TORONTO – This year, the Crystal Platinum Award went to outstanding creative that makes the listener rethink views about a very familiar brand.
The Radio Marketing Bureau, at lunch Thursday during Canadian Music Week, presented the Platinum Award to Pirate Radio & Television and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for an engaging, entertaining, effective campaign that shows us just how much fun great radio can be. The three spots – Old Bill, Boring Maurice and Rich Joanne – win the Best in Show $10,000 grand prize.
Twenty-five trophies were awarded to exceptional work in nine categories at the Fairmont Royal…
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TORONTO – Look for Alliance Atlantis to begin making some serious moves into alternative distribution of its shows with its newest hire. Claude Galipeau (left) was announced today as senior vice-president digital media, content group at the broadcaster today. Galipeau’s appointment will be effective at the end of March.
He will oversee the development and implementation of the digital media strategy for Alliance Atlantis. He brings a wealth of experience to the company, most recently as the executive director, digital programming and business development for the CBC. He was the one behind getting the 2006 Winter Olympics…
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TORONTO – OPP Sgt. Cam Wooley is the go-to-guy when it comes to traffic and highway safety in Southern Ontario.
When the cops do their regular blitzes, Wooley (right) is the voice heard on radio and seen on TV describing the trucks held together with hope and duct tape or the guy doing 150 while eating, talking on the phone and using his foot to steer.
So it seemed like a neat idea when Corus Radio’s Toronto cluster (640 Toronto, Q107, The Edge) made him their new traffic reporter in January.
Not so much, though, for…
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MONTREAL – If cable companies continue on their current path of rapid voice coverage, they should be able to capture in excess of 40% of all voice access lines by year-end 2010, at more than 5 million lines, says a report being released today by Lemay-Yates & Associates.
In contrast, the ILECs stand to shed in the range of 10% of their access lines per year over the period.
The report is entitled “LYA Canadian Consumer Telecom & Cable TV Market Forecasts 2006” and takes a deep look at all the market segments including fixed voice communications, subscription TV,…
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OTTAWA – On Monday afternoon, the CRTC released its much-anticipated digital migration framework – the set of rules by which analog pay and specialty services will move into an all-digital distribution mode.
And at first blush, broadcasters and at least one cable company both actually say they like it.
The 13,000-plus word document follows some of the model set out by Rogers Communications and a group of major broadcasters, which www.cartt.ca first reported on in May.
"We haven’t done a full analysis on it yet, but it looks like a very positive step in terms of striking a balance…
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WHISTLER, B.C, – There was precious little new information doled out today by some of the participants at RBC Capital Markets annual telecom and media conference in the B.C. ski town.
However, one key parallel was drawn during the afternoon session featuring Shaw Communications president Peter Bissonnette, Rogers Cable president Edward Rogers, Bell Canada’s consumer solutions president Kevin Crull and Bell Nordiq CEO Roch Dubé.
When talking about the potential for cable telephony market penetration, Rogers said that a 15% to 20% local market share gain by cable companies was probably too conservative when saying it could be done…
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HALIFAX – Aliant today launched its high-speed wireless service in Halifax. The new service will provide Aliant’s wireless customers access to wireless data speeds of up to 2.4 Mbps – and new and enhanced applications on their wireless devices.
Customers in the Halifax area will be the first to experience new wireless data speeds – five times faster than what is currently available. Customers will be able to access information on their wireless device – notebook computer, PDA, or cell phone – "at speeds close to those of their home broadband connection," claims the release.
Streaming video and TV…
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WHEN PEOPLE FIND OUT I AM the president of Babytel, an independent provider of high-speed Internet phone service, the first question I get is about our name, (most love it), followed closely by “how in the world can you compete against the big guys?”
How we compete is quite simple: we are finding unique opportunities, such as being the VOIP backbone for partners like independent cable companies and ISPs, and we are selling to niche markets like Asian and African communities in Canada.
(I will refer the genesis of our name to later.)
There is incredible opportunity. VOIP opens…
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DESPITE THE IMMINENT SHUTDOWN of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, a move which will cost 26 jobs, Canada’s smaller independent operators have already decided they must have a continuing presence in Ottawa.
As reported first by www.cartt.ca early Friday afternoon, Rogers Cable, the largest remaining member of the CCTA, decided to rescind its support of the association, effectively killing it – even though no other member wanted to pull the plug. Even Rogers didn’t really want to do it.
However, no CCTA member is blaming Rogers for the demise of the 50-plus year-old association. Indeed, the CCTA’s board of…
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MONTREAL – Subscribers to Videotron’s illico digital cable are able to access Olympic coverage from Radio-Canada, the French-language network of the CBC, via video on demand.
Under an agreement announced Friday, over 160 hours of programming will be available free of charge and without commercial interruption on VOD throughout the 2006 Winter Games in Torino.
Illico customers will be able to go to channel 900 to watch the competitions and the opening and closing ceremonies 24 hours after they are broadcast on Radio-Canada, which is the same as what Rogers is getting from CBC in its territories.
“We are…
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