HALIFAX – Maritime cable company EastLink is joining Cybertip.ca’s national awareness campaign designed to combat online sexual exploitation.
EastLink currently displays information about the initiative on its web site (www.eastlink.ca) and is committed to airing public service announcements (PSA’s) on its local television station, EastLink Television.
Cybertip.ca is Canada’s national tip line for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. It also provides the public with information, referrals and other resources to help Canadians keep their children safe while on the Internet.
EastLink and other members of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA) are supporting the national…
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OF COURSE, UNLESS I CRAWL into the head of JR Shaw and probe his synapses – or see him in a law firm signing documents with Michael Sabia – neither I nor anyone else can answer the question in the headline.
Same goes with all of the Canadian media and cable companies, actually, all of which are controlled by their founding families. No one can really know what’s going on until it happens. Hostile takeovers are impossible.
But, the rumors surrounding Shaw Communications have reached a fever pitch over the past few months. They’re too loud to ignore. In…
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TORONTO – Many of the folks who do the heavy lifting and tell their companies where to go when it comes to digital broadcasting in Canada are headlining the Canadian Satellite Users Association’s annual summit.
The Canadian Digital Broadcasting Summit is set for January 30 to February 1 at the Holiday Inn on King in Toronto. In past years it’s been a very informative event, where the speakers aren’t really the CEOs, but the ones in charge of digital with their respective companies.
This year, www.cartt.ca is a media sponsor of the event.
Bandwidth, Plant Operations, Tapeless Distribution, Orbital…
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TORONTO – Nortel announced Tuesday it has selected a Toronto location for its new global headquarters.
The decision confirms the company’s “commitment to remain within the financial capital of Canada and one of the top five most livable cities in the world according to the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit,” says the press release.
Nortel will establish its headquarters at 195 The West Mall, an 11 storey, approximately 160,000 square foot building in the west end of the city.
Nortel recently sold its Brampton HQ to Rogers Communications for $100 million.
"As we head into a new chapter in Nortel’s…
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JUST IN TIME FOR Christmas, www.cartt.ca has given away a 42” HDTV. We did the draw Friday evening and the winner is Nigel Fuller, regional vice-president, CHUM Television Ontario (right).
Second prize, the iPod nano, is going to Rick Fraser v-p marketing at Access Communications.
As for the 50 winners of signed copies of the children’s book M is for Maple. They are:
Brad Phillips, Citytv Vancouver Gordon Lee, CTV Specialty Victor Haddad, Milk River Cable Club, Georgina Schnubb, Masset-Haida TV Society Steve Ward, Grand Bend Cable TV Brett Manlove, CanWest MediaWorks Sam Fiander. Ramea Broadcasting Richard French, CRTC Glenn O’Farrell, CAB…
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THE WAY NEW CHANNELS serving niche after niche after have succeeded on both sides of the border should mean that no one will question any longer whether or not we “need” a fishing channel, or a soccer channel or a gaming channel.
And Insight Sports, the owners of World Fishing Network and GOLTV Canada – and operators of Canadian Gaming Television – is banking on the fact it has tapped into a trio of still underserved niches.
It’s not like Insight doesn’t know the TV industry. It’s not like the networks aren’t very well financed, either. Insight Sports has…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Wireless phone number portability will come to Canada six months sooner than the major wireless carriers said they could make it happen.
In a decision released late this afternoon, the CRTC is requiring Canadian wireless telephone companies to implement wireless number portability (WNP) by March 14, 2007, in most of Canada. Today’s decision follows a public notice issued on September 16, 2005, in which the Commission invited comments on several issues related to the implementation of WNP.
The decision will see Canadians be able to take their phone numbers with them, no matter for which wired or…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications long-time chief financial officer, Alan Horn, will step down in April to become vice-chairman of Rogers Communications and president and CEO of Rogers Telecommunications Limited.
Rogers Telecommunications is the holding company of the Rogers family’s private investments.
Forty-year Rogers veteran Phil Lind, who is currently vice-chairman, is not going anywhere by the way, the company will just have two vice-chairs.
Horn (left) will be replaced as CFO by Bill Linton, formerly president of Call-Net, who re-takes a role he once held when Rogers was a far smaller company. The switch is effective April 25,…
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IT IS NOW AS IT WAS in the beginning: If you’re involved in producing programming or commercials in the high definition format, you’re most likely still trying to make video look like film.
But today, almost exactly 16 years after Toronto’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre was on the receiving end of the first major, mainstream HD broadcast seen in Canada – a fight transmitted from Las Vegas pitting Sugar Ray Leonard against Roberto Duran – the momentum in the battle for TV screens here is beginning to favour video.
Producers are becoming accustomed to the idea of originating content on…
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CANADA’S CABLE AND SATELLITE companies want one thing when it comes to high definition television: More.
More HD channels. More HD content. More HD Canadian content. In the larger markets at least, HDTV set owners are increasingly tuning to their HD channels only, taking advantage of their big, bright, new toy. They, in turn, are beginning to apply some pressure on their cable company or satellite provider to make more channels available.
“Demand is high,” says the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance’s legal counsel Chris Edwards. “Everyone is looking to get as much high def as they can get.” The…
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