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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WASHINGTON, DC – Two plenary sessions featuring high level cable industry technology and marketing executives will highlight The Cable Show ’09.
The technology session, called ‘Cable Technology and the Platform for Change’, will see senior technology and strategy executives from various cable companies, including Rogers’ chief strategy officer Michael Lee, share how they’re preparing their technology platforms to serve new consumer demands while leveraging existing investments in plant, performance and potential.
‘Welcome to the Jungle: Marketing to Win’, is the name of the marketing session which will focus on communicating to consumers cable’s value and evolving product in a highly…
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OTTAWA – Canadian wireless companies say they will be ready for the CRTC’s new deadline for the launch of phase two of wireless emergency 911 service.
The Commission said today the deadline for wireless carriers to upgrade their technology – so that people can more easily be found in an emergency – is February 1, 2010. A combination of GPS or radio triangulation will be deployed and the Commission has mandated the technology be precise enough to be able to say where a handset is, within a radius of 10 to 300 metres.
Right now, emergency operators rely on…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC will set a deadline of February 1, 2010 for a new wireless emergency 911 standard to be implemented by Canadian wireless carriers. The announcement is expected at 11 a.m. this morning.
Canada’s wireless e911 service is not as advanced as compared to the U.S. marketplace. In Canada, 911 operators who field an emergency call made from a cell phone normally must ask where the caller is. Of course, that’s a problem if the caller either can’t talk, or doesn’t know where they are.
Thanks to an FCC edict in the States, wireless carriers there already use…
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