TORONTO – Canadian radio outperformed its U.S. counterparts and the 25-54 demographic gained further share of market, according to Canadian Broadcast Sales, a national sales firm co-owned by Rogers Communications (46 stations) and Corus Entertainment (51 stations) representing approximately 60% of all Canadian radio stations.
For the 12 months ending August 2005, spot and non-spot radio sales increased only 1% in the U.S. compared to an overall increase in Canada of 8.7%, comprised of national growth of 17% and local growth of 6.1%.
There are a number of reasons for this, CBS president Patrick Grierson told www.cartt.ca in…
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NEW YORK – Rogers Communications Nitasha Kalra has joined the board of directors of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications.
"With the incoming members, NAMIC strengthens the board’s diversity of talent, company background and ethnicity. These professionals, representing the leading media companies in the world, join the NAMIC board and the cable industry’s ongoing commitment to diversifying the ethnicity of the faces that appear on the screens and that work behind scenes in the cable and telecommunications industry, said Manish Jha, president of NAMIC, in the press release.
Newly-elected NAMIC officers include:
Nitasha Kalra Product Manager Multicultural Services, Television…
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TORONTO – Asian Television Networks has acquired the exclusive Canadian rights to the Videocon Cup, a twelve game cricket series with India vs. South Africa and India vs. Sri Lanka beginning today and running through to the end of November 2005.
ATN also announced the launch of ATN-ZEE Cinema, a popular Indian movie channel, ATN-ZEE Gujarati, a regional Language channel, ATN-Aastha, a Spiritual, devotional and faith based channel with yoga, fitness, aromatherapy and live telecasts of major festivals of India, and ATN Bangla, the longest running independent satellite channel from Bangladesh.
All three launched October 19th on Rogers Cable.
ATN…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC told all companies selling voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) service that they must be diligent when it comes to telling customers what they can and can’t do with 911.
Today’s CRTC edict requires all local voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service providers in Canada to provide specific notification to current and prospective customers regarding the availability, characteristics and limitations of their 911 and Enhanced 911 (E911) service. All local VoIP service providers will have to implement these requirements within 90 days of this decision.
Some of the notification requirements are:
* VoIP 911 service has…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Look for a local telephony price battle in Montreal.
The CRTC took a first step towards local telephony deregulation on Thursday when it granted – on an interim basis – Bell Canada’s request to price its voice over IP service differently in different regions. Until now, if telcos wanted to drop prices, it had to drop prices across its entire footprint and could not target certain markets.
However, in Quebec, MSO Videotron is offering local telephony for as little as $16 a month and Bell is losing thousands of customers per week.
Bell doesn’t face similar pricing…
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TORONTO – Allstream announced today that it is taking Rogers Communications to court over the latter’s decision to transfer long distance traffic from the Allstream network to Rogers’ recently acquired Call-Net system.
Allstream, the national division of Manitoba Telecom Services wants “a declaration that Rogers is not entitled to transfer certain long distance traffic from Allstream to Call-Net Enterprises Inc.,” says today’s press release.
Rogers and Allstream entered into a long distance services agreement in November, 2004, the initial term of which runs until December, 2006. Allstream maintains that under the agreement, Rogers is obliged to purchase all of…
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MISSISSAUGA – The theme of the next meeting of the Ontario Chapter of the SCTE, on November 3rd, is "Advanced Video Applications: HDTV and OpenCable.”
The speakers and their presentations include:
1) OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) Tutorial – Michael Malcy, vidiom systems 2) Preparing the Headend for Advanced Video Services’ Deployments, Chris Lapine, Director DTV Services Technology, Rogers Cable Inc. 3) HDTV Troubleshooting, Marco Petraglia, System Integrator, Rogers Cable Inc. 4) PVRs and Home Networking, XX, Digeo, Inc.
The full agenda for the day, to be held at the Mississauga Grand Convention Center, is on the…
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OTTAWA – The Government of Canada Wednesday dismissed complaints filed with the Governor in Council over two CRTC decisions awarding Vancouver radio station licenses.
On July 21, 2005, the CRTC awarded a radio license to South Asian Broadcasting Corporation Inc. to operate a new commercial specialty FM (ethnic) radio station at Vancouver at 93.1 MHz aimed at the South Asian community.
The same day, it also approved an AM radio application by I.T. Productions Ltd. for a new station at 1200 kHz also targeting Vancouver’s South Asian communities.
“The decisions… were found to be consistent with the policy objectives…
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TORONTO – G4techTV Canada announced today that digital cable and satellite subscribers of Rogers, Cogeco, Shaw, Videotron, Star Choice, Bell ExpressVu and Sasktel will get a free preview of the channel through November – and a chance to win a $5,000 digital makeover.
Viewers can win by spotting the G4techTV contest icon. Every time the icon is spotted, viewers can enter online (www.g4techtv.ca) by naming the show where they saw the icon. At the end of November, G4techTV will pick one lucky winner to win a $5,000 digital makeover for the hottest tech and gaming gadgets. Continue Reading
TORONTO – With cool new ring tones and downloadable music to some of its new phones, it only makes sense for Rogers Wireless to come on board as the title sponsor of Canadian Music Week.
CMW will take place March 1st-4th, 2006 in Toronto and is now in its 24th year. And, it’s now called Rogers Wireless Canadian Music Week Festival.
It happens in 30 downtown Toronto venues, and is a once-in-a-year opportunity for artists to get their music in front of over 3,000 movers and shakers in the industry, from record companies to radio executives and PDs.
Applications…
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