OTTAWA – Granted, it’s just another in the thousands of oft-ignored parliamentary committee reports, but a new one released today by the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage wants the CRTC to hold a public hearing about whether or not the likes of Netflix, Google TV, Apple TV, etc., should be contributing funds to the Canadian television industry.
The report, “Impacts Of Private Television Ownership Changes And The Move Towards New Viewing Platforms,” was informed by five fall 2010 meeting days which heard from 21 witnesses representing Canadian media companies (big and small), carriers, producers, Continue Reading
TORONTO – A spot called “Anonymous” from Children Of The Street Society was named ‘Best in Show’ at the 2011 Crystal Awards, taking home the platinum award, and the $10,000 grand prize before going on to compete at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Hosted by Astral RadioPlus, Canadian Broadcast Sales, Chum Radio Sales and Target Broadcast Sales, the Crystal Awards honour outstanding achievement in agency and station radio creative from across Canada, showcasing innovation and celebrating a broad range of industry sectors.
The 10 gold Crystal awards were presented to the following winners:
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TORONTO – Rogers-owned Citytv has rolled out an app for the Apple iPad and iPhone featuring the latest in local news, weather, sports and traffic for viewers in Toronto and its surrounding area.
The ad supported CityNews app, which is available free from iTunes app store, also allows users to share their own stories and breaking news in their communities via their mobile device with the station’s newsroom by uploading videos, photos, news tips and stories. Other features include local weather information, a map view of the news as it unfolds, and the ability to share content from the app…
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TORONTO – RTNDA Canada, The Association of Electronic Journalists, has named its Prairie region award winners honouring the best programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in both radio and television.
"We’re pleased to continue a tradition that recognizes the best work of our peers and sets the standard for electronic journalism in Canada", said RTNDA Canada president Andy LeBlanc, in the annoucement. "These awards are named after pioneers and innovators in the Canadian news business. I’m sure they would be elated to see the quality of work that exists in award winning local news coverage today.”
The annual awards will be presented…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet could be mistaken for the baseball network this summer after adding more than 300 new Major League Baseball games to its schedule.
In addition to all 162 regular-season Blue Jays games, Sportsnet said Wednesday that it will also air over 300 MLB games including the World Series, the American League and National League Championships, the MLB Divisionals, the All-Star Game and the Home Run Derby.
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OTTAWA – Rogers wants a French language sports channel, while Stingray Digital Group hopes to add to its musical collection with a new channel called Concert TV, according to 36 new broadcasting applications made public by the CRTC on Wednesday.
Sports d’intérêt général de Rogers, will be, as the name suggests, a national, general-interest French-language Category 2 channel, according to the application. Stingray’s Concert TV would be devoted to contemporary and classical music concerts from a wide variety of music genres offered in SD, HD and 3-D, once readily available.
Other applications of interest include one from FreeHD Canada for…
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THUNDER BAY – Add Tbaytel to the list of IPTV providers who credit the Microsoft Mediaroom platform for smoothing the way for the rollout of video services.
After selecting the Calix B6 Ethernet Service Access Node (ESAN) for the launch of its advanced IPTV services to residential subscribers in Thunder Bay, Canada’s largest independent telco added Microsoft Mediaroom-powered TV services to its list of services last November by leveraging VDSL2 and Active Ethernet fibre access technology.
Tbaytel president and CEO Don Campbell told Cartt.ca that the VDSL2 multi-year deployment is well underway, but that it will still take “a couple of…
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TORONTO – Canada’s broadcasters and telcos are rumoured to top the list of suitors interested in acquiring the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.
The OTTP confirmed Saturday that it will “explore the possibility of selling” its 66% majority share of the sports and entertainment giant which reportedly includes more than a billion dollars worth of assets ranging from Air Canada Centre to the Toronto Maple Leafs to sports channels Leafs TV, NBA TV Canada and Gol TV.
The Toronto Star published a report last December claiming that Rogers Communications was in talks to buy the…
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TORONTO – Rogers has agreed to purchase for cancellation 3,200,000 of its outstanding Class B non-voting shares for an aggregate purchase price of $100,231,680, which it says is at a discount to the current market price of the Class B shares.
The transaction represents approximately 0.73% of the Class B shares outstanding at February 28, 2011.
Pursuant to a private agreement between Rogers and an arm’s-length third party seller, the purchase was made under an issuer bid exemption order issued by the Ontario Securities Commission.
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CTAM Canada is inviting members to the Rogers Centre in Toronto to see MLB’s the Toronto Blue Jays host the New York Yankees on April 19, 2011.
Please save the date – registration and event details will follow soon.
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