OTTAWA – Wireless industry stakeholders are calling on the CRTC to initiate a separate review of the mobile data services framework and its applicability under the recently established Internet traffic management practices (ITMP) framework, rather than include the matter in a broader consultation on certain legacy telecom obligations.
They say the matter is largely administrative in nature and can be best handled separately.
“It would be a lot simpler in my mind to have dealt with that in a very small paper proceeding,” Michael Hennessy, Telus’ senior VP of regulatory and government affairs said in an interview.
“I suspect…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Three of Canada’s largest telecommunications service providers agree that it’s time to review the nearly 10-year-old contribution regime and make changes to the local subsidy that better reflect the reality of today’s telephony landscape.
Their comments come after the CRTC issued a consultation on the contribution regime and other related matters last week (Telecom Notice of Consultation 2010-43).
The current contribution regime, established back in 2000 (Telecom Decision 2000-745), requires all TSPs with revenues greater than $10 million to provide a portion of their earnings to a national pool that would be made available to telecom…
Continue Reading
EXTON, PA – Cable television pioneer Israel “Sruki” Switzer will deliver the keynote address at the upcoming SCTE Canadian Summit 2010.
Widely regarded as the most knowledgeable cable technology engineer Canada has ever produced, Switzer provided leadership and advocacy in the development of concepts and practices that advanced the cable television industry and inspired other great Canadian broadcast entrepreneurs such as Ted Rogers and Moses Znaimer. His profound understanding of cable technology and his vision and advocacy in support of the unlimited technical capabilities of the network helped to pave the phenomenal growth of the cable industry in Canada.
The second…
Continue Reading
QUEBEC CITY – Radio-Canada has launched a new Internet site, TOU.TV, the first in Canada offering free access to a well-stocked library of old and current French-language television dramas, variety shows, and current affairs productions.
The launch of the new site, enriched by the content from 20 other broadcasters and production companies, puts the public broadcaster firmly in a leadership position, said Radio-Canada vice-president Sylvain Lafrance, because viewers are quickly adopting the web as the place to get their television fix and they have nothing else quite like it, in English or in French.
Already, more than 2,000 hours of…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Okay, I’m going to take Paul Robertson’s advice and resist the urge to get all cynical about what I heard Thursday at TV Day.
A panel of five senior Canadian broadcasters (Corus Entertainment’s TV head Robertson, Rogers Media Television’s Leslie Sole, TVA’s Pierre Dion, CBC’s Richard Stursberg and Canwest Global’s Leonard Asper) gathered in front of a crowd of mostly advertisers and agencies – plus some of their broadcast peers – to give their visions of the future during a panel at the Television Bureau of Canada’s TV Day, moderated by journalist Michael Vaughan.
The message that came through? It’s…
Continue Reading
EXTON, Pa. – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) announced today that Sandip Singh of Rogers Communications Inc. is the 2010 winner of the Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award.
The second annual award recognizes outstanding technical achievements and contributions made to the advancement of the cable telecommunications industry by a young Canadian engineering professional. The award is made possible through the sponsorship of Aurora Networks and the efforts of media sponsor Cartt.ca and SCTE.
Singh, 30, of Brampton, Ontario, is a digital architect with Rogers. He will be formally presented with the award at SCTE Canadian Summit…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – You can’t sell what isn’t yours.
That, in a nutshell, is what some of the interveners into Mediadenovo’s application for a broadcast license have said about the company’s plans to sell the local availability advertising time on American specialty services to national Canadian advertisers. The concept will face the commissioners in a non-appearing hearing on February 22. Comments closed Wednesday. (A prior version of this story suggested this would be a traditional public hearing. At this time, that is not the plan.)
In 2009 Mediadenovo, a re-branded Only Imagine (which had a similar submission shot down by the CRTC in…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium announced today its exclusive English-language radio coverage of Vancouver 2010, with more than 1,800 hours of coverage across 77 stations on THE FAN Radio Network, the official radio partner of the Olympic Winter Games.
It also announced an exclusive French language radio deal with 10 Corus stations in Quebec.
In English, live coverage of key events, such as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Team Canada men’s hockey, and the highly anticipated men’s and women’s gold medal hockey finals, will air across the airwaves countrywide. Daily radio coverage also includes Olympic Games sports updates, event…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Cable viewers can watch many of their favourite Olympic moments over and over again, on demand thanks to a video on demand agreement signed with four cable operators.
More than 700 hours of video on demand coverage in English and French of the 2010 Winter Games will be available via Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, EastLink and its subsidiary Delta Cable and Source Cable, free of charge. This represents more than triple the amount of on demand coverage of Turin 2006 (221 hours).
(Ed note: As a Cogeco Cable customer and Olympics fan, we here at Cartt.ca are very hopeful…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Rogers announced today it has launched mobile applications on three platforms for Rogers Sportsnet, exclusively for Rogers Wireless and Fido customers.
Sportsnet.ca’s mobile trio will be available to BlackBerry, Apple iPhone and Android device owners. These applications will provide breaking news, opinions, scores, schedules and more exclusively to Rogers Wireless and Fido customers.
The apps will offer customizable, up to-the-minute updates, articles and analysis from Sportsnet writers. Coverage will include National Hockey League (NHL), National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA) and soccer. Other features of the service include the latest headlines from around…
Continue Reading
