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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today that new programming from MGM, Corus Entertainment and E1 Entertainment is coming to the Rogers On Demand Online Beta.
Over the coming weeks through these partnerships, Rogers On Demand Online will feature a wide selection of programming ranging from lifestyle favourites to popular (if somewhat elderly) TV series and feature films which should attract even more visitors than the initial strong count.
New on Rogers On Demand Online from MGM will be 75 features including Rob Roy, UHF and RoboCop, and 10 popular TV series such as The Addams Family, American Gladiators and Fame….
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TORONTO – Cogeco Cable’s Chris Macfarlane, Telonix’s Eric Goulden and Jason Lowe of Clearcable are the three newest additions to the board of directors of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Ontario chapter.
They were the top three candidates after chapter members’ recent vote.
They join TVC Canada’s Bill McMillan, Rogers Cable’s James Myles, and Cogeco’s Daniel Sacolle on the board of directors and will assume their roles starting February 1,2010.
Boris Eventov (Cogeco), Rob McCann (Clearcable) and Bruce Marshall (Mountain Cablevision/Shaw) will be retiring from the board, after having served their term.
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DALLAS – AT&T announced Monday it has enhanced its wireless priority service to operate when roaming in Canada within the Rogers Wireless coverage area in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
This enhancement is made possible by AT&T’s cross-border roaming relationship with Rogers Wireless.
The AT&T wireless priority service is an add-on feature subscribed on a per-month, per user basis for qualified United States government customers. AT&T plans to introduce new pricing for this service in February 2010, which will eliminate the activation fee and lower the monthly recurring charges. Other charges, taxes and fees, including roaming charges when…
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TORONTO – The primary headline will be the $40 million raised by Canada’s broadcasters via a pair of telethons on Friday (one in Toronto and another in French in Montreal), but there are a lot of other stories out there of companies from our industry rallying their employees or their customers to the cause.
Canada For Haiti, Friday’s one-hour, commercial-free special produced collaboratively between CBC Television, CTV and Global Television and also aired on Citytv, has raised more than $13.5 million to date for relief efforts in Haiti, it was confirmed today. (Citytv also aired its own “Help for Haiti”…
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