CALGARY – Shaw Communications last week upped the responsibilities for five of its key executives.
Brad Shaw has been appointed senior vice president, operations for Shaw Communications, with responsibility for Shaw Cable, Star Choice, Shaw Broadcast Services and Shaw Tracking.
Jean Brazeau is now senior vice president, regulatory affairs, with responsibility for all regulatory matters related to Shaw Communications.
Jay Mehr is the new group vice president, operations, with responsibility for the overall leadership for Shaw’s Cable operations, including customer care, sales, technical operations and community program delivery.
Dennis Steiger is now group vice president, engineering, with accountability for…
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WASHINGTON D.C. – When governments talk about reclamation, they generally are talking about land – either dumping vast quantities of earth into an ocean or other body of water in order to expand their land mass where none previously existed, or restoring certain regions to their natural state after they were clogged with pollution or some industry had used it up.
When cable engineers and their bosses talk about reclamation – but it’s about expanding their bandwidth – and how they can find new bandwidth where it was once all used up.
In what was dubbed the CTO session…
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DURING A SESSION called “Online, On Demand and On TV, Rogers Cable VP and GM Television, David Purdy, noted that when households showing a high rate of P2P sharing were turned into DVR homes, their P2P traffic dropped by 15%, meaning they were looking for fewer TV and movies on line on demand and instead relying on their cable operator and traditional channels more.
********** Baseball legend Lou Brock, signing autographs in the Fox booth, looks so good at 69 years old, I think he could still swipe some bases today. Baseball opening day is this weekend.
********** Cogeco…
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TORONTO – CTAM member and well know industry veteran Donia Bloxam has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the CTAM Canada Fellowship Award to attend the annual executive management program at Harvard University this June.
Known as CTAM U, the executive management program is a week-long intensive learning program at the Harvard Business School (HBS). The program focuses on strategic marketing and business principles through a detailed case study curriculum administered by HBS professors and key industry leaders.
Through her own business, DDK Consulting Services Inc., Bloxam provides broadcasting and telecommunication companies with strategic sales and marketing services. Her focus…
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Registration is now open for the Association of Electronic Journalists’ 2009 central region professional development seminar and awards banquet.
Held June 26-27, 2009 at the Radisson Admiral Hotel in Toronto, members and industry associates are invited to participate in professional development sessions, discussion on issues affecting the industry and networking opportunities.
The President’s Banquet, including the presentation of the ‘Lifetime Achievement Awards’ and the ‘President’s Award’, will be held at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel on June 26.
To register on-line, click here.
www.rtndacanada.com
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TORONTO – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) says that “record-high revenues” for Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view television and video-on-demand (VOD) services prove that “that the sky isn’t falling on Canada’s TV industry”.
Responding to Thursday’s CRTC report on the state of Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view television and VOD services, Stephen Waddell, ACTRA’s national executive director, is calling for a closer look “at the industry as a whole.”
“Doesn’t it tell us that something is wrong when small specialty networks spent twice as much on Canadian programming as the major networks?,” Waddell asked in…
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MONTREAL – Calling itself “one of the country’s largest private investor in English and French-language content”, Astral Media said it invested close to $150 million in Canadian content development in fiscal 2008 through its pay and specialty television networks.
"Since we started in this business in 1983, we have invested more than $1.3 billion in the film and television industry," said André Bureau, chairman of the board, in a statement. "Many know Astral Media for the quality of its media properties and the strength of its financial performance, but we are also very proud of the support we offer to…
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TORONTO – CBC English Services announced where, exactly, the money will be saved and employees let go which were originally made public yesterday.
On the English side, its portion will be approximately $85 million out of the 2009/10 budget which will affect 393 positions.
These will involve:
*Planned reductions in prime time entertainment, variety and factual entertainment programming, including the number of episodes of programs such as The Border, Being Erica, Little Mosque on the Prairie and others; * Discontinuation of the daytime Living programs; * Reduction of spending on children’s television programs; * Reduction or elimination of some…
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TORONTO – The Canadian production company who brought us prime time TV fare like Project Runway Canada, Canadian Idol, and Deal or No Deal Canada, has launched its own product integration division called ‘Insight Integration’.
Insight Production Company Ltd., known for its creative development, financing and production of television content, said the division will be led by industry veteran Susan Arthur and offer “creative marketing solutions to those advertisers and independent production companies who are looking for experienced guidance on their own content integration strategies”.
“Because of our successful content integration history, advertisers trust us with their brands,” said…
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TORONTO – Perhaps in preparation for its Olympic Game coverage next year, CTV has lined up an “unparalleled” broadcast plan for the 2009 Juno Awards on Sunday, offering coverage across many of its conventional and specialty television, radio and on-line properties.
Dedicated Juno programming will appear on “numerous news and entertainment platforms on CTV”, plus on six of its specialty channels – MuchMusic, MTV, Bravo!, Star!, MuchMoreMusic and FashionTelevision Channel; nine of its radio stations and various on-line outlets. The red carpet show, called ETalk at the Junos, will air nationally on CTV and on entertainment channel Star!, in what…
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