TORONTO – Rogers Media is launching companion streaming services for its Citytv and FX linear services this fall, allowing viewers to catch up on an episode or an entire season of their favourite shows.
The services, Citytv Now and FX Now, will be subscriber authenticated, ad-supported, and available online, on mobile apps for iOS and Android, TV Everywhere platforms, and on Video-on-Demand through set-top boxes to TV service providers across Canada.
“Marrying the immersive experience of premium and prime-time television with the immediacy of on-demand, the Citytv Now and FX Now streaming services are a natural extension of the viewer experience,”…
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TORONTO – OMNI Television will air Toronto Blue Jays games in Tagalog every Saturday starting this summer.
Parent Rogers Media said Friday that Blue Jays on OMNI will air home and away games on OMNI.2, OMNI BC, OMNI Alberta and OMNI Regional using Sportsnet’s live feed, similar to how it does Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition.
More details, including on-air commentators and date of the first broadcast, will be announced at a later date.
“OMNI Television continues to evolve the range of programming it offers, and we are excited to be bringing our audiences Canada’s baseball team in our first-ever baseball…
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TORONTO – If you put together CHCH, CHEK, NTV and YesTV and help power it with sales agency Airtime Television Sales (which also reps Thunder Bay’s two TV stations), did you know you had a network of independents which cover 93% of Canadians?
That’s the pitch IndieNet (which is what the group calls themselves) has been making to advertisers now for two years. Airing an eclectic mix of local news, their own locally produced shows, new U.S. programming, old (but-much-loved-and-please-call-them-retro-instead) series, classic popular movies and other independent programming, these broadcasters offer up a diverse, pan-Canadian audience. Since IndieNet was formed,…
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TORONTO – Filming is underway for the second season of Bad Blood, the original drama series inspired by real life underworld figure Vito Rizzuto.
City said Monday that the eight new 60-minute episodes of the series will air this fall. Star Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy) reprises his role as multifaceted mobster Declan Gardiner, helming a new cast featuring Louis Ferreira (Breaking Bad, S.W.A.T), Anna Hopkins (Shadow Hunters), and Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp).
Season 2 picks up five years after Rizzuto’s death when his former right-hand man Gardiner (Coates), is the reigning king of the Montreal drug trade – that is, until a…
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TORONTO – RTDNA Canada recognized journalistic excellence over the weekend, announcing the winners of its Network RTDNA Awards of Excellence.
“With a record number of entries this year, the competition was as tough as ever and our valued judges presided over some truly remarkable submissions” said RTDNA Canada president Ian Koenigsfest, in the announcement. “The exceptionally high standard of entries from all regions and all market sizes indicates that quality of journalism continues to thrive in Canada. Winning an RTDNA Award of Excellence once again indicates the pinnacle of our craft on all platforms. Congratulations to everyone involved in producing…
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TORONTO – While Canadians opt for online shopping for many purchases, nearly two-thirds (63%) of customers who have purchased a wireless device over the past six months did it in a physical store, according to a new J.D. Power report.
The 2018 Canada Wireless Purchase Experience Study examines wireless carriers’ performance across sales-related activities in stores, over the phone, and online. Satisfaction is measured in six factors: store representative; online purchase; phone purchase; facility; offerings and promotions; and cost of service. Fielded in February-March 2018, the study is based on responses from 3,605 wireless customers with a postpaid plan from…
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OTTAWA – Veteran journalist and author Esther Bégin is joining Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) as the network's French Anchor.
Starting next fall, Bégin (pictured) will host a daily program during sitting weeks of the House of Commons as well as feature interviews with Canadian political personalities.
"We are very excited to welcome such an experienced and passionate journalist like Esther Bégin to lead our team," said CPAC president and GM Catherine Cano, in Thursday’s announcement. "She has the important task of making the various issues affecting francophones in Quebec and the rest of Canada known and understood. As we know,…
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HEATHER CONWAY, CBC EXECUTIVE vice-president, English Services, likes drinking from the Netflix co-production tap.
The pubcaster hit ratings gold with high-profile Netflix collaborations like Alias Grace and Anne as it grows its originals slate and on Thursday the CBC unveiled another upscale, internationally driven series co-produced with Netflix in Northern Rescue, which stars William Baldwin and Kathleen Robertson, for its 2018-19 schedule.
The way Conway tells it, a CBC steadily breaking free of its traditional linear TV moorings and floating in an expanding digital space atop its new OTT app has found offering homegrown property – or talent-driven content to Netflix,…
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YES, A MUST-CARRY TV license is not the lottery win it once was and yes, making a linear ethnic programming service in various languages work as a business within the Canadian TV system has always been a challenge which has only grown more difficult of late.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t people who think they can make a national ethnic TV channel work. In fact, including the incumbent, there are eight companies with some pretty bright ideas.
OMNI has long been the mainstream ethnic channel, serving up a mix of Italian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Punjabi and other programming over the…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications today announced Philippe Jetté will become president and CEO of both public companies effective September 1st, 2018. Current CEO Louis Audet, who has been in the role for 25 years, recommended Jetté and on that day, Audet will become executive chairman of the board.
The companies are publicly traded, but the Audet family owns control of the voting shares.
Jetté (pictured at left with Audet at the press conference Tuesday), an electrical engineer by training, joined Cogeco as senior vice-president and chief technology and strategy officer in 2011, after running his own consultancy for a…
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