TORONTO and VANCOUVER – The official “digital hubs” for live coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games – websites CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca – went live on Monday, pledging to provide 2,400 hours of live coverage from Vancouver 2010 in both English and French.
The sites, to be rolled out in five phases over the next year, will feature embedded video, user generated content, interactive and participatory games, information about Canadian Olympic athletes, and “exclusive live online coverage of every single moment of Olympic Games competition”, the press release detailed.
During the Games, which run February 12 – 28, 2010…
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TORONTO – Dan Price, founder and president of the award winning U.S. radio production company Oink Ink Radio Inc., has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at this year’s Radio Marketing Bureau’s (RMB) Crystal Awards Creative Summit.
Price will also participate in a panel discussion on radio creative along with Terry O’Reilly from Pirate Toronto, Alan Cross from Corus, and Wray Ellis from the Radio Marketing Bureau.
The Summit and RMB Crystal Awards Show will be held on March 12, 2009 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, in conjunction with Rogers Canadian Music Week.
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EXTON, PA – Last week’s inaugural SCTE Canadian Summit attracted more than 600 attendees, and organizers are calling the two days of technical sessions and exhibits “hugely successful”.
The event, held at the Toronto Congress Centre, focused on the impacts of integrating new technologies into existing cable infrastructures, and examined the opportunities and pitfalls — all to maximize customer satisfaction and gain operational efficiencies.
The “exciting” opening CTO roundtable discussion was moderated by independent technology analyst Leslie Ellis, and some of the sessions, such as ‘Internet Capacity Management’ and ‘Fiber-Rich/Fiber-Deep’ played to a packed house.
The Summit also…
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TORONTO – Canadian Women in Communications (CWC) has selected this year’s award winners in the categories of ‘Woman of the Year’ and ‘Employer of the Year’, plus the inaugural ‘Excellence in Leadership’ award.
Susanne Boyce, president of creative, content and channels for CTV, has been named Woman of the Year. The award recognizes an outstanding woman who has made a significant contribution to any sector of the communications industry throughout her career, and who has contributed materially to the advancement of women within the industry.
Employer of the Year goes to Xerox Canada, as an organization that has an outstanding history, and/or…
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WINNIPEG – Canwest Global said yesterday afternoon it has launched a “strategic review” of its five E!-branded conventional television stations. Saying they are no longer core assets, the company wants to sell the stations and says it should take no more than six to eight weeks to conduct this review.
The stations in question are CJNT-TV in Montreal, CHCH-TV in Hamilton, CHCA-TV in Red Deer, CHBC-TV in Kelowna and CHEK-TV in Victoria. There are three other E!-branded stations out west, but those are affiliates owned by Pattison Broadcasting.
The sale of the stations is one of several choices being…
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TORONTO – Praise was near universal for the brand new Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Canadian Summit, which wrapped up Wednesday afternoon at the Toronto Congress Centre.
The final registration number for delegates has not yet been tallied as there were a large number who registered on site, but the show was very well attended with delegates from across Canada – from the Territories to Regina to Newfoundland – and all points in between.
If there were any complaints, it’s that the show wasn’t big enough (and that it snowed too much on Tuesday…). The 40 vendor tables sold…
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TORONTO – New low-cost wireless carrier Public Mobile officially launched today in Toronto with a demonstration that its phones will work on the G-Band spectrum it purchased.
The company, BMV Holdings, is helmed by former Bell Canada and Rogers Cable executive Alek Krstajic.
Public Mobile “feels wireless services are a right, not a luxury for Canadians and will offer an unlimited flat-rate talk and text package, with no term commitment, no credit checks, no fine print and no surprises to residents in both provinces when it launches later this year,” says today’s press release.
The goal of Public Mobile…
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WINNIPEG – Canwest Global said today it has launched a “strategic review” of its five E!-branded conventional television stations.
Officially, the company “is exploring strategic options for five of its conventional television stations, CJNT-TV in Montreal, CHCH-TV in Hamilton, CHCA-TV in Red Deer, CHBC-TV in Kelowna and CHEK-TV in Victoria,” reads the press release.
The sale of the stations is one of several options being considered by the company following an internal review. Another, worse option was recently mentioned by Canwest TV head Peter Viner in a recent story on Cartt.ca.
RBC Capital Markets has been retained to assist…
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TORONTO – The cable telecommunications industry in Canada has a long and illustrious engineering history.
(This is an excerpt of a speech written and delivered by Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien and Aurora Networks CTO Oleh Sniezko in presenting the first ever Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award at the SCTE Canadian Summit held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Toronto Congress Centre. Aurora was the sponsor of the award and Cartt.ca the media partner.)
Over its 57 years, Canadian engineers, technologists and technicians built and directed many industry firsts, whether it was microwave relay, fibre optic…
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TORONTO – Peer-to-peer file sharing is no longer the number one concern for cable company engineers managing their IP networks as web surfing – thanks to the growing popularity of streaming video – has taken over as the top consumer of bandwidth.
Shaw Cable’s director of Internet systems engineering, David Wodelet, during a session Tuesday morning on Internet capacity management at the SCTE Canadian Summit at the Toronto Congress Centre, noted that “P2P is on the decline… web traffic has now exceeded P2P,” thanks to the likes of YouTube, Google Video and myriad other sites where high quality video…
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