MONTREAL – Stingray has named former Rogers and Vice Media exec David Purdy as its new chief revenue officer.
Purdy (pictured) comes to Stingray from Vice Media where he was chief international growth officer, instrumental in the launch and worldwide expansion of the Viceland TV channel. He also held various senior roles over a 15-year career at Rogers Communications, plus was involved with the launch of Canadian specialty channels Sportsnet, OLN, Discovery Channel Canada, and The Comedy Network.
In his new role, Purdy will oversee all aspects of Stingray’s revenue expansion including its advertising and sales efforts.
“When we decided to create the position of…
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OTTAWA – The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications has released its report on the deductibility of foreign internet advertising.
Aptly named The Tax Deductibility of Foreign Internet Advertising in Canada, the report comes on the heels of hearings held in May and June where the Senate Committee heard from 13 individuals or groups. The issue was brought to light by a study undertaken by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting called Closing the Loophole which proposes that the definition of ‘broadcasting’ be amended to ensure non-Canadian online companies cannot benefit from this corporate tax incentive which was intended to help…
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LAST WEEK, CARTT.CA's Greg O’Brien published an edited version of a presentation he gave as a “provocateur” at a roundtable session about the future of Canadian television production at Ryerson University. The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) was, in the best spirit of intellectual engagement and discussion, indeed provoked!
To begin with, the WGC wholeheartedly agrees with O’Brien’s acknowledgement that Canadian film and television production is an important driver of economic activity in Canada. We also agree that the Canadian creative industries need and deserve government support in order to survive and thrive. And we particularly…
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“A once-in-a-lifetime chance to change the buyer-beware culture”
OTTAWA – The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is making it easier for both consumers as well as current and former employees of telecom companies to share their tales of telecom sales practices with the CRTC.
With less than two weeks until the Commission’s August 30 deadline for comments, the consumer organization released two 'how-to’ documents – one entitled What Consumers Need to Know and the other called What Telecommunication Company Employees Need To Know – to help ease the process.
“In our lengthy experience with Canada’s telecommunications market, we believe the CRTC…
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TORONTO – Registration is now open for the Canada Media Fund (CMF) cross-country consultations that it says will help to shape its policy and future programs.
The process will comprise a number of components, including focus groups in 18 cities, in all provinces and territories, as well as a series of industry working groups. The first focus group is scheduled for September 10 in Moncton (en Francais) and the last will take place October 25 in Whitehorse. Each session will last between two to three hours and registration is available here.
All CMF stakeholders will have an opportunity to consider…
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I THINK YOUR SUGGESTION that the cultural industries should be funded entirely from the treasury, like the army, and eliminate all levies or similar measures creates worrying problems.
I don’t know where tax credits fit into this model. I do not believe that Canadians would revolt over a modest ISP tax that funded Cancon, especially if “revenue neutral” as the CRTC proposes.
Would Canadians be willing to pay more to have a country, or not, whether the funding is coming from general taxes or dedicated taxes or levies?
As you point out, that general tax funding would be…
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TORONTO – All four of Canada's English-language network broadcasters will once again simultaneously air a Canadian-inclusive Stand Up To Cancer special next month.
For the third time, Stand Up To Cancer Canada will simultaneously broadcast a Canada-inclusive telecast across CBC, Citytv, CTV, and Global, as well as Canadian services AMI, A.Side, BBC Earth, CHCH, CHEK, Cottage Life, Fight Network, Game TV, HIFI, Hollywood Suite, Love Nature, Makeful, NTV, OUTtv, Smithsonian Channel Canada, T+E, YES TV, in addition to streaming live on the CBC TV App, cbc.ca/watch, CBS All Access, CTV GO and CTV.ca, Global GO and GlobalTV.com, and available on-demand on Telus…
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I WOULD IMAGINE a large percentage of Cartt.ca readers own a car of some sort.
So, why did you buy yours? Transportation, right? Gotta get from A to B, and C, D, F… What, though, did you need it to have? My own car needed to be the family truckster, except far less ugly than Clark Griswold’s. I needed space, decent mileage, reasonable price and it had to not be a minivan or SUV. I bought my Toyota Venza new. It’s nearly nine years old now and I have been very happy with it.
This is not a Toyota advertisement, however.
What…
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TORONTO — Data centre and connectivity services provider TeraGo experienced growth in its cloud and colocation business in the second quarter of 2018, but saw an overall decrease in revenues due to the weaker performance of its connectivity division.
The company’s total revenues decreased 1.5% to $13.7 million for the second quarter of 2018, compared to $13.9 million for the same quarter of 2017. Revenues generated by its connectivity services business decreased 4.2% to $8.8 million in Q2 2018, compared to the division’s Q2 2017 revenues of $9.2 million. Connectivity revenues were impacted by a variety of factors, including churn…
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OTTAWA — Canada’s largest, vertically integrated BDUs have a little over a year to start providing set-top box data to a national STB-based audience measurement system — a new condition of licence imposed by the CRTC when it announced August 2 the collective renewal of soon-to-expire licences for various terrestrial BDUs.
As it renews their respective licences for a new term starting September 1, 2018, the CRTC is imposing a condition of licence on Bell, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron that will require them to provide the set-top box (STB) data they collect regarding programming services they distribute to a national…
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