TORONTO – New Canadian business and financial news television channel Bloomberg TV Canada launched Tuesday in more than six million Canadian households.
An exclusive partnership between independent Canadian media company Channel Zero and Bloomberg Media, the new channel combines Canadian content and original programming with Bloomberg’s international news gathering to deliver high quality business, markets and economic coverage in Canada and around the world.
In addition to original shows such as The Daily Brief, hosted by Pamela Ritchie, and Bloomberg North, scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2016 featuring Amanda Lang, Bloomberg TV Canada will also deliver content…
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TORONTO – The fact that Wind Mobile has been able to see the type of growth its CEO describes as “amazing” shows a heavy demand for a wireless carrier that isn’t one of the big three or their flanker brands, Alek Krstajic told a conference last week.
And that pent up demand is populated with consumers who are willing to put up with a weak network, which Wind is working hard at bolstering, in exchange for lower prices and unlimited packages. “People want to see the underdog succeed,” said Krstajic, which is unlike the feeling he got when he worked…
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TWO OUT OF EVERY THREE Canadian households can stream over-the-top video services via their television sets using a dedicated streaming device or a game console or a laptop/PC, according to new research from Toronto’s Solutions Research Group.
The fall edition of the company’s syndicated Digital Life survey, which is based on 1,000 interviews in September 2015, took a close look at OTT video and TVE among other subjects and found:
The percentage of online households connecting a dedicated OTT streaming device (Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, etc.) to their TV nearly doubled from 12% to 22% since 2013.
Adding TVs connected…
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THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT that local TV is in a difficult spot. Declining ad revenue, audience fragmentation and erosion, the challenges of digital platforms, a lack of a dual revenue stream and the list goes on. But what to do about it? Some argue for a complete revamp of the local TV funding approach, while others are saying the CRTC only need to give local broadcasters more flexibility to work within existing rules.
The state of local TV is black and white, at least when looking at the revenue picture. As Bell Canada notes in its intervention into the…
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TORONTO – According to speakers like Sean Buckley, Founder & Executive Producer, Buck Productions, print, radio and TV should not be first to mind anymore.
Today's brave new world is about "genuine stories being told in different ways on digital platforms.”
Of course a large part of this social marketing, influencer-branding association, and ad buying shift remains experimental, but what is "new" is that product placement isn't about awkward Coke bottles in talent shows; but about well-scripted stories where the narrative is enhanced because the product is woven in.
"Smart-bombing" (old speak: "niche marketing"), was one term frequently over-heard at…
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TORONTO – Rob Farina, hired in May as vice-president of content and programming at Rogers Radio, has been let go by the company, Cartt.ca has learned.
While the company had no official statement beyond confirming his departure, sources with direct knowledge of the situation said Farina was embroiled in a behind the scenes conflict with a major record company which soured to the point that Rogers Radio SVP Julie Adam dismissed him.
Billboard has a more fullsome story here.
Farina is a former Astral and CHUM radio executive who was overseeing the programming and content on all Rogers…
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TORONTO – NextMedia crowned the 2015 Digi Award winners Tuesday night, recognizing remarkable digital content in the fields of video, marketing, advertising, mobile, and gaming from Canadian companies.
The 50 finalists were determined by a group of community leaders, influencers, technology experts, and content programmers from across the country.
And the winners are:
Branded ContentCarmillaBy Smokebomb EntertainmentIn association with U by Kotex
Digital Series FictionConvos With My Two-Year-OldBy CocoMilk Productions
Digital Series NonfictionDo Not TrackBy Upian, Arte France, National Film Board of Canada, and BRIn association with Akufen and with assistance from…
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OTTAWA – Former Société Radio-Canada exec Catherine Cano has been named as the new president and general manager of CPAC, effective January 11, 2016.
Cano, pictured, replaces Colette Watson who earlier this year was promoted to VP of TV and broadcast operations at Rogers Media.
With more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in broadcasting across all platforms, Cano began her career on Parliament Hill before turning her sights to media where, over the next two decades, she held an array of positions at the CBC/SRC. These include senior news producer of the Parliamentary Ottawa Bureau, editorial producer of Le Point, editor-in-chief…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s publicly traded television service providers combined lost almost seven times more TV subscribers in the nine-month period ended August 31/September 30,2015 compared to the same period in 2014, according to new research released Monday.
Ottawa-based research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services also found that BCE, Rogers, Shaw/Shaw Direct, Vidéotron, Cogeco, Telus, and MTS (IPTV subscribers only) combined lost a record 153,000 TV subscribers in their respective three fiscal 2015 quarters, up significantly from 22,000 lost in the same quarters in 2014.
In the three month period ended August 31/September 30 alone, which is traditionally a…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media on Thursday made official something most knew – that its partnership with youth-centric Vice Media will lead to the launch of a new specialty TV channel, Viceland, in early 2016.
Rogers Media president Rick Brace told Cartt.ca that the long-gestating Viceland channel replacing the media group's existing Bio specialty channel will help his company close a gap to reach fickle 18-to-34-year-olds prized by advertisers. "It's about filling a void for Rogers Media," said Brace in his first public comments since taking the helm at the company’s media division.
"Targeting millennials and understanding their needs and their concerns…
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