TORONTO – Sportsnet has extended its sponsorship with Pinty’s as the exclusive title sponsor of the Grand Slam of Curling as it seeks to establish the Grand Slam series as the world’s elite curling tour.
The deal, which extends the current sponsorship agreement through to the end of the 2022-23 curling season, includes in-venue sponsorship such as in-ice logos and branded rinkboards plus broadcast commercial spots, on-air mentions and integration across Sportsnet platforms.
In addition, the deal introduces the new Pinty’s Cup, a season-long race amongst all competing men’s and women’s curling teams that will kick off at the start of…
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EXTON, PA – SCTE•ISBE and cable heavyweights Comcast and Liberty Global are challenging the tech industry to devise new solutions to manage energy across broadband networks.
The Adaptive Power Challenge is focussing on finding solutions in the following three areas deemed integral to the delivery of cable communications services:
Monitoring & Measurement – Monitoring and measuring energy consumption and ambient conditions correlating quality and health of services with energy;
Demand Response – The ability to implement “peak shaving” and functionality that results in load shedding; and
Supply & Control – Using the functionality of adaptive power DOCSIS-enabled devices to control consumption profiles…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has dismissed a complaint against OMNI Regional’s parent Rogers Media that alleged non-compliance with the service’s third-language news requirement.
The complaint, filed last October by Unifor on behalf of media workers at OMNI, claimed that Rogers’ decision to hire Fairchild TV to create its Cantonese and Mandarin newscasts rather than produce them in-house violated its condition of licence. The Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic and the Urban Alliance on Race Relations (CSALC/UARR) filed a similar application.
The applicants also raised concerns about the loss of editorial diversity and local news coverage for Chinese-speaking Canadians due to…
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OTTAWA – Complaints to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) shot up 73% over last year, led by Canadian wireless customers’ grievances over non-disclosure or inaccurate information about their terms of service.
In its mid-year report released Tuesday, CCTS said it accepted 6,849 complaints between August 1, 2017 and January 31, 2017, up by more than 2,800 from the 3,955 complaints that it received in the same period a year earlier.
While CCTS began accepting TV complaints on September 1st, it received only 846 complaints that contained TV issues. Of those, 230 were solely about TV; in the…
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TORONTO – Encore+ is partnering with Hot Docs on a new collection of Canadian productions previously screened at either Hot Docs Festival or the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, or which have been created by Hot Docs production fund recipients or market program alumni.
The Hot Docs Collection Playlist on Encore+ is available now for free with English and French-language titles such as Kanhesatake:270 Years of Resistance, Rocks at Whiskey Trench, Actuality: The Art and Life of Allan King, Tu as crié Let Me Go, Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, Pour la suite du monde, and…
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TV stations will be moving
OTTAWA – As expected, 30 MHz of an available 70 MHz of new wireless spectrum to be auctioned off next year will be set aside for smaller, regional companies and possible new entrants in an attempt to push additional competition in the Canadian wireless market.
Wednesday evening, just as the federal government shut down for a two week Easter Break, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada released the much anticipated framework for the auction of 600 MHz spectrum, a band prized for its ability to both travel long distances…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media is seeking CRTC approval to acquire Medicine Hat station 102.1 CJCY from Clear Sky Radio for $4 million.
The acquisition was made public in January, and Rogers is also requesting a new broadcasting licence to continue the operation of the station under the same terms and conditions as those in effect under the current licence.
The CRTC will consider the application at a hearing scheduled for May 31 and interventions/comments/answers are due by April 26, 2018.
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VANCOUVER – Sunday’s broadcast of the 2018 Juno Awards will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time.
A partnership between Twitter and CBC, the program will begin at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT on March 25 at Twitter.com/CBCMusic, with spots from sponsor TD running as pre-roll before the live stream.
In the lead-up and during the event, music fans can Tweet #JUNOS to unlock a custom emoji, Twitter added. In addition, this year’s award show includes a Juno Fan Choice Award, which is voted on by fans through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
According to Twitter Canada, 2018 Juno Awards performers…
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GATINEAU – Today the CRTC said no, for now, to Wi-Fi first mobile operators, effectively shutting down the business plan that was Sugar Mobile, it dramatically slashed the wholesale rates network owners can charge others to roam on their networks, and it gave Rogers, Bell and Telus a month to come up with new skinny wireless data plans for Canadians.
While confirming that Wi-Fi first network operators can not roam on cellular networks and become full fledged resellers, and making no determinations on mandated MVNOs, the Commission decided instead to respond to the federal government’s request to re-examine its wholesale…
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GATINEAU – Late Thursday afternoon we’ll know whether or not Wi-Fi based service providers can roam onto cellular networks.
In a decision (CRTC 2017-56) on wholesale mobile wireless roaming service tariffs on March 1st of 2017, the CRTC excluded Wi-Fi providers from being able to access these rates in order to provide mobile services to Canadians beyond public Wi-Fi zones. Since they’re not facilities-based providers like the main mobile providers, they were excluded in the decision.
In June, however, the federal government asked the CRTC to re-examine that call, saying it wants to explore every option…
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