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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WINNIPEG – The CAB ended its two-day conference with a rocking mini-concert put on by Canadian music legends Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman.
After hearing Doc Walker and Eagle & Hawk (in between awards, the winners of which are outlined below) Cummings and Bachman (The Guess Who, BTO, etc.), Winnipeg natives who were inducted into the CAB Hall of Fame on Tuesday, played a four-song set and were coaxed into an encore, too.
How many times has your station played these favourites, which Cummings (on the piano, flute and vocals) and Bachman (on guitar and vocals) performed as a…
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WINNIPEG – It’s still early days for high definition in Canada but with costs for broadcast equipment and the sets themselves coming down, it won’t be early for long.
Randall Dark, one of the speakers at the HDTV session Tuesday at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Winnipeg, runs HD Vision Studios and says he sees no reason why the whole industry can’t more quickly move into HD.
In the U.S., where he’s based, it’s taken off “like a rocket ship,” and if broadcasters and the production industry don’t move on HD, “you will lose market share,”…
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TORONTO – There’s just one week to go to the groundbreaking CTAM event in Toronto . “Delivering Hyper-targeted TV Advertising” will be held November 15th.
Leonard Asper says that conventional broadcasters should be paid for their signal. Is that the answer? Can Hyper-targeted TV Advertising create new revenue streams and actually raise CPM’s. Hear the panel of experts as they present their insights into the future.
Go to www.ctam.ca, click on Events for complete details, and see below
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What if we could send an ad for Wal-Mart to Scarborough and one for Holt Renfrew to Rosedale, during the same 30…
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WINNIPEG – The media supply chain is irrevocably more complicated and potentially scary for Canadian broadcasters, according to two sessions on personal media on Monday at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ annual convention.
The morning session was called “Personal Media Models: Who will supply the media-savvy consumer” and the afternoon session was entitled: “New Models, New Rules: Managing the personalized media revolution.”
On demand technology of all sorts, delivered from all platforms, is irrevocably altering the way media companies do business and on demand, specifically wireless on demand, content was front and centre for panelists as they discussed how…
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ALVISO, Calif. – DVR manufacturer TiVo today announced a partnership with Yahoo! TV to enable users to remotely program their digital video recorder to record programs.
Yahoo! TV users can now request, via TiVo’s scheduling technology, recordings of their favorite TV shows on their TiVo Series2 devices from anywhere they access Yahoo!. Subscribers with a TiVo Series2 box and a standard Yahoo! user ID can use the service starting today.
“(C)onsumers using Yahoo! TV can easily program their TiVo devices remotely to record that new show they read about or catch their favorite show they discovered is being re-aired….
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