HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Kentucky — Five North American manufacturers — Prysmian Group, Clearfield, Dura-Line, Oldcastle Infrastructure and Primex — announced today they are teaming up to deliver a comprehensive high-speed broadband infrastructure solution to serve rural areas of Canada.
Called FibreONE, the group’s solution encompasses a full range of telecommunication solutions, drawing from each partner company’s strongest technology to deliver one best-in-class solution to customers, says the group’s press release.
This end-to-end solution features technologies from:
Prysmian Group, with North American headquarters in Highland Heights, Kentucky, and a Canadian location in Johnstown, Ontario, is a world leader in the energy and telecom…
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EDMONTON — Super Channel announced today it is the presenting sponsor of Northern Arena’s second annual Canadian Game Awards, which will air on its GINX Esports TV Canada on Friday, April 9.
Northern Arena is a Mississauga, Ont.-based esports content production house and tournament organizer, presenting some of Canada’s top gaming talent.
The two-hour show will present awards in more than 20 categories covering all aspects of the Canadian video game industry, honouring the best games, industry professionals, content developers, artists and events.
The awards special will air April 9 at 8 p.m. ET on GINX Esports TV Canada and will also…
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SAN FRANCISCO — Telstra Americas today announced Adam Day (above) has been appointed to lead its enterprise and technology sales group, with responsibility for both direct sales and indirect channels across the United States and Canada.
A 14-year Telstra veteran, Day has also had stints in Australia and the United Kingdom. Most recently, Day led Telstra Americas’ focus on the technology and media segment, where he successfully led a team that enabled some of the world’s largest cloud, collaboration, gaming, content and broadcast companies to build network infrastructure and reach markets across Asia Pacific, says the company’s press release announcing…
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Trying to make 2+2=5
By Greg O’Brien
OTTAWA – There’s essentially nothing the politicians can do directly about the proposed purchase of Shaw Communications by Rogers Communications because the arbiters are the CRTC, Competition Bureau and ISED. But that would never stop them from extracting their pound of flesh from powerful CEOs, if they so desire. And they desired.
So it was on Monday when Joe Natale, president and CEO of Rogers Communications, and Brad Shaw, CEO of Shaw Communications (along with other senior executives) faced the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology and attempted to explain to mostly dubious MPs…
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By Catherine Edwards
IN THE LEAD UP TO the Broadcasting Act review, Canada’s five associations representing the community element (two TV, three radio) were dismayed the Creative Canada Policy Framework, the Shattered Mirror, and the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review reports barely mention community broadcasting, despite it being one of the three pillars of the system.
This omission was significant. The community element is uniquely positioned to address the most pressing issues that face our broadcasting system:
the lack of local programming outside major population centres
the lack of programming made by and for minorities, especially Indigenous communities
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By Doug Barrett
WHEN BILL C-10 WAS TABLED last November, it didn’t take long to notice that the first section in the Broadcasting Policy for Canada (“the Canadian broadcasting system shall be effectively owned and controlled by Canadians”) had been deleted.
Not modified or amended, but completely deleted.
Since that time, the bill has been debated in Parliament and wended its way through the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage – which has now heard comments from lobby groups, sages, elders, and experts and will soon be considering its own amendments. Many of those appearing before the Committee (including independent broadcasters, producers, associations,…
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Briefing note pointed to Premier Legault’s promise of 50/10 for all by end of 2022
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The federal portion of the $826.3 million investment announced this week to connect 150,000 households in Quebec by September 2022 is coming from the $1.75-billion Universal Broadband Fund, Innovation Canada confirmed, less than 10 days after the final deadline for applications closed.
This would make Tuesday’s announcement the first award from the UBF’s core program, as its “rapid” stream for projects completed by November has already disbursed funds. The massive $826.3-million operation will be evenly split between Quebec’s new Operation…
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TORONTO – Social media giant Facebook today said it will expand its Facebook-Canadian Press News Fellowship with an additional $8 million investment.
Last June Facebook and CP announced the fellowship with initial funding of $1 million. The new money will be contributed over the next three years “to help support the sustainability of the news industry in Canada,” reads the company blog post.
Since the June 2020 announcement, CP has created roles for 10 emerging journalists (including, for example, Nunavut’s Emma Tranter, the first CP correspondent based in the far north in 35 years). The one-year fellowships are bringing…
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By Steve Faguy
IT WAS SUPPOSED to be to FM radio what FM was to AM: Better audio quality, a way to expand to more channels, and a future replacement with some cool bells and whistles.
In the 1990s, Canada’s radio broadcasters spent millions of dollars on new transmitters and devoted a lot of airtime to marketing the new technology: DAB, or digital audio broadcasting.
“The radio industry is primed to reinvent itself for the digital age and 1997 will be the first year of the revolution,” read a 1996 article from the Vancouver Sun. “Within a generation, AM and FM radio…
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AMI broadcasters were already very good at finding creative solutions and adapting
By Ruby Pratka
WHEN THE COVID-19 pandemic hit, journalists had to radically change the way they worked almost overnight. Like thousands of reporters across Canada, Jessie Archambault had to get used to working from home and interviewing sources by videoconference. Once she resumed fieldwork, the Montreal-based reporter had to get used to wielding the two-metre-long microphone pole that allowed her to do physically distant interviews in person.
Fortunately, Archambault and her colleagues are used to finding creative solutions. Archambault is a reporter and producer at AMI, a nationwide cable TV…
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