"TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, the CCTA board tasked Dean MacDonald, a small working group and I to develop a vision that would become the basis on which to build our public policy priorities," Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association president and CEO Michael Hennessy said in a note to association members sent out Wednesday.
What follows below is the rest of that final memo to members of an association which will soon be wound down.
In response, the working group and the CCTA team described a vision of an integrated broadband future where consumer choice regulated the market…
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DESPITE THE IMMINENT SHUTDOWN of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, a move which will cost 26 jobs, Canada’s smaller independent operators have already decided they must have a continuing presence in Ottawa.
As reported first by www.cartt.ca early Friday afternoon, Rogers Cable, the largest remaining member of the CCTA, decided to rescind its support of the association, effectively killing it – even though no other member wanted to pull the plug. Even Rogers didn’t really want to do it.
However, no CCTA member is blaming Rogers for the demise of the 50-plus year-old association. Indeed, the CCTA’s board of…
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JUST IN TIME FOR Christmas, www.cartt.ca has given away a 42” HDTV. We did the draw Friday evening and the winner is Nigel Fuller, regional vice-president, CHUM Television Ontario (right).
Second prize, the iPod nano, is going to Rick Fraser v-p marketing at Access Communications.
As for the 50 winners of signed copies of the children’s book M is for Maple. They are:
Brad Phillips, Citytv Vancouver Gordon Lee, CTV Specialty Victor Haddad, Milk River Cable Club, Georgina Schnubb, Masset-Haida TV Society Steve Ward, Grand Bend Cable TV Brett Manlove, CanWest MediaWorks Sam Fiander. Ramea Broadcasting Richard French, CRTC Glenn O’Farrell, CAB…
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CANADA’S CABLE AND SATELLITE companies want one thing when it comes to high definition television: More.
More HD channels. More HD content. More HD Canadian content. In the larger markets at least, HDTV set owners are increasingly tuning to their HD channels only, taking advantage of their big, bright, new toy. They, in turn, are beginning to apply some pressure on their cable company or satellite provider to make more channels available.
“Demand is high,” says the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance’s legal counsel Chris Edwards. “Everyone is looking to get as much high def as they can get.” The…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance and The Golf Channel have announced a new master affiliate agreement.
“We are particularly pleased to renew our distribution agreement with The Golf Channel which is now celebrating its tenth anniversary,” said Alyson Townsend, president and CEO of the CCSA, in a press release.
“Golf continues to grow in popularity across Canada and so does The Golf Channel,” added David Manougian, president of the Comcast-owned channel. “We are delighted to renew our agreement with the CCSA and look forward to many more years of mutual success.”
The Golf Channel is available…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Leafs TV and Raptors TV have renewed their master affiliate agreement with the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance.
Leafs TV is all about the Toronto Maple Leafs and this season features 13 live Leafs games, as well as a number of Toronto Marlie contests. It’s only made available in Leafs territory, as defined by the NHL.
Raptors TV is all basketball, all the time, focused of course on the NBA’s Toronto Raptors. It’s made available for nationwide distribution. Both channels are owned by the teams under the Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment umbrella.
“We truly value the…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Speed Channel and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance announced they have signed a new master affiliate agreement.
“We are pleased to have concluded long term arrangements for the distribution of Speed Channel. Speed Channel has been a long-standing patron of independent distributors since it was available in Canada… we look forward to continuing and building upon this commercial relationship,” said CCSA president and CEO Alyson Townsend in a release.
“We are happy to continue our solid relationship with CCSA now and into the future,” said Kevin Annison, Speed’s vice-president of business development and operations. “The CCSA…
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CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Shaw Communications to restore the TV signals to Campbell River TV.
Due to an acrimonious dispute over digital cable set top boxes, outlined in several stories here on www.cartt.ca throughout this week, Shaw (which owns both the microwave system feeding CRTV its distant U.S. broadcast signals and Cancom, which feeds the cable co-op its U.S. and Canadian specialty services) turned off most of the TV channels of CRTV customers.
CRTV immediately sought a court order and this morning, the court ordered Shaw to “restore to…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance has signed a master affiliation agreement with category two digital specialty service The Pet Network.
“We are pleased to be able to offer our newest specialty channel to the CCSA members,” said Stornoway Communications vice-president Frank Bertolas in a release.
Stornoway (which owns and operates ichannel and bpm:tv) launched the Pet Network in the fall of 2004. The channel is all about pets, what they do and the families who own them.
www.ccsa.cable.ca www.mypetnetwork.tv
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – The Fight Network and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance recently announced a new master affiliation agreement.
The Fight Network, as recently reported by www.cartt.ca, is an independently-owned all-combatant sports channel (boxing, wrestling, mixed martial arts, etc.).
“This new service will be a welcome addition to any sports or action theme packages as it offers a unique slate of programming, much of which has never been seen before in the Canadian marketplace,” said CCSA legal counsel Chris Edwards.
“We look forward to delivering CCSA subscribers non-stop action, news and theme-related entertainment from around the fight world,” added…
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