TORONTO – Julie Bristow, former CBC executive director of studio and unscripted programming, has launched her own content creation company, Bristow Global Media Inc.
BGM will specialize in and produce multiplatform content across all genres including scripted, lifestyle, reality, documentary and sports. Media companies GroupM Entertainment and Fresh One Productions have joined BGM as partners.
Bristow, who left the CBC in May, says BGM represents a new business model for a global production company and…
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GUELPH, ON – Broadband telecommunications engineer Karl Poirier passed away Friday at the age of 67, the SCTE announced Wednesday.
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Poirier, who was a part of the original SCTE Ontario Chapter in the 1970’s, also played a key role in re-establishing the chapter. He was also a member of the SCTE standards commitees for many years, and was the association’s first Canadian director-at-large.
According to Poirier’s LinkedIn profile page, he had served as CableServ’s…
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OTTAWA – All it took was 21 minutes for the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to halt any further hearings into the federal government’s 700 MHz spectrum auction rules.
Speaking from his Sudbury riding office, Glenn Thibeault, the consumer affairs critic for the NDP and who sits on the committee, says this represents a blow to Canadian consumers. “Ultimately at the end of the day by not having these hearings, it’s Canadian consumers that are going to lose out on this,” he tells Cartt.ca, lamenting the fact that there are still some big questions about…
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VANCOUVER, and ROCKVILLE, MD – Telus Ventures, the strategic venture investment arm of Telus, announced Tuesday it is investing in a U.S. global patient engagement software company.
Based in Rockville, Maryland, Get Real Health specializes in personal health record (PHR) technology, powered by their award-winning software platform InstantPHR.
The funding (the amount of which was not disclosed) will be used to accelerate Get Real Health’s development and functionality of the software, build its customer support capability, and expand its marketing and sales efforts.
Telus Health and Get Real Health have also collaborated on other projects,…
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TORONTO – The organizers of Canadian Music Week today announced the co-chairs for CMW 2014: Elliott Lefko, vice-president of Los Angeles-based Goldenvoice Concerts; CTV music correspondent and music industry PR veteran Eric Alper; Jim (JJ) Johnston, president and CEO of JJIMS Inc.; and Shauna de Cartier, founder of Six Shooter Records.
Lefko, who books concerts for Goldenvoice in southern California, Alaska, Hawaii and Canada, has promoted tours for Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Morrissey, The Foo Fighters, Tegan And Sara, City & Colour, The Tragically Hip and Hayden.
Regarded in Canada as an authority on music,…
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MONTREAL and TORONTO – Bell and Rogers have both sided with the NDP in the party’s call for an emergency meeting with the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to review the federal government’s wireless policy.
First proposed in a motion tabled by NDP Industry critic Chris Charlton, the meeting was officially scheduled to take place Tuesday, and will be held in camera.
“Public hearings are the ideal opportunity for open and constructive dialogue among consumers, government and industry to find a solution to the problem of the wireless loopholes,” said George Cope, Bell Canada…
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VANCOUVER – A new report from The Fraser Institute this morning says that Ottawa will only achieve its stated goal of providing Canadians with more choice and competition in the wireless marketplace if it removes restrictions on foreign ownership of telecommunication companies.
“The goal of achieving and maintaining a competitive market is not the same as having a minimum number of competing firms,” said Steven Globerman, Fraser Institute senior fellow and Kaiser Professor of International Business at Western Washington University, in the official press release. “By setting up rules that handicap the three large Canadian telecoms and favour small or…
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OTTAWA and WASHINGTON, D.C. – Industry Canada and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission have agreed on three interim spectrum-sharing arrangements covering a range of wireless communications operations along the U.S.-Canada border.
In a series of correspondence documents dated August 20 (which are available on the FCC website), the two agencies agreed to work together to share and coordinate various spectrum bands for air-ground, land mobile, and fixed users.
One of the arrangements confirms the FCC, Industry Canada, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration will work together to facilitate the deployment of fixed services…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s official opposition announced today it has forced an emergency meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, to talk wireless.
Official Opposition Industry critic Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain) said in the New Democratic Party press release the meeting is needed to discuss challenges facing the wireless telecom industry ahead of the Conservatives proroguing the House – not to mention ahead of the September 17th start of the 700 MHz wireless auction.
Late Friday afternoon, a date for a committee meeting was posted to the Industry Committee's web page of Tuesday, August 27…
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TORONTO – While James Moore told Cartt.ca on Tuesday the 700 MHz spectrum auction will not be delayed – nor will the federal government be revisiting its wireless policies – Rogers Communications CEO Nadir Mohamed is equally strident saying he has “absolutely not” given up on convincing the Industry Minister and the Prime Minister’s Office to change their minds on both fronts.
“I still firmly believe the best answer comes from dialogue and debate and discussion, and that’s the process we’re in. There’s no question in my mind that there’s always time to make the right…
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