TORONTO – Canadian Music Week has launched a pitch competition for new businesses that are based in, or connected to, the Canadian music industry.
Known as the CMW Startup Launch Pad, the competition will offer startups an opportunity for exposure and investment, advice from top industry professionals, and a prize package that will include:
* $10,000 cash from LyricFind and SOCAN
* Legal services from Liebenson Law
* Consulting services from TAG Strategic
* Personal, one-on-one meetings with each judge on Day 2
* A 15 minute presentation to the industry during the Global Creators Summit on Day 3
* Personalized post-conference email blast from CMW…
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Vice, Eastlink, Channel Zero and Bell offer new ideas to the CRTC Monday
GATINEAU – With major and independent broadcasters cutting newsrooms because of high costs and low revenue, there can be little doubt that local news and TV programming is in trouble. This means the industry may need to rethink how local programming is made and funded, the CRTC heard during the first day of an eight-day hearing on local and community TV. (pictured is a screen cap from CPAC.ca of Bell Media chief Mary Ann Turcke.)
Lee Bragg, chief executive at Bragg Communications (Eastlink) made some pointed comments about…
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TORONTO – Twitter Canada has named Rory Capern as its new managing director, replacing Kirstine Stewart who became Twitter's VP of North American media in September 2014.
Capern, who will start in mid-February, arrives from Google Canada where he head of partnerships. Prior to that, he held various positions at Microsoft Canada.
“Rory has the right combination of smarts, strategy and deep industry knowledge that our general manager role at Twitter Canada demands”, said Matt Derella, VP sales for Twitter North America, in the announcement. “He not only has the resume that makes him an ideal fit but also the personality and…
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TORONTO – Renowned radio exec and former music director Rosalie Trombley has been named as the recipient of the 2016 Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS).
The award recognizes individuals who have made a tremendous impact on the Canadian music industry.
Known as the “girl with the golden ear”, Trombley was a forerunner for women in radio between 1967 and 1993. With her keen ability to choose hit songs, she created music programming that appealed to broad audiences both in Canada and the United States.
As a music director and one of the…
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TORONTO — The race to deliver live 4K sports events to TV customers in Canada heated up significantly in the last week, with Rogers slightly ahead of Bell at achieving major firsts in the industry.
Thanks to an agreement with BT Sport in the UK, Rogers Sportsnet broadcast the National Basketball Association’s first-ever live NBA game in 4K, when the Toronto Raptors played against the Orlando Magic at The O2 Arena in London, England on January 14. That was six days before Bell’s TSN network is scheduled to broadcast its first NBA game in 4K (a.k.a. Ultra HD), when the…
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TORONTO – There’s still time to register for FFWD: Advertising and Marketing Week 2016 which will take place January 25 – 29, 2016 in Toronto.
FFWD: Advertising and Marketing Week (formerly Advertising Week) was launched in 2009 and has grown into the Canada’s largest and most diverse annual gathering of advertising, marketing and media leaders, attracting more than 6,000 attendees to Toronto each January. It consists of international keynote speakers, conferences, seminars, awards, panel presentations and Next Generation events and showcases the industry’s best, while offering a forum to highlight new ideas, key business drivers, and industry discussions.
“This year’s…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco and subsidiary Cogeco Cable held their annual general meetings in Montreal on Wednesday, preceded by a conference call with analysts and a meeting with journalists. Here’s what we heard.
Wireless
“It’s been 10 years that you’ve asked me that question,” Cogeco CEO Louis Audet told journalists, and he had it again in the investor conference call. But the logic hasn’t changed, even as Shaw’s acquisition of Wind Mobile makes Cogeco the largest Canadian cable or telecom provider without a wireless service.
“Our perception since the beginning is that if we enter this industry it has…
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TORONTO – Completing purchases with a smartphone or tablet will be even easier this year due to the increasing popularity of mobile touch commerce, according to Deloitte’s 2016 Canadian Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions, released Wednesday.
In 2016, the number of individuals who use a third party touch-based payment service to buy something on their mobile device (smartphone or tablet) is predicted to increase 150% to top a million users in Canada. Touch commerce compacts the time taken between browsing to transaction on a mobile phone or tablet from minutes to seconds, simplifying the check-out…
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MONTREAL – Growth in Cogceo Inc.’s cable and enterprise data services segment and U.S. cable services operations helped to buoy its first quarter revenues and profits.
The Montreal-based company reported revenue of $582.9 million for the period ended November 30, 2015, up 8.3% from $538.4 million in the same period last year, driven by growth in its Cable and Enterprise data services segment mainly through improvements at its American cable services operations, favorable foreign exchange rates, and increases in its radio and out-of-home advertising segments.
A 2.2% rise in profits to $66.8 million, of which $25.2 million is attributable to owners of the…
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SURREY, BC – Sportsnet has donated $250,000 to the journalism program at Vancouver’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), the largest gift in the history of the school’s Journalism and Communication Studies Department.
The first $100,000 of the gift will create six annual scholarships and awards to assist students interested in sports journalism, and provide them with opportunities to explore digital and multimedia techniques over the next five years.
Among the annual awards is a $5,000 scholarship that will send a student to cover a major North American sporting event, while another $5,000 award will allow a student to travel the continent,…
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