ONE THING BECAME CLEAR pretty quick when I sat down to with Phil Lind a not long ago. He wanted to talk about fee-for-carriage.
The vice-chairman and executive vice-president, regulatory, at Rogers Communications gets a little animated and agitated when it comes to fee-for-carriage(or the renamed value-for-signal). Over four years ago, when we said (wrongly at the time) that it seemed inevitable the CRTC would grant OTA broadcasters the right to charge a fee for their signal, he called me up out of the blue to tell me in no uncertain terms how wrong I was.
For that particular proceeding,…
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TORONTO – Quebecor has asked the CRTC to intervene in its battle with Bell over Sun News.
As first reported by Cartt.ca, the new Quebecor’s news-talk channel was removed from the Bell TV satellite line-up at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 3, and while Quebecor claims this is clearly a matter of undue preference under sections 9(1) and 9(2) of the Broadcast Distribution Regulations, Bell says that simply isn’t so and is but one of multiple disagreements the companies have with each other.
While the Sun News channel slot itself remains, the feed has been replaced with text telling customers that…
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SOON AFTER THE INTRODUCTION of TV in the late 1940s and early ’50s, came the 30-second commercial spot. It became the standard of television advertising and, despite complaints about its buckshot approach to hitting its intended audience, remains so today.
This celebrity of the television-advertising world feels ringed by metaphorical paparazzi, bobbing and clicking away. But there are other forms of revenue trying to nudge into the circle of stardom.
Product integration and sponsorship, a throwback from broadcast’s early days, is thriving. Online advertising, with its increased targeting capabilities is on the rise. And addressable and interactive ads—the 30-second spot…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC declined to add an American sports channel to its list of eligible services on Tuesday citing genre protection, a decision that prompted dissenting opinions from two of its commissioners who said that the policy is past its prime.
Rogers Communications asked the Commission to add Fox Cable Networks-owned Fuel TV to the digital lists last June. In its application, it described the channel as “an English-language programming service that offers a range of action sports programming portraying the lifestyle and culture of non-mainstream action sports and the underlying social relationships and communities of…
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HAMILTON – Wednesday, May 4 marks the launch of yet more deep content from Cartt.ca, the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industry’s trade journal.
Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES is a new weekly series of deep analysis into topics and challenges that matter to our industry. On every Wednesday of each month, beginning tomorrow, Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES will dive into and deconstruct a major issue facing the people who work in cable, radio, television and telecom in Canada.
The first issue? TV Advertising. Is it dead? Of course not. It’s thriving! It’s the lifeblood of the business! But change is afoot. Real, substantive…
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HAMILTON – Wednesday, May 4 marks the launch of yet more deep content from Cartt.ca, the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industry’s trade journal.
Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES is a new weekly series of deep analysis into topics and challenges that matter to our industry. On every Wednesday of each month, beginning tomorrow, Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES will dive into and deconstruct a major issue facing the people who work in cable, radio, television and telecom in Canada.
The first issue? TV Advertising. Is it dead? Of course not. It’s thriving! It’s the lifeblood of the business! But change is afoot. Real, substantive…
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TORONTO – Quebecor’s Sun News was removed from the Bell TV satellite lineup at 10 a.m. this morning (Tuesday, May 3).
While the channel slot itself remains, the feed has been replaced with text telling customers that the channel “has been taken down at the request of the owners of Sun News."
According to Sun News head of development Luc Lavoie, Bell forced Quebecor’s hand and it had to demand signal removal. “They have carried the signal on their satellite without trying to even have an agreement with us,” he told Cartt.ca this morning.
When Sun News launched last month, it…
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TORONTO – Quebecor’s Sun News was removed from the Bell TV satellite line-up at 10 a.m. this morning (Tuesday, May 3) but it turns out that this is but one of multiple disagreements that the companies have with each other.
While the Sun News channel slot itself remains, the feed has been replaced with text telling customers that the channel “has been taken down at the request of the owners of Sun News."
According to Sun News head of development Luc Lavoie, Bell forced Quebecor’s hand and it had to demand signal removal. “They have carried the signal on their satellite…
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TORONTO – The speaker list at the Canadian Telecom Summit gets better and better.
Bell Canada CEO George Cope will give the lunchtime keynote address on Thursday, June 2nd, the organizers, Mark Goldberg and Michael Sone, announced today.
Cope joins the likes of CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein, Videotron president and CEO Robert Dépatie, Rogers Communications’ Rob Bruce, Telus’ CFO Robert McFarlane, Nokia Siemens’ CTO Hossein Moiin, Microsoft Canada president Eric Gales and a host of others (including Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien, who will moderate the Regulatory Blockbuster Panel on Wednesday, June 1).
To learn more or to register, click…
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ALVISO, CA and ENGLEWOOD, CO – Satellite broadcaster Dish Network and set-top box supplier Echostar have settled their long-running legal dispute with TiVo over video-recording technology.
The three companies announced Monday that Dish and Echostar will pay TiVo $500 million over five years, including an initial payment of $300 million, as part of an agreement to dismiss all pending litigation. The settlement gives Dish and EchoStar rights to use certain TiVo patents for video recording.
“The results of TiVo’s formidable intellectual property enforcement program speak for themselves, and consequently, we are pleased to put this litigation behind us and move forward”,…
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