IT HARDLY SEEMS LIKE a year ago since the launch of www.cartt.ca.
It feels more like just last month I was dragging my infant daughter around to business meetings, planning the launch of this site. Accountants, lawyers, web site developers, database folks, bankers, you name it, Brenna met with them. Prior to the launch (and even for some time after it), I was her primary caregiver, so she tagged along and was a perfect little angel in boardrooms, offices and restaurants… well, mostly.
Now, she’s almost two, in a great day care, and as of Tuesday, May 2,…
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WINNIPEG – The Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada has honoured the best in electronic journalism in the Prairie region in 2005. The coveted RTNDA Awards were presented at the Association’s annual Prairie Regional Professional Development Seminar in Winnipeg, last weekend.
The 2005 TELEVISION winners are: Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast
§ CBC North in Yellowknife for CBC News: Northbeat – (Small Market) § CTV Regina for CTV News Six O’Clock Report – (Medium Market) § CTV Winnipeg for CTV News @ 6:00 PM – (Large Market)
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News
§ CTV Calgary for River…
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SHARING THEIR TACTICS for success at tomorrow’s CTAM Teleseminar will be a dynamic and engaging panel of experts speaking on Marketing in a Hyper Competitive Market.
Now in their 11th year, CTAM TeleSeminars are available in multiple chapter locations, including those in Canada. CTAM Canada members can view the TeleSeminar in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary.
Locations include The Velma Rogers Graham Theatre, in Toronto; the Montreal Teleport; and the Corus Entertainment head office, in Calgary.
Each telecast provides members with a cost-effective and timesaving opportunity for "face-to-face" learning. The TeleSeminar has grown to be one of the largest conferences…
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TORONTO – If you thought clicking thumbs on BlackBerrys during business meetings was annoying, now Kevin Newman is going to be making appearances in them.
Saying the video quality is iPod-like, CanWest MediaWorks will begin making its content available to Blackberry users beginning this month.
Sixty to 90 second clips of Global National will be the first of many "berry casts" the company has planned, CanWest Interactive president Arturo Duran told www.cartt.ca today. Following the news, the company will make Entertainment Tonight Canada available and is looking into packaging sports content, "like plays of the day," as well, he added….
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OTTAWA – Former Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association senior vice-president and general counsel, Lori Assheton-Smith has launched her own business. This week she made official the establishment of Lori D. Assheton-Smith Professional Corporation, "through which I will continue to provide legal services and advice in the areas of broadcasting, telecommunications and Internet law and regulation," she said.
Assheton-Smith (right) has been with the CCTA in various roles since 2000, culminating in her SVP role. Prior to the CCTA, she was legal counsel with the CRTC.
The CCTA ceased operations in February after the association’s second-largest member,…
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LAS VEGAS – A pair of sessions today, one led by an Intel executive on Viiv, the other by a Microsoft TV honcho on IPTV shone some light on where technology is taking broadcast TV – and not five or 10 years down the road, but this year.
Kevin Corbett, vice-president of Intel’s digital home group concentrated on outlining the company’s new Viiv chipset (no surprise there). Viiv’s capability is to bring the content available on the PC to the TV – and vice versa – and also to be able to move content onto mobile devices and to…
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OTTAWA – Hustler TV operator Ten Broadcasting announced today that its Red Light District TV channel will be available across Canada on April 27th.
The channel is available with Hustler TV via Cancom and on the HITS QT platform.
Until now, Red Light had only been available on the Rogers cable network and has been available as a VOD product in cable systems across the U.S. or as individual programs on some U.S. satellite distributed channels. Red Light District has been the world’s top selling adult studio since 2001, says the company.
"We will now be able to offer…
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TORONTO – Corus Radio’s AM640 Toronto announced on Friday that it has added veteran talk show host Arlene Bynon to its stable of personalities.
She will make her debut in the next few weeks when her program schedule is formally announced.
Most recently a weekend talk show host with CFRB Radio, Bynon has also had a number of TV gigs and is a host on ichannel. She also worked on air for CHFI and was once vice-president of current affairs programming for Rogers Broadcasting.
Canadian TV viewers across the country will know her as the host and producer of the…
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ATLANTA – Over 15,500 delegates visited Atlanta for the 2006 NCTA National Show, to take in sessions and visit 360 exhibiting companies.
Here’s more of what we heard and saw on the floor of the Georgia World Congress Centre.
*** Sprint/Nextel will be field testing a quad play wireless service with Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks in 2007. More MSO partners are expected to come on board the cellular/WiFi/cable data solution, said Sprint president John Garcia, during a session.
*** With Time Warner Cable abandoning the S-A "Sara" guide in favor of its own,…
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OTTAWA – Mobile phone customers will not see the video available on their phone screens impacted by regulation, the CRTC announced this morning.
The Commission determined that the services provided by Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Telus Mobility, in conjunction with MobiTV Inc., fall within the Commission’s New Media Exemption Order, which applies to services that are delivered and accessed over the Internet.
The Commission also determined that mobile television services, whether or not they are delivered and accessed over the Internet, should also be exempt from regulation, and issued a public notice asking for the input of Canadians…
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