TORONTO – Former CHUM Ltd Vice Chair and COO Fred Sherratt will be honoured at the Ontario Association of Broadcasters’ Community Service Awards Luncheon 2008 on October 7 at 11:30 at the Boulevard Club in Toronto.
The event will also feature a keynote by CRTC Vice-Chair, Broadcasting Michel Arpin.
The OAB Community Service Award for Radio – Small Market will be presented to CKTB/HTZ-FM/ EZROCK Astral Media Radio Niagara. General manger Madelyn Hamilton will accept the award.
An honourable mention goes to The Rock, Durham Radio Oshawa. Craig Robertson, morning show host; Steve Kassay, general manager; and Adrianne Vogel,…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has announced the finalists for its Gold Ribbon Awards, honouring excellence in private broadcasting. The awards will be presented during the CAB 2008 Convention being held in Ottawa from November 2nd to 4th.
The Gold Ribbon Awards honour achievement in broadcasting in such categories as community service, breaking news, humour, public affairs, and diversity in news and information programming. The CAB received a total of 403 submissions for this year’s competition. Radio categories attracted 202 submissions, while TV and Specialty/Pay/Pay-per-view entries garnered 108 and 93 submissions respectively. After reviewing the entries, the…
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Wrapping up the 2008 CTAM Summit will be a panel of seasoned cablers, content and financial experts who will provide a directional compass for the industry’s long term strategies in a difficult economic environment.
The 2008 Summit will happen in Boston from November 9-11 and is co-chaired by Rogers Communications chief strategy officer Mike Lee and ESPN’s senior vice-president, marketing Katie Lacey. (Watch for an interview with the two of them – and CTAM president and CEO Char Beales next week on Cartt.ca)
The scheduled speakers are: Thomas M. Rutledge, COO, Cablevision Systems; Jessica Reif Cohen,…
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LONDON – Today, 16 of the world’s best known IT and mobile companies united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected mobile broadband devices, delivering a compelling alternative to WiFi.
The GSM Association (of which Rogers Communications is a member) is the global trade group representing more than 750 GSM mobile operators across 218 countries and territories of the world. The Association’s members represent more than three billion GSM and 3GSM connections – over 86% of the world’s mobile phone connections. In addition, more than 200 manufacturers and suppliers support the association’s initiatives.
According to…
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LOUISVILLE, Colo. – Dr. Richard Green told the CableLabs executive committee last week in New York that he intends to retire as CEO when his current contract expires in December 2009, the organization announced today.
The committee agreed to begin a search for a successor immediately in order to complete an orderly transition prior to Green’s departure. The group also reaffirmed a strong industry commitment to the work and program of CableLabs.
“The entire industry is indebted to Dick for building and managing one of the most successful development laboratories in the country. CableLabs has and will continue to…
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ANYONE WHO HAS spent longer than five minutes in this industry knows that the lead question Canadian viewers most often have for us is: “Why can’t I get HBO here?” (Actually, it’s very often “why the he** can’t I get HBO?!!)
Finally, we can tell them, “we do have HBO in Canada.” It’s not the exact HBO Americans get because it does have a 30% Cancon requirement, but it’s a lot closer than the way the dominant American pay channel’s programming has historically been available here.
As reported by Cartt.ca Monday morning, Astral Media (owners of The Movie…
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MONT TREMBLANT – Attendees were very pleased with the new trade show format at the 2008 Canadian Cable Systems Alliance.
The group tweaked its annual general meeting, renaming it Connect 2008 – The Summit for Independent Communications, rescheduling some of the traditional events and re-formatting the trade show. Feedback was very positive on Monday from some of the 250-plus attendees we talked to here at the Fairmont Hotel.
Here are a few of the things we saw and heard on Sunday and Monday.
************ Rogers Communications is now a member of the CCSA. Both the Alliance and the largest…
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TORONTO – Count CBC and The Score in the camp that doesn’t mind if Rogers ever carries TSN2.
The two broadcasters say TSN doesn’t have the regulatory authority to launch the new channel in the way it has been pitched and launched. (While the early launch was a struggle over money and channel placement, the larger carriers are bringing TSN2 aboard.)
TSN2 launched earlier this month – a re-named and bulked up version of the TSN Alternate feed, as Cartt.ca has reported. While TSN Alternate was fired up only when the sports service had conflicts with live…
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IN THE SPACE OF a few days last week, I had the chance to listen to a pair of conventional broadcasters expound on the future of their industry and what they must do to adapt.
From what I heard, the points of view of the two men were pretty dissimilar and boiled down to two questions: 1. Do we try some new things? Or, 2. Do we keep plugging away at more of the same?
The first was outgoing Rogers Broadcasting president Rael Merson, the subject of this week’s Tuesday Interview.
The future of broadcasting, he said, is…
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TORONTO – In seven years, newcomers to the wireless game in Canada will have about 8.2 million Canadian wireless subscribers (about 24% of the market), says a new report published Tuesday by Toronto’s Convergence Consulting Group.
And just about all of those subs will be tied to three big new wireless players, Globalive, Shaw Communications and Videotron.
At the end of 2015, those three companies “will each have a 7% share,” says the report.
Approximately 75% of new entrant subscribers will be consumer postpaid. Those customers currently comprise 53% of all Canadian wireless subscribers, but the company estimates that…
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