TORONTO – Nancy Lee will get to oversee the broadcast of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics after all.
The executive director of CBC Sports told staff today she is stepping down from her position after 20 years with the CBC. She has been hired by the International Olympic Committee as COO of Olympic Broadcast Services Vancouver.
CBC was out-bid for the 2010 Olympics by a CTV/TSN/Rogers Sportsnet consortium, an important programming loss for the Ceeb’s sports section.
David Masse will be acting executive director of CBC Sports while a search for a permanent replacement is launched.
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TORONTO – Pay TV free preview weekends were once as common as snowstorms in winter.
It was the tried-and-true method of enticing cable subscribers to shell out for more movies. With the dawn of digital, however, the free preview fell out of favour because as digital grew and two new direct-to-home satellite services launched, The Movie Network added tens of thousands of subscribers through the first half of this decade. It didn’t really need to offer a free preview to get subscribers.
However, as digital growth flattens, the free preview returns on Bell ExpressVu and Rogers Cable this weekend…
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AFTER READING THROUGH a number of submissions to the CRTC’s conventional television policy review, I’ve got a few first impressions where I think the new policy will go.
Remember though, first impressions can be very, very wrong and really, I’m just guessing for fun, so here we go.
Impression #1: I think fee-for carriage for OTA broadcasters has a shot to win approval. Probably not at the 50-cent a sub per month level that CanWest has asked for and certainly not the $2 level the Canadian Media Guild wants (an earlier version of this story said CFTPA but was…
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MONTREAL – After already having launched on Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable and Bell ExpressVu PPV, Cogeco Cable has also added Survivor: Cook Islands to its on demand lineup.
Starting with tonight’s episode (October 12), Cogeco digital cable customers will be able to see the show on VOD the day after it airs by purchasing it, commercial-free, for 99-cents.
Rogers, Shaw and ExpressVu, however, are offering the show on demand immediately after it airs on Global Television while Global itself is offering the episodes the next day for free on the web.
The latest and the prior three…
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TORONTO – MTS Allstream chief information officer, Nick Curry, has been named this year’s top CIO by Canadian Business magazine.
Curry received the "Top in Technology Award", given to the country’s best CIO, at Canadian Business magazine’s annual Leadership Forum and is featured in the Rogers Media publication’s fifth annual All-Star Execs issue. The All-Star Execs list is a unique and prestigious program based on months of statistical research and interviews conducted by the writers and editors at Canadian Business magazine. As CIO, Curry is responsible for all aspects of internal IT service operations, system applications and business process…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet president Doug Beeforth and TSN host Dave Hodge will receive lifetime achievement awards from Sports Media Canada, the group announced today.
The awards will be presented at SMC’s annual luncheon at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on October 18, 2006. For 16 seasons, Canadian families saw Hodge as the face of Hockey Night In Canada (’til that day he infamously flipped that pencil…) and for another sixteen years he has hosted TSN Inside Sports and The Dave Hodge Special.
Beeforth’s career began as a news and sports announcer at CFRB radio in the late…
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TORONTO – Survivor: Cook Islands fans have nothing to complain about if they miss their Thursday at 8 p.m. date.
Global Television today announced the show will be made available online at www.globaltv.com, joining prime time game show Deal or No Deal as the latest U.S. primetime series to be added to the network’s online programming library. Canadian original offerings on the site include: Global National with Kevin Newman, Global Currents, Falcon Beach and The Jane Show.
"The launch of the globaltv.com premium video player is a successful continuation in the network’s broadband video rollout – the free,…
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WASHINGTON D.C. – International news channel EuroNews announced today the channel will be made available for free on TVext, a web-based media network.
The partnership allows viewers in the U.S. and Canada to watch international news, including U.S. news, from a European perspective live from their desktop, free of charge, says the press release.
EuroNews is available in Canada on Rogers Cable, Bell ExpressVu and Videotron.
“This partnership represents a new way to expand globally and reach viewers who want news with a fresh perspective on world events,” said EuroNews chairman and CEO Phillippe Cayla. “It fits perfectly with…
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THE PURCHASE TWO WEEKS ago of Anchor Bay Canada is just one small new piece of the strategic puzzle for Starz Media.
Best known for its U.S. pay services Starz and Encore, Starz Media has its fingers in many pies at the moment. And just like Canadian media companies, it too is struggling with the opportunities and challenges presented by the ever-shifting media landscape.
Being a pay TV service is a lucrative business of course, but with viewers wanting to pull in content off the web to their TVs or iPods – or the other way ’round, Starz –…
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OTTAWA – Next month in Vancouver, nine broadcasting veterans will be inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
A special luncheon ceremony on Monday, November 6, 2006 will honour:
* 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 Morrissette, Broadcast executive, Montreal * Bill Stephenson, Sportscaster, Toronto * Sophie Thibault, News Anchor, Montreal * Philip (Pip) Wedge, Broadcast executive, Toronto
“This year’s inductees are innovators and leaders in the…
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