WINNIPEG — Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is celebrating its seventh year on the air, as the world’s first and only national Aboriginal broadcaster.
“In just seven short years APTN has grown from a fledgling network with bold ideas to an established, reputable player on the national broadcasting scene,” says Jean LaRose, APTN Chief Executive Officer. “This fall, our implementation of a third feed, described video and alternate language programming capabilities, and our commitment to being HD-ready by the fall of 2007, puts us at par with or ahead of our competitors.”
Using largely Aboriginal talent, APTN broadcasts 70%…
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WINNIPEG – APTN has appointed Wayne Clark as Senior Program Officer, Independent Production and New Media, to be based in the Aboriginal TV network’s Winnipeg headquarters.
Clark has more than seven years of new media production experience with Unlimited Digital Communications, producing projects for the CBC, converging TV properties, and the Virtual Museum of Canada.
“Wayne’s addition to our team in the APTN Programming Department energizes our efforts to find every means possible to reach and serve our viewers,” says Joanne Levy, APTN Director of Programming. “His knowledge and experience in new media will help us in our efforts…
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MARKHAM – Canada’s TV ratings joint venture, BBM Nielsen Media Research, went officially live today.
The "long anticipated and much sought joint-venture between BBM Canada and Nielsen Media Research," says the press release, enhances the television audience measurement landscape in Canada substantially by eliminating the duplication of television audience data collection between the two organizations."
“The creation of the BBM Nielsen Media Research joint venture is a direct consequence of the many industry requests for a single Canadian supplier of television ratings data,” said Mike Leahy, the newly appointed president of BBM Nielsen Media Research. “It preserves the high…
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OTTAWA – The VOIP decision will stand, with a "but".
Today the CRTC re-affirmed its May 2005 decision on voice over Internet protocol. Federal cabinet told the Commission in May of this year to reconsider that decision after all but one of Canada’s ILEC’s filed an appeal.
However, because of the sheer speed in which Canada’s incumbent local exchange carriers are losing customers, the Commission did signal it’s prepared to alter course when it deems necessary and will already re-examine its March 2006 decision on local forbearance.
Specifically, it "declared that competition in local telephone service is…
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MONTREAL – Telus Québec created four new vice-presidents positions this week.
Serge Leclerc has been hired as vice-president of business communications and community affairs and Christian Proulx as vice-president of human resources. Two directors from Telus were promoted, too: Gaétan Rousseau is now regional vice-president of consumer solutions delivery and Raymond Saoumah was appointed regional vice-president of engineering and operations for wireless.
“Telus has always strived to hire the most talented and high-performing candidates at a regional, national and international level, both internally and externally. With a top notch management team comprised of industry leaders, innovators and passionate individuals,…
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TORONTO – Too bad This Is Wonderland didn’t score with Canadian viewers the way it has with Gemini nominators.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the nominees for the 21st Annual Gemini Awards this week.
Cancelled CBC lawyer show This Is Wonderland leads all shows with 14 nominations, followed by Movie Central’s and TMN’s ReGenesis with 10 nominations. The Ceeb mini series Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story and the fifth estate follow with nine nominations each and One Dead Indian (CTV), At the Hotel (CBC) and Slings & Arrows (TMN, Movie Central) round out the top…
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WHO COULD BLAME CANADIAN lawyer Richard Warman for taking a shot with the CRTC last week? What would you do if someone used the web to threaten to kill you, or urge others to do it? Use as many tools as might be at your disposal to protect yourself, I should think.
As you may have read in a number of media reports over the past few days, an Virginia man, Bill White, has called for the Ottawa man’s death (and the death of all Jews, for that matter) and even posted his home address, too, in case someone…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC told Canadians the rights when it comes to telephone service today.
The Commission issued a edict telling all incumbent local exchange companies (ILECs: Bell, Telus, SaskTel, etc.) that they must include this statement of consumer rights on their web sites and in their printed directories. New local competitors do not have to print the document but the Commission encouraged them to do so.
The 4,700-word Commission document "restates key consumer rights with respect to local home phone service, in a clear and comprehensible manner," says the CRTC press release.
"The CRTC has, in the past,…
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OTTAWA – Canadians spent $134 million on movies from pay television providers in 2004/05, up 27.5% compared to the previous year, says a report today from Statistics Canada.
However, don’t think all that money went to the two "pay-TV" providers in Canada. For Statscan’s purposes, pay television doesn’t necessarily mean pay-TV the way those in this industry think of it. Sometimes it means any TV where a subscription fee is paid. However, the release offers no definition.
On the conventional TV side, movie revenue dropped 6.7% to $404.4 million in 2004/05.
Canadians actually returned to theatres in droves, even leaving…
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VANCOUVER – Got an entertainment idea for the wireless industry but don’t know who to approach? The Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP) has a portal for you.
Last week it announced the WIP portal, a set of tools and resources for wireless companies around the world, available online at www.wipconnector.com. WIP estimates there are more than 40,000 wireless companies worldwide and designed these tools and resources in an effort to fuel business opportunities for member companies as well as to stimulate growth and innovation in the wireless industry.
The key WIP tool is WIPConnector, an innovative directory that allows…
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