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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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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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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