NEW YORK – Dome Productions senior vice-president and general manager Mary Ellen Carlyle will be one of 10 inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame this December in New York.
“Each of this year’s inductees exemplifies the leadership, vision, and professionalism that make the sports-TV and -production community so important to the rest of the sports industry,” said Hall of Fame chairman Ken Aagaard, in a press release.
Carlyle (pictured) has been with Dome Productions for 30 years, first producing sports – and has been instrumental in a number of innovations, including the move to HD, UHD, 4K and the…
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ON AUGUST 7, THE Globe and Mail published an opinion piece by the University of Ottawa’s Michael Geist, entitled “Election 2019: Return of the Netflix tax debate”. The Writers Guild of Canada has long differed with professor Geist on the subject of cultural policy, but in this case he not only reaches conclusions with which we strongly disagree, but gets a number of his facts wrong in the process.
First, Geist implies that the government convened the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel because a $500-million commitment from Netflix for production in Canada “failed to stem…
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MONTREAL – Second quarter revenues for Quebecor came in at $1.06 billion, up 1.8% for the same quarter of 2018 after the company added 38,300 new wireless subscribers.
Adjusted EBITDA for the period ended June 30th was $455 million, up 6.8% and net income attributable to shareholders was $140.2 million in the quarter, well ahead of last year’s $42 million.
Cable and wireless division Vidéotron significantly increased its revenues from mobile telephony by 11.9% and Internet access by 2.6% in the second quarter of 2019. Vidéotron's total average billing per unit ("ABPU") was $50.20 in the second quarter of 2019, compared…
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TORONTO – Veteran producers Stephen Ellis and Clark Bunting have launched a new Canadian factual production house they’re calling BirdDog Media Ventures.
Based in Toronto, the company was created to “capitalize on the ongoing factual content explosion fueled by the increased competition among traditional channel players and online streaming services. The company has numerous series and specials already in development,” says the press release. It did not name any of them.
Stephen Ellis is best known for having led Ellis Entertainment, one of Canada’s largest producers of natural history content and longest operated indies. The company’s many titles included the…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund today announced it has hired Kelly Wilhelm to fill the newly created role of chief strategy officer.
Reporting directly and acting in an advisory capacity to CMMF president and CEO Valerie Creighton, Wilhelm is tasked with “contributing to setting the future trajectory of the CMF, with a specific focus on innovation through the lens of industry-wide disruption and opportunities for growth,” reads the press release.
“I had the pleasure of working closely with her during her time as senior policy advisor to the Minister of Canadian Heritage,” said Creighton in the release. “As we…
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OTTAWA – When the Competition Bureau started its broadband market study in May 2018, the assumption was that there was a lack of competition in the marketplace.
The Bureau, after all, doesn’t launch such an exercise if there is no perceived problem. As early as October, in an update, one could tell the Bureau had altered its outlook of the market.
“The results of this study paint a largely positive picture. Most Canadians are well-served by world class broadband networks, and the Bureau’s research shows that Canadians are generally satisfied with their internet service provider,” reads the Bureau’s 77-page…
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TORONTO – Kraft Heinz, TSN, and RDS are once again coming together to build better places to play across the country through Kraft Heinz Project Play.
From now until September 22, Canadians can nominate their local recreation project through Kraft Heinz Project Play for a chance to win local facility upgrades. The Grand Prize winner will receive $250,000 towards a recreational facility upgrade, and three second-prize winners will each receive $25,000.
If you watch TSN or RDS, you’ll see the promos for sure.
"We're thrilled to launch the return of Kraft Heinz Project Play, to ensure Canadians have access to the…
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Canadian Samsung, Huawei users experience some of the best speeds
NEW DATA RELEASED THIS morning by Opensignal shows Samsung smartphone users around the world are generally seeing the fastest downloads when it comes to the three largest smartphone manufacturers.
Samsung users experienced faster download speeds than Apple and Huawei users in 35% of countries, across 40 countries analyzed, according to the measurement and analytics company.
Among the three largest smartphone makers, Apple users were faster in 17.5% of countries. And in the remaining 48% none of the three were fastest although Huawei users were joint-fastest in seven countries.
Among some of the highlights…
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AUSTRALIAN LAWMAKERS look set to force the likes of Netflix, Amazon and other foreign streamers to abide by similar rules as its own TV companies, according to reports, including this one in the Wall Street Journal.
According to the report, its communications minister said the government will ask the streaming platforms to make more original Australian content and that legislation to force them to do so is possible before the end of this year.
“The free-to-air networks have an obligation to show a certain amount of Australian content. They’ve got to pay to…
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GATINEAU – Canada’s three largest wireless carriers aren’t going to meekly back away from the CRTC on this issue.
While they often grit their teeth and accept the cards the Commission deals, it seems Rogers, Telus and Bell are going to double down when it comes to 36-month device financing plans.
Friday, the Regulator told the carriers to pull those offers from the market and Rogers and Telus have told us they will comply for now (and also that it’s going to take a couple of days at least to do so). However, they are spoiling for…
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