ENTITLED "BDU CONTENT Strategies: Can Cable and Phone Companies Do Their Own Thing?", the session on what TV distributors think of content and its changing place in their business plans was a popular session at the Canadian Film and TV Producers Association annual Prime Time conference in Ottawa two weeks ago.
The elephant not in the room, however? A cable company. But one former cable guy spoke for the industry anyway. Moderated by Peter Lyman, senior partner, Nordicity Group, the panelists included Chris Frank, vice-president, programming and pay-per-view, Bell ExpressVu, Michael Hennessy, vice-president, broadband and video policy, Telus; Tom…
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GATINEAU – After months of waiting (it took CTV until almost Christmas to submit its application to the Commission to purchase CHUM Ltd.) the CRTC will hear the request at a public hearing beginning April 30th.
In July, Bell Globemedia (now CTVglobemedia) announced a $1.4 billion purchase of CHUM Ltd. from the Waters family ($1.7 billion if assumed debt is included). If approved, CTV will take ownership of the Citytv broadcast stations across the country, numerous popular specialty channels like MuchMusic, Space and Star! as well as 33 radio stations.
As for the secondary market A-Channels, CTVgm will sell…
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TORONTO – CBC Television today announced the appointment of Scott Moore as executive director, CBC Sports, effective March 5.
"As a Gemini and Emmy award-winning producer with an international reputation for innovative sports production, Scott has a wealth of knowledge and experience which will provide a tremendous benefit to the CBC," said Richard Stursberg, executive vice-president of CBC Television, in a press release. "Sports are a key part of the CBC’s service to Canadians."
Most recently, Moore owned an independent production company, Vancouver-based Top Notch Studios, where he was involved in the Athens and Torino Olympic Games, the Melbourne…
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OTTAWA – Canadian Women in Communications held its annual awards gala evening on Tuesday in Ottawa.
The CWC Annual Awards recognizes the accomplishments of four outstanding women in the communications industry and one communications organization that has nurtured the aspirations of its female employees.
The event is attended by over 600 VIPs to publicly recognize the achievements of communications industry role models. The following CWC Annual Award Winners were honoured at this year’s event (pictures are below):
* Karen Radford, executive vice-president and president, Telus Quebec and partner solutions, Telus – CWC Woman of the Year Award Recipient
* CanWest MediaWorks Inc….
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TORONTO – Inspired by Rosalie Tremblay, music director of CKLW-AM in Windsor from 1967-1984 “The Rosalie Award” honours Canadian women in broadcasting who have blazed new trails.
Next week, Jane Hawtin will be recognized and honoured for her achievements by friends and peers at the 3rd Annual Women in Broadcasting Breakfast, March 9, 2007.
A broadcaster, producer and entrepreneur, Hawtin began her career in radio in 1976 at CKLC in Kingston. She piled up a number of firsts including first female news director in private radio (Q107) and first female talk show host in private radio (CFRB 1010). When…
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TORONTO – Several venues across Canada will host the CTAM TeleSeminar on March 1 entitled: Hot Ideas to Keep your Customers Cool.
It will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. ET and will be delivered via satellite to local chapters throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.
At each of the Canadian locations, there will be a short reception to follow the TeleSeminar.
The interactive event features a panel of cable executives discussing how marketing can work with other departments to improve the customer experience.
The panel, moderated by Brad Samuels, executive vice-president, affiliate sales and marketing, TV…
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TORONTO – Rogers customers calling other Rogers customers won’t have to pay long distance charges any more.
Rogers Communications announced today a new promotion called My Home Connections which allows Rogers Home Phone customers to make Canadian long distance calls from their home phone, to any other Rogers Wireless, Rogers Home Phone or Fido number, at no charge.
"This is a standard benefit for Rogers Home Phone customers and requires no subscription or additional monthly fees. Rogers is the first home phone company in Canada to provide this service as part of the basic phone service. Rogers Home Phone…
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CANADA’S ILEC’s SURE hope so. They need it to be.
Every quarter, when telco CEOs face industry analysts, one or more of them invariably ask whether the telcos’ rebuild strategy of only bringing fibre to a neighbourhood node, within a kilometre or so of a group of homes, will provide enough bandwidth to make them competitive in the broadband video world.
They also invariably point to U.S. telco Verizon, which is building fibre to the home (or curb or the premises, whatever you’d like to call it) so that it can deliver on its aggressive rollout plans for its…
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TORONTO – The fourth quarter of 2006 was "one of the best quarters this company has ever had," Rogers Communications founder and CEO Ted Rogers said Thursday.
Consolidated revenue grew 14.4% to $2.4 billion and consolidated operating profit jumped 46.3% to $752 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2006.
On the subscriber side, wireless Postpaid ARPU (average revenue per unit/subscriber) increased 6.1% while postpaid churn fell to 1.24% in the quarter. Cable and telecom residential and business local telephony lines surpassed 920,500, and solid growth in cable and high-speed Internet subscribers continues.
Despite the good news, Rogers cast…
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I’LL MISS STUART LANGFORD if he departs the Commission this fall when his current term is scheduled to expire.
We media types love a good quote and while I’ve never met the man, I’ve read enough of the CRTC commissioner’s sometimes entertaining dissents from certain decisions that I will miss his take on things if he goes. (Here are a couple of examples.)
While Drew Craig sounded a little uncomfortable with Langford’s line of questioning Wednesday morning in Calgary during the Commission’s hearings there, the commissioner’s oddball analogies drew some guffaws audible even on the webcast we listened in…
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