TORONTO – Canadian advertising veteran Jani Yates has been named president and CEO of Advertising Standards Canada (ASC) effective June 13, 2016.
Yates, (pictured), brings over 30 years of industry experience to ASC, most recently at the Institute of Communication Agencies (ICA), where she served as president for the past nine years. In this capacity, Yates served as the ICA's representative on ASC's executive committee and board of directors. Before joining ICA, she held various senior roles within a number of leading Canadian communication agencies.
The Board initiated a national executive search in early 2016 following tNovember's announced resignation of Linda J. Nagel,…
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MONTREAL and WINNIPEG – BCE Inc. is buying Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS) in a transaction valued at $3.9 billion, the companies announced early Monday.
The combined company's Manitoba operations will be known as Bell MTS, recognizing the power of the MTS brand in the province. Winnipeg becomes Western Canada headquarters for Bell and, with the addition of MTS's 2,700 employees, Bell's Western team grows to 6,900 people.
Bell pledged to invest $1 billion in capital throughout Manitoba after the transaction closes to extend the availability of its Gigabit Fibe Internet, rollout Fibe TV and expand its LTE wireless network. MTS' data…
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GATINEAU – The telecommunications regulator should let market forces and targeted government funding finish the broadband job, according to Quebecor Media. The company told the CRTC on Thursday that it should coordinate efforts on affordability and adoption with the federal government, something other companies have also said during the hearing.
Manon Brouillette, president and CEO of Quebecor’s cable, broadband and wireless division Vidéotron, noted during her opening remarks that private sector efforts along with government programs are showing results. In fact, she said that by 2017, 97% of Canadians will have access to broadband as a result of the Connecting…
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TORONTO – Nearly half of Canadian businesses have no plans to implement Internet of Things technology, while the other half is ready to jump on board, says a new study commissioned by Telus.
The study, conducted by MARU/VCR&C, surveyed 506 IT decision makers from businesses across Canada in March 2016. It found that 52% of Canadian businesses are considering, planning, piloting or deploying an Internet of Things (IoT) solution, while 48% indicated that they have no plans to adopt the technology, with 64% of those respondents saying that there is no business need.
Nearly two-thirds of businesses who are in the…
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TORONTO – Canada now boasts its first YouTube Space after the creative industry incubator opened Wednesday at George Brown College in Toronto.
YouTube Space Toronto will allow YouTube creators to learn about video production, connect and collaborate with other creators, and use the latest equipment and software to create their videos, reads the news release. The 3500 square foot space houses an enclosed sound stage, areas for creative collaboration, teaching facilities for training programs and master classes, loaner production equipment, post-production facilities and various permanent and rotating sets.
"Toronto is one of the world's most vibrant YouTube communities. The YouTube Space…
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Focus on transport, says Shaw
GATINEAU – The Joint Task Force (JTF) of small incumbent local exchange carriers (SILECs) in Canada offered a rather different option to the CRTC on Tuesday when it comes to ensuring there is broadband to every household in the country.
Rather than a blanket subsidy available for all so-called high cost serving areas, it should only be available in under and unserved communities.
In addition, the subsidy shouldn’t be available on a per exchange basis, but rather on a household or NAS level. If there are two ISPs (i.e. telco and cableco) providing service into a particular…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canada’s commercial radio stations held their own in the face of competition from satellite, online and mobile services, with revenues dipping slightly for the 2015 broadcast year, according to the CRTC’s statistical and financial results for this sector released Monday.
Commercial Radio 2011 – 2015 National Statistics, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Markets said that total revenues for the country’s 704 commercial radio stations decreased 0.7% to hold steady at $1.6 billion for the broadcast year ending August 31, 2015. These revenues enable commercial radio stations to offer a variety of programming to Canadians, to support established and emerging…
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MPs wouldn't bite, though
GATINEAU – Rogers Communications told the CRTC Thursday that the National Broadband Task Force and the Information Highway Task Force can serve as models for a new national broadband strategy.
“And, because a strategy needs leadership to get results, we propose a multi-stakeholder advisory council to oversee the strategy’s implementation,” said David Watt, senior vice-president of regulatory at Rogers, on the ninth day of the Commission’s basic service objective hearing.
Under questioning, he added that this advisory council would be jointly led by the CRTC and the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED, formerly Industry Canada)….
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VANCOUVER – Radio announcer, programmer and executive Patrick Cardinal died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 54.
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Cardinal began his radio career in 1979 at CJRL Radio in Kenora, ON before heading back to Winnipeg in 1981, where he spent six years with CFRW. He continued to zig-zag the country, with stints in Vancouver, Hamilton, Edmonton, and Toronto before heading west once again to Vancouver. In 2003, Cardinal was back in Toronto in the role of station manager for CISS-FM/CJAQ-FM. In 2006, he worked as operations manager for Newcap Radio Group Edmonton until…
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TORONTO – Digital Amateur Radio equipment has been installed at the First Canadian Place office tower in downtown Toronto to help the Greater Toronto Area maintain reliable communications through severe weather, earthquakes, or other natural disasters.
Known as "ham radio", Amateur Radio is a non-commercial radio service that allows licensed operators to use various types of radio communications equipment to communicate with one another for both public service and recreational purposes. Amateur Radio operators, often referred to as "hams", are federally licensed by Industry Canada and are allowed to use specially allocated radio frequencies to carry out their operations.
Using the…
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