More virtual buyers briefings slots opening up on Thursday
OTTAWA — Prime Time Online starts this week, and the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) announced today delegates can now book virtual meetings with Global Affairs Canada trade commissioners to discuss projects with international appeal and export potential.
The trade commissioners taking part in the Prime Time Pitch Market’s Trade Commissioner Service Export Café are:
Jeffrey Crossman – Ontario
Allison Goodings – UK
Constance Richard – France
Catherine Scheinman – New York City
In addition, due to popular demand, CMPA announced it is adding a limited number of Buyers Briefings slots which will…
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TORONTO — Hollywood Suite this morning announced two internal staff promotions. Sharon Stevens (above, left) has been promoted to vice-president of programming, and Julie Kumaria (right) is now senior vice-president of marketing and content distribution.
As director of programming from 2017 to 2020, Stevens “took Hollywood Suite’s schedules to new heights of creativity and viewer engagement”, says the press release announcing the promotions. Since early 2020, Stevens has led the programming team as they curate, commission and schedule Hollywood Suite’s movie channels, along the way garnering audience accolades such as “tell your curatorial staff they are f**king geniuses”, says the…
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TORONTO – The Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University announced last week the launch of a new independent, three-year, research study on Canadian sports fan, in partnership with Sportsnet and in collaboration with the Future of Sport Lab (FSL).
Said to be the first-of-its-kind academic study, the “Canadian Sport Fan Index will provide key insights on the attitudes, behaviors and trends of sport fans across Canada,” said the press release. “The research will focus on the post-Covid era examining how fans are engaging with professional sports teams and leagues as they deal with limited access to live events,…
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TORONTO – Long-time Sportsnet personality Sid Seixeiro announced last week he is leaving Sportsnet’s and 590 The Fan’s Tim & Sid to join Citytv’s Breakfast Television as its new co-host.
Beginning March 10, Seixeiro will join Dina Pugliese to talk about a lot more than sports.
“It’s been a dream to work 20 years in the sports industry, especially alongside Tim Micallef, and express my passion and love for sports on a daily basis,” said Seixeiro in the Rogers Sports and Media press release.
“However, I’ve always been curious to explore other areas of the business and this was a unique opportunity…
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Advanced service joins all-in-one-video push
By Greg O’Brien
MONTREAL – This week, Cogeco Connexion became the latest company to tell consumers if they want all of their video in one place, epico is the best place to find it.
After an extended trial period with employees (1,200 of the company’s 2,000 Canadian employees have it in their homes) and a handful of customers (over 12,000 customers now have epico), the company took the wrapper off the newest, and for now the most advanced, pay-TV system in Canada. We’re calling it that because its Android TV operator tier operating system from MediaKind gives…
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TORONTO — Branded Cities, a leading out-of-home (OOH) media company, today announced it has signed a new long-term agreement with Rogers Sports and Media to re-develop the Rogers Tower (above) which houses its Citytv studio in downtown Toronto.
The tower overlooks Yonge-Dundas Square, located in the heart of Toronto at the busy intersection of Yonge and Dundas streets. Rogers first acquired the tower at 33 Dundas St. E. in 2007 as the new home of the company’s Citytv and OMNI Television stations.
A complete overhaul of the Rogers Tower will begin in the third quarter of 2021, where Branded Cities will…
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But really, everyone is pretty good, winning in one metric or another…
SEATTLE — According to Seattle-based Ookla’s latest Speedtest Global Index, Telus was the fastest mobile operator among the top Canadian providers in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Using Speedtest Intelligence data from October to December 2020, Ookla gave Telus a speed score of 87.88 (calculated using results from devices built on modern chipsets). The next-highest speed score in Q4 2020 was awarded to Bell (84.51), followed by Rogers (73.05), Rogers’s flanker brand Fido (71.64) and Shaw’s Freedom Mobile (35.62).
In terms of latency, Freedom Mobile had the lowest…
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Telus achieves lowest network latency
SEATTLE — As was the case in the previous quarter, Rogers Communications ranked as the fastest fixed broadband provider among top Canadian providers in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Seattle-based Ookla’s latest Speedtest Global Index measurement of network speeds in Canada.
Based on Speedtest Intelligence data from October to December 2020, Ookla awarded Rogers a fixed-broadband speed score of 147.12. Close behind was Canada’s other big cable company Shaw Communications with a speed score of 146.96, followed by Telus (105.9), Bell Canada (103.62), Cogeco (98.27), Videotron (94.65) and TekSavvy (39.36).
Ookla’s speed score…
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By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Canada’s largest telecoms are telling the Supreme Court of Canada a lower court fumbled a decision in favour of lower wholesale rates by attributing a line of reasoning that was allegedly never made by the CRTC, abrogating its responsibilities to review the correctness of the regulator’s decision.
That line of reasoning is based on how the CRTC structured its decision in the summer of 2019, when it ordered a lower rate at which smaller telecoms pay for and sell bandwidth from the larger telecoms. At issue in front of the Federal Court of Appeal was whether…
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CALGARY and EDMONTON — Last week, Sportsnet announced it will continue to deliver exclusive regional coverage of Alberta’s NHL franchises through a multi-year regional broadcast rights extension with the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers.
Sportsnet has been the regional broadcaster of the two teams for the past 10 years, and the extended agreement will see the Rogers-owned sports network remain as the exclusive home to all Oilers and Flames games through the 2023-24 NHL season. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“As Canada’s home of hockey, we celebrate the passion Western Canadian fans have for these storied franchises and are proud to…
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