CKGL-AM Kitchener, ON all received awards for ‘Overall Excellence’ at the 2011 Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in electronic journalism.
This year, Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) judges awarded 600 regional awards in 14 categories, including Overall Excellence, Breaking News, Investigative Reporting, and Website. Awards are broken up by medium (radio, television, on-line) and by market size (small and large.) Regional winners automatically become eligible for the national awards competition, which will be judged in June and presented in October at the RTDNA Awards Dinner in New…
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MONTREAL – Videotron has named Yann Paquet as vice-president, multiplatform content.
In this role, Paquet will be responsible for positioning Videotron as the “preeminent player in the dissemination of content on multiple screens and media”, reads the company’s press release. He will also be responsible for cable television programming, Indigo’s pay-per-view service, video-on-demand, illico web and all mobile content offerings.
Prior to joining Videotron, Paquet was VP of digital media and strategic partnerships at Reader’s Digest. He has also held various management positions at CBC, including senior manager of new media.
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OTTAWA – Nearly 7,000 Canadians have told the CRTC that television commercials are too loud, and, that they want the Regulator to do something about it.
The Commission got an earful after asking for comments back in February on measures to control the loudness of commercial messages. It launched the public consultation after receiving hundreds of complaints, and comments were due last week.
“It is highly annoying the number of times we need to adjust the volume from commercials back to programming”, wrote Mark Dostie from Richmond, B.C., in his submission to the CRTC. “In fact we will often ‘pause’…
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THERE’S JUST TWO WEEKS left before Canada 3.0 2011 digital media forum kicks off for a third straight year.
Scheduled for May 2 – 4, 2011 in Stratford, ON, the forum is dedicated to advancing Canada’s digital media industry. Some of this year’s panellists and keynote speakers include:
– Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner;– Mark Allen, Director of Strategic Analysis for CBC/Radio-Canada;– Juliette Powell and 3rd Wave Gaming: the future of financial transactions; and– Alan Saxe, SVP of Business and Legal Affairs for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
And Cartt.ca will be there, too.
Registration includes access to the main plenary sessions, breakout sessions, access…
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TORONTO – RTNDA Canada, The Association of Electronic Journalists, has named its British Columbia region award winners honouring the best programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in both radio and television.
The annual awards will be presented in Vancouver on May 28, 2011.
The Television winners are:
Trina McQueen Award – News Information Program• CTV British Columbia for Black Blood
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News• /A\ Vancouver Island for Migrant Ship Approaches
Hugh Haugland Award – Creative Use of Video• CTV British Columbia for Irish Pride
Ron Laidlaw Award – Continuing Coverage• Global BC for Surrey Six
Dave…
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LAS VEGAS – The Canadian Suite held annually at the Flamingo (excellently organized and hosted by Applied Electronics and supported by dozens of companies – including Cartt.ca – every year) isn’t the only place to find Canadians.
In fact, there are thousands of Canucks among the 92,000-plus who attended NAB this year. Broadcasters (CBC, CTV, Global, CHCH, CHEK, on the TV side and just abour every radio company), students, vendors, manufacturers all make the pilgrimage every year. We even saw former Canwest Global CEO and now CEO of Fight Network, Leonard Asper, working the floor.
You can’t walk far on the exhibit…
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TORONTO – On the eve of the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, CBC has a new marketing campaign primed and ready, plus has re-vamped the hockey section of its website.
The new site design offers various custom and integrated opportunities including branded content, social media integration, and mobile platform extensions. New this year, the site also offers PushDown ads, wallpapers and site takeovers.
Refreshed iPhone and iPad applications, live streaming of every game including the Coach’s Corner segment and pre-game show Hockey Night Online will launch this weekend as part of the broadcaster’s “It Doesn’t Get Any Bigger Than This” marketing campaign in…
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MONTREAL – U.S. MSO Insight Communications will add the Galaxie Digital Music Service for its digital cable customers, announced Stingray Digital, the Montreal-based music provider.
Galaxie, Your Musical Universe, is 50 uninterrupted and commercial-free digital music channels delivered by cable, satellite or IPTV directly to consumers’ homes.
"The Galaxie music service has been distributed in the US for over one year and is enjoyed by customers of more than 50 TV operators from coast to coast," said Eric Boyko, president and CEO of Stingray Digital in the press release. "We are very happy to be partnering with Insight Communications to offer…
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