TORONTO – After a couple of recent departures, CHUM Television has beefed up its specialty TV affiliate marketing side.
Jeremy McCarthy has been hired by CHUM Television as affiliate marketing manager with responsibility for all national marketing initiatives with CHUM’s cable, satellite and wireless affiliates, announced Allan Schwebel, vice-president, affiliate sales and marketing.
Previously McCarthy held various sales and marketing roles at Alliance Atlantis, Bell ExpressVu and SEGA of Canada. He has also worked on several national specialty channel marketing campaigns including the industry-wide “31 Days of Great TV” promotion.
Donia Bloxam has been promoted to director, affiliate sales….
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OTTAWA – Wireless growth fed Canadian telecom companies through 2005, especially since mobile users are much better spenders than wired accounts, says a report put out today by Statistics Canada.
Two events stood out in the telecommunications services industry in 2005, says the release, the number of wireless subscribers passed the 16 million mark and the number of conventional residential telephone lines dipped below 12 million.
The wireless industry (with providers like Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility, Telus, MTS, Sasktel, Aliant and Virgin Mobile) recruited more than 650,000 new customers in the last quarter of 2005, bringing the total number…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Canada’s smaller independent cable companies lost their voice in Ottawa this year with the closure of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association in February.
Because its 94 member companies still want to be heard by government and the CRTC, the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance decided at a board meeting on Thursday it will re-enter the regulatory arena, albeit on a far smaller scale than what the CCTA offered.
The CCSA has retained Harris Boyd as its new regulatory advisor. Boyd was a long-time executive with the CCTA and was its senior vice-president, industry relations, when the association…
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OTTAWA – On Wednesday, the industry’s movers and shakers gathered at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
The event honoured the legacy of private broadcasters in Canada. The Honourable Maxime Beriner, Minister of Industry, and CRTC Chair Charles Dalfen both spoke at the event, which was attended by Members of Parliament, Senators and CRTC Commissioners, and other senior decision makers, as well as by members of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the CAB’s Board of Directors.
The evening was capped off with a performance by rising Quebec musician…
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TORONTO – Astral’s Mark Waschulzik will head to Harvard next month as the the recipient of the CTAM Canada Fellowship award to attend the 9th annual Executive Management Program.
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.
Having become a corporate patron of the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 2006, CTAM Canada has committed to sponsor a chapter member to…
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OTTAWA – The new Federal Cabinet wants the CRTC to revisit last year’s voice over Internet protocol decision.
As reported on numerous occasions by www.cartt.ca, the CRTC decided last year to maintain its position that voice, even delivered via IP, is still telephone service. What that meant was that incumbent telcos still faced some regulatory shackles (like having to file for tariffs) while newcomers, such as cable operators or VOIP providers like Vonage would have a freer hand.
Canada’s ILECs – most of them anyway – appealed the decision.
In governmentspeak: "The Governor in Council (GIC) has referred…
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OTTAWA – The new Federal Cabinet wants the CRTC to revisit last year’s voice over Internet protocol decision.
As reported on numerous occasions by www.cartt.ca, the CRTC decided last year to maintain its position that voice, even delivered via IP, is still telephone service. What that meant was that incumbent telcos still faced some regulatory shackles while newcomers, such as cable operators or VOIP providers like Vonage would have a freer hand.
Canada’s ILECs – most of them anyway – appealed the decision.
In governmentspeak: "The Governor in Council (GIC) has referred the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC’s)…
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TORONTO – Brett Manlove has been promoted to senior vice-president, broadcast sales and marketing for CanWest MediaWorks, the company announced today.
In this position, Manlove will oversee all sales and marketing activities for the broadcast division of the organization and will be based in Toronto.
"We originally approached Brett a year ago regarding this role, however, family commitments prevented him from accepting the position at that time so we began a nationwide search," said Joe Mangione, president of sales and marketing. "In the course of the past year, we have met with a number of interesting candidates, however, none…
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MONTREAL – Bell Canada Enterprises’ growth platforms – wireless, video and high speed Internet – make up almost half of the company’s revenue these days and will hit 55% by the end of the year, the company announced today.
Facing "a significant step up," in wireline customer losses, said CEO Michael Sabia in a conference call with financial analysts this morning, revenues in the first quarter, ended March 31, 2006, still rose by 2.2% to $4.7 billion.
Those losses, say company executives, reveal a competitive market that the CRTC mis-read with its recent local forbearance decision – one…
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MONTREAL – Finding audiences, whatever screen they’re in front of, is the new mandate of Telefilm Canada.
The funding agency published its 2006-2011 corporate plan, dubbed: "From cinemas to cell phones: Telefilm Canada responds to the multiplatform challenge."
But success on all these platforms will require more cash, says the document.
"We believe the future looks promising for the Canadian industry – promise that will be fulfilled, increasingly, as the creators of Canadian stories take a multiplatform approach to distributing and transmitting productions," said Charles Bélanger, Telefilm’s board chair, in a release. "Telefilm is ready to adapt its policies…
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