By Glenn Wanamaker
QUEBEC CITY – The owners of controversial Quebec City radio station CHOI-FM, rebuffed by the Federal Court of Appeal in their effort to overturn a CRTC decision to withdraw their licence, say they will try to take the case to the Supreme Court of Canada.
"We will fight this to the end," Patrice Demers, President of GENEX Communications, the station’s owner, told a press conference late Thursday.
The station, rated number one in the market last spring, is allowed to stay on the air for at least 20 days, or until a decision is made on allowing a…
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CALGARY – Longtime Shaw Cable executive Randy Elliot will be retiring on Oct. 31, 2005, company CEO Jim Shaw announced yesterday.
Elliot (right), currently Senior Vice-President of Technical Operations, joined Shaw in 1971, becoming the first person hired to look after the company’s technical aspects.
Colleagues were quick to say how he’s made a huge contribution to the industry.
“He’s been contributing to the rapid expansion of technology in the cable industry: telephones, data, digital, high definition, and fibre,” says Dick Green, president and CEO of Cable Television Laboratories, the research consortium for the cable industry. Elliot has been…
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TORONTO – In a rare show of solidarity, the two satellite radio services licensed recently by the CRTC will be banding together to show support for the services, amid rumours the federal government will ask the commission to review or rescind the licences.
Top execs from competitors Canadian Satellite Radio (Chairman and CEO John Bitove, and President and COO Stephen Tapp) and Sirius Canada (President and CEO Kevin Shea, and Gary Slaight, President and CEO, Standard Radio Inc.) will be joined by stars from Canada’s music and entertainment industry at a Toronto bar at noon on Wednesday to explain…
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CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – AVP Mfg. & Supply Inc. has reached a deal with TVC Canada to sell the complete line of AVP products and accessories in Canada.
AVP is a Cambridge, Ont.-based developer and manufacturer of audio/video/digital patching equipment for the commercial broadcast, telecommunications, and satellite industries.
TVC Canada, based in Markham, Ont., is the leading reseller of brand label products for the cable, wireless, broadband, and broadcast industries. It has stocking warehouses and sales staff in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver.
“We at TVC Canada are very excited to have reached this agreement with AVP,” says Luc…
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OTTAWA – Citing unnamed sources, a report this (Friday) evening from the Canadian Press says the federal cabinet is about to ask the CRTC to rescind its June decision to license two satellite radio providers.
As reported by www.cartt.ca, many cultural groups, as well as traditional radio companies (led by CHUM Ltd. and Astral Media, which together won a competing terrestrial digital radio license), have asked that the decision be set aside.
CHUM has warned that its proposed service probably won’t launch at all if the two satellite providers remain.
On June 16, the CRTC granted…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Telecom and CANARIE, Canada’s research and education network organization today announced a multi-million dollar contract whereby Rogers Telecom will provide a wide range of network services to support the CA*net 4 network.
The network services will enable CANARIE to continue to expand CA*net 4 connections beyond virtually all of the country’s universities and colleges now served, to federal and provincial research labs, schools, hospitals and private sector research facilities.
CANARIE is a not-for-profit advanced Internet organization funded by Industry Canada to facilitate the development and use of next-generation research networks and the applications and services that…
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MISSISSAUGA – VOIP provider Vonage Canada announced today that its wares will be sold in stores and on-line by Montreal-based retailer Compusmart.
Vonage is the leading third-party voice over Internet protocol provider in North America. All consumers need is a ready high speed Internet connection, the Vonage gear, and they’re ready for cheap VOIP phone calling.
"The retail agreement between Vonage Canada and CompuSmart is a relationship between two industry leaders and brings us closer to our goal of making the Vonage service available to as many Canadians as possible," said Joe Parent, vice president of marketing and business…
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MONTREAL – The man who ran TQS from 1998 to 2003 – and who just presided over the recently completed World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, has been hired by Cogeco Inc. as president and CEO of the company’s radio and TV properties. Cogeco president and CEO Louis Audet made the announcement today. Guimond (right) will be responsible for all aspects of management and business development of Cogeco Radio Télévision Inc. (CRTI), and more specifically of TQS television network, RYTHME FM radio network and 93 3 radio station.
Guimond had been…
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OTTAWA – A number of Canada’s leading information technology companies (Rogers and Bell, for example) have united to urge the government to modernize the Telecommunications Act in order to promote the government’s entire agenda of competition, investment and commercialization.
The urging comes in a submission to the federal government’s Telecom Policy Review (TRP) delivered by the CATA-CAIP TelecomACT Working Group, a high-level panel drawn from the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), and its parent organization, the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA). Industry members included: MTS Allstream, Bell, Ericsson, MCI, Nakina Systems, Rogers, Telesat, Telus, Eagle.ca, AOL, Orbit.com, NetIdea.,…
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REGINA and SASKATOON – Industry Minister David Emerson touched on the telecommunications sector in speeches to the Regina and Saskatoon Chambers of Commerce today.
Calling telecom a “critical priority”, Emerson added “information and communications technologies (ICT) represent the single largest contributors to productivity and competitive improvements in recent years. Here in Canada and in other countries, ICT related investments accounted for approximately 75% of productivity improvements. But we’re still falling short of the U.S.”
He touched on the Telecom Policy Review panel, which is to file its report by year’s end. Its goal “is to foster competition; stronger infusion of ICT…
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