TORONTO – Sportsnet has reached a four-year multiplatform agreement with CONCACAF for the broadcast rights to seven CONCACAF properties, including the 2013 and 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cups.
The new agreement, which begins now and runs through the 2016 season, features a comprehensive suite of multimedia rights for television, online and mobile, and includes the following events: CONCACAF Gold Cup, CONCACAF Champions League, the Men’s and Women’s Qualifiers for the 2016 Olympic Games, the Men’s and Women’s Under-20 and Under-17 Championships, the CONCACAF Futsal Championship in 2016, and the 2014 Women’s World…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment announced today the company has entered into a partnership with NBCUniversal to operate iVillage Canada, and to represent Canadian advertising inventory on the iVillage network sites.
This marks a shift for the women-focused web brand in Canada, which had been operated by Rogers Media after a similar partnership announcement in May of 2011.
“The addition of iVillage to Corus’ robust offerings of specialty channels, websites and research aimed at women bolsters Corus’ leadership position in the delivery of content and advertising solutions to the coveted female demographic across multi-media platforms,” reads Wednesday’s Corus release.
iVillage offers women a place to…
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TORONTO – Building on an idea that was dubbed “Watch Canada” back in October, the Canada Media Fund, Telefilm Canada and the CRTC on Wednesday announced the creation of a working group of leading industry executives whose goal will be to “promote the increasing success of Canadian film, television and digital media with a principal focus on the Canadian market,” says a press release.
The creation of the group grew from industry leaders’ feedback at the Symposium on the Promotion of Canadian Films and Television Programs in Canada and Internationally which was held in Ottawa in conjunction with the International…
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TORONTO – More Canadians are finding they can'?t sleep, or even brush their teeth unless their smartphones are within arm?s reach. Nomophobia (no-mobile-phone phobia), which refers to the fear of being out of mobile phone contact, has taken hold of 65% of Canadian smartphone users who say they feel naked without their smartphone and Internet access. A little more than half sleep with their device next to them, and 82% use their smartphone in the bathroom. Over half admit they check their mobile device before brushing their teeth in the morning. The figures come from the…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Rogers Broadcasting’s “optimal solution” has prevailed with the CRTC approving its plan to rebrand Metro 14 (CJNT-TV) as Citytv Montreal. The Commission also approved a new multilingual television station to be called International Channel/Canal International (ICI) and operated by the Nowrouzzahrai family. Channel Zero, which bought CJNT and Hamilton's CHCH from Canwest Global for $12 in 2009, sold CJNT to Rogers for $10.3 million.
As reported by Cartt.ca in September, Rogers in its application indicated it had found the “optimal solution” to provide Montreal with a new English-language…
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A NEW REPORT FROM BMO Capital Markets, which dives deep into what will affect investment in the telecom and media space in Canada in 2013, takes a good look at the possibilities and assumptions heading into the auction of the 700 MHz spectrum everyone assumes will take place mid-year.
The report, by analyst Tim Casey, says what most believe – that the big winners in the auction, which will be expensive. will be the big three of Rogers, Telus and Bell, but that the latter two have an advantage over Rogers since Bell and Telus share the operation of their…
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TORONTO – After more than a year of negotiations, Hollywood Suite has found accommodations for their four HD commercial-free movie channels on the Rogers HD lineup. They’re now working to land Shaw next.
Featuring more than 400 HD movies per month, uncut and unedited, Hollywood Suite is: WarnerFilms (channel 486), MGM Channel (487), Sony Movie Channel (488), AXN Movies (489) and Hollywood Suite OnDemand. Rogers HD TV customers across Ontario will have a free preview of all four movie channels and Hollywood Suite OnDemand until March 31, 2013.
“We’re excited to be working with the great…
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TORONTO – Sportsnet has cemented it foothold in cycling by securing a six-year agreement for the Canadian multimedia rights to the Tour de France, beginning in 2014 and continuing through to 2019. The new deal includes exclusive Canadian rights for television, digital and mobile, providing an all-access pass to all 21 stages of the world’s most popular cycling race.
With today’s announcement, Sportsnet becomes the exclusive Canadian broadcaster of cycling’s esteemed Grand Tours, made up of the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España.
But the Tour de France is still recovering from…
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LONDON, ON – Just in time for Christmas, The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada is celebrating the first collective agreement between its technicians and SC360 Guelph, a Rogers Communications contractor.
The 30 members employed in London, Ontario ratified a two year agreement on Dec.19. Included in the agreement is an immediate 2% piecework rate increase, the implementation of a minimum daily payment averaging $120 with increases in the second year, the establishment of a matching 3% RRSP retirement plan, a cell phone allowance…
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AS CANADIANS CHOOSE to carry their worlds in their pockets – loaded onto their much loved and much used Androids, iPhones, BlackBerrys and so on, they are demanding service that’s always excellent and bills that are always affordable.
When things go wrong with the little device in our hands, when we get dinged for charges we didn’t expect, when it doesn’t work as fast as advertised, when it breaks, it’s a mini-disaster. It’s not like tearing a hole in your pants or getting a flat tire. Those things can be dealt with and are relatively easy to fix. When it…
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