FREDERICTON – RTNDA Canada continued its cross-country awards program this weekend with the RTNDA Awards at the Atlantic Region Pro Dev Seminar & Awards Banquet held Saturday evening in Fredericton, NB.
The 2007 TELEVISION winners are:
Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast * Global News Maritimes for Gagetown Soldiers Killed – (Medium Market)
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News * Global News Maritimes for "Armed Robbery" * Global News Maritimes for "Tire Fire" – (Honourable Mention)
Dan McArthur Award – In-depth/Investigative * CTV Atlantic for Climate of Change
Dave Rogers Award – Short Feature * CTV Atlantic for Kitchen…
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TORONTO – At a media conference today in Toronto, Rogers Communications vice-chairman Phil Lind will go on the attack once again against the conventional broadcasters’ goal of gaining a fee for carriage – and against his fear the CRTC might create such a fee and tie it to the production of local news.
Rogers, the recent buyers of the Citytv network and owners of the OMNI group of conventional stations, has asked for no such fee and fears the Commission may be thinking about poking its nose too deeply into the inner workings of the industry.
“Canada’s broadcast regulator,…
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OTTAWA – Despite an auspicious beginning, the Advanced Wireless Spectrum auction that began this week still has the ingredients for “both a robust auction process and a more competitive marketplace thereafter,” predicts the SeaBoard Group in a white paper released Wednesday.
The SeaBoard Group contends that Canadians have not lost the promise of more choice in cell phone providers and of lower cost services because of the seeming bidder disarray. It points out that 24 of 29 new-entrant bidders remain in the race.
The research firm predicts that Videotron and MTS Allstream, now bidding on its own, will bid…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media Television announced Wednesday that effective immediately Rogers TV Sales will be managing and selling national advertising for Channel m in Vancouver.
Rogers’ Television received CRTC approval to acquire the Vancouver-based over-the-air ethnic channel at the end of March.
“We are pleased to bring forward more opportunities for advertisers to reach multilingual audiences in western Canada,” said Mitch Dent, executive vice-president of Sales at Rogers Media Television.
It was also announced that Rogers TV Sales would no longer be managing advertising sales for OMNI Vancouver (CHNU) and OMNI Manitoba (CIIT) following the purchase of these…
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AS THE ADVANCED wireless spectrum auction gets under way today, there are a couple of things that are clear.
First, Canadian consumers will see several new wireless operators (one or two national, some more regional) inside of 18 months after the auction’s end in three to five weeks, driving down retail prices and increasing competition for their business.
Second, thanks to the new rules favoring any newcomers to Canadian wireless that demand mandated roaming on the existing incumbents’ networks, Rogers Communications is going to take on most of that burden. It will tax the company’s system somewhat,…
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TORONTO – S-VOX is now operating Vancouver-based CHNU-TV and its Winnipeg sister station CIIT-TV. They are the first two conventional broadcasters owned by the faith and spirituality focused media company.
The CRTC last month approved the acquisition of these two local stations from Rogers, which chose to sell the stations when they moved to acquire the Citytv network.
"We are proud to add these vibrant local stations to the S-VOX family of channels, and look forward to helping them build on their current strengths to become leaders in their respective local marketplaces,” said S-VOX president and CEO Bill Roberts,…
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TORONTO – The charity event "Together for China – Earthquake Relief Telethon" brought to Chinese Canadians nationally on Friday by TV channels Fairchild and Talentvision, raised a phenomenal $2,286,300 across Canada.
The event was a national earthquake relief effort by Fairchild Television in partnership with the Canadian Red Cross featuring renowned performing artistes from Asia, Eric Tsang, Jackie Cheung, Alan Tam, Aaron Kwok, Hacken Lee and more popular singers from Hong Kong and representatives from Canadian organizations appealing and presenting pledges to help the earthquake victims.
The program was simulcast on Shaw TV Cable 4 and Shaw Multicultural Channel,…
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TORONTO – Fairchild Television, Talentvision and the Canadian Red Cross are joining forces with local Chinese communities in a cross-Canada earthquake relief effort “Together for China” telethon that will feature Asian artists such as EricTsang, Jackie Cheung, Alan Tam, Aaron Kwok and Hacken Lee.
The initiative will take place on May 23 at 8 p.m.
A special fund-raising program will be aired 8:30 p.m. PST the same day on Talentvision that will highlight the rescue efforts.
Cable carriers such as Rogers, Shaw, Bell ExpressVu, Cogeco and Telus are assisting by unscrambling the signal and making Fairchild TV and Talentvision…
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TORONTO – MTV in Canada is partnering with Rogers Wireless to deliver exclusive co-branded, multiplatform programs to its viewers. The new offerings are My Playlist, a content-based social network; the Leak, a first listen music program; and Rogers Presents MTV Live at The Concert Hall, exclusive live events.
“New technology has unleashed our audience’s demand for more – more content, more occasions to watch it, listen to it, interact with it, make it themselves, customize it, and share it,” said Brad Schwartz, senior vice-president and general manager of Much MTV Group at CTV Inc. “Our partnership with Rogers gives fans and…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications Inc. said Wednesday it has agreed to purchase for cancellation a million of its outstanding Class B non-voting shares for $39.86 million. The number represents about 0.002% of the total Class B shares outstanding at April 30, 2008.
The sale is pursuant to a private agreement between Rogers and an arm’s-length third party seller.
Rogers said the private purchase was made under an issuer bid exemption order issued by the Ontario Securities Commission. The company added that the Class B shares purchased under the private purchase will be included in calculating the number of Class…
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