OTTAWA – A-Channel Ottawa this week tabbed Rogers Television host Arash Madani as its new sports anchor.
For the past two years, Madani (left, from the Rogers Television web site) has been the Ottawa Renegade’s director of media and communications and the host of Renegades Vibe on Rogers.
A native of Truro, Nova Scotia, Madani began his career writing for the Daily News before moving to Lennoxville, Quebec. Madani has also served as a sports reporter for the Sherbrooke Record, McGill University and The Team 990 in Montreal.
“After working so closely with the Ottawa Renegades…
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TORONTO – Wendy Duff is the new assistant program director of Rogers Broadcasting’s CHFI.
Duff started her career at CKLW, followed by 20 years in the CHUM organization including 1050 CHUM as the music assistant. She then went to Windsor as the music director of CKLW FM and CKWW AM, and was later promoted to APD of four stations and finally to program director of 93.9 FM.
Duff will begin on November 21st as the APD for CHFI and will take over as the interim PD during Julie Adam’s maternity leave, which will begin sometime in February.
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HALIFAX – EastLink Television pre-empted its Wednesday evening broadcast schedule to carry a fundraising game played in honour of Sébastien Savage. The Moncton Aigles Bleus hockey player was left paralyzed in his upper and lower extremities after an accident during a game on October 22.
The game between the Saint Mary’s Huskies and Moncton Aigles Bleus was played at the Halifax Forum and aired on EastLink Television at 7 p.m. this evening.
All proceeds from ticket sales are going to Savage and his family. The Saint Mary’s Huskies were originally scheduled to play the team on October 26 but delayed…
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. – MobiTV, Inc. Monday announced the strategic hire of longtime music industry executive Nancy Levin as its executive producer of Music Television.
MobiTV is the enabling technology behind the mobile video service currently in the market from Telus Mobility, Bell Mobility and Rogers Wireless.
“Levin’s talents will be instrumental in building momentum in music content and music industry related media available through MobiTV’s global service,” says the MobiTV release.
Levin brings over 15 years of experience in senior management roles at several major record labels — including Warner Bros., Priority/EMI and MCI/Universal/Vivendi. Levin was most recently president…
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MARKHAM – Cable and telecommunications supplier Cygnal Technologies today announced that former Rogers Cable CEO Jos Wintermans has been hired as president and CEO, and as a director of the company
He starts Tuesday.
Gerald Hurlow, who took over as Cygnal’s CEO in August, 2004, when the company fired former CEO Kieron Dowling, will remain as Cygnal’s chairman.
Back in August 2004, Hurlow’s goals were to ensure “that the streamlining of the Network Operations business is completed on a timely basis and improvements in executional capability are accelerated," he said in a statement at the time.
"The time is…
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TORONTO – Casino and Gaming Television Canada has been added to the Rogers Digital Cable lineup.
Rogers is the first operator in Canada to launch CGTV.
“CGTV is the first and only television network in North America celebrating the casino and gaming lifestyle, from around the corner to around the world,” says the press release.
“Informative and entertaining, CGTV is the one place on television where viewers can explore the casino and gaming experience first hand. From the best in local and international casinos, to local lottery retailers, to the living rooms of players everywhere, CGTV is a place…
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TORONTO – After years of financial pressures, Score Media, which owns and operates analog sports channel The Score, seems to have turned things around as revenue, earnings and income have all increased.
Revenue for the year ended August 31st, increased to $25.1 million, up 25.6% compared to the end of 2004. EBITDA increased to $4.8 million, up by $4.4 million over ’04. Net income increased $3.2 million – a profit of $2.8 million compared to a loss of $427,000 in the prior year. The company also refinanced its short-term bank loans with a $15 million credit facility comprised of a…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable Wednesday announced four new ATN channels has been added to its extensive list of multicultural channels.
The new channels are ATN Zee Cinema, ATN Aastha TV, ATN Bangla and ATN Zee Gujarati.
With the addition of these four new channels, Rogers continues to offer the most multicultural programming in 20 different languages on 37 multicultural channels.
ATN Zee Cinema is a popular Indian-language movie channel, which includes the largest privately-held Indian video library. Zee Cinema offers black-and-white classic films and contemporary blockbuster Bollywood movies broadcast inHindi as well as other regional Indian languages.
ATN Aastha…
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OTTAWA – During its 79th annual convention in Winnipeg, The Future Summit, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters elected its board members for the 2005-2006 year.
Of note this year is that the board includes a record number of women – 11 compared to eight this past year.
EXECUTIVE Rob Braide (Joint Chair), Vice-President & General Manager, CHOM-FM/CJAD/CJFM-FM, Montreal Alain Gourd (Past Chair), President, Alain Gourd Communications Inc., Gatineau Rael Merson (Chair, Radio), President & CEO, Rogers Broadcasting Limited, Toronto John Hayes (Vice-Chair, Radio), President, Radio, Corus Entertainment Inc., Toronto Pierre Lampron (Chair, Television), Vice-President, Institutional Relations, Quebecor Média inc.,…
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TORONTO – We’ve seen e-commerce, t-commerce and plain old commerce, but thanks to an intiative by the country’s big three wireless operators, we’re about to see m-commerce.
Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Telus Mobility, today announced the launch of Wireless Payment Services. The jointly-owned venture “will act as a mobile commerce, or m-commerce, gateway, facilitating secure wireless payment transactions while standardizing the user experience across Canadian wireless providers, devices and payment mechanisms,” says today’s press release.
"With anytime, anywhere payments representing the next frontier of wireless service, Wireless Payment Services’ mandate is to develop standardized, secure and easy-to-use mobile…
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