TORONTO – Majority treaty co-production and Canadian production generate more than double the number of Canadian jobs than minority co-production, according to a report commissioned by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) and the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC).
The Nordicity study, called The Employment Intensity of Film and Television Production in Canada, found that Canadian TV production volume in 2009 – 2010 was worth just under $2 billion to the Canadian economy, and the sector generated 47,300 full-time-equivalent jobs, including 18,600 directly in the production of Canadian TV shows.
ACTRA and WGC said that despite…
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ANTHONY LACAVERA CARRIES two BlackBerrys with him wherever he goes. One is a Wind Mobile handset, of course. The other, Rogers (with the logo scratched off).
The Globalive chairman and Wind Mobile CEO wants to make sure wherever he goes, he can do a real-time comparison of his own of his company’s network performance versus the Canadian mobile market leader, via his own handset. Just last week he was doing that in Kitchener-Waterloo, Wind’s newest market.
In a couple of years, he hopes to be able to do the same thing in many more places using a more robust bit…
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TELEVISION HAS ALWAYS been served to a household. At first, people had one TV in their homes, then another and then another which received the signals from broadcasters over the air, then via cable, satellite and now telco TV too.
The signals were – and are – the same, sent at the same times to everyone, whole households, which contain any number of people at any age with many tastes. As the TV phenomenon exploded through the 1960s and ’70s, broadcasters began to segment, finding spaces in their schedule to serve, for example, stay at home moms (soaps) or kids…
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A MONTH FROM TODAY, Canadian Cable Systems Alliance members, their supporters and suppliers will gather at the Fairmont Tremblant in Mont Tremblant Quebec for Connect 2011, its yearly conference and annual general meeting.
The gathering will begin Sunday with a board meeting and CCSA members-only sessions, followed by an evening President’s Reception for all attendees.
After breakfast on Monday, September 19, Rob McCann of Clearcable Networks will host a technical session “to talk about recent development relevant to independent operators,” said CCSA president and CEO Alyson Townsend.
After that will be the popular trade show (last year’s, held in Niagara-on-the-Lake, is pictured below)…
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GATINEAU – John Traversy, the CRTC’s executive director, telecommunications, has been named the next Secretary General of the CRTC, Cartt.ca has learned, replacing Robert Morin, who is retiring.
In a short note to staff, CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein let the folks at the Commission know that a notice tomorrow on the federal government’s public service staffing web site will note Traversy’s promotion after “a recent competitive process,” wrote the chair. “The appointment cannot be made officially until next Thursday the 25th, but since you will all see the announcement on the web site, I thought I would advise…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Consumers will continue to take advantage of new capabilities and platforms to access content and services, making it even more critical to understand the dynamics of convergence, according to a new report released Thursday by the CRTC.
Navigating Convergence II: Charting Canadian Communications Change and Regulatory Implications identifies trends in network developments and content consumption that could disrupt traditional regulatory approaches to achieving policy objectives. Using independent research and views from CRTC stakeholders such as consumers, public-interest advocates and members of the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors, it also examines developments in technology and business models that raise…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has extended its deadline for comments on draft electronic commerce protection regulations.
The Commission said Monday that comments are now due by September 7th, more than a week later than its initial deadline of August 29.
The move comes in response to a request from the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) made late last month. The CWTA said in a letter to the CRTC that "there would be merit" in extending the deadline to coincide with the end of the comment period applicable to the related draft regulations proposed by Industry Canada.
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TORONTO – CTAM Canada’s next day-long course, as part of its Canada University Program, is entitled “How Cable Goes to Market.”
The course is designed for the marketing manager who is responsible for product management and strategic marketing, as it will provide insight into the new opportunities enabled by technological advancements. The course is open to and applicable to both cable and programming marketing professionals.
The course will provide participants with a better understanding of:
• The latest cable technologies and new products
• Complex technologies and terms in a non-technical language
• Emerging technologies’ effect on cable business and marketing
• The opportunities and…
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OTTAWA – Industry Canada reports the ICT sector in the first quarter reported its sixth consecutive quarterly increase with a growth of 0.5%, but the rate of growth has slowed compared to the five previous quarters. In comparison real GDP for all Canadian industries grew by 1.1%.
While the ICT sector (information, communications, technology) continues to trend upwards following the mid-2009 recession, with a cumulative growth of 5.8% since the third quarter of 2009, weak export numbers have stalled job growth reports Industry Canada.
Communications equipment industry real GDP experienced a slight decrease compared to a significant increase in the…
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REGINA – SaskTel reports that members of the Communications Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) have voted in favour of ratifying a new collective agreement at security arm SecurTek.
“We’ve very pleased with the ratification of this agreement, which provides SecurTek and its employees with stability and security in a dynamic and competitive industry,” said Ron Styles, SaskTel president and CEO in a statement. “We will continue to work together in order to provide SecurTek customers with excellent customer service.”
The terms of the proposed deal include a 5.5% general wage increase over the first three years of the agreement,…
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