TORONTO – A well-attended networking "President’s Reception" kicked off the new year in style for CTAM Canada at Flow Restaurant in Toronto Wednesday evening.
Over 70 CTAM Canada members were in attendance, including the folks in the pictures below.
CTV Specialty’s Ben Keyes and Insight Sports’ Sean Luxton.
Astral Media’s Mark Waschulzik and Alliance Atlantis’ Drew Robinson.
Mountain Cablevision’s John Piercy.
Rogers Cable’s Mark Lethbridge in the crowd.
Turner’s Matt Tolleson and Speed Channel’s Hawley Chester.
The Weather Network’s Paul Temple and High Fidelity…
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MONTREAL – With Shaw and now Videotron having stopped payment on their monthly cheques to the Canadian Television Fund, the CTF board of directors said late Wednesday it has retained legal counsel and warned the TV production community of a problematic year.
As the largest TV distributor, Shaw (which also owns Star Choice) is the largest private contributor to the CTF while Videotron would be the fourth-largest. Together, their contributions make up almost half of the $150 million contributed by the industry each year to the $250 million fund. The rest comes from the federal government.
Numbers two and…
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TORONTO – The CTAM Canada President’s Reception is taking place tomorrow, January 24th, in Toronto’s tony Yorkville District.
The event is from 6 to 8 p.m. at Flow Restaurant and Lounge at 133 Yorkville Ave. Admission to the networking event with cocktails, hors d’ouvres and prizes is free. www.flowrestaurant.com
RSVP today by e-mailing organizer Andrea Gagliardi at andrea.gagliardi@rci.rogers.com.
On March 1st, the next CTAM TeleSeminar will focus on the customer experience and is 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…
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THE SMALL AND MEDIUM-sized business market has become a crowded place.
All of the big companies have said in the past months they see this market as a place to find big growth. Rogers, Bell, Shaw, Cogeco, Telus et al – all have talked about how well they hope to do in the SME space.
So is there room for small startups like Syntagma Network Services? CEO Theresa Carbonneau thinks so. The company’s small business plan offers a full suite of voice over IP-delivered services including broadband connectivity, voice services, e-mail and web hosting, exchange server hosting, virus scanning…
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DEREGULATING LOCAL PHONE in major urban centres in 2007 seems to me to be the right thing to do.
"The idea that somehow the cable guys are at a disadvantage to the telcos has not been proven so far in the entry of the cable industry in local voice," Lawson Hunter, Bell’s chief corporate officer said to me Wednesday. I agree with him. To a point.
Setting aside the unprecedented use of the provision in the Telecom Act that let’s the government issue policy directives to the CRTC (until 2006, it just hadn’t been done), it’s time to…
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BARRIE – The Ontario Chapter of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) has put together a line-up of speakers with real-world experience for its next professional development conference in Barrie on Feb. 8th.
On the agenda: Basic design and performance considerations for HFC plant, with Rogers Cable’s Bob Beaver; an in-depth look at ways to maximize return plant robustness while minimizing operational costs, led by Clearcable’s Jason Lowe; and the implications of having more and more utilities constructing underground, with Eric Goulden of Telonix.
In response to many requests, Rick Haub of PPC will lead a session on…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s hottest new music stars, along with a rock legend, will be honoured at the 10th Annual Canadian Radio Music Awards (CRMA) on Saturday, March 10th in Toronto.
Addictiv, Eva Avila, Gregory Charles, Mobile, The New Pornographers, and Joel Plaskett are among the artists nominated in nine categories. In previous years, the CRMAs introduced rookies such as Avril Lavigne, Sam Roberts, Arcade Fire and Michael Bublé.
Presented by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), the Awards will be handed out at a gala luncheon on Saturday, March 10, 2007, 12:30 p.m. at the Royal York Hotel in…
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TORONTO – A great opportunity to socialize with chapter members and learn more about CTAM Canada’s plans for 2007 will happen Wednesday January 24th in Toronto.
This is an event you don’t want to miss! Do you have a friend that’s not a member? Bring them along to see what membership in CTAM Canada is all about! Enjoy a fun filled evening with great hors d’ouvres, cocktails, prizes and friends.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 6 to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Flow Restaurant and Lounge www.flowrestaurant.com; 133 Yorkville Ave.; Toronto, ON
COST: Free
REGISTRATION: RSVP by e-mailing Andrea Gagliardi at…
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TORONTO – Long-time Rogers Media affiliate marketing and sales manager Ian Spencer is moving to CanWest MediaWorks.
His last day with Rogers is January 19th. Spencer has been with Rogers for four years and came to the company when it purchased Sportsnet from CTV about four years ago. Spencer has worked for the sports channel since its inception as CTV Sportsnet.
Spencer will join CanWest MediaWorks as manager of television distribution working under director of television distribution Cary Rubin, and will be involved in all of CanWest’s specialty services as well as Global Television HD and CanWest’s on demand agreements with BDUs.
"I…
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PETERBOROUGH – Lindsay Broadband has hired Christopher Skarica as its new vice-president of engineering.
Skarica spent 11 years in cable (Maclean-Hunter, Rogers, Cogeco) before moving to Nortel Networks in 1999 and then Broadbus Technologies (now Motorola) in 2004.
Prior to Nortel, he was the director of engineering for Cogeco Cable’s Ontario Operations. "Christopher has played key roles in the design and implementation of new technologies in cable TV networks including dual band and multi-beam satellite reception, two way optical and RF HFC equipment, SA and GI digital video compression systems, digital DWDM optical transport networks, Packet Cable compliant voice…
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