TORONTO – BBM Analytics will debut a radio commercial tracking service later this month, thanks to a partnership with Adease Media Research.
The service will launch in Montreal before eventually rolling out in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. All activity on the monitored stations will be available to subscribers via a web based application on a weekly basis, allowing competitive information to be analyzed by market, station, class, category, company, brand, creative and daypart. Subscribers can also opt to receive daily alerts to new activity, plus download and listen to new radio creative within hours of airing.
“We are always looking…
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STRATFORD, ON – Canada’s Industry Minister Tony Clement will be the lead keynote speaker on the first day of the Canada 3.0 2010 digital media forum.
Scheduled for May 10-11 in Stratford, ON, the forum is dedicated to advancing Canada’s digital media industry, and Minister Clement is expected to share how Canada can leverage the strengths of this emerging sector for global economic advantage.
He outlined three key elements needed to sustain a strong technological lead for the country: creating entrepreneurial advantage by translating knowledge into commercially viable products; knowledge advantage to build upon research and engineering to achieve excellence; and…
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AS OF YESTERDAY, there were 17 months left for Canada to make the transition from analog over-the-air TV broadcasting to digital. Given the lack of action so far, hitting the August 31, 2011 deadline for the shut off of analog TV is now nearly impossible.
Everyone in and around the industry knows it. Everyone. It was openly talked about during the two CRTC hearings in the fall. It was as if the deadline meant nothing. But few want to acknowledge the industry’s and the federal government’s failure to act. In fact, as you’ll read, the federal government still hasn’t even…
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TORONTO – Bell Canada had some strong words for the CRTC on the way it reported the financial results of Canadian broadcasting distributors and conventional television stations last month.
In a letter addressed to CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein dated March 29, Bell accused the Commission of not reporting the industry’s financial data “in a factual and complete manner”, and offered its recommendations on how to do so.
According to Bell, the primary profitability measure reported by the Commission, profit before interest and taxes (PBIT), does not take into account the yearly capital investments that BDUs make.
“Nowhere is it reported…
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OTTAWA – A coalition of Canadian cultural organizations announced Thursday that they want intervenor status in an application to the Federal Court for judicial review of the federal government’s decision to licence wireless telecom Globalive.
The application, made jointly by ACTRA, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP), and Friends of Canadian Broadcasting ,was to be considered by the Federal Court in a hearing on Thursday morning in Ottawa.
The group is seeking leave to intervene in the case brought against the federal government by fellow wireless startup Public Mobile that is arguing that the federal government cannot excuse…
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OTTAWA – The tightly knit nature of the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors makes it impossible to open telecom markets to greater foreign investment without negatively affecting Canadian culture in some way, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting told the Standing Committee on Industry this week.
Ian Morrison, a spokesperson for Friends, highlighted the integrated nature of Canada’s largest communications and broadcasting companies during his opening remarks pointing Rogers Communications, Bell Canada and Quebecor. If Rogers were owned by foreigners, it would have to sell Rogers Media. Similarly, Bell couldn’t control Bell TV, he said.
“Disposing of these key broadcasting assets would…
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OTTAWA – “There is a concern that these restrictions are impairing the growth and competitiveness of the industry to the detriment of consumers and the industry as a whole,” said Marta Morgan, not wasting any time getting to the point during the opening of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology hearings on foreign investment restrictions in telecommunications last week.
Morgan, the assistant deputy minister of the strategic policy sector at Industry Canada, and two other Industry officials appeared in front of the committee March 25.
She continued by giving a brief history of previous studies done on Canada’s foreign…
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STRATFORD, ON – Canada’s digital media industry should make it possible for “anyone to do anything on-line in Canada – by 2017”, just in time for the country’s 150th birthday, say organizers of the Canada 3.0 2010 forum.
While acknowledging that their target is ambitious, the second annual forum aims to bring together the people who can make that happen from industry, government and academia for a two-day event intended to boost Canada’s ability to lead in the digital economy.
“We’ve set this ‘Moonshot’ that might sound impossible, just as putting a man on the moon once sounded impossible, but it is…
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OTTAWA – The broadcasting industry is opposing a plan by Industry Canada to allow fixed and mobile services – in addition to broadcasting – in portions of the L-band. Aerospace players say they want a piece of the band as well to accommodate testing of aeronautical mobile telemetry (AMT).
The L-band is divided into three sub-segments: 1435-1452 MHz is used for subscriber radio systems (SRS); 1452-1492 MHz is allocated to digital audio broadcasting (DAB) and has some SRS services; and the 1492-1525 MHz has an SRS and mobile satellite services allocation. This upper part of the band is the least used.
The…
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TORONTO – With its official launch less than a week away, the new Canadian Media Fund will pay out over $350 million in funding support to Canadian content through two distinct streams.
An ‘Experimental Stream’ will invest in content and software applications for eventual integration into mainstream Canadian media platforms, while a ‘Convergent Stream’ will fund the creation of convergent television and digital media content.
Flanked by CMF board chair Louis Roquet, and president and CEO Valerie Creighton, Heritage Minister James Moore said that the CMF’s mandate is to champion the creation of successful, innovative, Canadian content and software applications for current and…
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