TORONTO – Just in time for March Break, Bell Media’s pop-culture channel Much will kick off a national free preview from March 7 until April 4.
Home to comedy classics South Park, The Simpsons, and American Dad, Much will also serve up new British comedy Brotherhood, genre-busting prank show Fameless, plus the debut of Conan O’Brien’s new Conan Without Borders: Made In Mexico special (pictured).
Much’s freeview is available through television service providers including Bell, Bell Aliant, Cogeco, Eastlink, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw, Shaw Direct, Telus, Videotron, and several CCSA partners including Westman Communications Group and Tbaytel.
www.Much.com
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SAINT JOHN, NB – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance announced Monday that nominations are now open for Tuned-in Canada: The CCSA Awards 2017.
The awards celebrate the exemplary customer service, inspiring community building efforts, fantastic local content, and well-loved community channel personalities at CCSA member companies across the country.
“Tuned-in Canada is the perfect platform to highlight the incredible value our members add to the communities they serve,” said Jay Thomson, CEO of the CCSA, in a release. “The awards are a great way to share our stories with government representatives, customers and communities and to encourage them to engage…
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MONT-TREMBLANT, QC – Save the date for the CCSA’s Connect 2017 conference which this year will take place at the Fairmont Tremblant Resort , located in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec from September 25 – 27.
Conference details and registration information will be available in the coming months.
www.ccsa.cable.ca
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – Canadian Cable Systems Alliance has named industry veteran Jay Thomson as its new CEO, effective February 1, 2017.
Thomson (pictured) is currently broadcasting policy & regulatory affairs VP for the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA). He was also previously president of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), plus held senior regulatory and policy positions with the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), Telus Communications and the now defunct Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA).
After beginning his career in the communications industry as a lawyer and policy analyst at the CRTC, Thomson has gained deep expertise in strategic policy…
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TORONTO — MAVTV Motorsports Network, in partnership with media executive Mike Garrow, announced Monday that a distribution agreement has been signed making the channel available to all 115 Canadian Cable Systems Alliance members across Canada.
MAVTV is set to start airing its motorsports content on Tuesday, January 10th as the launch date coincides with the live broadcast of the 31st annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, the largest indoor race in North America.
“For more than ten years MAVTV has offered unprecedented diversity in their motorsports content across America, and I am thrilled that fans across Canada will finally…
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GATINEAU – The large broadcasters’ current Canadian Programming Expenditure (CPE) and Programs of National Interest (PNI) proposals are wholly inadequate, according to the creatives representing actors, performers, writers and directors.
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) said in its appearance before the CRTC’s large English-language broadcasters’ licence renewal hearing on Wednesday the impact of the proposals would be “devastating” on Canadian programming and the Canadian broadcasting system because they would result in a reduction of nearly $100 million in spending over the next licence term.
“In our view, this would be regressive, contrary to the Commission’s objective…
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TORONTO – Food lovers may gorge on Bell Media’s Gusto over the holiday season thanks to a national free preview of the food and lifestyle channel.
The exclusive home to all-new Jamie Oliver programming in Canada, programming also features cooking series from lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, including the new Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party where she cooks and entertains alongside her unlikely friend and King of Kush, Snoop Dogg. Gusto’s lineup also includes superstar British chef Lorraine Pascale in her new series Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh And Easy Food, the perfectly paired exclusive series The Wine Show, plus hours of original Canadian programming,…
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WHISTLER – One of the world’s top technology, media and telecommunications trends forecasters, Deloitte Canada’s Duncan Stewart, spent an hour on stage Tuesday urging CCSA delegates to try and view all tech hype with a skeptic’s eye – and use data instead.
He identified 3D printers, e-readers and virtual reality headsets as products whose results in the marketplace have nowhere near matched the media hysteria around them.
Turns out people don’t want little mills in their homes making do-dads out of plastic or whatever. Turns out humans still like physical books (e-reader sales have plateaued and print book sales have edged…
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WHISTLER – The staff of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance put together another strong Connect conference where independent operators met, networked and celebrated their own.
As the organization searches for a new CEO after a painful split with it’s former chief executive and grapples with change, the gathering could not help but have a bit of a different feel than in years’ past, but the conference still drew about 250 delegates who checked out the latest and greatest in new programming and new technology, discussed myriad best practices amongst each other and celebrated the best in community TV with the…
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WHISTLER – If there’s one thing millennials hate, it’s to be thought of as one homogeneous group – and to market to them, or employ them, thinking that way is a sure road to disaster.
This was part of the message delivered in an entertaining keynote Tuesday morning by Curt Steinhorst from the Center for Generational Kinetics (pictured). He was speaking to the delegates at the 2016 Canadian Cable Systems Alliance Connect Conference.
Groups of generations, be they Baby Boomers, or Millennials or any other group, don’t meet every definition foisted upon them. “They’re not a box,” he said, “which every…
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