VANCOUVER – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) yesterday recognized the best work of its members with the 2006 Gold Ribbon Awards. The awards were presented at the CAB’s 80th Anniversary Convention in Vancouver.
The Gold Ribbon Awards pay tribute to achievements in broadcasting in various categories including community service, breaking news, humour, public affairs and promotion of Canadian talent. A total of 518 submissions were received for the 2006 Gold Ribbon Awards, of which, the judges selected 146 finalists in 33 award categories.
These awards are among the most prestigious in the Canadian broadcasting industry, and recognize outstanding…
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TORONTO – Rogers Wireless customers now have direct access to CanWest MediaWorks’ news and business information service, FPinfomart.ca.
The agreement announced today will see Rogers Wireless offer FPinfomart Mobile, the wireless extension of FPinformart.ca, as part of its wireless business applications, giving customers on the go with access to the information site wherever they go.
The service provides news and business information from over 275 Canadian and international news sources, as well as a database of research on over 4,000 Canadian public companies. The new service Rogers is deploying was developed for Blackberry wireless handheld devices. Today’s agreement allows…
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ONCE THOUGHT OF as the video rental store in a box, video on demand is now something completely different.
TV shows, clips, instructional videos, and original content are all growth drivers of the service and while some Canadian broadcasters have been leaders in bringing their product to the video on demand platform, more is required, David Purdy, VP TV for Rogers Cable told the audience at the second personalized programming session on Monday, this one on VOD.
While saying that about the only thing that won’t be available on demand is live sports, Purdy urged broadcasters to take a…
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VANCOUVER – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters inducted nine distinguished Canadians into the CAB’s Broadcast Hall of Fame at a special luncheon ceremony Monday at the CAB’s 80th Annual Convention in Vancouver.
The Hall of Fame recognizes Canadians in private broadcasting or related industries who have achieved outstanding success in helping raise industry standards from a material or humanitarian standpoint.
The inductees who were honoured at the luncheon are: Doug Allen, Broadcast engineer, Winnipeg Vicki Gabereau, Radio and Television talk show host, Vancouver Alain Gourd, Broadcast executive, Gatineau Frank Lewis, Broadcast executive, Charlottetown Gary Miles, Broadcast executive, Toronto Pierre…
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VANCOUVER – The transition to portable people meter technology will be expensive, so ideas such as fewer ratings periods and even no ratings at all for smaller markets were bounced about during Sunday afternoon’s radio ratings session at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention.
If there was a more apt title for a session on Sunday, we’re unaware of it. "The time is now: This is the plan". The gist? PPM is here. It’s ready. Advertisers want it. The question? How are we paying for it?
What does everyone agree on? Diaries don’t work.
Currently, most radio ratings are…
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VANCOUVER – Stephen Armstrong didn’t exactly have the easiest of tasks in front of him yesterday: Explain all new and developing media trends in 75 minutes.
The massive shifts in media consumption is keyed off of one major growth product: broadband. Quoting research, Armstrong said that by 2010, 422 million homes around the world will have broadband access. That works out to about 18.5% of all the world’s households, he calculated.
In Canada, 51% of us have broadband in our homes and growth continues. Plus, "it’s no longer the exclusive preserve of wireline carriers," he added, pointing to developments…
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TORONTO – Brand new research from CTAM Canada says that while Canadian consumers are buying high definition television sets by the thousands, they need more and better information on how to maximize what should be an incredible new picture.
A survey conducted this summer says Canadians are not fully aware of what they need – beyond their new TV – to truly see television in high definition.
According to the research, conducted exclusively for CTAM Canada members, while 22% and 21% of Canadian digital cable and satellite customers (respectively) own an HD set, only 14% have the requisite set…
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MONTREAL – Part product launch, part regulatory complaint, Videotron announced the official expansion of its high definition lineup today while re-sending a message Ottawa’s way about cable regulation.
As of Saturday, Videotron’s illico digital television customers in Montreal and area will gain access to Astral Media’s HD channels: Super Écran HD, Canal D HD, Ztélé HD and Canal Vie HD. This will bring to 20 the number of channels broadcast by Videotron in high def.
"Our goal and strategy were always very clear, we want to ensure a long term vision for our programming and our broadcasting grid to…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC told Bell ExpressVu today that it can’t add XM Radio Canada or Sirius Canada to its entertainment lineup without first getting a license amendment.
Specifically, "the Commission finds that satellite subscription radio (SSR) undertakings are not programming undertakings and that the licensees of direct-to-home broadcasting distribution undertakings, in the absence of a specific condition of licence allowing such distribution, do not have authority under section 39 of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations to distribute the programming of SSR undertakings," says the decision.
Mainly, XM and Sirius aren’t like Galaxie or MaxTrax, is what it means.
The…
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PUBLICLY CALLING OUT SOMEONE as a bigot is generally considered a poor way to build a business relationship with them.
However, the folks at English language Muslim channel Bridges TV, for whatever reason, believe this is their best chance at gaining carriage in Canada. And, not only have supporters of the channel labeled Rogers Communications, its founder Ted Rogers, and TV vice-president David Purdy as Islamophobic hate-mongers – claims that are wholly absurd – they’re also playing fast and loose with the facts.
Following up on a screed released October 18th, several Canadian Muslim groups said that a…
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