TORONTO – The Television Bureau of Canada Thursday announced its 2011 board of directors.
Rita Fabian, executive vice president of sales and marketing for CTV conventional and specialty, will continue as chair, while Errol Da-Ré, senior vice president of sales at Shaw Media, will remain vice chairman. Mitch Dent, executive vice president of TV sales at Rogers Media, will continue as secretary, and Lori Legault, vice president of national sales at Shaw Media, will fulfil the role of treasurer. Along with TVB President, Theresa Treutler, the above form the board’s executive committee.
Completing the board of directors are: Sally Basmajian (vice…
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TORONTO – Every match of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup of soccer will be broadcast live in Canada thanks to CBC Sports and Rogers Sportsnet joining forces, the two companies announced Thursday.
Coverage will begin Sunday, June 26 on CBC when Canada opens the tournament against host Germany.
The partnership will see CBC air all matches involving Canada, plus three of four quarterfinals, the semi-final, bronze and gold medal matches, all live. Rogers Sportsnet will air one quarterfinal match live, while also providing encore broadcasts of the quarterfinal, semi-final, bronze and gold medal matches. Additionally, in the early rounds, Rogers…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications Inc. facing increased competition from traditional rivals BCE and Telus, and from new wireless upstarts such as Wind Mobile offered a modest 2011 growth forecast yesterday.
Rogers expects operating profit to be flat to slightly higher in 2011, at between $4.6 billion and $4.77 billion.
Profit in the fourth quarter, however, was still up by 5% to $327 million compared to the same quarter last year.
The company said it added 123,000 net wireless subscribers during the quarter ended December 31, 2010, which was down 5% from a year earlier. The decline for net post-paid customers was more…
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TORONTO, – John Hinnen, vice-president and general manager of 680 News and vice-president of radio news programming for Rogers Broadcasting is this year’s recipient of the RTNDA Canada President’s Award.
RTNDA’s highest honour is presented annually to recognize individuals or groups that have brought distinction to, or made major contributions to, broadcast journalism.
"This award is recognition of the amazing people I’ve had a chance to work with over the years from Ted Rogers who had the vision for 680News to the amazing team of journalists we work with daily,” says Hinnen.
As an accomplished news executive and radio personality his…
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OTTAWA – Senior vice-president and general manager of digital media, Claude Galipeau, and Rogers Media have parted ways. No reason was given for his departure.
Galipeau has held a number of new media positions with big broadcasters. He was previously vice-president, interactive media, Astral Media, senior vice president, digital media, Alliance Atlantis; executive director, digital programming and business development, at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
While no replacement has been named, his departure has fueled speculation that Alon Marcovici, until recently the head of digital media at CTV, will come on board.
Marcovici worked for more than three years under current Rogers…
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TORONTO –CTV News announced Tuesday that Paul Rogers, senior vice-president, CTV News, adds editorial responsibilities for CTV’s 21 local stations to his portfolio; Jack Fleischmann, general manager for BNN – Business News Network, adds CTV News Channel to his responsibilities; and David Hughes becomes executive producer CTV National News.
Reporting to Wendy Freeman, president of news, Rogers is now serving as the point person for local CTV station news directors on editorial issues requiring guidance or direction while maintaining his current responsibilities at CTV Toronto. Rogers has been the senior vice-president, CTV News since 2004.
Jack Fleischmann expands his duties…
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TORONTO – BMO Capital Markets has downgraded its investment rating on Shaw Communications from outperform to market perform, based on the growing competitive threat from Telus, which could eventually capture one third of the B.C.-Alberta TV subscription market, says the bank.
“We are growing increasingly concerned with Shaw’s ability to withstand competitive pressures from Telus, specifically its Optik TV service,” writes Tim Casey, cable and media analyst at BMO Capital Markets, in his note to clients.
He cautions that Telus has the financial scale and strategic incentive to remain aggressive with marketing promotions this year and next, particularly since Shaw is…
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EXTON, Pa. and TORONTO – Brent Innes of Rogers Communications is this year’s winner of the SCTE Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) proudly announced today.
The Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award is made possible through the sponsorship of Aurora Networks and the efforts of Cartt.ca and SCTE. Innes will receive his award at SCTE Canadian Summit 2011, which is set for Tuesday through Wednesday, March 8-9 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto.
Innes, 30, of Bolton, Ontario, and an SCTE member since January 2010, is a senior…
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WATERLOO and BARCELONA – RIM announced today support for its new Playbook tablet on two more high speed network standards – HSPA+ and LTE at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
The move to offer LTE and HSPA+ versions of its PlayBook guarantees access to all major carriers in North America
The first version of the PlayBook, with WiFi and Bluetooth is set for launch in March and U.S. carrier Sprint Nextel will sell a version for its WiMAX network in the summer.
The WiFi-only version can connect to a user’s existing BlackBerry smartphone to access its data and use its…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet has a slew of tennis coverage planned after scooping up the rights to the Rogers Cup, the ATP Masters 1000 Series, and the ATP 500 series.
Sportsnet will become the first English network ever to broadcast both the men’s (from Montreal) and women’s matches (from Toronto) simultaneously during Rogers Cup play, from opening day on August 8 to the quarter-finals on August 12, on Sportsnet East, Ontario, West and Pacific regional channels and the nationally distributed Sportsnet One.
It will also offer all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments and10 different ATP 500 tournaments. All events, including the…
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