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/A Network will become CTV Two this Fall
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NOW WE KNOW WHAT happens when you try to combine an ideology that says big business is all-bad with sets of inaccurate data to try and make recommendations on fostering Internet “openness”.
You end up with a rambling report (honestly, we stopped counting after 10,000 words, but the 44-second video about the report is cute) chock full of conflicting messages and untenable ideas. And that’s just what Internet advocacy group OpenMedia.ca has produced with its report “Casting an Open Net.”
Instead of a concise and well-researched case against usage-based billing (UBB) that could have sparked a constructive debate between OpenMedia.ca…
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MONTREAL – Two of the country’s largest radio broadcasters are calling on the CRTC to make changes to its commercial radio policy.
After appearing in front of the Commission last week to week to reaffirm their respective compliance with the radio policy on French-language music content, Astral Radio and Cogeco Diffusion both suggested that the policy needs to be updated to reflect the shift in tastes and music listening habits of French-language listeners that are increasingly being to world and English-language music.
“An overall review has become all the more necessary because the radio industry is currently undergoing significant changes”, reads…
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THERE ARE NO WALLS at Corus Quay. Not even in the CEO, John Cassaday’s office. Anyone working there and not in a board room or studio can stand up, look across the building and see outside. It’s open and airy. Work spaces are flexible and unique. There’s a beach.
One of the design principles behind the building which has only been open about a year, is something Cassaday calls the “democratization of light” where “everybody has equal access to light, so there’s no floor-to-ceiling walls except for meeting rooms,” he said.
That principle, one could say, is in Corus’ blood nowadays….
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THERE ARE NO WALLS at Corus Quay. Not even in the CEO, John Cassaday’s office. Anyone working there and not in a board room or studio can stand up, look across the building and see outside. It’s open and airy. Work spaces are flexible and unique. There’s a beach.
One of the design principles behind the building which has only been open about a year, is something Cassaday calls the “democratization of light” where “everybody has equal access to light, so there’s no floor-to-ceiling walls except for meeting rooms,” he said.
That principle, one could say, is in Corus’ blood nowadays….
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MONTREAL, OTTAWA and TORONTO – Industry stakeholders seem pleased, perhaps even a little relieved, that the CRTC has opened a formal investigation into on-line broadcasting services in Canada.
Music service provider Stingray Digital called the Commission’s fact-finding mission “a very important first step” before deciding upon any regulation of the over-the-top programming services.
“The objective is to ensure that everyone offering services in Canada is playing on a level playing field”, said president and CEO Eric Boyko, in a statement. “For generations, the Canadian broadcast industry has evolved successfully from radio to television and now includes digital cable, DTH, IPTV and wireless…
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IN THE MIDST OF THE RECESSION, when big advertisers like carmakers were hardly spending and traditional media like television and newspapers were bearing the full brunt of the pullback, I remember a conversation I had with someone I’ll dub a new media “true believer”.
(This month, Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES is analyzing the myriad changes underway in television advertising. Three weeks ago, we found the appetite for new ways to reach consumers via the TV platform is growing rapidly. Two weeks ago we dove into the progress addressable ads are making (or not). Last week we analyzed interactive advertising,…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today asked Canadians what they think about “online broadcasting services,” and to provide it with data and information on the impact of the various over-the-top video options available to online Canadians.
(We bet many Canadians will obsess over what’s not available to them.)
“The digital environment is providing Canadians with more programming choices than ever before,” said Konrad von Finckenstein, chairman of the CRTC, in the press release. “Canadians have access to libraries of online content that can originate from anywhere in the world, and which can be watched on different screens. This fact-finding exercise will give us…
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DARTMOUTH – Newcap is selling its two Winnipeg-based radio stations to Evanov Radio Group subsidiary Dufferin Communications for $5.5 million.
The deal includes news station CKJS AM, K-Rock 100.7 (CHNK FM), and the new station CFJL 106.1 FM which is set to launch this summer.
"While we enjoyed being in Winnipeg, we have been unable to grow our presence in Manitoba and decided to redeploy our capital to other markets in Canada”, said president and CEO Rob Steele, in Thursday’s announcement. "We would like to thank all of our Winnipeg employees for their dedication and support over the years."
“Together, these three locally…
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COMMENTARY: OpenMedia.ca report a tangled mess
Astral, Cogeco call for overhaul of radio regs
“I’m not one who believes Netflix will be very damaging to our business”: Corus CEO John Cassaday
“I’m not one who believes Netflix will be very damaging to our business”: Corus CEO John Cassaday
Industry gives OTT fact-finding mission the thumbs up
TV Advertising Part IV — Commentary: Where is the real change? Will VOD ads be the new “it” tech?
Spurred on by industry, the Commission embarks on OTT video fact-finding month
Newcap sells Winnipeg radio stations to Evanov
