MONTREAL – Quebec’s Télévision Quatre Saisons network (TQS) has confirmed Louis Trépanier as its vice-president of programming, replacing Luc Doyon who resigned in January.
Trépanier, who’s been with the network for about eight years, moves up from his position as general manager of programming and will have the mandate to establish TQS’s long-term programming personality.
Among his immediate tasks will be to shore up the network’s evening news show “Le Grand Journal”, which TV critics dismissed as “infotainment” when actress Isabelle Maréchal was added to the mix last fall to provide commentary.
That experiment ended a few weeks ago,…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Members of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance have not yet decided how it will deal with the demise this week of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association.
As first reported by www.cartt.ca, the board of the CCTA voted to close down the association less than two months after Shaw Communications resigned its membership. The association will shut its doors forever on Wednesday.
The loss of the CCTA can be overcome by the larger companies with big regulatory arms and more resources. However, for the smaller operators, the loss of the CCTA is devastating and leaves independent cablecos…
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"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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AFTER A DOZEN OR SO years of lobbying the Liberal Party power establishment, the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industries will have to start over beginning today.
No matter how long this new Conservative minority government lasts (we sorely hope it’s longer than Joe Clark’s eight months in 1979), those at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, as well as Canada’s large telcos, have brand new friends to make – and influence.
Issues like foreign ownership of telecom and cable companies, or even broadcasters, might get a more friendly hearing under the Conservatives…
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KITCHENER – With topics such as the “mapping of advanced cable services (digital video, voice and data) to the seven-layer OSI model in order to decipher the functionality associated with each layer,” the next meeting of the Ontario chapter of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers looks to be a good one.
To be held February 2, 2006 at Bingemans Centre in Kitchener, “attendees will gain a better understanding of what OSI layers cable technicians can readily access and those levels they will be directly responsible for. The benefit of this program will be a better understanding of network…
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MONTREAL – Radio, specialty TV and pay TV certainly are good businesses to be in.
Astral Media continued its string of growing, glowing quarterly reports reporting strong revenue, EBITDA, cash flow, etc for the first quarter of fiscal 2006, ended November 30, 2005.
The company said today that consolidated revenues totaled $153.8 million for the first quarter, an increase of 10% over the same quarter last year. EBITDA for the first three months increased 15% to $48.7 million and cash flow from continuing operations rose 17% over q1 ’05 to $34.5 million.
" Astral Media continued to show solid…
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KELOWNA, B.C. – The Canadian CommTech Trade Show & Training Seminars supplier tables are now 40% sold out.
This brand new, much-anticipated two-day trade show and seminar series will take place at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna, B.C. on May 17 & 18. The full hotel and its facilities have been reserved due to the anticipation of this trade show being a sell-out.
It is anticipated that this greatly expanded trade show should attract approximately 40 to 50 technology, communications and outside plant suppliers from Canada and the U.S. Cable companies, telecommunications providers, sub-contractors and telcos will be…
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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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MONTREAL – The biography of Nathalie Simard, a former child star who was molested by a television broadcaster when she was a girl, will premier on Dec. 9 on video on demand for Vidéotron and Cogeco cable customers in Quebec.
The French-language program will be available for 99 cents. In January, it will be shown on the TVA network.
All proceeds from the airing of the documentary will go to the Nathalie Simard Foundation to counter pedophilia.
Directed by Yves Thériault, “Freed: Nathalie Simard’s Choice” follows Simard to the Ile d’Orléans near Quebec City, where she grew up, to the…
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