GATINEAU – It looks as though a portion of a CRTC decision that flew under the radar for many people has wrecked what was an excellent promotional outlet for Canadian specialty services and charities.
In decision CRTC 2015-86, part of the Let’s Talk TV process, the Commission surprised the industry by tightening the rules surrounding how the two minutes of local advertising time made available each hour by U.S. channels such as CNN, A&E, Golf Channel and TLC could be used.
Dubbed “local avail” time, American cablecos and other pay TV carriers have turned the sales of…
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TORONTO – Freedom Mobile today announced the launch of what it’s calling “Big Gig”, a brand new plan giving customers 10GB of data for $50/month.
The new plan gives both new and existing Freedom Mobile customers access to more data for less with no penalties for data overages, “and is unlike anything currently being offered to Canadians,” says the company’s release. The Big Gig plans are available beginning Thursday, October 19. As Rogers Communications, Bell Canada and Telus are all about to report their third quarter results over the next two weeks, we bet there will be questions on how…
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GATINEAU – CRTC commisioner Christopher MacDonald’s persistent questioning on day one of the hearing into license renewals for several BDUs roughly translated to: “What’s taking so long with the set top box viewership data?”
Quebecor, Rogers, Shaw and Eastlink, all members of the Set Top box working group (check), each had very similar answers to MacDonald’s line of questions. Essentially the answers boiled down to: “What we’re doing is hard, pioneering, and with an uncertain business model, so yes, it’s a slow process.”
The group first met more than two years ago.
During the CRTC’s Let’s Talk TV process,…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers’ Kiss Radio is shaking up the airwaves in Chilliwack, Abbotsford, and Vancouver by allowing listeners to take control of the station’s playlist.
Using a new voting system available on KissRadio.ca and the Kiss mobile app for iOS and Android, listeners choose from the station’s range of tracks what songs they most want to hear. Available every hour and every day of the week, songs on the Kiss playlist are pushed up and down in real time through user votes, with the most popular songs going to air.
Audiences can also sign-up to receive alerts indicating…
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HALIFAX – Rogers Media delivered a new source of local news to Haligonians Monday with the launch of HalifaxToday.ca
Journalists from Rogers-owned NEWS 95.7 are providing the local news content on the website, while digital news network Village Media provides the platform to offer HalifaxToday.ca on smartphone, desktop, and tablet. Village Media is also the sole representative for Canadian advertising inventory on the site.
"We're always exploring new ways to reach our local audience, and with Village Media's proven track record in building successful locally-focused digital news sites, this agreement is a…
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BRANTFORD, ON – Rogers Communications rolled out its Connected for Success program in Ontario's Brant Region Friday, offering its inexpensive Internet service to more than 1,300 subsidized households in the City of Brantford and County of Brant.
The service, available for $9.99 per month, requires no contract or credit checks upon sign up.
“In today’s digital world, access to the internet is essential – it’s how we book doctors’ appointments, finish our homework, and connect with friends and family,” said Peter King, Rogers’ senior director of corporate social responsibility, in the news release. “Together with the City of Brantford, we’re committed…
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AT CIRA, WE BELIEVE Canadians have a right to a safe, reliable, and open internet—but we also believe in staying within the boundaries of the law.
Bell Canada has a problem. Some Canadians are infringing on Bell’s rights by accessing pirated content online. If Bell believes this is happening it has the right to pursue legal action. I am fine with this. However, Bell is offside in seeking the power of the state (and Canadian tax dollars) to help solve their problems. Unfortunately, this is exactly what they are proposing.
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OTTAWA – Bell Canada and Rogers Communications showed off some different philosophies when it came to the federal government’s NAFTA negotiations when they appeared recently in front of a recent meeting of the Standing Committee on International Trade.
Rogers Cable vice-president, regulatory, Pam Dinsmore said in her opening remarks on September 20th that her company is concerned the trade talks will wander too far from its prior mandate and into copyright, which includes such issues as retransmitting U.S. over-the-air TV signals, Canada’s notice-and-notice regime for pirated online content, and our Copyright Modernization Act’s provisions for personal use and its…
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ALTHOUGH WE NOW LIVE in a vast internet landscape with immense amounts of content, the diversity and quality of the news media we consume continues to be a concern. Large sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google should not be trusted to solve these problems.
Internet news platforms have contributed to the closure of traditional news outlets that are the source of much of the quality news consumed online. The internet has facilitated the rise to dominance of…
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NEW YORK – Corus Entertainment’s Global News last night took home the Edward R. Murrow Excellence in Innovation award in the network news division at last night’s Radio Television Digital News Association gala awards Monday night in New York City.
Global won the honour, the association’s inaugural innovation award, for its industry-leading multi-market content (MMC) story-centric workflow system, which Cartt.ca profiled here last year.
Click here to watch its video entry.
Continuing with Canadians, Bell Media’s CTV News took home the network news division award for Excellence in Sound for its feature entitled…
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