MONTREAL — Bell has a full slate of programming and events planned for Wednesday’s 10th annual Bell Let’s Talk Day. The theme for this year’s nationwide multimedia campaign is “Mental Health: Every Action Counts”.
Bell is asking Canadians to join in special events and take action by talking, texting and getting engaged on social media to help drive the conversation and Bell’s donations to mental health.
Here’s a list of some of the broadcast events taking place on Bell Let’s Talk Day tomorrow:
Bell Media primetime specials
The Social’s Marci Ien and Your Morning’s Anne-Marie Mediwake host Awareness, Acceptance, and Action: A Bell…
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CHATHAM, ON — TekSavvy Solutions is expanding its cable Internet services into select regions of New Brunswick and Newfoundland, the company announced Tuesday.
New Brunswick communities that can now access TekSavvy services include Bathurst, Campbellton, Chamcook, Edmundston, Fredericton, Miramichi, Moncton, Pokemouche, Saint John and Woodstock. In Newfoundland, the communities that now have TekSavvy services available are Corner Brook, Gander, Grand Falls-Windsor, Notre Dame and St. John’s.
“This eastern launch brings TekSavvy’s award-winning, customer-first Internet services to even more Canadian homes,” says Marc Gaudrault, TekSavvy’s founder and CEO, in the company’s news release. “Consumers want real choice and competition and we’re…
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By Irene Berkowitz
THE LONG-AWAITED announcement from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) review panel is upon us.
Charles Falzon, among his many firsts, is founding chair of the CMPA. He also served on the Expert Advisory Group for our last federal media inquiry, the 2016-2017 Department of Canadian Heritage Canadian Content in a Digital World/Creative Canada Policy Framework. Falzon is Dean of Ryerson University Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD) and former Chair of RTA School of Media. He’s produced more than 2000 hours of TV with Gemini awards and Emmy nominations to his credit.
As…
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TORONTO — Multicultural broadcaster Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) says it’s launching the PeopleTV channel in Canada on Rogers Ignite TV.
U.S. media company Meredith Corp.’s PeopleTV network features programming produced by the People and Entertainment Weekly newsrooms in New York and Los Angeles, including celebrity and entertainment news highlighting live red-carpet events, the royals, popular TV cast reunions, high-profile celebrity interviews and more.
Marquee shows on the network include People Now, Entertainment Weekly Cast Reunions, Couch Surfing, The Royal Report and Reality Check.
“People and Entertainment Weekly are iconic brands that exemplify the highest standards in the world of entertainment. As ECG…
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PHILADELPHIA – Comcast executives said Thursday that its subsidiary’s upcoming Peacock service, combined with the cable division’s Xfinity Flex streaming device, will make the most effective revenue-generating streaming ecosystem available anywhere.
Peacock is a streamer which will fill what the company calls a “white space” in the market: a hybrid between a subscription and ad-supported service. It will be a largely ad-supported service with three tiers: 7,500 hours of ad-supported content for free, 15,000 hours of ad-supported content for US$5 (but it, too will be free if you subscribe to a pay-TV company), and an ad-free version of the…
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BRAMPTON and DAVOS – There were a couple of important Canadian cybersecurity announcements today.
The first was from Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, in partnership with Ryerson University’s DMZ, which announced the launch of the Catalyst Cyber Accelerator, “Canada’s first commercial accelerator specifically designed for scale-up companies in cybersecurity and related fields,” reads the press release.
Headquartered in Brampton’s Innovation District, the Catalyst Cyber Accelerator “will help Canada’s cybersecurity ecosystem by providing Canadian scale-up companies in cybersecurity and related fields the essential tools they need to grow and succeed nationally and internationally.”
The CCA is supported by the Government of Canada, through the Federal…
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TORONTO — In a climate where the prevailing feeling is wireless prices in Canada are still too high, a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) suggests Canadians spend less on wireless services than their counterparts in other countries.
In its new report, Understanding affordability of consumer mobile wireless services in Canada, PwC compares wireless spend in Canada to the U.S., Australia and the U.K. for what it calls a “high-level relative wireless affordability comparison against Canada.” When looking at the percentage of income spent on wireless in each of the countries, PwC found that, in 2016, an average Canadian household…
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TORONTO — Healthy uptake and migration to its Rogers Infinite unlimited data plans helped drive the fourth quarter of 2019, Rogers announced as part of its year-end fiscal report on Wednesday morning.
Among the highlights for its Rogers Infinite business, the company said approximately 60% of its existing customers who migrated to these unlimited wireless data plans have upgraded to higher-priced plans and only 40% had downgraded. In addition, these migrated customers, on average, are using more than 65% more data than they had previously used, Rogers says.
Data overage fees have historically represented approximately 5% of Rogers Wireless service revenue…
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TORONTO — To celebrate the Lunar New Year, OMNI Television is bringing audiences its annual variety special on Sunday, January 26.
Celebrating the Year of the Rat will be produced in Toronto in front of a live studio audience and will air Sunday at 6 p.m. (in Mandarin) and 7 p.m. (in Cantonese).
Hosted by Wei Lee and Jie Yang in Mandarin, and Kenneth Li and Karen So in Cantonese, this year’s variety special will include traditional dances, cooking, comedy and music, including performances by Northern Lights Southern Fists, Bamboo Kung Foo, Toronto Happy Laughing Association, the Toronto Chinese Youth Orchestra, Starlight…
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LONDON — Non-profit regional rural broadband project SWIFT (Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology) made a slew of announcements Monday that will see $19 million in provincial and federal funding invested to increase access to broadband services in several Southwestern Ontario communities.
SWIFT is making the investments through the New Building Canada Fund – Small Communities Fund (NBCF-SCF), a joint federal and provincial infrastructure funding program, and in partnership with its member municipalities.
Starting with its announcement for Wellington County, SWIFT has signed agreements with Cogeco Connexion, EH!tel Networks and North Frontenac Telephone Corporation (NFTC) to expand high-speed broadband infrastructure access to…
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