HAMILTON, ON – The leading news source for the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industry is growing again.
While other industry publications cut back, www.cartt.ca is adding to its editorial team. Besides editor and publisher Greg O’Brien, www.cartt.ca now has a total of four other editors now covering the Canadian industry.
Glenn Wanamaker will be our Quebec Editor. He is a freelance broadcaster and journalist, with 25 years experience in the broadcast industry, including 15 in Quebec. Based in Quebec City, the bi-lingual Wanamaker will keep his finger on the pulse of the industry in the province where…
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AT LAST COUNT, THERE WERE 103 submissions to the three-person panel in charge of Industry Canada’s Telecom Policy Review.
Boy, do they have some summer/fall reading in front of them.
Not counting appendices, Telus’ submission is 266 pages. Bell’s submission is on a CD ROM and is over a thousand. I wish Dr. Gerri Sinclair, Hank Intven, and André Tremblay the best of luck wading through this sea of advice, recommendations – and in some cases, outright silliness. They’re all telecom talents and will come up with something good, we hope.
Players have until September 15th to respond to…
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BRECHIN, Ont. – There’s just under a month before the Central Canada Broadcast Engineering conference at the Horseshoe Resort near Orillia, Ont.
The event is shaping up as yet another great professional development event where engineers, manufacturers, distributors, salespeople and other colleagues from across the central Canada broadcast landscape can gather for networking, education and fun, say organizers.
The lineup of technical papers is growing. For example, look for ADC’s presentation on Cat 5 Cable Certification, which will give attendees a chance to get acquainted with the importance of cabling know-how and its general practices.
Jan Skora, director general,…
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TORONTO – Well, that didn’t take long.
As reported yesterday evening by cbc.ca (repeated here on cartt.ca), former head of CBC programming is, in fact, headed to the Canadian Film Centre.
Robert Munroe, chair of the board of the CFC confirmed that this morning. Klymkiw starts his new job in late September.
"We are incredibly excited to have Slawko take the helm of the Canadian Film Centre," said Munroe, in the press release. "The depth of experience and industry knowledge that he brings to the position will be integral to leading the next exciting chapter in the Film…
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OTTAWA – Does it sound right that radio stations should have to pay $7 million in fees for simply transferring a music file from one computer to another, or from a CD to a server, for use within its own operations – in order to get the song to air?
No it doesn’t, says the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, which is again at the doorstep of the House of Commons demanding that MPs pay attention to this detail when it examines the recently tabled copyright bill, C-60.
“When the government’s new copyright bill was tabled last month, Bill C-60…
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TORONTO – The man ultimately responsible for what you’ve seen on the CBC for almost a decade has decided to call it quits.
CBC announced Wednesday evening that Slawko Klymkiw (right), executive director, network programming, has stepped down after 25 years with the Corp. and nine as head of English television programming.
While speculation will likely run rampant over the reasons for his departure, he insists it wasn’t because of the current lockout, adding the move has been coming for a while. “Nine years is an extraordinarily long time for anyone to be the Program Director of a major…
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TORONTO – An on-line survey done by music services provider Indie Pool says that over 90% of independent Canadian artists support satellite radio.
Of 568 artists who responded to the satellite radio survey question sent out, 518 answered "Yes" to the question: "Were you in favour of the CRTC licensing satellite radio in Canada?"
Indie Pool sent an online survey to a sample group of Canadian independent artists between July 15 and August 5 asking a variety of questions about artist activities and interests. Respondents represented a wide variety of musical genres, each province and territory and ages ranging…
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LIVING IN THE BIG CITIES, it’s easy to forget – or to never think about – what it’s like in smaller, more remote communities.
A few months ago, I mentioned to a small operator how a far larger MSO still had some substantial 330 MHz and 450 MHz cable systems remaining to rebuild (with just a little mocking disdain in my voice). His response was a little bit sarcastic, wondering what’s wrong with systems like that, since much of his programming and data was still being delivered over such plant to presumably happy customers.
It cleared my head and…
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OTTAWA – Monday was deadline day for submissions to Industry Canada’s Telecom Policy Review Panel.
Not surprisingly, all stakeholders are calling for massive changes, with each pointing towards different ways to change telecommunications policy in Canada. Featured here are snippets from the Bell Canada, Telus and CCTA submissions. Look for more on this from www.cartt.ca as we wade through the submissions –everything from the large stakeholders in this story to the angry Telus workers complaining that the company is blocking their web access.
Bell Canada – change everything, promote ICT and R&D The country’s largest telco says that the…
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TORONTO – John Galway was named president, English-language program of the Harold Greenberg Fund today while Bryn Matthews was appointed to chairman of the board of directors.
John Riley, president of Astral Television Networks made the announcements today.
Astral Media The Harold Greenberg Fund/Le Fonds Harold Greenberg is Canada’s largest private funding agency for English and French-language films and scripts, investing approximately $45.8 million since its inception in 1986. It is named for the late brother of Astral Media’s CEO Ian Greenberg.
As president of the fund, Galway will be responsible for its disbursements and investments in film and…
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