MONTREAL – Stingray Digital Group has received a five year renewal of its broadcasting licence from the CRTC for its national pay audio service Stingray Music.
Under the terms of the renewal, Stingray will contribute each year a minimum of 4% of the annual gross revenues earned by its pay audio programming undertaking to eligible third parties associated with Canadian content development allocated as follows:
– 25% to FACTOR;
– 25% to MUSICACTION,
– 5% to Community Radio Fund of Canada and;
– 45% to Stingray Music Rising Star to discover, encourage and promote new Canadian artists.
"We are pleased by with the CRTC's…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON – Capella Telecommunications and MDL Communications are teaming up in a new working relationship that will see MDL work exclusively for Capella in the Canadian marketplace, the two companies announced Tuesday.
Founded in 2006, MDL offers consulting services for cable MSOs, telcos, broadcasters and networks.
As part of this agreement, MDL founder Stephen Sacks and cable industry veteran and MDL consultant Boris Eventov will actively promote and support the Capella line of products. In addition, Capella will sell and support the line of products represented by MDL Communications.
“Boris and Stephen are both known and respected by the communication industry…
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OTTAWA – To the surprise of few, Industry Canada has decided to repurpose most spectrum in the 600 MHz range now used by TV broadcasters and others so it can be used to feed the insatiable demand for cellular data bandwidth.
However, in a ruling released Friday the department put off any decision on whether the federal government will compensate existing users of these frequencies, Canadian television broadcasters and others, for having to move to new digital TV frequencies.
“While many respondents were supportive (of repurposing the spectrum) contingent on the costs of…
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OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, the Canadian government’s ambitious Canada’s Wireless Policy took great steps from being a strategy to becoming a reality. The amount of spectrum made available to mobile wireless operators (and to fixed wireless operators) increased significantly, as Industry Canada delivered three auctions (700 MHz in March 2014, AWS-3 in March 2015 and 2500 MHz in April 2015) and is getting ready for a fourth one, scheduled in August 2015.
August 2015: Industry Canada’s residual auction
Industry Canada is holding its third auction in 2015 – a sealed-bid auction for “Residual Spectrum Licences in the 700 MHz and…
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TORONTO – We don't usually see rival companies hire siblings to fill competing posts, but they have with Jonah Zalken (left) working as senior manager, programming at CraveTV, while Shomi has brother Wayde Zalken (right) on board as specialist, content planning and analysis.
Something so improbable became possible because the Zalken brothers learned the film and TV business at the feet of the master: their father, Randy Zalken, a veteran TV producer and distributor with Fremantle Corp.
"We started at the same place, with our father, watching movies and TV shows," Jonah Zalken told Cartt.ca in an interview. "It was part…
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IN A FEW WEEKS AN experimental LTE service in the 700 MHz band will be running in Regina, bringing the plan of having a national voice and high speed data communications network for fire, police, ambulance and other first responders one step closer.
"Our (data network) core has arrived, we’re in the early stages of installation, and within a month or six weeks we'll have a bank of 14 facilities that – subject to completion of licencing – will be operational," Steve Palmer, executive director of the University of Regina's Collaborative Centre for Justice and Safety ( Continue Reading
VANCOUVER — Telus reported strong consolidated revenue growth in the second quarter of 2015 as a result of higher data revenue in both its wireless and wireline businesses.
Overall, the company’s consolidated operating revenue grew 5.1% to $3.1 billion in the second quarter of 2015, compared to revenue of $2.95 billion in Q2 2014. Wireless network revenues increased by $90 million or 6.1% to $1.57 billion in the second quarter of 2015, compared to the same period in 2014. This growth was driven by an 18% increase in wireless data revenue in the second quarter.
On the wireline side of the…
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has found comments made about women on CHIK-FM’s Dupont le matin morning show in January did not violate broadcast codes.
The CBSC released on Thursday its decision concerning a comment made by CHIK-FM morning show host Stéphan Dupont during the broadcast on January 16, 2015, which a listener found offensive. While discussing with his show co-hosts how gender roles have evolved in society, Dupont recounted a discussion he had with a friend the previous day, repeating what his friend had said: “When girls started giving blowjobs, they took control.”
One of…
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TORONTO — Bell Media has chosen Moat Analytics as its viewability vendor for a new partnership that will enable Bell Media to provide viewability tracking for its digital advertising clients.
“Partnering with the Moat team to deliver industry-leading brand intelligence and analytics to our clients is a natural fit, so we can offer additional analysis and update campaigns based on viewability scores,” said Stuart Garvie, President, Bell Media Sales, in a company press release.
Moat Analytics is a New York-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) analytics company that offers an attention measurement platform that provides analytics and insights on ad campaigns and website…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA-GATINEAU — Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. (CNOC) is asking the CRTC to mandate both Full Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) national wholesale access services and wholesale tower and site sharing services.
CNOC made the request in an application it submitted Monday to the CRTC to “review and vary” the Commission’s Regulatory framework for wholesale mobile wireless services, (Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-177). In its policy decision, issued in May, the Commission chose to regulate wholesale roaming services but continued to forbear from the regulation of MVNO and tower and site sharing services.
In its “review and vary”…
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