TORONTO – Corus Radio Toronto today announced the appointment of Gord Harris as program director at AM 640 Toronto.
Harris was most recently PD at Corus stations AM 980 and The Hawk in London. A veteran in the industry, he operated a private radio consulting business in the early 1990s and has worked with Broadcast News, WIC, Rogers, Standard and CHUM (including 680News and CFRB).
His educational background spans the fields of economics, political science, law and film, and he currently teaches journalism courses at Fanshawe College and the University of Western Ontario.
Harris replaces Scott Armstrong who was…
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TORONTO – With a company-wide push to emerge from its distant second-place spot in the TV ratings, Canadians will see Global Television get creative when marketing its fall programming this month and through the fall.
“We’re trying to kick things up a notch,” Walter Levitt, senior vice-president, marketing for CanWest MediaWorks, told www.cartt.ca on Monday. “We’re looking for new and inventive ways to make sure we’re in the minds and hearts of people.”
Viewers will have already seen the push behind new Fox program Prison Break, which Global is simulcasting – and which launches August 29th. It’s followed in…
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TORONTO – Technology Cancon will begin airing south of the border this fall on G4techTV. Call for Help, the first Canadian-produced G4techTV Canada television production, will be back into the homes of American fans in September on G4, the national cable and satellite network available in 53 million homes in the United States.
Call for Help airs at 6 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. PT weeknights on G4techTV Canada (which is owned jointly by Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications and operated by Rogers in Toronto).
This is the second international…
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Speed Channel today announced the completion of a new multiyear affiliate agreement for the distribution of Speed Channel on Rogers Cable systems in Canada.
The agreement also contains access to Speed’s video on demand service, offering 20 hours of programming that will include NASCAR TV On Demand’s 24-hour turnaround of post race analysis and an event highlight package, as well as Speed events and original programming.
“Canadian distribution is very important to Speed. Not only are some of our top shows produced in Canada but the fans are very passionate about their racing,” said Kevin Annison,…
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TORONTO – Ted Rogers’ Muskoka cottage took centre stage today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
His place on Lake Rosseau, about two hours north of Toronto, was tied into the conference using a WiMax-enabled Internet feed. WiMax allows users to wirelessly access broadband Internet. The WiMax connection was established using Redline Communications’ RedMAX equipment, which incorporates the Intel PRO/Wireless 5116 WiMax modem silicon.
The developer forum is a gathering of over 4,000 technology professionals representing 1,400 companies. The WiMax presentation was led by Sean Maloney, executive vice-president and general manager of Intel Corporation’s Mobility Group.
"Wireless…
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OTTAWA – A number of Canada’s leading information technology companies (Rogers and Bell, for example) have united to urge the government to modernize the Telecommunications Act in order to promote the government’s entire agenda of competition, investment and commercialization.
The urging comes in a submission to the federal government’s Telecom Policy Review (TRP) delivered by the CATA-CAIP TelecomACT Working Group, a high-level panel drawn from the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP), and its parent organization, the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA). Industry members included: MTS Allstream, Bell, Ericsson, MCI, Nakina Systems, Rogers, Telesat, Telus, Eagle.ca, AOL, Orbit.com, NetIdea.,…
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ST. JOHN’s, Nfld. – Rogers Cable announced the addition of a number of new high definition channels to its digital cable lineup in Newfoundland.
The company has a total of 10 HDTV channels in St. John’s and eight channels in Corner Brook, Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor.
Rogers customers with HD televisions can enjoy these new channels with an HDTV digital terminal which is priced at $12.95 per month or it can be purchased for $299.
In St. John’s, the new HDTV channels are FOX Detroit, channel 261; ABC Detroit, channel 269; CBS Seattle, channel 270; NBC Seattle, channel 271….
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SAINT JOHN – Aliant recently announced two new initiatives in partnership with the Aliant Pioneer Volunteers to make back-to-school easier for children in need.
The BCE-owned eastern telco (serving New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland & Labrador) will make a $10 donation from every sale made under the Personal Computer (PC) Purchase Program and buy all backpacks for the Pioneer’s Backpacks for Kids program.
Also, to provide an opportunity for the general public to contribute, Aliant has organized a school supply drive across Atlantic Canada through its dealer locations. The Backpacks for Kids program provides backpacks…
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OTTAWA – Newly re-branded A-Channel Ottawa will air 20 Ottawa Senators games this National Hockey League season anniounced the hockey club and the station today.
2005-06 season schedule will see the CHUM channel air all 19 of the club’s Thursday evening games.
The 20-game package marks the fifth consecutive season the Senators are back with the station, which changed identification from The New RO to A-Channel this month.
Of the schedule, 13 games are home games from the Corel Centre. In addition, Rogers Sportsnet will simulcast a majority of A-Channel games in their East region, enabling those outside A-Channel’s…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is adding telephony customers as fast as it can keep up and the company announced today that it is rolling out its residential cable telephone service in Montreal.
Consumer response to Videotron’s new product has been strong and as of August 12, six months after the service was launched, more than 62,500 customers in Laval, the South Shore, the West Island and the Quebec City area had made the switch.
Those numbers make Videotron the leader among telecom companies in Canada that provide telephone service via IP (Internet Protocol) technology, but early reports out of Shaw,…
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