TORONTO — The indieNET group of independent TV broadcasters announced Tuesday its joint Fall 2020 upfront presentation will be done as a digital broadcast on Thursday, June 18.
indieNET’s virtual upfront presentation, hosted by Airtime Television Sales and featuring CHCH TV, YesTV, CHEK and NTV, will announce new fall programming and celebrate the fifth anniversary of the indieNET partnership. The digital broadcast will be available for clients and advertisers to stream online live and on demand, too. The news release says invitations will be sent to media planners, buyers and industry members in the coming days.
“We’d been challenged to adjust…
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GATINEAU — As part of the CRTC’s ongoing wireless policy review, the Commission has directed Bell Mobility to disclose information previously designated as confidential regarding cost estimates related to the implementation of seamless roaming.
The order comes in a procedural letter dated May 29, in which the CRTC says Bell Mobility must “disclose its estimate of the per-border initial setup and ongoing maintenance costs associated with seamless roaming.” Bell is to provide the information to the Commission by June 5.
The request for disclosure came from Cogeco Communications in an April 30th letter submitted to the CRTC.
The Commission notes in…
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KELOWNA, B.C. — With this summer’s planned opening of Rogers’s new call centre in Kelowna delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the company has begun the virtual hiring of 350 new employees, who will work from home until the new complex can be opened safely.
As reported in September 2019, the new customer solution centre (pictured) will occupy 32,000 square feet on Dickson Avenue in Kelowna’s Landmark District.
Employees at the new centre are expected to handle approximately one million Rogers and Fido customer interactions each year, according to the news release. New employee roles for both Rogers and…
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GATINEAU — On Monday, the CRTC initiated a proceeding to examine the offer and promotion of accessible wireless plans by wireless service providers and the extent to which these plans meet the needs of Canadians with various disabilities.
All retail wireless service providers are required to offer accessible wireless plans and to promote those plans in ways that are accessible, including through stores, websites and customer service representatives.
The aim of the proceeding, however, is to look at how wireless service providers are complying with these requirements, whether differences exist between primary and flanker brands, whether the plans currently offered and…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC now says it will expedite an application made by Rogers to review and vary the Commission’s decision in April which gave Bell more time to deploy one-way toll-free (TF) trunks between the two companies’ networks, as part of an ongoing dispute over toll-free call routing.
When the Commission posted the R&V application filed by Rogers to its website on May 27, it set June 26, 2020 as the deadline for interventions. The following day on May 28 in a procedural letter, the Commission revised the deadline to June 8 for interested parties to respond…
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MONTREAL — In an all-cash transaction valued at $1.04 billion, BCE announced Monday it is selling 25 data centre facilities located at 13 sites to global interconnection services provider and data centre company Equinix Inc.
“This transaction reinforces Bell’s strategy to focus investment on the network infrastructure, content and services necessary to advance how Canadians connect with each other and the world. Equinix, with its expanding platform of data centres here in Canada and worldwide, is well-positioned to maximize the opportunities these facilities represent for Canadian businesses in an increasingly global and interconnected data sector,” said Mirko Bibic, president and…
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TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays’ home stadium, the Rogers Centre, is being turned into a temporary food hamper sorting centre in support of Food Banks Canada’s Covid-19 response, Rogers Communications and the Jays Care Foundation announced Monday.
As part of the new Step Up to the Plate initiative, Rogers Centre will house 6,000 pallets containing 10 million pounds of food which will be sorted into food hampers on the field and delivered across the country to families in need. Each hamper will be filled with a variety of non-perishable food items, providing one individual with a week’s worth of…
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TORONTO — CTV Life Channel is starting a month-long, nationwide free preview on Tuesday, June 2, which will feature a new Tuesday-night lineup of wedding series and Saturday wedding-themed movie marathons.
Running until July 9, the CTV Life Channel freeview will also see the series debut of Double Your Dish on Monday, June 29 at 8:30 p.m. ET. Hosted by real-life couple Chef Rodney Bowers and radio and TV personality Meredith Shaw (pictured in centre), the eight-episode, self-shot cooking series helps viewers make the most out of their meals by transforming one base recipe into two totally different dishes.
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KELOWNA, B.C. – Canada’s first real-world 5G smart city solution is launching in Kelowna next week in a partnership between the city, Rogers Communications and University of British Columbia (UBC), the municipality announced Thursday.
Over the weekend of March 27, nearly 50 UBC students got together as part of a virtual hackathon to explore how new technologies and improved wireless connectivity could help Kelowna find ways to improve how people move around downtown and increase pedestrian and cyclist safety through design. One of the winning ideas from the hackathon is being implemented as a pilot project in downtown Kelowna, says…
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TORONTO – After 15 years at the helm, Music Canada president and CEO Graham Henderson, will be stepping down, it was announced Thursday.
“We thank Graham for guiding Music Canada through a period of phenomenal growth and transition, including his dogged domestic and international championing of copyright reform and protection,” said Jennifer Sloan, board chair, in the press release.
“I have been given the great honour and privilege of serving the members of Music Canada and the wider music community for 15 thrilling and rewarding years. And throughout this entire time, I have had the unalloyed joy of working with the…
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