TORONTO – Trevor Doerksen believes that he has found a way to unite broadcasting with new media in a way that all stakeholders – including advertisers and consumers – truly want.
The CEO of Calgary-based technology company MoboVivo was recently in Toronto shopping around a new product called preViiw. Part of the company’s myScreens technology, which delivers and monetizes video across various screens, preViiw takes the process a step further by allowing video content creators such as TV networks to seamlessly combine the active engagement of social media with the more passive experience of traditional television viewing.
Specifically, preViiw allows on-line and…
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THE INCENTIVES FOR THE great, big vertically integrated Canadian cabletelbroadcellcasters to act unfairly towards everybody else has become too great to ignore and new protections against potential perils are needed, say many companies in their submissions to the CRTC ahead of June’s hearing into vertical integration.
(Editor’s note: This preview originally ran on April 29th. We’re re-running it here as a preview of the hearing, which gets under way Monday in Ottawa with Rogers first up. As usual, Cartt.ca will be there. But if you can’t be there, it will be streamed live on cpac.ca – and available for…
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TORONTO – While many in the traditional media industry would like to see the regulations applied to conventional electronic media extended to new media companies, Rogers Communications’ CEO Nadir Mohamed said Wednesday that he doesn’t think that’s the way to go.
With customers increasingly wanting connected experiences, to take their devices and content with them wherever they go and consume content whenever they like, continuing along with policy that was written prior to the massive growth of the Internet and all it enables is the wrong way to go, the CEO told reporters.
He referenced the recent work of Canadian media companies…
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TORONTO – Rogers confirmed Wednesday that it will launch its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network this year and roll out commercial services in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa. The company then plans to launch in what it described as “the top 25 markets across Canada” by 2012.
"The world is moving to LTE and we’re thrilled to be leading the way by bringing this next generation technology to our consumer and business customers", said Rogers Communications president and CEO Nadir Mohamed, in a statement on Wednesday morning. "LTE is the critical foundation to deliver a world increasingly being defined by connected…
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OTTAWA – With over 294,000 Canadians employed in the wireless industry in Canada, added to myriad other benefits, wireless communications generates about $39 billion in value to the Canadian economy says a new report from Ovum Consulting.
Done on behalf of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, the report notes that over $16 billion of direct contribution to the gross domestic product of Canada is generated through the sale of wireless goods and services (which is close to the $20 billion GDP of the province of Newfoundland & Labrador).
That $16 billion compares pretty well to the Canadian automaking business ($20 billion),…
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WASHINGTON – CTV British Columbia, CBNT St. John’s, NL, 680News Toronto and CHYM-FM/CKGL-AM Kitchener, ON all received awards for ‘Overall Excellence’ at the 2011 Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in electronic journalism.
This year, Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) judges awarded 600 regional awards in 14 categories, including Overall Excellence, Breaking News, Investigative Reporting, and Website. Awards are broken up by medium (radio, television, on-line) and by market size (small and large.) Regional winners automatically become eligible for the national awards competition, which will be judged in June and presented in October at the RTDNA Awards Dinner in New…
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OTTAWA – Nearly 7,000 Canadians have told the CRTC that television commercials are too loud, and, that they want the Regulator to do something about it.
The Commission got an earful after asking for comments back in February on measures to control the loudness of commercial messages. It launched the public consultation after receiving hundreds of complaints, and comments were due last week.
“It is highly annoying the number of times we need to adjust the volume from commercials back to programming”, wrote Mark Dostie from Richmond, B.C., in his submission to the CRTC. “In fact we will often ‘pause’…
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IF YOU THOUGHT THE “usage-based billing” debate was loud, just wait until the “regulate Netflix” debate.
(Both of those arguments are inextricably linked, of course, but we’ll tackle that part another time.)
In talking to many regulatory folks over the past number of days, it seems a virtual certainty that the CRTC will hold some sort of proceeding to look at the non-Canadian, unregulated video sector, otherwise known as over-the-top video (OTT). This rapidly growing segment (in terms of usage) encompasses Netflix, AppleTV, GoogleTV, Hulu, whatever video portal or digital locker service Amazon might bring to Canada, YouTube, movies rented via…
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THERE’S JUST TWO WEEKS left before Canada 3.0 2011 digital media forum kicks off for a third straight year.
Scheduled for May 2 – 4, 2011 in Stratford, ON, the forum is dedicated to advancing Canada’s digital media industry. Some of this year’s panellists and keynote speakers include:
– Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner;– Mark Allen, Director of Strategic Analysis for CBC/Radio-Canada;– Juliette Powell and 3rd Wave Gaming: the future of financial transactions; and– Alan Saxe, SVP of Business and Legal Affairs for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
And Cartt.ca will be there, too.
Registration includes access to the main plenary sessions, breakout sessions, access…
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TORONTO – CTAR Corporation is bringing Motorola’s fibre-to-the-desk solution to Canada.
Also known as passive optical LAN (POL), POL is a next generation enterprise LAN solution that provides a high-performance, reliable and secure enterprise network for IP voice, data and video while eliminating the need for large amounts of copper wiring, multiple distribution closets and related power and cooling systems.
Ideal for enterprise and campus environments, large corporate users, and customers requiring large amounts of bandwidth, POL replaces existing LAN connections with a single high capacity fibre optic cable designed to connect the end user directly to the data centre.
“POL represents a move…
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