IGLOOLIK, Nunavut — Only six months after its launch in January, Uvagut TV, Canada’s first Inuktuk-language TV channel, is helping to build live production capacity in communities across Inuit Nunangat, by enabling filmmaking teams to produce and share their stories with each other and a national audience.
Since March, Uvagut TV’s flagship program Tunnganarniq Live, a showcase of Inuit talent, has been guest hosted several times by members of the Arviat Film Society. On June 23, members of the Inuvialuit Communications Society, newly trained in live broadcasting techniques, will host the first Inuvik-based episode of the show, says a press…
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TORONTO — On June 30th, the last day of National Indigenous History Month, more than 400 radio stations from broadcasters across Canada, including the big chains Bell Media, Corus Entertainment, Rogers Sports & Media and Stingray Radio, and others, will join together for a full day of programming dedicated to amplifying and elevating Indigenous voices.
Bell Media shared the news today (which is National Indigenous Peoples Day) in a press release, saying “A Day To Listen” on Wednesday, June 30 will be devoted to sharing stories from Indigenous leaders, residential school survivors, elders, musicians and teachers throughout the day…
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Want faster, cheaper piracy measures
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The country’s largest broadcasters and telecoms want new copyright legislation to include provisions that give the courts the ability to order website-blocking, prevent the CRTC from overruling blocking orders, and to expand authority over other intermediaries to choke off infringers.
Bell, Rogers, Telus, Shaw, Cogeco, Quebecor, SaskTel, Eastlink, and the Canadian Communications System Alliance also want the legislation to reflect the courts’ ability to unilaterally order search engines to de-index infringing websites, social media platforms and to force hosts, like Cloudflare, to take down infringing services and not direct users to it,…
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CANADA’S ISPs ALWAYS want to perform well in PCMag’s analysis of the fastest speeds delivered to their customers.
The magazine regularly, with the help of Ookla and actual customers using its Speedtest, takes a look at the internet service providers across Canada to show who offers the fastest Internet service.
The upload and download speeds are given weighted scores and analyzed by PCMag according to a speed index (PCMag Speed Index or PSI). This year’s big winner was Beanfield Metroconnect, which notched huge performance gaps over its competition in Toronto.
When it comes to national providers however, Telus was the fastest.
“Last year,…
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NORTH BAY, Ont. — Radio station CFCH returned to the airwaves Tuesday morning, officially signing on at 7:30 a.m. ET as Country 90.5 FM, CFCH North Bay.
The CFCH call letters originated with the first radio station launched by Roy Thomson in North Bay back in 1930, which was right at the beginning of Lord Thomson of Fleet’s media-empire building. (The current Thomson-Reuters is a descendant of that company.)
The new CFCH FM station is owned and operated by Vista Radio, which is owned by Thomson’s granddaughter Sherry Brydson, who helped to kick off the launch of CFCH and spoke about…
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HALIFAX — After expanding its 5G network in New Brunswick earlier this month, Rogers Communications today announced it is launching 5G service in Halifax.
The company says its 5G network is the first and only one available in Nova Scotia right now, and its 5G service now reaches 12 communities across Atlantic Canada, including Saint John, Fredericton, Moncton and now Halifax.
Nationwide, Rogers currently offers 5G access in more than 700 communities, with a commitment to reach 1,000 by the end of the year.
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TORONTO — In a virtual presentation hosted by Canadian comedian and YouTube personality Jasmeet Raina, the Banff World Media Festival today announced the winners of the 2021 Rockie Awards International Program Competition.
Celebrating excellence in television and digital media content from around the world, the Rockie Awards program is juried by an esteemed panel of 150 international industry professionals and covers all major genres.
This year’s competition featured 142 nominations from 37 countries, including the UK, U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Australia and Netherlands.
Countries taking home top Rockies honours include:
* UK: 11 awards
* U.S.: 10 awards
* Canada: 5 awards
* Australia and France:…
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Auction starts today
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The strings attached to the federal government’s 3.5 GHz spectrum, whose auction beginning today will repurpose portions of it for mobile wireless use, include a speed-to-deployment component that complements federal policy to accelerate connectivity throughout the country by the end of the decade.
Winners of the auction, which Innovation Canada said will take “several weeks,” will have to deploy the spectrum largely within the 2030 timeframe for which the federal government hopes to provide access to all Canadians to high-speed internet.
While the focus is largely on what the 3.5 GHz spectrum will do for…
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By Etan Vlessing
TORONTO – In an annual upfront presentation short on traditional song and dance sales pitches, top executives at Rogers Sports & Media on Tuesday gave Canadian marketers and ad agencies a master class on big data and how advanced audience analytics will drive their multi-platform and device sales campaigns.
Division president Jordan Banks opened the broadcaster’s virtual show, which is an important pitch for ad dollars, by spotlighting a “massive transformation” in the organization after the pandemic accelerated consumption changes in the Canadian media landscape caused by cord-cutting and a shift in subscriber revenue to mostly foreign streaming…
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TORONTO — In celebration of Pride Month, Rogers’s flanker brand Fido announced today it has launched a new campaign that aims to connect Canadians through conversation and highlight a more diverse representation of Pride by showing Pride comes in every colour.
The June campaign features members of the LGBTQ2S+ community sharing their personal stories and revealing the flag they identify with the most. (Pictured are some of the flags featured in Fido’s campaign.)
“Fido will always be a brand that creates meaningful connections and advocates for true acceptance for everyone, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation,” said Nancy Thomas,…
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