SASKATOON – RTDNA Canada recognized the Prairie Region winners of the RTDNA Awards of Excellence, honouring the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital.
The Prairie Region winners will now compete with winners from the West, East and Central regions for the National Awards, which will be announced at the RTDNA Canada 2019 National Conference & Awards Gala scheduled for May 10-11, 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto.
The 2019 Prairie Region winners are:
Digital
Best Podcast
CBC Saskatchewan – Boushie
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award
CBC Saskatchewan – Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award
Global Saskatoon…
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Reiterates push for “granular data”
GATINEAU – The Canadian wireless market reaps $24.5 billion in annual retail sales, accounts for 155,000 jobs and 31.7 million subscribers (2017 figures*) so the stakes are rather high when it comes to another regulatory review of that market.
Old ways (facilities-based competition) may be thrown out with new ones mandated (MVNOs). The questions surrounding the CRTC’s latest review of the wireless market has created much unease and uncertainty inside Canada’s wireless carriers (and a glimmer of hope among those who want to launch new MVNO-based brands and…
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OTTAWA – Vancouver may soon have a new radio station after the CRTC issued a call for comments on the market capacity and on the appropriateness of issuing a call for radio applications in that city.
The Commission said Thursday that it issued the call after receiving an application from Rogers Media for a commercial radio station to serve that market, operating on the frequency used by its rebroadcasting transmitter CKKS-FM-2 Vancouver, which rebroadcasts the programming of CKKS-FM Chilliwack.
Interventions are due by June 3 and the deadline to file replies is June 18, 2019. Following receipt of comments, the CRTC said that it…
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GATINEAU – A Competition Bureau request for the CRTC to facilitate a big data dump from Canadian wireless service providers has flummoxed the Commission and caused at least one carrier to accuse the Bureau of attempting to “hijack” the CRTC’s recently announced review of Canada’s mobile wireless services market.
On March 8, the Competition Bureau filed a procedural request with the CRTC under the proceeding, saying it planned to conduct three of its own analyses of the Canadian wireless market, but in order to do so, it needs the CRTC to demand Canadian wireless service providers…
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TORONTO – DAZN will kick off its coverage of English Premier League soccer in August after confirming Wednesday that it has locked down the Canadian broadcast rights to the EPL for the next three seasons.
The sports streamer said that all 380 Premier League soccer matches of the 2019-2020 season will be available live and in HD.
This will leave huge holes in weekend programming schedules, especially for both Rogers' Sportsnet and Bell Media's TSN, which have shared the rights to the most popular professional soccer league in the world for years. The lengthy season stretches from August to May, and by our…
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44% increase in complaints
OTTAWA – The mid-year report from the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) once again doesn’t look good for Canada’s telecom and TV providers.
The report released this morning shows a 44% increase in the number of complaints it received from Canadian telecom and TV customers between August 1, 2018 and January 31, 2019. This follows a 73% increase for that same period last year, so there has at least been improvement in the rate of growth in complaints at least.
Canadians complained most often about their wireless service, followed in order by…
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HALIFAX – RTDNA Canada recognized the East Region winners of the RTDNA Awards of Excellence on Saturday, honouring the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital.
The East Region winners will now compete with winners from the West, Prairie and Central regions for the best of the best, the National Awards, which will be announced at the RTDNA Canada 2019 National Conference & Awards Gala scheduled for May 10-11, 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto.
The 2019 East Region winners are:
Digital
Best Podcast
CBC New Brunswick – The Hook, An Original Podcast Series
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards…
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Seems likely we’ll eventually see it from the Canadian X1 licencees
PHILADELPHIA – This week Comcast launched Xfinity Flex, a new $5/mo. service which provides Xfinity Internet-only customers the ability to stream thousands of free movies and TV shows as well as use their television and voice control to manage all connected devices in their home.
Xfinity Flex comes with an Internet-connected, 4K HDR streaming TV device, Comcast’s award-winning voice remote, one integrated guide for accessing popular streaming video and music choices, as well as Comcast’s home Wi-Fi, mobile, security, and automation services.
Plus, having that extra little box in an Internet-only…
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Blue Jays: Pinoy Edition returns to OMNI Television, ICI Television Quebec, every Sunday
TORONTO – Spring is in the air and Rogers’ Sportsnet will once again offer extensive Toronto Blue Jays coverage on TV, radio and digitally.
All 162 Blue Jays games will be available on Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, SN Now and the Sportsnet Radio Network. The 2019 Blue Jays campaign gets underway on Thursday, March 28 with the season opener against the Detroit Tigers at 3:30 PM ET / 12:30 PM PT.
“We recognize that Blue Jays fans are hungry for unique content on a variety of platforms,” said Sportsnet president Bart…
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CUPERTINO, CA – Apple’s new video subscription service Apple TV+ will launch this fall in over 100 countries including Canada, the tech giant said Monday from a star-studded event at the Steve Jobs Theater.
The ad-free service will sit inside a revamped Apple TV app and become “the new home for the world’s most creative storytellers,” hopes the company, and include original shows, movies and documentaries from the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Octavia Spencer, J.J. Abrams, Jason Momoa, M. Night Shyamalan, Jon M. Chu and Sesame Street Workshop (whose first…
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