TORONTO – After facing a number of protesting Canadian actors outside of Massey Hall who complained about the number of hours of American programming, CanWest Global led its fall programming announcements with the number of original hours of programming it plans for the next TV season.
Across prime time on Global Television and the all-new E! network (which is to be CH’s new brand), "CanWest has positioned over 100 debut hours of scripted content, over 80 hours of showcased documentaries and nearly 200 hours of entertainment news," says the company’s press release.
"Building on what industry and press have…
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TORONTO – In a presentation Wednesday morning at Toronto’s Massey Hall, followed by an open-air luncheon in the city’s multimedia hub, Yonge-Dundas Square, some 1,400 advertisers, industry and press gathered to take in the launch of CanWest Global’s fall schedule on Global Television and the new E! (old CH).
"For both our advertisers and our audience, CanWest’s 2007-2008 schedules represent our most impressive prime time offering to date," said Kathleen Dore, president, Canadian television for CanWest MediaWorks, in the press release. "We’re passionate about the continued growth of our many television brands, and more determined than ever before to…
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TORONTO – While saying the Canadian broadcasting system, as it now stands, may face "imminent collapse" due to pressures all around from the numerous platforms Canadians view video, the 2007 edition of the Green Paper also says while our TV system will be impacted, change will be gradual and old and new media can co-exist.
Following up on last year’s lively debate over Green Paper I at the Banff World Television Festival, the ’07 edition will provide the background and impetus for BWTVF’s Town Hall session entitled “Town Hall Part 2: Revisiting the Green Paper on the Future of…
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THE ONLY EXISTING facilities-based wireless player advocating that Industry Canada come up with a different formula for auctioning off wireless spectrum than an open auction is MTS Allstream.
The company is the dominant player in Manitoba, but it seems clear the company has designs on growing beyond its friendly borders to offer wireless service.
Lumped in as a "scallywag" by Ted Rogers, MTS is attempting to get into the national wireless game as cheaply as possible, asking for certain spectrum blocks to be set aside and for mandated roaming until its towers are constructed.
On the other side,…
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CALGARY – At a VIP luncheon at the Palliser Fairmont Hotel in Calgary, Canada’s Telecom Hall of Fame revealed the names of the four 2007 Telecom Laureates who have been nominated and selected for induction later this year into the industry’s Hall of Fame.
The Class of 2007 Telecom Laureates are: Michael Kedar, Toronto (Champion of Telecom Services Competition), Robert W. (Bob) Jones, Ottawa and Kelowna (Canada’s Radio Spectrum Ambassador), Frederic Newton Gisborne, St. John’s, (Colonial Telegraph Trailblazer), and C.R.O. (Bob) Munro, Montreal (Patron of Federally Regulated Telecom). In addition, the Hall of Fame’s coveted Special Recognition Award for…
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TORONTO – Primus Canada has opened two new Internet Data Centre facilities in Toronto and Ottawa and will open two more in early 2008.
The facilities are being opened to meet growing consumer demand. While the Canadian managed services industry is growing at roughly 10% annually, according to IDC Canada, Primus’ managed services business surged ahead by 34% in 2006, says the company.
The new facilities in Toronto and Ottawa also employ environmentally friendly features and design elements such as high efficiency module UPS (Unlimited Power Supply) systems, high efficiency green transformers, economizers in the cooling system and built-in…
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OTTAWA – Recording movies inside movie theatres will soon be illegal in Canada.
“Canada’s new government is taking action to curb film piracy by bringing forward amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada. Piracy and mass copying of films has had a significant and direct impact on the entire film industry, including producers, directors, actors and creators,” said the Bev Oda, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, in a press release.
Right now, it’s only sort of illegal to record a movie from your seat in the theatre. However, while the theatre owners normally have policies against…
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TORONTO – The National Film Board’s website www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence has received the Canadian New Media Award for excellence in news and information. It beat out competition that included the Ottawa Citizen’s Tracks to Freedom (www.ottawacitizen.com/features/freedom) and CBC.ca/news.
The Filmmaker-in-Residence website consists of an online documentary that fuses full-screen video, photos, audio and text-based narrative to tell the story of the National Film Board of Canada’s residence project.
Built by Subject Matter, www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence went live during the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in fall 2006.
The NFB program allows citizens to use their art for social change. The program’s pilot project…
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OTTAWA – The federal government has committed $120 million in 2006-07 to CANARIE Inc. to maintain its CA*net broadband network that links universities, research hospitals and other science facilities over the next five years. The money will also be used to ensure the network remains up-to-date with the latest technology.
“The CANARIE network is essential to Canada’s innovative capacity, and to our future science and technology research success,” Industry Canada minister Maxime Bernier said Thursday. “CANARIE’s network infrastructure supporting advanced research is an important element of our newly released science and technology strategy. It enables Canadian researchers to benefit…
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TORONTO – The WIFT International Summit, running from July 16-19, 2007 at the Park Hyatt in Toronto, will feature about 80 industry leaders participating in more than 50 panels and workshops.
Commissioning editors, broadcast executives and key media professionals from around the world will take part, including SUN TV general manager of programming Don Gaudet, CHUM vice-president of production Marcia Martin, Hutton-Belleville Inc. president Trina McQueen, Epitome Pictures Inc. CEO Linda Schuyler, MTV Networks (U.S.) senior vice-president of business and legal affairs Elizabeth Skoler and CanWest MediaWorks Inc. senior vice-president of programming and production Barbara Williams.
The panels will…
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