OTTAWA – Quebecor doesn't mince words in its complaint against the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund: "The decisions made by the board of directors of the Bell Fund in regard to three projects submitted in 2013 and set to be broadcast on TVA channels were not made in an objective manner and were discriminatory against TVA."
In a letter to the CRTC dated February 5 and made public on Monday, Quebecor's regulatory affairs director Peggy Tabet argues that the fund's decisions to refuse the three projects were made for "non-justified reasons" and concludes that they were made in a…
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GATINEAU – We're about a month away from all Canadian television distributors being required to make all Canadian national news channels available to all of their subscribers, but one seemingly basic question remains unanswered: Will Sun News Network be made available on analog cable?
Two months after the CRTC issued an order requiring that Sun News and the four other Category C national news channels be made available to subscribers of "all licensed distribution undertakings", there doesn't seem to be a consensus on this question.
The order and accompanying decision don't include the word "analog" at…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Data Services announced Thursday that Timmins, Ont.-based gold mining company Lake Shore Gold has signed on as a client and will move part of its IT infrastructure to a private cloud managed by Cogeco Data Services.
With five data centres in Canada, the company’s utility-based IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) model cloud infrastructure services are hosted at its tier 3 quality data centres which are connected by Cogeco Data Services extensive network.
“Although our traditional IT setup was still doing its job, our proactive move to a dedicated Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution made a lot of business sense,”…
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OTTAWA – Canadian Women in Communications (CWC) announced a new name and logo change on Wednesday. It will now be known as Canadian Women in Communications and Technology (WCT) to better reflect its enlarged mandate to help bridge gaps for women to be more successful participants and leaders in Canada’s burgeoning digital economy.
“We’re delighted by the new opportunities for growth and development this presents for everyone involved with Canadian Women in Communications and Technology,” said Joanne Stanley, executive director, in a release. “Adding technology brings interdependence and convergence between two sectors: content and creativity; and information and communications technology…
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TORONTO – CHCH TV and Cogeco Cable announced Tuesday they are now offering advertisers the ability to customize their message to viewers according to their geolocation.
The broadcasters are using the Advatar addressable advertising platform from Invidi Technologies Corp. which supports geo-specific delivery. Cogeco and CHCH have also collaborated with software distributor Capital Networks Limited, which is managing the ad insertion operation for the Advatar platform.
“Cogeco is proud to be the first Canadian cable distributor to support television advertising by geolocation,” said Jean-Pierre Caveen, Cogeco’s VP of affiliate, partner and carrier relations, in a release. “This new and more efficient…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment announced Friday it is offering a free preview during of its Cartoon Network to subscribers of Bell, TELUS, Cogeco, MTS, Sasktel and other satellite and cable providers until March 3, 2014.
The company’s Teletoon network will also feature a special block of Cartoon Network of live-action and animated programing every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET/PT that includes Adventure Time, Regular Show, Uncle Grandpa, Steven Universe, Incredible Crew, and MAD: The Animated Series.
The Cartoon Network’s Annual Hall of Game Awards will be simulcast on Teletoon and the Cartoon Network on February 25 at…
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GATINEAU – A complaint before the CRTC accuses a big Canadian TV broadcaster of behaving poorly by giving itself an undue preference by outright refusing to air advertising from a radio competitor.
The culprit? The CBC.
Leclerc Communication, which bought Quebec City radio stations CJEC-FM (WKND 91.9) and CFEL-FM (CKOI 102.1) from Cogeco when the latter acquired Corus Quebec stations in 2011, says that it has tried and failed to buy local advertising on Radio-Canada's Quebec City television station because of a policy the public broadcaster has to refuse advertising to competitors.
"We believe that it's imperative to promote WKND 91.9 on…
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TORONTO – Attention budding fashionistas: GameTV is bringing fashion-forward reality competition The Fashion Fund to Canada next week, complete with celebrity judges Anna Wintour and Diane Von Furstenberg.
Starting February 13 at 8:00 PM ET/PT, The Fashion Fund follows ten aspiring fashion designers vying for the chance to be named the 2013 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winner. The series takes audiences behind the catwalk and showroom floor, sits in on studio visits and a Vogue fashion photo shoot, and culminates with a presentation at NYC Fashion Week and the announcement of the winner.
The designers are judged and given feedback by the…
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MONTREAL – When most CEOs make a speech to a body like the Montreal Board of Trade, it’s usually to sing the praises of their own company – or to demand something be done by government to alter this or that within their own market or industry.
Rare is the CEO to come right out and make a strong political stand, but Cogeco CEO Louis Audet did just that Wednesday afternoon, attacking the provincial government for its actions (and inaction) and challenging business leaders to grab the bull by the horns and help drag the province into the future –…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – The Cogeco Program Development Fund invested $3.89 million in 39 drama projects in development and production last year, according to its 2012-2013 Annual Report.
The independent, private fund encourages the development and the production of new Canadian drama by Canadian writers to be produced by independent Canadian producers, in English or French, or (preferably) in both languages.
In total, the Cogeco Fund has invested over $41 million in more than 700 projects since its inception in 1992.
www.cogecofund.ca
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