TORONTO – RTNDA Canada, The Association of Electronic Journalists, has named its Atlantic region award winners honouring the best programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in both radio and television.
The annual awards will be presented in Halifax on June 23, 2011.
The Television winners are:
Use of New Media Award• CBC Newfoundland/Labrador for Hurricane Igor
Trina McQueen Award – News Information Program• CTV Atlantic for Live at 5
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News• CTV Atlantic for Hostage Drama
Ron Laidlaw Award – Continuing Coverage• CBC Newfoundland/Labrador for Hurricane Igor
Dave Rogers Award – Short Feature• CTV…
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OTTAWA – Canadian television audiences could soon be enjoying two more ethnic services.
The CRTC said Wednesday that it has approved an application by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. for a broadcasting licence to operate Greek TV, a national, general interest third-language ethnic Category 2 specialty channel devoted to the Greek-speaking communities in Canada.
The Commission also issued a call for comments on the addition of RAINews to the lists of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis after receiving a request from Rogers in March. Rogers’ application describes RAINews as the all-news broadcasting service of Italy’s…
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TORONTO – In an effort to beef up its customer service, discount wireless provider Fido will now offer customers the option to speak immediately to a live customer service representative in English, French, Cantonese or Mandarin.
The Rogers-owned company said Tuesday that its new service, called Fido Answers, will help to increase quick customer care resolutions by significantly reducing the average call waiting times and reducing the transfers between service reps. Customers will still have the option of choosing Fido’s self-serve menu.
“At Fido, we take our responsibility of providing customer service seriously and understand that each customer has individual needs and preferences…
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TORONTO – RTNDA Canada – The Association of Electronic Journalists awarded its president’s fellowship to Cristina Tenaglia at its central region conference in Kitchener-Waterloo this past weekend.
The fellowship of up to $3,000 is offered to a working electronic journalist annually to attend a seminar at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. Tenaglia, a graduate of Ryerson University who has worked with Rogers TV and now CHCH Hamilton, said she plans to attend the TV power reporting session.
"Cristina Tenaglia was one of many excellent applicants for the President’s Fellowship," said RTNDA Canada president Andy LeBlanc, in the announcement. "Cristina…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media launched iVillage.ca on Monday, providing Canadian women with an on-line destination for engaging content and community.
iVillage.ca will feature original content alongside top features from iVillage.com, plus stories from other Rogers brands such as Chatelaine, CityLine and sweetspot.ca. Its slate of experts and contributors will include Canadian mommy blogger Catherine Connors (Her Bad Mother), Home Heist’s Cheryl Torrenueva, and Lianne Phillipson-Webb, author of SproutRite, who will dish out weekly nutrition advice for the family. The community-driven site will also connect women to discussion boards featuring topics important to Canadian women.
"Rogers Media is thrilled to launch iVillage.ca in partnership…
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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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