OTTAWA – The CRTC today approved Bayshore Broadcasting’s application for a new radio station for Wasaga Beach, Ont.
The station will serve listeners aged 35 to 64 with a classic adult contemporary musical format that would feature a variety of pop, soft rock and oldies musical selections with a focus on songs from the 1960s to the 1980s, says the decision.
At 97.7 FM, the new station will be the Owen Sound-based company’s fifth.
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OTTAWA – The stream of licenses for category two digital specialty services geared at ethnic markets seems to know no end.
Today, the CRTC approved 10 more channels which say they will serve the Greek, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, South Asian and other communities.
Click here for the list.
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance announced this week that Nancy Friedman, founder and president of Telephone Doctor, will be the keynote speaker during its awards luncheon on Monday, September 18th.
Her company is a St. Louis-based international customer service and communication skills training firm and Friedman has appeared on shows like Oprah, The Today Show, CNN and Fox News and is one of the world’s leading experts on customer service. Friedman will share her famous Five Forbidden Phrases that customers never want to hear. "During her motivational, laugh out loud presentation, ‘Hell Hath No Fury Like…
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TORONTO – All that’s left are the regulators now.
The deadline for CHUM Limited shareholders to deposit their shares to Bell Globemedia under the terms of the purchase offer made in July came and went today and the two companies said BGM now owns approximately 6.71 million common shares, representing more than 99% of that class of shares, and approximately 21 million class B shares, representing more than 98%.
BCE/Torstar/Woodbridge/Teachers Pension plan-owned BGM made an offer to purchase radio and TV broadcaster CHUM, controlled by the Waters family, for $1.7 billion, paying $52.50 cash per common share and any…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has approved SaskTel’s application for a national general interest pay-per-view service.
The service would air mainly live sports, concerts, and other events, as well as pre-recorded sports and events, local programming, and adult programming. Up to 85% of programs would be live sports. Most programs would be in English, though French and third-language programming would be considered based on viewer demand.
As well, the commission has approved SaskTel’s application to run a free outlet for local expression, similar to a cable community channel, as part of its PPV offering. Less than 10% of its total…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC is considering requests from Videotron and Rogers Cable to add more foreign channels to the list of eligible satellite non-Canadian services that can be carried here on digital.
The commission is calling for comments on the proposed addition of seven services, described below from the cablecos’ proposals.
From Videotron:
* XXL, a service from France, entirely in the French language and offering adult content, mainly erotic films, series, and magazine programs programmed in a four-hour block that is repeated throughout the broadcast day, seven days a week.
From Rogers:
* De Pelicula Channel, a niche…
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OTTAWA – Seven out of 10 Canadians don’t want the incumbent telephone companies to set their own prices for local phone service, according to a new survey conducted by a consumer watchdog group opposing telephone deregulation.
The survey asked 1,200 Canadians if they agreed with the statement, “My local telephone company should be able to charge what it wants for monthly local telephone rates without having them approved as reasonable by the CRTC.” Four percent strongly agreed, and 16% agreed. But 36% disagreed and another 36% strongly disagreed. (Seven percent had no opinion, and 2% either didn’t know or…
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GATINEAU – Approvals of new Category 2 ethnic digital TV channels are coming fast and furious, as the CRTC today approved 10 more networks today, having announced 10 new licences yesterday.
The latest to be approved are Hebrew TV, Jamaican TV, Korean TV, Filipino TV, Russian TV, and Chinese TV (all from the Canadian Ethnic Broadcasting Corporation), Channel Punjabi and Music India Television (from Surjit S. Gill, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated), Mehfil TV (from Jaswinder Khosa, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated), and Jyot TV (from Davinder Jhattu, on behalf of a…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today announced the approval of 10 new Category 2 third-language digital TV channels.
The commission has approved Music Television Español, Spanish Sports TV1, Spanish Sports TV2, Spanish Entertainment TV 1, Spanish Entertainment TV 2, Italian Entertainment TV (all from Telelatino Network Inc.), FLS Movie Channel (from Fairchild Television Ltd.), and Venus TV—Indian Pop Music, Venus TV—Punjabi Pakistani, and Venus TV—Sikh Culture and Religion (all from Golden Tunes Productions Inc.)
Music Television Español would be devoted to the Spanish-speaking community, airing music-related programming such as videos, concerts, performances, movies, and artist interviews. It would broadcast not…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media has applied to start its own pay audio service to compete with Galaxie and Max Trax.
In its application to the CRTC, Rogers proposes to operate a pay audio service with at least 30 channels, available through the digital set-top box, providing commercial-free music in a variety of formats, similar to the existing services.
If approved, and the service is carried by Rogers Cable, the cableco would have to carry a third-party pay audio service because of the affiliation, Rogers noted in its application.
The Rogers Media application did not make a clear case for…
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