TORONTO – “National radio has now posted eight consecutive quarters of positive growth. That’s the longest stretch since Q1 of 2002,” said Patrick Grierson, president of Canadian Broadcast Sales. “What’s noteworthy is that this growth has been steady, stable and sustainable with no volatility. We’re projecting Q4 to remain on this positive pace and result in a 9% annual growth.”
National radio sales in the third quarter of fiscal 2008, ended February 29th, grew 8.7% as compared to Q3 2007.
‘Radio’s resilience is a major factor in this stable growth. Normal quarterly churn is approximately 40%. In Q3, only…
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BANFF – Former CHUM president and CEO Jay Switzer and former Standard Broadcasting president and CEO Gary Slaight are among a group of Canadian broadcast executives who have invested $5 million in GlassBOX Television, which runs digital specialty service Bite TV.
Other executives contributing the new venture and strategic capital to GlassBOX are former Alliance Atlantis Communications executive managing director of international television Ted Riley, former XM Radio Canada president and COO Stephen Tapp, and former QuickPlay executive Raja Khanna.
Khanna was named co-CEO of GlassBOX. Tapp, who also headed Chum Television, will be an advisor to the company…
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SAN FRANCISCO and TORONTO – The highly anticipated iPhone 3G will be for sale in Canada on July 11 announced Rogers Communications and Apple today.
“iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK,” reads the press release.
"We’re excited to be working with Rogers to bring iPhone 3G to Canada," said…
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QUEBEC CITY – Since Friday night, when Quebec’s floundering broadcast station TQS began stripping its news operations, the TV network has been ignoring its obligation to produce a certain number of hours of news programming, as set out in its CRTC licence.
That doesn’t sit well with CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein.
“We have a lot of problems with your application,” von Finckenstein said Monday at the opening of hearings in Montreal into TQS’s pitch for a new licence containing no news programming obligation at all. “You’re asking us to make an exception, one that would be in violation…
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TORONTO – Dan Cimoroni has been named vice-president, business development and Nelson Millman as executive producer, radio, of the CTV-Rogers Media consortium which will cover the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games.
Millman will also continue to serve in his current role as vice-president, general manager and program director of Rogers Media’s The Fan 590/Fan Sports Radio Network.
“Dan and Nelson bring a combined 55 years of experience to our Olympic team. Both boast impressive credentials as leaders in their respective fields and have developed strong relationships within the sports and business industries,” said Pelley in a release…
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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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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 – 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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