Supporting partners include Netflix, CMPA and Creative BC
VANCOUVER — Screenwriters in BC can now apply to be accepted into a new training course offered by the Pacific Screenwriting Program, a brand new initiative launched today by organizations and leaders from across BC’s media production sector.
The Pacific Screenwriting Program is being billed as an intensive training ground that will provide support and career-advancement opportunities for active and aspiring screenwriters from BC. The program was created with the financial support of Netflix, Creative BC and the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA). In addition, the Writers Guild of Canada provided strategic guidance…
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MONTREAL — Stingray is growing again, announcing on Wednesday it is acquiring Toronto-based Novramedia, a leader in the design, development and implementation of digital media solutions.
Founded in 2006, Novramedia manufactures and develops software and hardware, and employs a talented in-house creative and content development team, resulting in turnkey digital media solutions. Novramedia serves a range of client industries, including the finance, retail, hospitality and healthcare sectors. Some of Novramedia’s financial and retail clients include BMO, Scotiabank, Joe Fresh and CF Toronto Eaton Centre.
Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, Stingray will fully own and operate Novramedia with the continued…
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TORONTO – The Canadian wireless market is about to face disruption akin to what T-Mobile wrought in the U.S., which will come as good news for Canadian consumers looking for much more data at a far lower price. The news likely won’t be so good for the likes of Rogers, Bell and Telus, who will have to respond.
Today, Shaw Communications’ Freedom Mobile will unveil a new ad campaign (TV, radio, outdoor, digital, social…) fronted by Canadian comedy star Will Arnett which takes dead aim at the complaints so many Canadians make daily – that their wireless bills are too…
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Roadshow to inform recommendations for broadcasting and telecom legislative review
OTTAWA — The Canadian Media Producers Association is embarking on a national roadshow to garner feedback from its members on how the federal government can best update legislation to support domestic TV, movie and digital content production. CMPA kicked off its nine-city “listening tour” in Halifax on Monday.
CMPA launched the coast-to-coast roadshow in response to the government’s review of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts announced in June. Through the tour, CMPA leadership will consult widely with the association’s members, with sessions scheduled during the next four weeks in Halifax, St….
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OTTAWA –The responses filed to ISED’s consultations on the 3500 MHz and 3800 MHz band pit incumbent fixed wireless service providers against mobile operators eager to deploy 5G services. The terrestrial operators, however, face opposition from satellite operators eager to protect the C-band. Caught up in the cross-fire are customers and communities who are reliant on existing services – both terrestrial and satellite.
Comments by a number of parties have been posted in response to Gazette Notice SLPB-004-18 — Consultation on Revisions to the 3500 MHz Band to Accommodate Flexible Use and Preliminary Consultation on Changes to the…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) is gearing up for a series of cross-country consultations this fall to gather feedback from stakeholders that it will use to help to shape its policy and future programs.
The process will include 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, and a preliminary schedule of the other events is available here.
All CMF stakeholders will have an opportunity to consider how significant shifts in content consumption habits, rapidly-evolving market conditions, as…
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HALIFAX – DHX Media is readying a new animated series based on the Capcom Mega Man video game franchise that will blast on to screens in Canada and the U.S. this year. But San Diego Comic-Con audiences will meet him first, starting this weekend.
An original co-production with Dentsu Entertainment USA, Mega Man: Fully Charged is aimed at kids 6 to 11 (and their parents who grew up loving the video games), and features new technologies and robots, plus the introduction of Mega Man’s alter-ego, Aki Light, a normal, upbeat, schoolboy robot with nano-core technology that allows him to transform…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON – Lindsay Broadband has named Victor Suprani as national sales director for Canada.
A 20-year veteran of the broadband industry, Suprani (pictured) has extensive knowledge in wireless communications, fibre optics, RF and FTTH design and network deployments, reads the announcement. He joins the company from Connect Telecommunications, and also previously held positions at Trispec Communications, Wireless Works and Convergys.
“We are very pleased that Victor accepted our offer to join the Lindsay Broadband team and take the lead sales role for Canada” said Lindsay Broadband president David Atman, in the announcement. “Victor brings a wealth of knowledge and professionalism necessary…
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Look for a more focused Heritage leader
OTTAWA – Pablo Rodriguez, MP for the Montreal riding of Honore-Mercier, was named Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism Wednesday as part of a cabinet shuffle announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Rodriguez takes on the portfolio from Mélanie Joly, who was shuffled over to become Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie, a new role that was reportedly pulled together from parts of other cabinet ministers’ portfolios. The reporters and other folks who regularly follow Ottawa say that this is a demotion for Joly.
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TORONTO – Bell Media has created a way for its prime time advertisers to be featured exclusively in a commercial break, complete with custom creative tied directly to the program.
Known as commercial SuperPods, the 30-second original co-branded creatives are produced in-house by the Bell Media Agency, and aim to offer a more seamless and engaging experience between the commercial content and the show, the broadcaster said Friday.
Bell Media’s first SuperPod, launched in partnership with Chevrolet during this month’s premiere of The Amazing Race Canada: Heroes Edition, promoted Chevrolet’s Twitter contest – #TheChevroletRace – which will see a winner drive off…
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