TORONTO – Few big gainers and few big losers is the ho-hum story on the S3 2007, or summer, BBM radio ratings book, released today.
It’s a book that isn’t all that crucial to the industry or to advertisers since it’s vacation time and listeners are on vacation and/or out of their usual listening routine.
Click here for the top line results from BBM.
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TORONTO – Brian Anthony was named Monday as the new national executive director and CEO of the Directors Guild of Canada at the organization’s annual awards gala in Toronto.
He will assume the position on November 12.
“Brian has extensive experience in the cultural sector and understands our position on protecting and advancing the Canadian film and television industry. I believe he has the right complement of skills and experience to successfully serve this membership,” said DGC president Alan Goluboff.
Anthony’s three-decades-long career includes stints as executive director of the Heritage Canada Foundation, consultant to a number of cultural…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Ian Scott, vice-president of government affairs at Telus, has agreed to participate, for a two year period, in an executive interchange with the Commission, the CRTC announced Friday.
Effective October 1st, Ian will become Chief Policy Advisor to the Chairman on strategic issues such as the CRTC’s role on the international scene and its new approach to regulatory convergence. Scott’s agreement with the Commission is governed by the terms of the Interchange Canada Program and the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Service.
Scott had been with the Commission from 1990 to 1994, where he was…
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TORONTO – Ron Cohen, the long time national chair of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, has decided to return to his roots.
The board of directors of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced today Cohen will return as chairman, a position he originally filled as founding chair in 1979. He also served as chair in 1986 and 87
Cohen was officially appointed chair on September 18, 2007.
"The timing of Ron’s return couldn’t be better," said Sara Morton, CEO of the ACCT. "The Academy has entered an exciting chapter with new initiatives like the Gemini Awards road…
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SAINT-GEORGES-DE-BEAUCE – RCMP officers of the Beauce-Amiante and Québec City detachments, with the assistance of an expert of Industry Canada, arrested two suspects in relation to the sale of satellite receivers, digital cards, illegal copies of video games and pirated software, in Thetford Mines on September 27, 2007.
The suspects, a man and a woman, were released. They could be summoned to appear in court in Thetford Mines at a later date to face charges under the Radiocommunication Act, Criminal Code and Copyright Act.
The police operation resulted in the seizure of 51 receivers, 1 computer screen, 118 digital…
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MONTREAL – Canadian Broadcast Sales has hired Veronica Low to spearhead its new venture into Quebec.
Coming over from Astral Media Radio, Low will be Director, Business Development, of CBS Radio Quebec and will be uniting three large forces in the Quebec radio industry Corus, Cogeco and Radio Nord. CBS Radio Quebec, under Low’s leadership, will bring three broadcasters under one purchasing umbrella and will offer a dedicated resource in the province for uniting advertisers with radio stations and listeners, says CBS.
“The combination of Corus, Cogeco and Radio Nord under this new initiative strengthens the opportunities to deliver…
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MONTREAL – This morning the General Council of the Canadian Telecommunications Employees’ Association (CTEA) supported a merger agreement concluded last week between their organization and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP).
During the next few weeks, the merger agreement will be voted on by all CTEA members. Vote results will be announced on October 15.
The CTEA represents 12,000 clerical and sales employees in Québec and in Ontario working directly at Bell or in related companies. CEP represents over 12,000 technicians, operators and clerical employees at Bell and its related companies. The CEP already represents 35,000…
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TORONTO – Starting this month, third-year industrial design students at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) will get to work shaping Canada’s booming wireless industry with an innovative new design course, OCAD and Telus announced Wednesday.
The OCAD/Telus Handset Project, part of the curriculum of OCAD’s Industrial Design program course “Emerging Technologies” will teach students how to design handsets for wireless phones that will meet the future needs of Canadian mobile users.
This collaboration, a first for both OCAD and Telus, will draw upon the students’ and the university’s vast design experience, while educating about the intricacies…
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OTTAWA – New technologies. New platforms. The new consumer. New business models.
Delegates to the annual Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention will have some meaty issues to tackle when they gather in Ottawa November 4th – 6th.
The theme is “Broadcasting, Redefined”, and CAB President and CEO Glenn O’Farrell says the two-plus days of workshops and informal discussions will focus on issues of fundamental importance to Canada’s private broadcasting sector.
On the agenda: • The impact of new technologies and platforms, including broadband, the Internet, high-definition television, and digital radio; • The new consumer, whose needs and expectations are…
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By Greg O’Brien
THE CANADIAN CABLE Systems Alliance annual general meeting is always a great time. Compared to some of the other events I attend through the year, it’s tiny. But it’s very useful and always well organized. I always come away from it having learned a lot – and finally having had some face-to-face time with people I normally only chat with via e-mail.
The “learnings” (not really a word, but it’s one everyone uses) this year were plentiful. From new technologies and services to future-gazing and concrete advice on how to approach video on demand.
But there was a bit…
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