TORONTO – John H. Clappison has been added to the board of directors at Rogers Communications.
Ted Rogers, president and CEO, and Alan Horn, chair announced the appointment on Monday.
Clappison is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario and has had an extensive and successful business career. He was most recently the Greater Toronto Area Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers and sits on a number of corporate boards. Clappison is also active in the community with the Shaw Festival and St. Michael’s Hospital.
He will also become a member of the Audit Committee of RCI.
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GATINEAU – The CRTC on Friday announced that it’s renewing the transitional digital radio licences for another 12 months for some 73 stations in large centres across Canada.
The commission is extending the licence terms from Sept. 1, 2006 to Aug. 31, 2007, to buy time while it develops its new commercial radio policy, following its extensive public hearing held last month in Gatineau, and while it makes changes to its transitional digital radio policy, introduced in 1995.
The licences allow existing stations to operate a digital audio broadcasting signal. Of the 73 licences, 20 are not yet on…
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TORONTO – There’s no business like show business, as meteorologist Harold Hosein has found out. The 17-year veteran weatherman on Toronto’s Citytv told The Sun that he was fired with no reason last weekend.
A Citytv spokesperson told cartt.ca in an email that “Harold is no longer with us. He has decided to move on. He is launching a new business venture in the fall.”
According to the Sun report, Hosein has no plans to start his own business. "I didn’t leave, I was pushed out," he is quoted as saying.
The 66-year-old was apparently shoved aside…
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TORONTO – Sports broadcaster James Cybulski will be joining TSN as a Toronto reporter on SportsCentre, starting July 1. He’ll be covering major sports stories in city, including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Raptors, Blue Jays, and Argonauts, as well as national and international sporting events.
Cybulski had spent the past eight years as a reporter at The Score. He’s also worked at several Ottawa area radio stations, hosted a weekly show about the Ottawa Senators on Rogers Television, and was the public address announcer at Ottawa 67’s games. He’s covered two Olympic Games, three IIHF World Junior Championships, four…
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TORONTO – JACK FM in Toronto will be participating in the city’s annual Pride Parade this Sunday as a “major” radio sponsor of the 2006 Pride celebrations.
The station will have its special events vehicle, mascot, and representatives in the parade. It will also have a booth on Church Street in the heart of the gay village with JACK reps handing out free limited edition JACK slinkies to the first 5,000 people to visit the booth featuring a rainbow logo, the international symbol of gay support.
“We’re proud to support the gay community and show our support of Pride…
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EVERY VOICE OVER IP CALL that is routed through the PSTN is a lost opportunity, says Dr. Baruch Sterman, CEO of Kayote Networks, a company which can provide and operate a complete VOIP system for any size broadband operator.
Cable companies and other VOIP companies should be peering, he says, working together to make sure that calls placed on a cable system, for example, are routed over IP from cable company to cable company. Not only will it save money, but it will boost the feature set.
Every call that hits the PSTN will have features VOIP providers would…
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GATINEAU – Bell Canada has applied to the CRTC to be allowed to carry one or both of Canada’s satellite radio subscription services on its cable BDUs serving parts of Ontario and Quebec.
Bell has two regional Class 1 digital licences, serving Toronto, Hamilton/Niagara, Oshawa, Kitchener, London, Windsor, Ottawa, and the surrounding areas, and one serving Montreal, Gatineau, Sherbrooke, Quebec City, and the surrounding areas. The Ontario BDU will roll out starting in Toronto later this year, while the Quebec service is already operating in parts of Montreal, the company said in its application. Bell wants to be able…
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IF RHETORIC AND HYPERBOLE were gasoline, a single spark would have razed the entire Toronto Congress Centre this week.
The speeches from Bell Canada Enterprises CEO Michael Sabia and Telus CEO Darren Entwistle at this week’s excellent Canadian Telecom Summit – as well as comments from a few others who work under them – suggest that not only are the communications of all Canadians utterly crippled by wacky regulation, but that our CRTC stands in the way of all Canuck creativity, innovation and productivity.
It’s an absurd notion, really. But it’s one much of the nation’s consumer media has…
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TORONTO – TSN announced today that it has locked up most of the major Canadian curling rights until 2014.
The Bell Globemedia-owned sports channel and the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) today announced a six-year broadcast and multimedia deal, providing TSN with exclusive broadcast and online Canadian rights to Season of Champions events each year, "making TSN the one and only home of curling in Canada," says the release.
The deal shuts out CBC beginning in 2008, which has been the home of the final rounds of bonspiels like the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts, well, forever.
(The move…
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ALVISO, Calif. – TiVoCast will deliver broadband video directly to the television sets of TiVo subscribers, turning web video into television by bringing top broadband content now only available on the PC to the TV set, the company has announced.
"The range and quality of broadband video is exploding on the web, but it’s not TV until it is on the TV," said Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo. "With the TiVoCast service, we are once again transforming the television experience by bringing the rapidly expanding array of video content on the Internet into the living room."
"Television is still…
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