GATINEAU – The CRTC today granted a license for a new FM radio station in Pembroke, Ont., which is about 140 kms northwest of Ottawa, to My Broadcasting Corp.
“We’re very excited to bring a fresh new sound to the air in Pembroke and Petawawa” said co-owner Jon Pole in a press release this morning. “It’s great to see the continued support of the CRTC for independent broadcasters.”
The new adult contemporary format station will broadcast at 104.9 FM with a direct focus and commitment to the community.
“Our formula for providing local news first, three-day valley weather, and Today’s…
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GATINEAU – Full marks for decision speed on this one as Telus today received its broadcast distribution undertaking license.
The hearing on the license was on June 6th.
The license is for the following regions: Rimouski, Saint-Georges, Sept-Îles, Baie-Comeau, Gaspé, Montmagny and Sainte-Marie, and their surrounding areas – the same wired coverage regions of the company’s regional telephone division, Telus Quebec (once known as Quebectel).
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GATINEAU – A report on street gangs which aired on Tele-Quebec in January was not abusive, despite the use of the term “nigger gangs”, but was contrary to Broadcasting Act objectives, the CRTC ruled yesterday.
On January 9th 2005, the Commission received a complaint from a viewer over the comment made during public affairs program Les Francs-tireurs, broadcast by the Société de télédiffusion du Québec (Télé-Québec, the Quebec provincial broadcaster). “The complainant alleged that the use of the expression " nigger gangs" was abusive and racist,” says the Commission’s decision yesterday.
The CRTC dealt with the complaint because Télé-Québec…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC will hear applications for four new English category two digital specialty channels in October.
Michael Garrow, owner of the Fight Network (which is scheduled to launch this fall) has applied for The Wagering Network, which will consist of programming dedicated to all aspects of the gaming world in Canada and abroad. It will carry no live event sports – and sports highlights will comprise no more than 10% of its programming schedule, says the application.
Alliance Atlantis has asked for two licenses. Its History Television channel wants a license for Military Television, which will be…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC will hold a hearing October 3rd in Charlottetown, to consider nine radio license applications, among other items.
In January, the Commission issued a call for applications for Charlottetown, and ended up with five, as outlined below. Two are AM-to-FM conversions, the others for new stations. All are for English stations. Charlottetown is currently served by five stations (two of which are CBC) and its population (including the immediate surrounding area) is just over 58,000, according to Statistics Canada.
Maritime Broadcasting System Limited has asked to convert CFCY 630 Charlottetown from the AM band to the…
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TORONTO – A survey released today done on behalf of Bell Canada, Aliant, Sasktel, Télébec and Telus says that Canadians want their incumbent telephone companies to be free of regulation when it comes to offering voice over Internet protocol telephony.
“Ninety-four percent agree that all VOIP service providers, including established telephone companies like Bell Canada, Aliant, SaskTel, Télébec, and Telus, should be subject to the same regulatory rules (38% believe this strongly),” says Wednesday’s press release on the survey done by Ipsos-Reid.
Furthermore: • Three-quarters believe traditional telephone companies should be allowed to compete and offer lower prices for…
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OTTAWA – All the regional telcos used to work together to lobby the government like this under the old Stentor Alliance – an working group that was disbanded years ago when they all decided to compete with one another.
Today, the remaining former Stentor members (with one notable exception) held a joint press conference to make official their appeal to Federal Cabinet over the CRTC’s voice over Internet protocol decision.
The decision, as reported on numerous occasions by www.cartt.ca, says that incumbent telcos have to abide by existing telecom regulations in the way of win-back rules, tariff applications, and…
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OTTAWA – There are just under 40 independent telephone companies left in Canada – little telcos that for one reason or another, were never swallowed up by Bell Canada.
All of them, save one, are in Bell’s Ontario or Quebec territory. Of those, there are six which are owned by municipalities: Bruce Municipal Telephone System, Cochrane Public Utilities Commission, Dryden Municipal Telephone System, Kenora Municipal Telephone System, The Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay – Telephone Division, all in Ontario, and Prince Rupert City Telephone, in British Columbia.
This week, the Department of Canadian Heritage closed a comments…
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DARTMOUTH, N.S. – In announcing his company’s second quarter results Wednesday, Newfoundland Capital Corporation president and CEO Rob Steele said the company will continue to set its sights on more acquisitions going forward.
"We are diligently investing resources in growing this company by focusing on acquiring assets in underserved markets across the country,” said Steele. “The first half of this year has met our objectives, not only in terms of operating results, but also in terms of the success we have had with acquisitions, their integration into our operations and the granting of new licences.”
NCC (better-known as Newcap…
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AYLMER, ON – Amtelecom Income Fund, whose primary asset is cable and telco Amtelecom Communications, reported second quarter results which were near exactly the same as last year’s Q2.
For the second quarter of 2005, ended June 30th, 2005, the Fund generated total revenues of $6.1 million, earnings before interest, taxes and amortization (EBITDA) of $2.9 million and net earnings of $1.3 million ($0.22 per unit).
Last year’s Q2 was almost identical as revenues were $6.1 million, EBITDA was $2.9 million and net earnings came in at $1.1 million.
For the six month period ending June 30, 2005, the…
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