NEWARK, N.J. — Amazon-owned Audible last week introduced Canadian Audible Originals, featuring premium podcasts, audio series and audiobooks created for Canadians.
These immersive content experiences feature a range of celebrated Canadian writers, storytellers, hosts, performers and industry leaders including Yannick Bisson, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, Catherine Hernandez, Robert J. Sawyer, Tanya Talaga, Jael Richardson, Andrew Pyper, and many more.
The first titles were released October 13 and more will be released monthly throughout 2020 and much of 2021, with more projects to be announced and released regularly in the future, says the Audible press release.
Audible.ca is currently offering The Revisionaries with Michele…
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Bell’s Oosterman to lead media group
MONTREAL — BCE announced today Bell group president and vice-chair Wade Oosterman will take over operational leadership of Bell Media in 2021 following the departure of Bell Media’s current president, Randy Lennox, on January 4.
“On behalf of everyone at Bell, I would like to thank Randy (above) for his leadership at Bell Media and his support of a smooth leadership transition in 2021,” said Mirko Bibic, president and CEO of BCE and Bell Canada, in a press release. “A renowned executive in Canadian music and media, Randy joined Bell Media in 2015 and has…
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By Catherine Tait
IN ANOTHER CRUEL TWIST of this pandemic, just when trusted local news has never been so important, its survival is in peril.
If there’s one thing this COVID crisis has shown us, it’s that accurate information can literally be a matter of life and death. And the most critical information is often the news that is closest to home: Is my child’s school safe? What businesses are open or closed in my community? Where can I get a COVID test? What can I do, safely, to support my parents in their retirement home?
Since this pandemic officially began in…
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From 18-year-old Canadian writer’s work
TORONTO – Kids media investor Shaw Rocket Fund along with Toronto’s global social storytelling platform Wattpad and noted production company Shaftesbury, today announced a new narrative podcast project.
The inaugural Shaw Rocket Fund Accelerator Writing Contest, co-sponsored by Wattpad, asked writers to create inclusive stories for Canadian teens with the goal of pairing an emerging creative writer with industry mentors needed to guide them throughout the creative process of creating a finished podcast. Shaftesbury will serve as the project’s first production partner and will lead the mentorship, working with 18-year-old winner Loridee De Villa across all…
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By Ken Kelley
A REPORT FROM TELCO AND CABLE industry supplier Innovative Systems shows Canadians eagerly embraced the return of sports television during the third quarter of 2020.
Data included in the U.S. company’s Canadian TV Channel Stats Q3 2020 report, which will be published in full next week, was captured from the viewing habits of 20,000 set top boxes running the firm’s middleware, the equivalent of nearly 30,000 people, assuming 1.5 viewers per set top box, across Ontario and the City of Vancouver.
While regional sports networks topped the overall ranking with 44.5 set top boxes per hour, the report shows…
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Digital service providers, within industries such as telecommunications, cloud and IT services, content and digital media, and technology providers, are forecast to increase private connectivity bandwidth by five times by 2023, primarily driven by greater demands from enterprises to close digital gaps at the edge.
That’s according to a new global report published by data centre operator Equinix (who recently bought 13 data centres from Bell for $1 billion).
The report also forecasts overall global interconnection bandwidth, the measure of private connectivity for the transfer of data between organizations, will achieve a 45% compound annual growth…
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OTTAWA — The federal government announced Tuesday Justice Luc Martineau (above) has been appointed as chair of the Copyright Board of Canada. The announcement was made by Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains.
Martineau’s five-year appointment as chair was effective October 2. In his new role, he will “help further realize reforms to the Board and eliminate backlogs in decision making to ensure a transparent and predictable marketplace,” reads the government’s press release.
Martineau was a lawyer for 24 years, eventually establishing his own firm in 1996, before being appointed judge of the Federal Court of Canada and…
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OTTAWA — Nokia announced today as part of its continued partnership with Area X.O (formerly known as the Ottawa L5 and led by Invest Ottawa) it will deploy 4.9G/LTE and 5G private wireless solutions and Nokia drone networks via Area X.O’s 5G Mobile Command Centre van (above) as part of a cross-Canada road trip.
The organizations are embarking on the tour to demonstrate to emergency responders and industry verticals how they can use private wireless “for increased situational awareness to aid in unsafe conditions and help prevent disasters,” reads the Nokia press release.
Backed by funding from the government of…
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OTTAWA — The Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) announced today CRTC chair and CEO Ian Scott and Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains are confirmed as keynote speakers for next month’s virtual Canadian ISP Summit.
Running from November 3 to 4, the virtual 2020 Canadian ISP Summit has as its theme “Navigating the New Normal”, and will feature keynote speeches, general session presentations and panel discussions, as well as a virtual trade show.
Scott is scheduled to speak on November 3 from 1:10 p.m. to 1:40 p.m. ET. Bains will speak on November 4 from 2 p.m. to…
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TORONTO — The new industry-wide initiative HireBIPOC.ca has already surpassed 2,300 members in its first week of operation, co-founding partner Bell Media announced today.
HireBIPOC.ca is a web portal which provides an online roster of Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) media and entertainment professionals who work as creatives and crew in Canada’s screen-based industries. When the web portal launched on October 5, it had 500 members signed up.
“We are inspired and heartened by the feedback and response we have received from the Black, Indigenous, and people of colour creative community, the industry, and the public. The…
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