PETERBOROUGH, ON – Lindsay Broadband Inc. has appointed Justin Cameron as director of Canadian sales.
Cameron is a 14-year veteran of the CATV/telecommunication industry with extensive knowledge in fibre optics, RF, FTTH design and network deployments. Prior to joining Lindsay, Cameron was the Ontario account manager with TVC Canada, a division of Wesco Distribution. He joined TVC Canada in 2001 as a lab technician before entering technical sales and becoming a product specialist.
“Justin brings a wealth of knowledge and professionalism in HFC, FTTX design and architectures necessary to service our clients with cutting edge solutions”, said president David Atman, in the announcement. …
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MONTREAL – When most CEOs make a speech to a body like the Montreal Board of Trade, it’s usually to sing the praises of their own company – or to demand something be done by government to alter this or that within their own market or industry.
Rare is the CEO to come right out and make a strong political stand, but Cogeco CEO Louis Audet did just that Wednesday afternoon, attacking the provincial government for its actions (and inaction) and challenging business leaders to grab the bull by the horns and help drag the province into the future –…
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OTTAWA – Film and television production in Canada experienced an overall decrease in production volume of 0.8% to $5.82 billion from $5.86 billion between 2011/12 and 2012/13, according to a new report from the Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA).
The report, Profile 2013: An Economic Report on the Screen-Based Production Industry in Canada, provides a statistical overview of the three main screen-based production sectors in Canada: Canadian production (includes television and theatrical), foreign location and service production, and broadcaster in-house production. These sectors helped sustain 127,700 full-time jobs in 2012-2013.
After experiencing a sharp rise in 2011/12, the total numbers for…
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WHISTLER, B.C. – While Rogers, Shaw and Telus say they are supportive of an a-la-carte channel environment, executives from each company offered up some cautionary advice during CIBC’s annual Whistler Institutional Investors conference last week.
Speaking at the event January 23, Steve Wilson, Shaw’s executive vice-president of corporate development and CFO, acknowledged the industry realizes that consumers want more choice, and from his company’s point of view, it’s about giving them the ability to access content in a variety of ways. There also needs to be consideration given to the impact that has on the Canadian broadcasting system and the…
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WHILE THE CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTION television market is at the beginning of a decade-long decay, growth is still in the cards for cable and telecom companies in Canada thanks to the world’s shift to broadband, says a new report from Scotiabank.
The report, entitled “Embrace the Evolution” (whose cover photo is pictured) says thanks to broadband internet “the growth outlook is bright” for telcos and cablecos (1%-1.5% revenue growth and 2.5%-3.5% in EBITDA growth), due partially to more predictability on the capital expenditure front – and the concentration on more profitable broadband products and services.
However, it won’t be pretty on the…
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GATINEAU – The simultaneous substitution of American broadcast signals for Canadian ones, when the programming is identical, has been going on since the 1970s.
Back then, cable operators were often described by broadcasters and others as pirates who brought in American TV channels and charged customers for the privilege of seeing them, even though they paid nothing for the signal and Canadian broadcasters had often purchased the copyrights of much of that U.S. programming for our country. Faced with the threat of a federal government crackdown on its business (yes, the Commission of the day was pondering forcing all American…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s wireless industry is one step closer to implementing the Text with 9-1-1 (T9-1-1) service for the deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or speech impaired (DHHSI) community in Canada.
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) said Friday that its members across the country have completed all of the required network upgrades to implement T9-1-1, as per the CRTC’s directive last year. The T9-1-1 service, however, is not yet available in any region of the country until 9-1-1 call centres also complete technology upgrades.
T9-1-1 provides 9-1-1 call centres with the ability to converse with a deaf, deafened,…
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TORONTO – CTV is celebrating the 10th anniversary of popular homegrown series Corner Gas with a special broadcast of its first and last episodes on January 25 at 9:00 and 9:30 PM ET.
It was on Thursday, January 22, 2004 that 1.15 million viewers had their first taste of the comedy about a bunch of nobodies who got up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan. The popular series would continue for six seasons and 107 episodes, ending on a high when a record-breaking 3.02 million viewers tuned into the series finale on…
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TORONTO – Verizon Wireless' strong wireless growth in fiscal year 2013 may bode well for Canadian incumbent wireless carriers, says an industry analyst.
In a note to clients on Tuesday, Dvai Ghose, Managing Director/Head of Research for Canaccord Genuity, said that incumbent wireless subscriber growth in North America still looks to be “robust despite maturation”, and predicted postpaid subscriber base increases at all three Canadian incumbents when they post their financial results for 2013 within the next few weeks. He estimates a 5.7% year-over-year increase at Bell Mobility, a 4.7% uptick at Telus Mobility and a 3.2% rise at Rogers Wireless.
Despite maturation, slowing…
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A UNIQUE 30-SECOND spot began airing across most Canadian TV channels last week trumpeting how much Canadians love television, while promoting a new iOS and Google app which, it appears, will let some individual Canadians get on TV on February 6th.
While the whole industry has so far been pretty tight-lipped about the initiative, the ad and the app have been put together by the Television Bureau of Canada and its member companies. The raison d’etre of TVB (whose members count most of the channels available to Canadians, except for Corus Entertainment’s, Quebecor’s TVA and its…
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