TORONTO – Former Blue Jay Buck Martinez is back in Toronto to call play-by-play on Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts for Rogers Sportsnet.
Martinez, a catcher who played six seasons with the Toronto squad, is the new voice on Jays on Rogers Sportsnet, replacing Jamie Campbell.
His prior work includes analysis on Jays television broadcasts (1987-2000) and national broadcasts for Telemedia Radio Network in Canada (1984-1987). He also covered the All-Star Game, playoffs and World Series for Telemedia. Most recently, he was a member of the Baltimore Orioles TV broadcast team.
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TORONTO – The Radio Marketing Bureau has announced their 2010 board of directors:
-Gary Belgrave, president, Radio Marketing Bureau;– Derek Berghuis, second vice chair, Rogers Media Radio;– Glenn Chalmers, Astral Media Radio;– Lesley Conway-Kelley, Chair, Astral Media Radio Sales;– Chris Gordon, CHUM Radio/CTVglobemedia;– Patrick Grierson, Past Chair, Canadian Broadcast Sales;– Elmer Hildebrand, Treasurer, Golden West Broadcasting; – Breydon MacDonald, CHUM Radio Sales/CTVglobemedia;– Jacques Parisien, Astral Media Radio; – Sandee Reed, First Vice Chair, Rawlco Radio;– Gerry Siemens, Jim Pattison Broadcast Group;– Stephen Sienko, Target Broadcast Sales;– Paul Ski,…
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TORONTO – Canwest will launch its MovieTime and History Television HD channels on Rogers Cable.
MovieTime, formerly known as Lonestar, will join the cable company’s Digital VIP programming package. History TV HD will be available to all Rogers customers that subscribe to the SD channel. It will also contribute video-on-demand content to the Rogers platform in the coming weeks.
"This offering marks another successful partnership between Rogers and Canwest and we are thrilled to be making these two highly successful brands accessible to more consumers," said Brian Cuff, Canwest’s VP of distribution strategy, in the announcement.
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TORONTO – The Television Bureau of Canada has announced its 2010 board of directors.
Along with TVB president Theresa Treutler, the board’s executive committee is:
– Rita Fabian, Chair, EVP of sales and marketing, CTVglobemedia;– Errol Da-Ré, Vice Chair, EVP sales, Canwest;– Chris McGinley, Treasurer, SVP operations, Canwest;– Mitch Dent, Secretary, EVP Rogers Media Television Sales.
Completing the Board of Directors are:
– Sally Basmajian, CTVglobemedia, Discovery Networks;– Bill Hanson, CTVglobemedia;– Richard Hiron, Rogers Television;– Lori Legault, Canwest;– Cal Millar, Channel Zero;– Scott Moore, CBC Television;– Jim Nelles, Sun TV;– Don Shafer, Astral…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – Globalive could launch its Wind-branded mobile service as early as next week, chairman Anthony Lacavera said Friday after learning that Industry Canada had overturned the CRTC’s decision barring his company from entering the Canadian wireless market.
Amid cheers from staff, Lacavera thanked the government for its decision which he called “testament that this country needs (wireless) competition.”
Industry Canada declared Globalive a Canadian company that meets the Canadian ownership and control requirements under the Telecommunications Act early on Friday morning, contrary to the CRTC’s decision in the Fall which determined that the company was not sufficiently Canadian-owned…
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EXTON, PA – Rogers Cable’s Dermot O’Carroll has been named to the standing committees of the SCTE board of directors.
He will assume the position of chair of the planning committee for the 2009–2010 term.
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TORONTO – Is the advertising market on the rebound? Astral Media thinks so.
Speaking at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Toronto Wednesday, president and CEO Ian Greenberg said that he believes that the ad industry has already hit its rock bottom and has nowhere to go but up.
“What we’ve seen, from the point of view of activity, is clients and ad agencies calling us (again), instead of us having to go to them all the time, and looking for presentations on campaigns”, Greenberg said to the media after the presentation. “We’re certainly getting a better feeling as we go…
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QUIETLY POSTED TUESDAY on the CRTC’s web site were the 2009 aggregate financial data of the large Canadian broadcasters and BDUs. And, as we all knew, the BDUs are doing pretty well. The broadcasters, not so much.
CTV EVP Paul Sparkes tried to quickly introduce some of the data during its Q&A session Tuesday during the ongoing hearing into a broadcaster compensation regime because of the dramatically different bottom line numbers for his company compared to the big carriers. However, he was interrupted by Commission chair Konrad von Finckenstein before he could spit out the admittedly huge profit before…
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GATINEAU – For those of us who have been to a few of these CRTC get-togethers, Marjorie Lemieux will likely stick in our minds for a while.
Dressed in a bright purple sweatshirt, the Rogers Cable customer was on the first consumer panel of the day (a group pulled together from submissions via the “Stop the TV Tax” campaign) for hearing 2009-614, the one called by the CRTC in response to cabinet’s call for a report on the implications of paying a fee for conventional TV.
“My name is Marjorie and I want to stop the TV tax,” she began, adding…
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GATINEAU – With a light dusting of snow outside and a grey beginning to yet another week of talking about paying for conventional television signals, you’ll hopefully forgive us for feeling just a little like this.
This is the fourth hearing inside of two years (and the second one in the past month!) whose focus is on compensating local TV broadcasters for their signals). This one, as CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein pointed out right at the start, will not set policy, but instead will inform a report to be filed in the new year with Canadian Heritage Minister…
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