TORONTO – Rogers Media announced Sam Dynes has been hired as director of production for its in-house productions unit, effective immediately.
In her role, “Dynes will oversee all production logistics and operations for the entertainment and lifestyle brands at City, and work cross-functionally with Rogers Media divisions across all platforms to expand and create innovative, integrated brand productions, says the company’s press release. Dynes will report to Jordan Schwartz, vice-president, in-house productions, Rogers Media.
Dynes comes to Rogers Media with more than three decades of television industry experience, having managed large-scale projects including the 2010 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies, the…
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WATERLOO, NEW YORK – RIM, newly renamed as BlackBerry, today unveiled their long-awaited BB10 smartphones and demonstrated the completely overhauled user interface with one-finger gesture controls and new business-friendly features at launch events across the world.
BlackBerry will offer two new smartphones running on its BB10 platform, the touch-screen BlackBerry Z10, and the Q10 with a physical keyboard. CEO Thorsten Heins also announced numerous high-profile app partners and was later joined on stage by U.S. musician Alicia Keys, the company’s newly named global creative director.
In Canada the Z10 will be available on February…
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SOME BEHIND-THE-SCENES moves that look a lot like estate planning for Shaw Communications founder and controlling shareholder JR Shaw – along with the recent deal his company put together to sell the former Mountain Cable system and the rights to wireless spectrum out west to Rogers Communications – make it seem like the outright sale of Shaw is not to far over the horizon, says at least one Bay Street analyst.
"We believe the RCI-SJR (Rogers-Shaw) merger is inevitable but this is not likely to take place within the next 20 months and will likely take…
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QUISPAMSIS – Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) and Rogers Media have reached a deal for the distribution of G4 and The Biography Channel.
“We are thrilled to have concluded an agreement for the distribution of The Biography Channel and G4 with CCSA for distribution by its Members Companies” says Aivy Reinfelds, VP, Television Development & Distribution, Rogers Media. “Concluding renewal agreements for the distribution of The Biography Channel and G4 with CCSA reflects the continued partnership we have with CCSA Member…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC plans to issue a number of decisions this week that include a bid to launch a new AM station in St. Catharines, and a request by Canadian Network Operators Consortium to force Rogers to increase the service speeds it offers its third party Internet access customers.
The Commission will also decide on an application from Ice Wireless and Iristel seeking to have Northwestel cease and desist from launching new competitive services and reducing prices for existing competitive services until the Commission has completed all proceedings related to the establishment of the competitive environment in…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – Canadian Cable Systems Alliance and Rogers Media have completed a Master Affiliate Agreement for the distribution of FX Canada. The terms of this deal provide CCSA members with multiplatform rights including SD, HD, VOD and BODO (broadband-on-demand-online) versions of the service.
“We are very pleased to have reached this agreement,” says Alyson Townsend, CCSA President & CEO. “We are confident FX Canada will be a valuable addition to the line-ups of our 110+ member companies.”
“FX Canada boasts a distinctive roster of compelling programming and we are thrilled to have concluded…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications is proposing to make our smart world a whole lot smarter by powering more than one million machine-to-machine connections and bringing a cloud-based hosted data analytics offering to market this year. The company plans to grow its traditional M2M business to include big data and analytics as well as professional and managed services, and expects the market revenue for the overall M2M ecosystem in Canada will reach $1 billion in the next three years.
At a roundtable discussion today at the new Toronto Rogers Wireless Innovation Centre (pictured), Nadir Mohamed, Rogers…
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TORONTO – Bob Babinski is the new Executive Producer & Local Content Manager for City Montreal, overseeing City’s new, local weekday morning show, Breakfast Television and new, 30-minute weekly sports show, Connected Montreal says Rogers Media.
Born and raised in Montreal, Babinski comes to City with more than 25 years of television experience – both on-camera and behind-the-scenes. As a former sportscaster for CBC Television and CBC Radio in Montreal, he’s covered the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Expos, and such events as Hockey Day in Canada, the 2006 and 2008 Olympic Games, and the 2010 FIFA…
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NEW YORK – India-based satellite television channel Zee TV, in partnership with Ethnic Channels Group Limited (ECG), is launching Zee TV Canada on February 1 on Rogers, Bell and Telus.
Asian Television Network International (ATN), which serves Canada's Asian community, recently decided not to renew its licensing agreement for it rights to Zee TV's Hindi programming when it expires on January 31, 2013.
Zee TV will now be available to Canadian viewers as a 24/7 service for the first time. Canadian viewers who enjoyed Zee’s top programming such as Pavitra Rishta, Punarvivaah and…
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AFTER SIX YEARS, SATELLITE radio produced its first-ever profit in Canada when earlier this month SiriusXM Canada reported it was $3.3 million in the black for the first quarter of fiscal 2013.
For executive chairman John Bitove, that Q1 result is vindication after plugging away just as XM Canada to begin with – in competition with Sirius Canada – and then finally merging with it in 2011 two years after the American satellite radio companies combined themselves. Satellite radio faced numerous launch obstacles, chiefly convincing people to want to pay for radio in the first place,…
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