CALGARY – Shaw Communications has let vice-president, programming Michael Allen go, www.cartt.ca has learned.
Allen was based in the company’s Mississauga office, reporting to senior vice-president planning Michael D’Avella, with responsibility for programmer contracts and relations as well as some regulatory work for the cable and satellite distribution company.
Allen, formerly vice-president of programming at Rogers Cable, had spent 21 years there before he was let go in May of 2003.
He was hired by Shaw in September of that year.
Calls placed to Shaw Communications by www.cartt.ca Wednesday for comment were not immediately returned.
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TORONTO – Sport Chek’s The Power of Sports for Kids Program in partnership with Rogers Sportsnet is beginning a cross-Canada tour to provide sporting equipment to at-risk, underprivileged and disadvantaged children.
The program provides children in need who do not have access to sporting equipment with the opportunity to play and enjoy sports.
Sport Chek will work with organizations that support children and families, and determine their sporting goods needs that would have the most impact to the children.
To be eligible organizations must meet the following criteria: * Must be a community group, non-profit agency or school that…
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TORONTO – Twenty-seven of the 71 nationally televised NHL regular season games this year on TSN will be shown in high definition on TSN HD.
TSN’s NHL HD coverage gets underway on opening night (October 5) with a doubleheader, as two of the network’s four scheduled games are available in high-def: Ottawa @ Toronto at 8 p.m. ET in the battle of Ontario, followed by Phoenix @ Vancouver at 10:30 p.m. ET as Wayne Gretzky makes his coaching debut and Todd Bertuzzi returns to the NHL.
This year, TSN is in the midst of a broadcast schedule featuring 900…
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TORONTO – Published reports say that Rogers Communications is nearing a deal to move into Nortel Networks’ headquarters in Brampton, Ont.
The Brampton Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday that a deal seemed likely.
No, Rogers wouldn’t be moving from 333 Bloor St. E. to Brampton, but expanding into the Nortel location. Nortel, say the reports, is consolidating operations in Ottawa.
With recent acquisitions Microcell and Call-Net, Rogers simply needs more room and the Nortel facility once housed 5,000 employees.
Since nothing is final, Rogers has so far been mum. “We are actively looking at a number of properties to accommodate…
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GRAVENHURST – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance’s table-top trade show Wednesday morning (right) was an unqualified success, members and vendors told www.cartt.ca.
With over 200 delegates registered for the AGM and 32 tables filled with vendors’ wares at the Taboo Resort, this is the largest CCSA AGM in memory.
Some brand new product was unveiled at the show, such as the new interactive program guide from Aptiv. Aptiv is the former IPG division of Pioneer Digital, which has been spun off into a new company. Regina’s Access Communications is the first Canadian MSO to roll out the attractive, intuitive…
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TORONTO – In October, Asian Television Network International will launch four more digital channels, which will bring its line up to eleven digital specialty channels serving the fast-growing population of the South Asian Community in Canada.
The new channels are: ATN Zee Cinema, ATN Zee Gujarati, ATN Aastha & ATN Bangla and will be launched on October 13, 2005 and will be on air 24/7. The current channels already in operation include ATN’s flagship channel ATN-ZEE, ATN B4U, (Bollywood for you). ATN-Alpha ETC Punjabi, ATN-Jaya TV, ATN-ARY, CBN, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Network, and the most recently launched Sony Entertainment…
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GRAVENHURST, Ont. – The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association drew a crowd while handing out its annual Galaxi Awards this afternoon at the Taboo Resort in Gravenhurst, Ont.
The presentation kicks off Cable Week at the golf resort which continues for the next two days.
The awards sponsors were law firm Fasken Martineau, the CBC’s Newsworld, Country Canada, RDI, Galaxie and RDI, Telefilm Canada and Deutsche Welle.
The winners are:
Outstanding Achievement Frederick T. Metcalf Award for Marketing Habillage 2004: ARTV
William Stanley Thomas Community Involvement Award * Comsep a rebatir: TV COGECO * We All Can: Shaw Cablesystems Continue Reading
PROVIDING ANY KIND OF technology to cable and telecom companies these days isn’t easy. You have to be nimble. You must be prepared for change. Always. So many new services being provided by the MSOs. So many changes to the networks. It helps, says Cableserv president Audley Alexander (right), to have been a part of so many transformations in his 32-plus years in the cable industry.
An electrical engineer, Alexander joined Maclean-Hunter Cable in 1973 and stayed with the company through its purchase by Rogers. He stayed until 1999 when…
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TORONTO – Listeners in Moncton and Saint John, N.B., and Halifax, N.S., will hear their brand new news/talk stations beginning October 11th.
Rogers Media announced today that News 95.7 in Halifax, News 91.9 in Moncton and News 88.9 in Saint John “will follow North America’s number one form of radio programming, the highly successful news/talk radio format. These three stations will provide the most comprehensive, local, live and late-breaking news in their local communities.”
They’ll also be some of the very few news/talk stations on FM.
"On Tuesday, October 11th the communities of Halifax, Saint John and Moncton will…
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GRAVENHURST, Ont. – Canada’s two cable system organizations are getting together to hold their annual gatherings at the same time and place next month.
The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual general meeting will be held on September 28th and 29th at the Taboo Resort, Golf & Conference Centre in Gravenhurst, Ontario, about 90 minutes north of Toronto’s Pearson airport.
The Canadian Cable Television Association’s business day and Galaxi Awards presentation will be at the same venue on Tuesday September 27th for the convenience of the joint attendees.
Here’s an outline of the week’s events.
Tuesday, Sept. 27th – CCTA business…
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