TORONTO – CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen will deliver the closing keynote address at the 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit.
Canada’s leading event for the telecommunications industry, the summit attracts more than 500 from the telecom industry.
Other speakers are: Mitel chairman Terry Matthews, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle, Vonage founder Jeffrey Citron, Avaya Chair and CEO Donald Peterson; IBM Canada president Dan Fortin; Alcatel North America CEO Hubert de Pesquidoux; Allstream president John MacDonald; Mark Henderson, president of Ericsson Canada; Michael Moskowitz, president of Palm Canada; Chris Rooney from the new AT&T; Nortel North America president Dion Joannou, Siemens Group executive…
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EDMONTON – Craig Roskin has been hired as station manager, CHUM Television Edmonton.
Roskin comes to CHUM with over 19 years of television experience, most recently as general manager for Global Television in Edmonton. Prior to Global, he held a variety of roles with Western International Communications (WIC) leading up to general manager, Edmonton and vice-president sales, Alberta.
Roskin will be responsible for managing the day-to-day local operations of the stations in CHUM Television’s newly integrated Edmonton media facility, which includes Citytv Edmonton, ACCESS The Education Station, CLT (Canadian Learning Television), BookTelevision, and CourtTV Canada.
“We are very pleased…
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AS EXPECTED, FORMER BROADCASTER (TVO and CTV) and CRTC Commissioner, Durham (Ont.) MP Bev Oda, was made Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women this morning when new Prime Minister Stephen Harper was sworn in and announced his new cabinet.
What wasn’t expected was former Liberal Industry Minister David Emerson crossing the floor to become a Conservative and remain in cabinet and in power as Minister for International Trade.
Beauce (Que.) MP Maxime Bernier, a former Standard Life vice-president, has been named Industry Minister.
Industry and Heritage both oversee the CRTC, the regulatory arbiter of the Canadian cable,…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications today filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court of Canada over Bell Mobility’s recent run of TV and print advertising Rogers says “crosses the line” and is damaging to its brand.
“Bell has run a series of ads over the past year, the most recent of which, we felt, were too much,” John Boynton, Rogers Communications senior vice-president and chief marketing officer told www.cartt.ca this afternoon. The most recent ad that he – and the lawsuit – points to is the TV spot about Bell Mobility’s wireless speed capabilities where the Bell cheetah eats the…
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OTTAWA – The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union, which represents many workers at Bell Canada, said Wednesday it will oppose plans by the company to create an income trust which would provide telephone service in rural Ontario and Quebec.
A CEP press release said it is concerned that the move will jeopardize universal, affordable phone service in a huge segment of the country, although it did not way why it had arrived at this position or how.
BCE CEO Michael Sabia, however, reiterated many times during the company’s Business Review Conference on Wednesday that the company plans to retain…
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TORONTO – After months of looking, CBC Television today announced that Kirstine Layfield, a senior executive at Alliance Atlantis, will become executive director, network programming.
She replaces Slawko Klymkiw, who joined the Canadian Film Centre in the fall of 2005. Her official start date in what is considered the plum job in Canadian TV has not yet been announced. It was a much-sought-after post. Layfield (left) will be responsible for the overall programming strategy for CBC Television and brings almost 20 years of combined experience in the broadcasting and television industries, most recently as senior vice-president, lifestyle…
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THIS YEAR’S BANFF WORLD TELEVISION FESTIVAL, June 11-14, 2006 at the Fairmount Banff Springs in Banff, Alberta is about getting plugged into the industry.
From the opening day-long session led by Kit Readman and Micki Rogers on how to pitch an idea, to Rick Mercer’s town hall meeting on the landscape of Canadian television on the last day, the festival is all about getting in the know, getting known and well, getting a deal.
“The Festival provides unique opportunities to connect with the industry, create new business and help define future trends,” says the festival’s Director of Content Jennifer…
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TORONTO – If any star and network partnership ever made sense, this one does.
WFN: World Fishing Network, announced today a marketing partnership with one of the biggest names in Canadian fishing: Bob Izumi.
Probably Canada’s best-known fisherman, Izumi will serve as spokesperson for WFN, appear on the network’s station IDs and be the focal point of the network’s marketing and promotions (exclusive to WFN). Additionally, Izumi’s popular weekly fishing program, The Real Fishing Show, airs on WFN during the “All Canadian Fishing” block.
And, details of a Canada-wide WFN-Izumi consumer contest will be released shortly. Continue Reading
TORONTO – Howard Stern will return to the Canadian airwaves on Monday, via satellite, of course.
Sirius Canada today announced what most figured was inevitable, that the "King of All Media," Howard Stern, will be included as part of the company’s 100 channel premium line up. As of February 6, 2006, Sirius Canada subscribers will be able to hear Stern on the widely publicized Howard 100 channel.
Stern was, for a couple of years in the 1990s, available in Canada on Toronto’s Q107 and CFOM in Montreal.
Stern, who debuted on Sirius in the U.S. on January 9, is…
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It has now been a year since Videotron launched its cable telephone service, offering consumers an affordable alternative to the residential phone service provided by the major telephone companies such as Bell and Telus. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has allowed competition in local telephone markets since 1997 but this is the first real breach in the big phone companies’ age-old monopoly.
Jumping into a market in which giants such as AT&T and Sprint have foundered meant a massive investment in infrastructure and technology for Videotron, and of course a big risk.
The response from the marketplace…
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