TORONTO – Bell Media’s Investigation Discovery (ID) and Discovery Science will both be opening up for a four week free preview September 22 through October 19.
The timing will coincide with the launch of new ID series Las Vegas Law, Vanishing Women plus new special Adnan Syed: Innocent or Guilty? (pictured), featuring the convicted murderer and subject of the acclaimed Serial podcast. Highlights from Discovery Science include the debut of new series How To Build…Everything and Alaska Mega Machines.
The four-week preview is available through television service providers including Bell and Bell Aliant, Cogeco, Eastlink, MTS, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw, Shaw Direct, Telus,…
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MADOC, ON – Fresh off of its win as one of the CCSA’s 2016 Tuned-in Canada winners, Hastings Cable Vision has announced plans to donate its $1,000 prize to the Madoc Skatepark Accessibility Fund.
The independent cable company won ‘Best customer service story’ at the awards in June for its outstanding service to a disabled customer. On August 31, the company will present a cheque to the Centre Hastings Park at a ceremony held at the Madoc Skatepark.
“All of us here at Hastings Cable Vision are very excited and proud to be working with the Madoc Skatepark Accessibility Fund…
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TORONTO – Bell Media’s Discovery is gearing up for its first-ever nationwide free preview this fall which will include the debut of Frontier, its first original Canadian scripted drama.
Set against the raw backdrop of 1700s Canada, Frontier (pictured) stars Jason Momoa in a thrilling action-adventure series that revolves around warring factions vying for control of the fur trade in a ruthless game of wealth and power. The series will debut on November 6. Other programming highlights include the return of Canada’s Worst Driver and the premier of new original Canadian series Tougher Than It Looks? on October 24.
Discovery’s free preview…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – After former CEO Alyson Townsend launched a wrongful dismissal lawsuit last week, which we reported on, the CCSA Board of directors issued the following release in response.
“As a result of a recent contract dispute with a former CEO, CCSA is now engaged in a legal proceeding. The Board of CCSA has every confidence that this issue has been handled in a professional manner and has been guided by outside legal counsel throughout the process. All actions taken by CCSA in this matter were made based on legal advice and with…
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SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Alyson Townsend, the former chief executive officer of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance, has filed a lawsuit against the organization for which she worked for 23 years, claiming wrongful dismissal.
The CCSA (a national alliance of independent network owner-operators) and Townsend parted ways last month, as we reported here. She had been CEO since 2001.
In her statement of claim filed last week with the Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick, which has not been proven in court and to which the CCSA has not yet responded, Townsend says the CCSA’s board…
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SAINT JOHN – After more than 180 nominations and some 28,000 votes cast across the country, the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) has announced the winners of the 2016 Tuned-in Canada: The CCSA Awards.
The annual contest bills itself as a national celebration of excellence in communications service delivery, community-mindedness, and community channel content development.
This year’s winners in each category were determined by the most votes received, and, by the most votes received per capita subscribers. With CCSA made up of various sized members, the organization said that this system levels the playing field for all. In the event that an entry won…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Alyson Townsend is no longer CEO of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance.
The board of directors of the alliance of independent network operators made the announcement to staff on Friday and to the rest of the industry on Monday. Many who communicated with Cartt.ca Monday afternoon were surprised to hear Townsend and the CCSA had parted ways.
She had been CEO since 2001 and joined the organization in 1994 when it was founded to do what it still does today: combine the efforts and numbers of multiple independent operators across the country into one cohesive voice in order…
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WHISTLER – Registration will open June 8 for the CCSA’s Connect 2016 conference which this year will take place September 19 – 21 at the Fairmont Château Whistler in Whistler, BC.
The confab will begin on Monday with events for CCSA members, capped off by an evening social for all delegates. Tuesday will be a day of speaker sessions, the trade show, ‘On your own’ meeting time, and the Board of Directors' hosted dinner, followed by the annual golf and social activities day on Wednesday.
Further details are available here.
www.ccsa.cable.ca
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GATINEAU – The basic service objective (BSO) hearing changed mid-stream when CRTC chair Jean-Pierre Blais made the unprecedented move of delivering a statement declaring broadband “vital” to Canadians. After that, a National Broadband Strategy (NBS) – what should it look like, how do we get there and the role for the Commission – became a huge part of the discussions.
In his April 18 address to the hearing, he asked parties to think about these and other issues related to an NBS and present potential policies.
When Rogers Communications appeared before the commission in April, it raised the concept of a…
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GATNIEAU – Many broadband Internet providers say the CRTC must refrain from adopting new funding mechanisms for the deployment of high-speed networks to under-served and unserved areas of the country and let the market play it out.
In final submissions to the basic service objective (BSO) proceeding, providers are nearly unanimous in arguing that the current approach of market forces and targeted government funding is working. They say 96% of Canadians already have access to a minimum 5/1 Mbps (downstream/upstream) service and that figure will jump to 98% once the final round of Connecting Canadians funding is spent.
For Bell Canada,…
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