TORONTO – Pierre Karl Péladeau will be a featured player in less than two weeks at nextMEDIA, where he is scheduled to discuss content strategy and the launch of the new Canoe.TV in a presentation at the two-day conference.
“Canoe.ca has quickly become a leader in video content production and distribution,” said Mark Greenspan, director of digital media, Achilles Media Ltd., the show’s organizer.
Earlier this year, Canoe.ca launched a new video section, which gives users access to content from Sun Media newspapers, along with content from CP-AP, WatchMojo, Jokeroo.com, Source Media, Just for Laughs, Moment Factory, IBC (Reuters,…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today called for applications for new radio stations serving Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta.
The Commission received an application for new stations in each city and as is its policy, has opened the call to others.
The deadline to apply or otherwise respond is January 23.
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TORONTO – Broadcasters will take centre stage during one of the sessions at nextMEDIA, to be held in a couple of weeks in Toronto.
Globe and Mail columnist Mathew Ingram will moderate a panel that looks at the threats and opportunities coming out of the digital media space and examines the divergent strategies being adopted by Canadian and U.S. broadcasters in response to a changing business environment.
Ingram will be joined on stage by Leonard Brody, CEO of Vancouver-based Now Public, Jonathan Dube, Director of Digital Programming for CBC News, and Mark Lukasiewicz, Vice President, NBC News, Digital Media…
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WINNIPEG – The CRTC yesterday granted MTS Allstream’s request to deregulate the Portage la Prairie local phone market.
New rules came into effect in early April 2007 which allow an incumbent telecommunications carrier to apply to the CRTC for local telephone deregulation in the consumer market for any community in which customers can choose between at least three service providers having their own network infrastructure, one of which can be a wireless provider, and where the carrier meets specific quality of service indicators for six months.
“This decision will help MTS Allstream provide better service to customers, and will…
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OTTAWA – According to the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union, CanWest’s recently announced plans to centralize TV operations will leave it in breach of its broadcast licences.
CanWest said last month that it is consolidating most of its production work in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto over the next 18 months and will be laying off around 200 people.
CEP Canada today filed a complaint with the CRTC outlining what it believes is a series of breaches of both CanWest’s licences and the Broadcasting Act, if CanWest’s centralization plans go forward.
"We are calling on the CRTC to expedite…
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DARTMOUTH – If you want a direct look at how radio in Canada is still defying the naysayers who point to the medium’s imminent demise, take a close look at Newfoundland Capital Corporation, a company which (other than two small TV stations) is a pure radio play. The company has radio licenses in 68 communities.
It’s third quarter revenue growth was 11%, rising to $25.4 million at the end of September, 2007, as compared to last year’s Q3.
The rise in the quarter “was primarily due to organic growth,” says the release, “while year-to-date revenue grew by 8% to…
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By Laurel Hyatt OTTAWA – Rising copyright fees, onerous content regulations, declining youth listenership, and competition from the Internet and other digital media are just some of the things that may be keeping Canadian radio executives up at night. But there are a few positive developments, a group of top leaders said on Tuesday.
At a session of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention in Ottawa, radio leaders in a united front lamented the challenges the industry faces, including the “exploding copyright issues,” in the words of Elmer Hildebrand, president and CEO of Manitoba-based Golden West Broadcasting Ltd., who…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today called for new radio station license applications for Winnipeg.
It received an application for a broadcasting license to provide a commercial radio service to serve the Manitoba capital and it is standard policy to ask for additional applications.
The deadline to apply is January 16, 2008.
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OTTAWA – Fee-for-carriage is back and it’s not just on broadcasters’ wish lists in panel discussion here at the CAB Convention: the CRTC has announced it will re-consider the issue in its forthcoming review of policies for BDUs and specialty services, which has been pushed back from Feb. 4 to Apr. 7.
Just an hour before CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein reopened the matter, broadcasters raised it in a panel discussion on the future of television in Canada.
While the chairman did not specify what factors encouraged the Commission to reconsider FFC, given the regulator’s refusal to allow…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media announced today it will sell two multi-faith stations, commonly known as OMNI 10 and 11 to S-VOX, the owner of multi-faith and multicultural broadcaster VisionTV.
The deal provides that S-VOX Trust will purchase all of the assets of the CHNU-TV and CIIT-TV stations, operating in Vancouver and Winnipeg respectively. Rogers had agreed to sell the stations as part of its purchase of five CityTV stations. The transaction is subject to CRTC approval.
“This is a momentous event in our 20-year history as a Canadian independent broadcaster,” said S-VOX President and CEO Bill Roberts. “The addition…
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