TORONTO – Saying it will launch in both Edmonton and Ottawa next month, Wind Mobile, the country’s newest national wireless provider – announced today the launch of a hiring campaign to recruit both full-time and part-time employees in both cities.
Available positions include: store managers, assistant store managers and sales associates. An open house session will take place at the Westgate Shopping Centre on Ottawa Thursday, January 21st, from 1 to 9 p.m.
Wind (better known so far as its parent company, Globalive) launched its service in December in Toronto and Calgary after battling incumbents and the CRTC for the right…
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OTTAWA – As it awaits its turn in front of the CRTC next month, Mediadenovo said that it has devised a way to provide an additional layer of funding for the beleagured Canadian TV broadcasting system.
Through an expansion of its commercial insertion system (CIS), the company said that it could offer new program rights protection measures to Canadian broadcasters by allowing them to work with BDUs to jointly develop non-simultaneous substitution (NSS) for Canadian program rights.
For broadcasters who own Canadian program rights, this would provide an opportunity to support NSS by offering a way to insert commercials in both…
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CLIFFORD, ON – Wightman Telecom appears to be gearing up for expansion.
As the independent telco readies its video-on-demand launch scheduled for early this year, it has asked the CRTC to expand the area that it is currently authorized to serve to include the entire province of Ontario.
Wightman offers broadcast services in ten markets, though its current VOD authorization only covers six – Clifford, Teeswater, Mildmay, Neustadt, Gorrie and Ayton, ON.
In its application, the company outlines plans to expand services beyond these markets over the next few years.
Interventions or comments are due by February 16, 2010.
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OTTAWA – CACTUS wants to rally Canadians to “take back” their local community channels from cable companies.
The Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) says that there “are virtually no true community channels left since the cable companies started to ‘professionalize’ them more than 10 years ago”, and is encouraging consumers to demand that CRTC hand back control when it undertakes a review of community TV in April.
The group has published a free guide to the forthcoming review, and is urging consumers to share their views about community TV, including their hopes for its…
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THUNDER BAY, ON – Thunder Bay’s TV station CHFD-TV has told the CRTC that it plans to drop its affiliation with CTV to become an independent station aligned with CTV rival Canwest Global.
After more than 37 years as a CTV affiliate, CHFD-TV said in its application that is unable to negotiate a new program supply agreement with the national network after its previous one expired last August.
At issue is a new agreement on national commercial inventory. In documents filed with the CRTC in November, CHFD-TV said that CTV’s new proposed agreement would reduce its revenue by approximately 45% “therefore…
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VANCOUVER – Most Canadians expect that cell phone prices will drop this year now that the country has a fourth major wireless company, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.
More than half of respondents (53%) say that Canada is one of the most expensive countries to use a cell phone – including more than 60% of those in British Columbia and Alberta, while one-in-four (24%) believe the country is “slightly” more expensive than others.
In an on-line survey of a representative national sample Canadian adults, 72% of respondents said that the decision to allow Globalive’s Wind Mobile to operate in Canada…
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I BELIEVE IN LOCAL NEWS. I have been producing it all my career.
From my student paper, to the community weekly newspapers I’ve worked at, to the various trade magazines and web sites which have employed me, they have all been, in a way, strictly local news.
Friends and acquaintances sometimes think of me as a new media guru of sorts, that because I run a news service which is distributed online only, I know something they don’t. The truth is I’m not doing anything now I wasn’t doing back in 1989 when I was a sports writer for the Ontarion,…
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WHEN IT COMES to the billions of dollars Canadians pay for television every year, the main numbers which are poured into everyone’s spreadsheets for regulatory analysis are basically the same.
Thanks to the public documents available through the CRTC or via the companies which are publicly traded, the folks in the TV biz have a pretty good sense of how much money consumers willingly fork over (or which is pried from our bank accounts, depending on your point of view) for television, our primary form of video entertainment, and how it is divided.
But once dumped into those spread sheets, those…
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OTTAWA – Add the Canadian Association of Internet Providers to the list of organizations unhappy with the government’s decision not to overturn the CRTC’s decision on broadband competition.
CAIP says it is “profoundly disappointed”, and questioned whether the Federal Cabinet understands “that competition, innovation and choice for consumers hinges upon fair and equitable access to telecommunications infrastructure by competitors".
"To grow and flourish in a manner that benefits Canadians, the competitive Internet industry needs continued regulatory oversight of wholesale services", said CAIP chair Tom Copeland, in a statement. "Without this oversight Canada will continue to have only two dominant sources of Internet…
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OTTAWA – The Federal Cabinet has missed “an important opportunity to promote competition and innovation in Canada”, according to MTS Allstream.
By refusing to vary the CRTC’s "essential facilities" decision as it relates to local broadband network inputs, MTS Allstream said the Federal Government has “ignored the clear concerns” of thousands of Canadian consumers and businesses.
“This decision is a setback for Canadian consumers and businesses”, said CCO Chris Peirce, in a statement. “By refusing to act immediately to provide reasonable access to essential broadband network components, the Federal Government has further delayed vigorous competition in broadband and has stepped back…
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