OTTAWA – The Cable Public Affairs Channel has named Jeremy Clark as its director of network and programming operations.
Effective March 15, Clark will head up CPAC’s programming department, working closely with executive producer Peter Van Dusen, to ensure programming excellence, technical superiority and quality control, the announcement detailed.
Clark was most recently regional station manager at Rogers TV in the Waterloo, ON region.
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TORONTO – Rogers has started up a new customer-focused blog called ‘Rogers RedBoard’ in an effort to further connect with its customers.
“RedBoard will be a place where we can talk about our vision, explain our services and policies and geek out about the latest new technology”, reads a post from social media senior director, Keith McArthur. “Our goal is to keep jargon to a minimum and to focus on providing useful information, interviews with decision makers and answers to your questions.”
What’s with the name? A play on the word ‘whiteboard’, often used in meetings rooms, this “Rogers-red version is a place to…
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TORONTO – Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium is gearing up to deliver a record 57 hours of high-definition television coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in English and French from March 12-21, 2010.
This marks the most hours of coverage ever delivered to Canadian audiences, and the first time the Paralympic Winter Games are being produced entirely in HD by a Canadian rights-holder.
The Consortium’s offering includes 27 hours of coverage in English on CTV, TSN and Rogers Sportsnet, as well as 30 hours of coverage in French on RDS and RIS Info Sports. Highlights include the Opening…
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“About a month later at a cable show in San Antonio, I bumped into an engineering legend named Israel Switzer, who worked for years at Maclean Hunter Cable. He was now consulting to upstart U.S. long-distance competitor MCI Communications. I knew and respected him a great deal.
“Israel asked me about cellular and what my plans were. I told him I was looking into it. He said he thought it was the future of telecommunications and urged me to get in before it was too late. I had to pay attention to a statement like that from a man of…
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TORONTO – Canadians may soon be able to pay for their groceries or gas up using only their mobile phones and a wireless payment sticker.
The Zoompass Tag, the next step in the evolution of the mobile payment system Zoompass, is a wireless payment device designed in the form of a sticker that can be attached to a mobile phone. It lets consumers simply tap their phones at checkout to make real-time purchases at retail stores such as Tim Hortons, McDonalds, Petro Canada and Loblaws.
By tapping a mobile phone with the Zoompass Tag on a contactless reader at the point-of-sale,…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet has added MMA Buzz to its website, powered by Rogers’ real time web service Thoora.com.
MMA Buzz collects and displays popular mixed martial arts stories based on what is happening within social and traditional media, providing fans with a new way to keep up-to-date.
"The MMA fan is super committed and engaged”, said Rogers’ SVP and GM of digital media, Claude Galipeau, in the announcement. “They blog, they tweet, they shout. MMA Buzz gathers the best-of-the-best in fan conversations, and serves it to one dashboard. Thoora is the perfect platform to power MMA BUZZ, since it’s all…
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OTTAWA – Rogers has received CRTC approval for a new mainstream sports channel.
Programming will include NHL hockey games involving Canadian teams, Major League Baseball games, Union of European Football Associations soccer and other mainstream sports.
In its application submitted last September, Rogers said that the new network will air “programming dedicated to all aspects of sports with an emphasis on mainstream Canadian professional sports”.
The service has proposed to offer over 50% of its programming in high definition format with a view of moving towards 90% by the end of its licence term in August, 2016.
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VANCOUVER – Further analysis of the massive television audience that watched last Sunday’s Olympic gold medal men’s hockey game found that 22 million people – or two thirds of the Canadian population – were watching when Sidney Crosby scored Team Canada’s overtime goal.
The peak audience follows CTV’s earlier announcement that the 16.6 million average audience for the game makes it the most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history. Twenty million viewers were watching the medal ceremony in which Canada received its record 14th gold medal of the Games, peaking at 20.5 million viewers when Crosby was presented with his medal…
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SINCE TENS OF MILLIONS of us tuned in to watch our Canadian skiers, skaters and sliders perform at their best on their biggest stage, the Olympics, wouldn’t we also want to watch our own actors, writers and directors doing the very same thing on their biggest stage, prime time?
The answer is “yes, of course,” if given the chance.
The Olympic broadcast consortium spent multiple millions acquiring the rights to the 2010 Games and then multiple millions more preparing, building the facilities and staffing the place with the best Canada has to offer in terms of broadcasters and broadcasting. The 1,400…
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TORONTO – Following Telus’ lead, Rogers is offering DRM-free (digital rights management) song downloads through its music service.
Visitors to Rogers’ full-track over-the-air music downloads store urMusic can now purchase and download DRM-free (also known as MP3) music tracks to their wireless device or computer, and then transfer them to their other digital music-capable electronic devices, free of charge. Rogers is also offering customers the ability to pre-order albums in advance of their release date.
DRM-free music tracks are priced at $0.69, $0.99 and up to $1.29 per track. Full album purchases generally cost less than $10, plus applicable download…
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