HEADLINES IN NEWSPAPERS this week say it all: “Rainbow City” wrote the editors of The Toronto Star as their headline and Vancouver Sun noted that their city “is now more multicultural than Miami, Los Angeles or New York City.”
The Statistics Canada census release this week highlighted the extent of change in the Canadian population – including the fact that Canada is now home to its highest proportion of immigrants since 1931 – a 75-year high. So how does this impact the broadcasting business? Without question, there are significant opportunities for ethnic media as a result of this new…
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TORONTO – Two entrepreneurs have launched a new company and are looking to turn the cable industry green.
CTAR Corp, which stands for Canadian Telecommunications Asset Recovery, diverts telecom equipment deemed “obsolete” or “excess” from landfills by reselling, donating, or recycling it. If the equipment can’t be reused by a Canadian or international company, CTAR approaches educational and training institutions, which offer a charitable tax receipt to companies. Then, the equipment is recycled – which generates a small amount of money for the harvested materials and diverts the electronics from landfills.
“The telecommunications industry has been expanding at such…
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NEW YORK – As the only GSM wireless operator in Canada, Rogers Wireless will face a dilemma – and opportunity – when new wireless companies launch in this country – likely in 2009.
While Bell Canada and Telus and a few other large North American wireless companies use CDMA-driven networks and handsets, GSM has become the de facto worldwide wireless standard technology, so it is highly probable that any new wireless company that comes to market here will choose to be a GSM player, too.
That means such newbies will use the new mandated roaming rules we reported on…
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TORONTO – David Strickland has been hired as senior vice-president of sales and Adam Ashton as vice-president of marketing for the CTV-Rogers’ coverage of the 2010/2012 Olympic Games.
Reporting to Keith Pelley, president of CTV-Rogers Olympic consortium, and effective immediately, Strickland and Ashton are the latest additions to the CTV-Rogers Olympic team, following announcements last month appointing Rick Chisholm as Executive Vice-President, Broadcasting, and Alon Marcovici as Vice-President, Digital Media and Research, as reported by Cartt.ca.
Strickland (right) is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the revenue streams (conventional, specialty, radio, mobile and online), including sponsorships,…
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MONTREAL – Bell Canada today announced the creation of a new coalition aimed at the development of a future generation of information technology experts able to meet the needs of Canadian companies.
The news was disclosed during a business luncheon of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal by guest speaker Stéphane Boisvert, President – Enterprise for Bell.
The Canadian Coalition for IT Succession will strive to consolidate and ensure the long-term sustainability of IT know-how in Canada, given the rapidly emerging shortage of professional workers in this sector. This major national coalition will be comprised of prominent Canadian…
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TORONTO – Those bets placed on telecom and wireless by certain Canadians have paid off in spades, reports Canadian Business Magazine this month.
This year’s “Rich 100,” the magazine’s annual ranking of the wealthiest Canadians, is populated by a bumper crop of billionaires, with three of the top 10 placed there thanks to their sizable bets (and an enormous amount of work) done on telecom.
And for the first time ever, more than half of the magazine’s list is made up of people who have hit the billionaire mark: 54 of them, in fact, up from 46 in last…
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MONTREAL – Quebecor Media CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau said Wednesday evening in a quickly arranged press conference that his company will definitely participate in the advanced wireless spectrum auction and will spend $500 million to build a broadband wireless network in Quebec – and will consider taking it national, too.
"This policy in favour of greater competition will translate into better technology, more services and lower prices for Canadian consumers," said Peladeau. "As a content company, Quebecor Media (which owns broadcasters TVA and SunTV, the Sun Media group of newspapers, Canoe.ca and a number of other media outlets) is…
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EVEN FOR A PROPONENT of spectrum set-asides, mandated roaming and mandated tower sharing, the rules surrounding the 2008 advanced wireless spectrum auction, which were released Wednesday afternoon in Toronto by Industry Minister Jim Prentice, aren’t quite a slam dunk.
MTS Allstream’s regulatory chief Chris Peirce was pleased Industry Canada had accepted his, and others’, argument that a leg up was required for newcomers to enter the space and increase wireless competition in Canada, but was non-committal about putting the rules into practice. “At a policy level, the government and the ministry have clearly gotten it. They understand that…
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TORONTO – Canada’s big three wireless incumbents will be wearing handcuffs when the advanced wireless spectrum auction begins on May 27, 2008.
Industry Minister Jim Prentice was in Toronto this afternoon to announce the rules of engagement when the federal government auctions off the 105 MHz worth of spectrum. The auction itself will take two to three weeks.
Of that spectrum, 40 MHz will be set aside for new wireless entrants to bid on alone. The remaining 65 MHz will be open to everyone. “The spectrum being set aside amounts to less than 14% of the total mobile spectrum…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications is donating $10 per employee and a total of $270,000 to select food banks, the Canadian Association of Food Banks (CAFB) announced Tuesday.
“This comes at a wonderful time of the year for food banks, assisting families who are in need of food,” said CAFB executive director Katharine Schmidt. “We are grateful for Rogers’on-going support at a local level. This donation is a wonderful gift.”
Rogers contributes to food banks in many communities throughout the year and Rogers Wireless and Fido are already a national sponsor in the Phones-For-Food program in partnership with the CAFB….
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