TORONTO – Just a few weeks after a contract kerfuffle saw popular sportscaster Kathryn Humphreys leave her post at Citytv Toronto, Rogers Media, the new owners of the station, announced late Monday that she is joining the company in a newly expanded role.
Beginning Monday, viewers can enjoy Humphreys unique reporting style on everything from little league heroes to the pros on both the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. Citytv’s CityNews, where she had previously been. But the old job won’t be the limit for Humphreys (pictured), who will now be contributing to a number of…
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TORONTO – If you’re a hockey fan with a high definition television set, you want to see as many games as possible in crisp, clear HD.
And if your favorite regional National Hockey League team is playing on Rogers Sportsnet, you don’t want to hear the technical and league reasons why there is poker on Sportsnet HD (shot in standard definition) while the game (shot in HD) appears in fuzzier analog on the SD Sportsnet channel.
The reasons why that was, was confusing enough for those of us in the industry, let alone a regular hockey fan.
Years ago,…
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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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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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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 – Alanis Morissette, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, musician and producer, will be inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame on Friday, March 7.
She will be awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Canadian Radio Music Awards, taking place at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel during the 26th Annual Rogers MusicStore Canadian Music Week.
Her Grammy-winning 1995 debut for Maverick Records, Jagged Little Pill remains one of the most popular recordings in music history with over 30 million in sales worldwide.
A seven-time Grammy Award winner and 12-time JUNO Award winner, Morissette is also a recipient of…
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