TORONTO – Well known radio personality and comedian Maureen Holloway is joining the popular morning show on Toronto’s 98.1 CHFI FM.
Holloway (pictured), will join co-host Darren B. Lamb beginning January 9 on a revamped show aptly named Darren and Mo. She replaces long-time Rogers radio personality Erin Davis who announced her retirement last month.
Born in Montreal, Holloway began her broadcasting career when she was hired out of Ryerson’s Radio and Television Arts program to be a traffic reporter on CKFM in Toronto, now Bell Media’s 99.9 Virgin Radio. In 2000, she left that station to spend the next 15…
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MARKHAM, ON – Iristel has not only denied Rogers’ allegations of traffic pumping, it says that the claims are “at best a result of recklessly poor due diligence and at worst, a vexatious fiction intended to injure Iristel’s business reputation”.
Rogers’ November 18 application accused Iristel of “being unjustly enriched by gaming the regulatory framework for local competition” by profiting from the higher local termination charges applicable in the Northwest Territories. In its December 2 response, Iristel said that excessive calling by a group of customers leading to correspondingly high call termination charges stem from Rogers’ own business decision…
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REGINA – SaskTel on Monday offered its official response to the risk assessment report of BCE’s proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of MTS.
That report, commissioned in May and released June 20, was conducted by independent third party Mark H. Goldberg & Associates Inc. and grouped the risks under the major categories of regulatory, competitive and financial.
SaskTel said in its response that it agreed with the report’s assessment that potential regulatory changes resulting from the deal “represent the most fundamental set of risks”.
“SaskTel has been materially impacted (often negatively but on occasion positively) by regulatory changes and policy…
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TORONTO – Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been setting up data centres around the world offering a wide range of compute and analytics services in competition and partnership with local service providers and on Thursday it announced it has come to Canada, opening two data centres here – as promised earlier in the year .
Now it’s looking to partner with telecommunications firms to resell its services.
“If you look around the world there are many telco partners who work with us closely to take our services to market and offer complimentary services to the AWS platform,” AWS Canada director Eric…
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TORONTO – Despite last year’s big 4K investment spend under now ousted president and CEO Guy Laurence, Rogers will offer fewer 4K NHL games this season than it did last year.
The communications giant said Wednesday that all 81 regular season Blue Jays home games will be produced and broadcast by Sportsnet in 4K, as will 14 Toronto Raptors games between January and April, 2017. But it committed to only seven Toronto Maple Leafs matchups in the latter half of the 2016-17 NHL season, in addition to the eight between October and December, which is at least five…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has asked the CRTC to step in to an alleged case of “traffic pumping” that it says could put nationwide flat rate calling plans at risk.
Traffic pumping, also known as “access stimulation” or “traffic stimulation”, is the name given to a mechanism for local exchange carriers to profit from increasing the volume of incoming traffic for termination on their local exchange network. Typically, the arrangement involves a local exchange in a high cost area where call termination rates are higher than the norm. The local exchange carrier encourages the location of in-bound calling services in its…
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TORONTO – Part social powwow and part professional revelation, the annual CTAM Canada Broadcaster Forum unspooled a ribbon of timely data points and commentary on new technology trends, a VR state-of-the-nation and even reflections on CBC’s unsullied broadcast of Tragically Hip’s summer concert.
Technology and television Innovation
A quartet of industry experts—Tom Elam, VP and GM with TiVo’s service provider business; Jay Gardner, VP of product development with Shaw; Joel Orvis, director of TV product management with Bell Canada; and Matt Nelson, director of strategic alliances with You.i—unpacked the latest developments in television tech on a panel moderated by Norm…
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GATINEAU – Using a rear-view mirror approach when it comes to spending requirements will only hobble Canadian broadcasters in an environment of global competition, the three major English-language broadcasters told the CRTC on Thursday.
When facing viewership competition from global players who have no mandated Cancon spend, compared to the various, expensive regulatory commitments met by licenced domestic broadcasters, the industry needs far more flexibility to create compelling programming. Bell Media strongly argued this on the final day of the TV broadcast license renewal hearing for the big three Canadian broadcasters, which of course also includes Corus Entertainment and Rogers…
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TORONTO – Hollywood Suite is marking its 5th birthday with a five-week national free preview promising more than 500 movies.
Just in time for the holidays, viewers can enjoy the gift of the best movies from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s, uncut and commercial-free, on four HDTV channels and On Demand. December titles include the director’s cut of Bad Santa, plus films like 12 Years a Slave, Titanic, The Expendables, The Interview, Raising Arizona, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Fatal Attraction, American Beauty, Jerry Maguire, and Moneyball.
The freeview is available now through January 5, 2107…
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GATINEAU – The large broadcasters’ current Canadian Programming Expenditure (CPE) and Programs of National Interest (PNI) proposals are wholly inadequate, according to the creatives representing actors, performers, writers and directors.
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) said in its appearance before the CRTC’s large English-language broadcasters’ licence renewal hearing on Wednesday the impact of the proposals would be “devastating” on Canadian programming and the Canadian broadcasting system because they would result in a reduction of nearly $100 million in spending over the next licence term.
“In our view, this would be regressive, contrary to the Commission’s objective…
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