DARTMOUTH, NS – Newfoundland Capital Corporation recorded a 148% increase in profits for 2013, while revenues rose by 3%.
The radio broadcaster said there were several factors impacting profit year-over-year which at $27.0 million was $16.1 million higher than 2012. The company recognized a gain on disposal of its operation is Fort McMurray, AB station, benefited from lower mark-to-market unrealized losses in addition to a $5.3 million reduction of the income tax provision. In contrast during 2012, the company recorded a net impairment charge of $6.6 million, and $2.2 million of mark-to-market unrealized losses which negatively impacted profit.
Revenue for the…
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TORONTO – The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television will posthumously award Alan Sawyer the Digital Media Trailblazing Award for outstanding achievement in Canadian digital media. The award will be presented Tuesday evening at the Canadian Screen Awards’ television and digital media awards show in Toronto.
As an Emmy-Award winning transmedia-storytelling consultant and content creator, Sawyer (pictured) was at the forefront of merging Canadian digital and conventional platforms. Always curious, he questioned the conventional way of doing things and was intrigued with the implications of emerging media on Canadian content and broadcasting policy. He worked with the CRTC, funding agencies…
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada chief executive Hubert Lacroix shot back at those who think the public broadcaster should only be to Canadians what the privates are not.
“I do not believe that the answer is to become some kind of niche broadcaster limited to only doing what private broadcasters will not do or have no business incentive to do. No other public broadcaster in the world is put in that kind of a box,” he said during an appearance before the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications this week.
Lacroix was responding to statements made by both the Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Some would-be Montreal television producers have had it with Vidéotron's community television service in the city, so much so that they have filed a complaint with the CRTC and are demanding that the cable provider give them $23 million a year so they can create their own community channel.
The group, composed mainly of people whose resumes include Concordia University Television or CKUT Radio McGill, alleges that MAtv, the French-language community channel run by Vidéotron, airs no community access programming whatsoever, despite CRTC policy (set in 2010) requiring that 45% of programming aired on…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC on Friday fined four telemarketers a total of $38,000 for various violations to the country’s telemarketing rules.
Lev Olevson, carrying on business as Capital Windows and Doors and Advantage Pro, was fined $8,000 for initiating telemarketing telecommunications to consumers whose numbers were registered on the national do not call list (DNCL), for doing so when he was not a registered subscriber of the national DNCL, and had not paid all applicable fees to the national DNCL operator.
Advantage Pro Portes et Fenêtres was fined $6,000 for initiating telemarketing telecommunications to consumers whose telecommunications numbers were…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is calling for comments on amendments to certain rules pertaining to the implementation of the national emergency alerting system.
The Commission said Thursday that the rules in question relate to the Radio Regulations, 1986, the Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987, the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations, the standard conditions of licence for video-on-demand undertakings, and exemption orders governing the operation of certain types of undertakings.
The proposed amendments would implement the mandatory distribution of emergency alert messages by December 31, 2014, thereby ensuring that Canadians receive timely warnings of imminent perils. The Commission also wants input on certain policy considerations…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is calling for comments on amendments to its regulations around standard non-disclosure clauses and the auditing of subscriber information.
The Commission said Tuesday that the amendments would require licensed broadcasting undertakings engaged in a distribution arrangement or entering into carriage negotiations to sign agreements that include safeguards against the misuse of competitively sensitive information, thus providing a conducive environment for the negotiation of reasonable terms for the distribution, packaging and retailing of programming services.
A further amendment would introduce changes to the Commission’s audit requirements to clarify how audits of subscriber information held by broadcasting distribution undertakings…
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OTTAWA – The second phase of the CRTC’s Let’s Talk TV process kicked off last week, and chairman Jean-Pierre Blais expects to see a more comprehensive conversation happen with Canadians on want they want from their television.
In an interview with Cartt.ca at the CMPA’s annual Prime Time event in Ottawa, he described this next stage as “a reconcile phase” where Canadians will be able to square their comments in the initial phase with a broader view on the television system. Blais expressed hope that the vignettes in the Choicebook launched Tuesday “will trigger a broader…
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OTTAWA – Integrating digital and traditional television platforms, leveraging international financing, and giving consumers choice in their TV services. These were some of the major themes explored during the first panel session at the Canadian Media Production Association’s annual Prime Time event in Ottawa which featured executives from the production, distribution, and programming sectors, all of whom have their own, often differing, views on what needs to be done to the system.
It was agreed, though, that the broadcasting sector must take a longer term view and decide where it wants to be in three to five years, rather than…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC wants to hear from Canadians on the state of competition in the wholesale mobile wireless services market.
The Commission kicked off a public consultation Thursday to review whether the wholesale mobile wireless services market is sufficiently competitive, both now and in the future. The Regulator also said that it will hold a public hearing on the matter beginning on September 29, 2014, in Gatineau.
Specifically, the CRTC is inviting comments on:
the state of the market for wholesale mobile wireless services, including wholesale roaming and wholesale tower sharing in Canada;
the impact that the wholesale mobile wireless services…
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