DARTMOUTH, N.S. – In announcing his company’s second quarter results Wednesday, Newfoundland Capital Corporation president and CEO Rob Steele said the company will continue to set its sights on more acquisitions going forward.
"We are diligently investing resources in growing this company by focusing on acquiring assets in underserved markets across the country,” said Steele. “The first half of this year has met our objectives, not only in terms of operating results, but also in terms of the success we have had with acquisitions, their integration into our operations and the granting of new licences.”
NCC (better-known as Newcap…
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OTTAWA – With 2005 results already rolling in and showing strong radio performance among publicly traded private broadcasters, Statistics Canada today released its compiled 2004 figures.
Click on the links to check out the ’05 performances of Corus, CHUM, Astral, Rogers and Newcap.
However, back in ’04, the air time sales of commercial radio broadcasters increased 3.3% to $1.2 billion in the broadcast year, ended August 31, 2004, that’s off the pace set in 2003 which saw a growth rate of 8.4%.
For the first time since 1999-2000, the advertising revenue of radio broadcasters grew at a…
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IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT as a young librarian in Winnipeg that there was no way Phyllis Yaffe could envision a career path that would take her to the top of one of Canada’s largest TV companies.
She grew into larger roles, as librarian at Seneca College in the 1970s to executive director for the Association of Canadian Publishers, vice-president of marketing at kids magazine Owl and then in the ’80s she was elected to the board of the foundation to underwrite new drama for pay TV (now the Harold Greenberg Fund) and was chair when she left in 1993…
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TORONTO – A street-front studio will be the national base for Canadian Satellite Radio, the company announced today.
The company announced plans today to open its broadcast and performance studio at Avenue Road and Davenport Road in downtown Toronto.
CSR has commenced construction of the studio, located at 175 Avenue Road, as part of the company’s ongoing infrastructure build out across the country. Additionally, over the next few months, CSR will complete the hiring of its production team to create and broadcast original Canadian programming to the North American market. The Toronto facility will be the home base for…
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THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY AND broadcasters look to be readying themselves for a regulatory scuffle over the delivery of television to mobile phone handsets.
The wireless companies say that since the video signal they plan to make available to cell phone customers is delivered via IP, (over the Internet), that it therefore falls under the CRTC’s 1999 new media exemption order and should not be subject to regulation. Period. That order said the CRTC would stay out of regulating the Internet – a decision which was made when the web was still just a toddler, however.
The broadcasters say that television…
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TORONTO – David Garby has been hired as director, advertising sales for VisionTV.
An experienced advertising industry executive, he takes up this new position on July 25. He will be responsible for the continued growth of VisionTV’s advertising and sponsorship revenue as well as the expansion of its client list, while working hand in hand with VisionTV’s media partners, including Airtime Sales and Trillenium Media.
Before moving to VisionTV, Garby served as Account Manager for CHUM Television’s conventional stations. Prior to that, he worked on Craig Media’s launch of Toronto 1, and sold airtime for all of Craig’s conventional and…
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TORONTO – With an initial investment of $125 million, pay TV license hopeful Spotlight TV “will transform pay TV into a compelling, choice-filled, high-value entertainment option for Canadian viewers,” said George Burger, president and CEO of Spotlight Television
“The whole category will benefit from a new competitor as Spotlight builds awareness of the advantages of premium pay TV.”
For an exclusive www.cartt.ca story on one of the other appicants and its plans, click here.
Canadian Pay TV penetration has lagged far behind the U.S. market. Currently, approximately 18% of cable and satellite homes subscribe to pay TV, compared to…
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TORONTO – Women in Film and Television – Toronto is offering the Teletoon Masters Program Writing for Animation on August 9, 16 and 23.
Sponsored by Teletoon and taught by writer Alyse Rosenberg, with other industry guests, this intensive three-part course introduces screenwriters to the animation medium and explores the principles of writing animated short films, television series and features.
Over three evenings, instructor Rosenberg leads the class through an in-depth study of the lifecycle of an animated writing project, from concept to ready-for-production script. Topics to be covered include understanding the medium, the application of classic story structure…
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THERE IS ALMOST NO WAY for an independent Canadian artist to get airplay on radio in this country, says Gregg Terrence, president of Indie Pool.
And even for some signed national artists, finding space in the playlists is very difficult. Artist development in Canada, is stalled.
The reason for this is the Canadian content (Cancon) rules for commercial radio in this country no longer work for those artists. While the rules for radio say that of the total music playlist, at least 35% must be Canadian – which is great, says Terrence – most of that space is taken…
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MONTREAL – By a vote of 65.4%, Bell Canada’s clerical employees ratified their new collective agreement negotiated with Bell by the Canadian Telecommunications Employees’ Association (CTEA).
The telephone vote from July 7 to 14 was supervised by Ernst & Young and 72.5% of eligible members exercised their right to vote.
The new agreement will take effect Monday, July 18, 2005 and will expire on May 31, 2009. Here are some highlights from the press release:
* No job losses due to potential outsourcing or subcontracting for the duration of the collective agreement. The agreement protects all employees who are…
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