TORONTO – RTDNA Canada has released the 2018 finalists for its annual Network Awards.
The RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, stations and news gathering organizations in radio, television and digital. Network winners will be announced at the RTDNA Canada 2018 National Conference & Awards Gala scheduled for May 25-26 at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto.
The nominees are:
Digital
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award
CBC Montreal, Quebec City Mosque Attack
Global TV, Edmonton Terror Attack
Global TV, Las Vegas Shooting
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award
CBC Manitoba, Seeking Asylum
CBC News, Crossing into Canada
HuffPost Canada, NDP Leadership Race
Data Storytelling Award
CBC News, Census 2016
Discourse Media, In Search…
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How a new level of service will help Rogers customers navigate our technological revolution
HE’S BEEN ON THE JOB for a year now and when it comes to the financial performance of Rogers Communications over those 12 months, things have gone rather well for CEO Joe Natale.
The company is adding wireless customers at a very healthy clip, it’s poised to launch a brand new voice-activated video platform this year and the Media side, led by its sports properties, has been performing very well. Friday’s annual general meeting of shareholders was a happy one. It’s been a…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media’s CityNews will host the first televised debate featuring all three major provincial party leaders in advance of the June election for the new Premier of Ontario.
#CityVote: The Debate will air commercial-free on Monday, May 7 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM ET on City, CityNews.ca, the CityNews Apps for iOS and Android, and the CityNews Facebook page. For multilingual audiences in Ontario, the debate will also air on OMNI2 at 6:00 PM ET in Punjabi and at 10:00 PM ET in Mandarin. Additionally, analysis of the debate will be…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications today announced today it added more than 95,000 wireless customers in Q1, as well as record low wireless churn and solid wireline broadband additions.
“We delivered another strong quarter with really solid financial and operating results led by our largest segment, wireless," said Joe Natale, president and CEO, in the company’s Q1 press release. "Our team delivered on all key wireless metrics, growing subscribers, revenue, and adjusted EBITDA, while continuing to reduce customer churn.
“In cable, we grew revenue and margins driven by our competitive advantage in Internet. At the same time, we continue to make great…
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Wireless growth to remain strong, too
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE far fewer over-the-top video options in Canada as compared to the U.S., if Amazon, DAZN, and Netflix (not to mention the possibility of Apple, Facebook or Google entering the Canadian market in the way they have Stateside) are willing to spend big on programming, we may soon see them outbid the likes of Bell Media, Corus or Rogers for key programming, despite not having a traditional TV platform.
As well, even if Amazon, DAZN, or Netflix can’t win the best content from the Canadian companies, this dynamic can only benefit U.S. (and…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today invited Canadians “to share their opinions on applications received to operate a multilingual, multi-ethnic channel with mandatory distribution across Canada.”
In May of last year, the Commission approved a request by Rogers Media to turn its struggling OMNI local OTA stations into regional, must carry specialty channels, complete with a subscriber fee of $0.12 per subscriber per month.
The Commission granted OMNI that status under the provisions of section 9(1)(h) of the Broadcasting Act (Rogers had all but said it would close the multilingual, multi-ethnic OMNI stations without that Commission decision), but…
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MISSISSAUGA – The Canadian CommTech Show and Seminars recognized the winners of its inaugural CommTech Information Communications Technology Awards gala Monday night at the Mississauga Convention Centre.
Event emcee and TSOC president Imran Hasan began the evening with a moment of silence in recognition of those impacted by the Humboldt Broncos tragedy, before announcing the following awards:
– Canadian Individual, Excellence and Innovation in ICT: Serge Rochette, senior vice-president of technical operations, Rogers Communications;
– Canadian Organization, Excellence and Innovation in ICT: T2 Utility Engineers; and
– Canadian Volunteer of the Year: Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), Ontario chapter, board of directors and associates;
U.S.-based networking equipment…
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OTTAWA – Seeking to address a “noticeable gap” in affordable, occasional-use pay-as-you-go wireless plans, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) have asked the CRTC to order the national wireless carriers to offer them.
In an application filed Friday, PIAC-NPF asked the Commission to apply a condition of service directing Rogers, Bell and Telus to make occasional-use retail wireless plans broadly available to consumers in the same manner as the Commission proposed to do with lower-cost data-only plans in its ‘skinny wireless’ decision last month. The application also asks to combine the two proceedings “to…
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TORONTO – The second season of hit drama The Handmaid’s Tale will headline Bravo’s nation-wide free preview that will kick off April 24.
The Bell Media-owned service said that other high profile premieres rolling out during the freeview include original Canadian crime drama series Carter, starring Jerry O’Connell, on May 15 at 8:00 PM ET, plus detective crime drama Hard Sun, which will make its exclusive Canadian series premiere on May 6.
Season two of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning The Handmaid’s Tale will debut with a two-episode premiere event on April 29 at 9:00 PM ET. Viewers wishing to catch…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has unveiled a multi-year network plan which includes working with Ericsson to bring Canadians even closer to 5G.
At an event Monday morning at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, the companies demonstrated live what 5G will be able to do in the not-too-distant future. Participants wore augmented reality (AR) gear to toss a baseball back and forth, virtually shopped in a retail store complete with a haptic feedback device on their hands, and controlled robots showing real-time responsiveness over the internet.
Rogers also demonstrated Quad-band Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) on Gigabit LTE to show how LAA…
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