MONTREAL – Just in time for the start of the NHL playoffs, TVA Group has announced plans to launch new sports service TVA Sports 3.
The French-language channel will air approximately 90 NHL games, including all Montreal Canadiens matchups, reads Thursday’s announcement. TVA Sports, TVA Sports 2 and TVA Sports 3 will air every NHL game, every night as 16 teams battle for the Stanley Cup.
Videotron, Rogers, Bell Fibe TV / Bell Satellite TV and Telus Optik TV have already confirmed the distribution of the new channel, which will be available in April and May to all subscribers of TVA…
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TORONTO – Competition in business television is about to get fierce.
On Thursday, Channel Zero and Bloomberg Media will officially announce a new, long-term, exclusive partnership which will see the independent Canadian broadcaster launch a new, Canadian version of the popular business news cable channel early in the second half of 2015. (Bloomberg TV, the financial news channel owned by billionaire entrepreneur and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is currently on the CRTC’s eligible satellite list and is carried by most large and many small distributors in Canada, the notable exceptions being Bell Canada and Vidéotron.)
“It’s a really…
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VICTORIA – Rogers Radio rebranded Victoria’s 103.1 Jack FM station as KiSS 103.1 late Tuesday, just days after launching the Kiss brand at its stations in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Vancouver.
According to the announcement, the KiSS listeners in Victoria can continue to expect the best in top-40 music as well as popular ‘commercial free Mondays’. New morning show KiSS Mornings with Matt and Vanessa debuted Wednesday and will air from 6:00 AM – 10:00 AM every weekday morning.
www.kiss1031.ca
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MISSISSAUGA, ON – Canadian fashion guru Jeanne Beker has been named style editor at The Shopping Channel and will launch a new live show next month.
Style Matters with Jeanne Beker will debut during the Spring Fashion Event with a two-hour premiere on March 12 at 8:00 PM ET on TSC and tsc.ca, as well as the ShopTSC mobile app for iPhone and Android, with full episodes available online next day. Each episode promises to centre around a specific theme – such as spring fashions, designer spotlights, “get the look,” and “great finds” – as Beker lends her highly…
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TORONTO – As part of a media tour in Toronto last week, SaskTel president and CEO Ron Styles sat down with Cartt.ca to discuss the telecom company’s most recent financial year and its upcoming projects. However, he declined to comment on this spring’s upcoming AWS-3 spectrum auction, of which SaskTel is one of the applicants planning to bid on licences in Saskatchewan.
“We’re prohibited by the federal government to discuss that, while the auction is getting ready to kick off,” Styles (pictured) explained. “I can’t really comment on AWS-3 at all, otherwise I’ll be getting a call.”
As…
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TORONTO – Pucker up B.C., Rogers has rebranded its Sonic radio stations in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Vancouver as KiSS RADiO, effective Monday morning.
According to the announcement, the KiSS stations will continue to play the top 40 format listeners know and love, including popular ‘commercial free Mondays’ featuring artists like Sam Smith, Bruno Mars, Drake, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, and Arianna Grande.
Listeners will still be able to connect with their favourite personalities on the air such as The Kid Carson Show weekday mornings from 6:00 AM – 10:00 AM.
www.kissradio.ca
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TORONTO – Rogers is partnering with Toronto’s Ryerson University on a national competition designed to give Canadian startups an opportunity to develop innovative technology solutions for the sport industry.
The Next Big Idea in Sport competition will provide up to 10 selected startups with four months of incubation at the Digital Media Zone at Ryerson University (DMZ) and the chance to win cash prizes totaling $100,000. Startups are encouraged to explore innovation opportunities within the sports industry spanning analytics, athletic performance technologies, analysis of business management, fan engagement, consumer experiences and social innovation.
Applications are due…
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TORONTO – CTV Go is now available to subscribers of Rogers Communications, Access Communications, Cable Cable, Nexicom, and Northwestel, giving the TVE app a 90% penetration rate in English Canada.
The recently updated CTV Go is a free app allowing Canadians to access CTV's television lineup on-demand for seven days following a television broadcast. Additional content is available exclusively to Canadians who subscribe to participating TV service providers, allowing them extended catch-up viewing windows, as well as live streams of CTV and CTV Two broadcasts.
"We are thrilled to bring CTV GO to well over 8 million homes across Canada. Today's announcement…
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TORONTO – DHX Television has joined Canadian publishers Post Media, Yellow Pages and The Chronicle Herald as the newest members of Canada's Premium Audience Exchange (CPAX).
CPAX bills itself as the premier access point to top tier real time English and French digital inventory in Canada. Established by CBC/Radio-Canada, Rogers and Shaw in 2011, its automated platform delivers scalable reach and granular targeting from one convenient touch-point and now boasts more than 100 premium sites on the exchange. CPAX is powered by Index Exchange, a neutral and transparent exchange layer that enables publishers to sell their ad impressions in real-time.
"Since…
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JUST IN TIME FOR the run up to the Daytona 500 Fox Sports today announced the re-branding of SPEED International, its motor sports and automotive network in Canada and the Caribbean, as FOX SPORTS RACING.
The new channel will deliver additional motor sports and big-event competition programming for 2015 and beyond.
“We’ve put the power and influence of the FOX Sports brand behind our commitment to motor sports,” said Eric Shanks, president and COO/executive producer of FOX Sports, in a release. “With highly anticipated NASCAR and MotoGP seasons about to get underway, and several other popular series up and…
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