CANOE VENTURES IS hoping 2019 is the year where it begins to help build video on demand advertising together with BDUs and broadcasters into a $200 million marketplace.
The U.S. company (which is co-owned by MSOs Comcast, Cox Communications and Charter Communications) has been the driver behind huge success Stateside, where the VOD ad business is already a US$1 billion market. Canoe alone delivered 26 billion ad impressions in 2018 on 7,476 ad campaigns. It delivers VOD ads to 36 million American households for broadcast clients such as ABC, A+E, AMC, CBS, Discovery, MTV, NBC, Showtime, Univision and others.
Now,…
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GATINEAU – Stingray Radio’s proposed buy of Drumheller's CHOO-FM from Golden West Broadcasting is one of five applications that will be considered during a non-appearing CRTC hearing scheduled for May 16 at its headquarters in Gatineau.
The Commission said Tuesday that it will also consider three applications pertaining to French-language radio stations, as well as one from SiriusXM Canada seeking to amend two conditions of licence as part of the renewal of its broadcasting licence.
The deadline for interventions/comments/answers for all of the applications is April 11, 2019.
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FASCINATED BY TELEPHONES as a child, Dan Armstrong remembers thinking Bell Canada was “just the coolest thing in the world” and he marveled at how phones changed the world by allowing people to talk to each other anywhere.
Growing up in the Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton area, Armstrong’s family home backed onto a park where he and his friends would build forts. He figured out then that if he connected a phone receiver and a battery in series with another one on the other end, he could connect all the forts together so they could talk with each other.
Today,…
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FASCINÉ PAR LES TÉLÉPHONES dans son enfance, Dan Armstrong se souvient d’avoir pensé que Bell Canada était « le plus cool au monde » et s’émerveillait de voir comment le téléphone avait changé le monde en permettant aux gens de se parler n’importe où.
Ayant grandi à Toronto dans le quartier Younge et Eglington, la maison familiale des Armstrong donnait sur un parc où Dan et ses amis se construisaient des forts. Il avait réalisé que s’il connectait un téléphone et une batterie en série avec un autre au bout du fil, il pourrait connecter tous les forts et ils pourraient tous…
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BIDDING IS SET TO GET underway in Canada’s much anticipated 600 MHz spectrum auction. The 12 qualified bidders are Bell Mobility, Bragg Communications, Freedom Mobile, Iris Technologies, Novus Entertainment, Rogers Communications, Saskatchewan Telecommunications, SSi Micro – Consortium, TBayTel, TELUS Communications, Vidéotron and Xplornet Communications.
The 600 MHz band is designated for flexible use for mobile, fixed and broadcasting services. Canada has adopted the same band plan as the U.S., which began to auction off that band more than two years ago. The low-band spectrum is ideally suited for offering mobile services and it is one of…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is calling for comments on an application by three of the country’s big broadcasters seeking to amend their condition of licence requiring that all of their prime time programming be broadcast with described video by September 1st.
Described video is a narrated description of a program’s main visual elements, such as setting, costumes and body language, that helps to make television programming accessible for people with visual disabilities by allowing them to better understand what is occurring on the screen. The Commission has incrementally increased the availability of programming with described video in the Canadian broadcasting…
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TORONTO – Data On Tap Inc., the company behind fledgling wireless provider dotmobile, is giving a shout out to the CRTC and ISED for moves that they say pave the way for greater competition in Canada’s wireless market.
The company, profiled last month by Cartt.ca, said that it has secured its initial seed financing round that will help to establish dotmobile headquarters in Toronto next month, and with the launch of its Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) application in beta by this fall.
“Less than thirty days after our brand concept launch, we are happy to announce that we’ve secured our initial seed investment”,…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – The CRTC is joining forces with Canada's big public and private-sector broadcasters in an effort to help more women to play leading roles in the Canadian film and television production industry.
On Friday, also International Women’s Day, the Commission shared some details from its recent Women in Production Summit held last December. In addition to CRTC chair Ian Scott and broadcasting vice-chair Dr. Caroline Simard, attendees included Rick Brace, president, Rogers Media; France Lauzière, president and CEO of TVA Group Inc.; Randy Lennox, president, Bell Media; Doug Murphy, president and CEO, Corus Entertainment; Josh Scherba, president, DHX…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC issued more determinations on next-generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) network design efficiencies Thursday as it moves to connect Canadians will new and improved emergency services with Internet Protocol-based capabilities.
Specifically, the Commission set out the roles and responsibilities with respect to the Location Information Server / Additional Data Repository (LIS/ADR) functionalities and its NG9-1-1 interconnection framework. The decision also imposes various obligations on telecommunications service providers and incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), including small ILECs, so that all Canadians will benefit from the same quality of NG9-1-1 networks.
Lastly, the CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee was directed to make…
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FORMER CRTC CHAIR Konrad von Finckenstein has some advice for Innovation, Science and Economic Development minister Navdeep Bains: Drop the facilities-based competition principle when the proposed policy directive to the CRTC, announced last week, is finalized.
Writing for the CD Howe Institute, von Finckenstein told Bains in a memo dated Wednesday, March 6: “Adherence to the policy of facilities-based competition (where companies each own their hardware and networks) in order not to discourage investment in infrastructure by established telecom companies, as they claim, is no longer sustainable.”
He continued: “It is hard to comprehend how much the…
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