TORONTO – RTDNA Canada will recognize three individuals in the Central region with lifetime achievement awards next month.
Keith Leslie from The Canadian Press, Rogers 680 News’ Scott Metcalfe and CTV Montreal’s Mutsumi Takahashi will be honoured on May 26 during the President’s Reception at the 2017 National Conference & Awards Gala for outstanding service and continued excellence during the course of their careers in journalism and news management.
Keith Leslie (pictured right) began his broadcast career at CKOC in Hamilton in 1977 while he was still in college, before moving to CFTJ in Cambridge and then to CKLC in Kingston, working as a…
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TORONTO – Expectations will be high for Joe Natale when he takes the elevator up to the 10th floor of 333 Bloor St. E. for the first time as CEO of Rogers Communications.
Since he has such a long history in Canadian telecom and wireless and stellar track record leading so much of the growth at Telus since joining that company in 2003 (and departing in 2015), Bay Street expects Natale to waste no time making his presence and his priorities felt.
BMO Capital Markets telecom/media/cable financial analyst Tim Casey even went so far as to construct a top-10…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has sold off the former home of its OMNI service in Toronto to a local developer for an undisclosed price.
Real estate developer Canderel said Thursday that the 1.8-acre-site, located at the corner of Bathurst Street and Lake Shore Boulevard West in downtown Toronto, is suitable for residential and commercial intensification.
The building is currently home to offices and edit suites, as well as other corporate teams, which will be relocated to other RCI offices in Toronto.
Photo: Canderel
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TORONTO – Just in time for the NHL playoffs, Huawei Canada is teaming up with Rogers to sponsor the Hockey Central pre-game show broadcasts on Sportsnet.
The move comes as part of a two-year deal that taps Rogers as the exclusive distributor of the P10 Plus, which, along with the P10, are the first pair of Huawei’s 2017 flagship Android smartphones to arrive in Canada. Huawei said that its P series is known for its performance and battery innovation, plus boasts three Leica cameras, including a 20 MP monochrome portrait camera.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for Huawei as we build our…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today that Joe Natale will join the company as president and CEO next week, on Wednesday April 19.
In the press release, Rogers said that a confidential agreement was reached with Telus, Natale’s former employer, to secure his early arrival. He had been slated to join Rogers in June, after his non-compete agreement with Telus had expired. Natale had been with Telus since 2003 and had been promoted to CEO, before leaving that company in August 2015 when former CEO and Telus board chair Darren Entwistle took the job back.
"We are very pleased to have…
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CALGARY and TORONTO – Alek Krstajic is stepping down as CEO of Shaw-owned Freedom Mobile while Paul McAleese was named Chief Operating Officer.
Shaw made the announcement early Wednesday, in conjunction with the release of its second quarter financial results which saw its Wireless division add over 33,000 new postpaid and prepaid wireless subscribers in the three month period.
“We thank Alek Krstajic for his leadership over this past year," said CEO Brad Shaw, in the announcement. "During that time, Alek was instrumental in activating Freedom's LTE-Advanced network and in providing customers with the best value and an enhanced connectivity…
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THE SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION industry likes to say that outright cord-cutting (defined as when a consumer abandons a TV subscription altogether) is still a pretty small phenomenon.
So far, overall, that remains technically true. The latest numbers show about two percent of Canadian households with a TV subscription have chosen to cut the cord and stop subscribing to traditional TV. Generally, it’s been a story of “flat is the new up”, while inside of the likes of Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, Bell and others, hardworking employees are doing their best to swallow hard every day and manage substantial…
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TORONTO – RTDNA Canada has released the 2017 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 2017 National Conference & Awards Gala in Toronto on May 27.
The nominees are:
Digital
Adrienne Clarkson Award – Diversity
CBC News Investigates: Behind the Headlines: Syrian Refugees
CBC News: Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams?
Global News: Experiments on Canada's Indigenous Populations
Data Storytelling Award
CBC News: Presidential Poll Tracker
CBC News Manitoba: Transport Canada List of 500 'Highest Risk' Railway Crossings Not Widely Shared
Digital Media Award
CBC News:…
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OTTAWA – While complaints over telecom and Internet services continue to fall, Canadians are still unclear about the terms of their service contracts, says the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS).
In its mid-year report released Thursday, CCTS said it accepted 3,955 complaints between August 1, 2016 and January 31, 2017, down by more than 600 from the 4,562 complaints received in the same period a year earlier.
The report says that non-disclosure or misleading information about contract terms was once again the most commonly raised issue (10.7% of all issues), followed by complaints about incorrect charges at 9.4% and…
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Sportsnet can’t get digital rights, doesn’t renew
TORONTO – While we’ve yet to get official confirmation from Amazon, the road seems clear for Canadian Amazon Prime members to be able to watch the NFL’s 10-game Thursday Night Football package online.
As has been widely reported, Amazon has agreed to pay the NFL US$50 million for the rights to stream Thursday Night Football games (which are also available to watch on the NFL Network and CBS).
Last year, Twitter live-streamed the games (paying just US$10 million) but Rogers Media prevented the stream from happening legally in Canada because it…
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