TORONTO – While the National Hockey League is back at work, gearing up for a new season, the broadcast outlets are already in full competitive mode.
Today Rogers Sportsnet issued a press release outlining the sheer number of player deal news it says it has been first to break.
“The news that Scott Niedermayer signed with the Anaheim Might y Ducks is just the latest in a long list of free-agent signings and trades reported first by sportsnetnews and sportsnet.ca,” crows the release.
“Our hockey reporters had an absolutely brilliant week,” said Scott Morrison, Sportsnet’s director of news and…
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MONTREAL – Quebec authors, artists and cultural enterprises have demanded the federal government overturn the CRTC’s decision to license two satellite radio operators in Canada.
A group of 10 organizations submitted a request to the Privy Council on Friday, July 29, demanding that the governor-in-council reverse decisions 2005-246 and 2005-247 made on June 16 licensing Sirius Canada and Canadian Satellite Radio. Friday was the deadline to appeal.
They join some broadcasters and other Canadian cultural groups who all want the decision reversed. They say the decisions are contrary to the Broadcast Act and decades of Canadian content…
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TORONTO – Popular sportscaster Jody Vance has left Rogers Sportsnet.
The well-known, bespectacled 6 p.m. Sportsnetnews co-anchor (with Jim Van Horne) recently asked out of her contract early and her last public appearance for the sports channel was on Sunday.
“Jody went to (management) recently to ask out of her contract early and her request was granted” said Sportsnet spokesman Dave Rashford. The move was on her mind for some time, Vance (right) told www.cartt.ca this afternoon. “I’m really up for a change,” she said. “I received a couple of offers over the past few years…
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Yahoo! Inc. announced content deals with both CNN and ABC News today.
Both news organizations will provide daily video news feeds to Yahoo! News beginning September 2005, says the press release. CNN.com will offer extensive video clips daily and ABC News will offer a robust package of on demand video content. All of the video will be available for free to Yahoo! users, and will be advertising-supported.
The video from both ABC News and CNN.com will be integrated throughout Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com), including on its front page, within story pages, and in other special sections…
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I WAS A UNION MEMBER TWICE: For several summers as a labourer installing gas pipeline in Northern Ontario and for a four month stint as a part-time Bookmobile driver and librarian in Guelph, Ont.
I lived for a few years in Sault Ste. Marie and saw what the Steelworkers have had to go through there with Algoma Steel. I lived in Windsor for three years and the Canadian Auto Workers union was always front and centre.
I say all this to illustrate that I think I have a bit of a grasp on what the union/corporation relationship can be….
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OTTAWA – With 2005 results already rolling in and showing strong radio performance among publicly traded private broadcasters, Statistics Canada today released its compiled 2004 figures.
Click on the links to check out the ’05 performances of Corus, CHUM, Astral, Rogers and Newcap.
However, back in ’04, the air time sales of commercial radio broadcasters increased 3.3% to $1.2 billion in the broadcast year, ended August 31, 2004, that’s off the pace set in 2003 which saw a growth rate of 8.4%.
For the first time since 1999-2000, the advertising revenue of radio broadcasters grew at a…
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PHILADELPHIA – While CTAM Canada put together a fun night for programmers and distributors on Sunday evening here in Philadelphia (see photos below this story), CTAM Summit attendees on Monday morning were shown that the programmer-distributor relationship can be as contentious as ever when we start talking about high definition.
During the “Monetizing Advanced Video Services” session, Time Warner Cable’s SVP programming Lynne Costantini, Showtime Networks’ SVP marketing Geof Rochester and Channing Dawson, SVP emerging media at Scripps Networks (Food Network, HGTV, Fine Living, DIY Network) argued about who should pay for HDTV.
When Dawson complained about the high…
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IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT as a young librarian in Winnipeg that there was no way Phyllis Yaffe could envision a career path that would take her to the top of one of Canada’s largest TV companies.
She grew into larger roles, as librarian at Seneca College in the 1970s to executive director for the Association of Canadian Publishers, vice-president of marketing at kids magazine Owl and then in the ’80s she was elected to the board of the foundation to underwrite new drama for pay TV (now the Harold Greenberg Fund) and was chair when she left in 1993…
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TORONTO – Operating revenue increased 29% for the quarter ended June 30th at Rogers Communications Inc., with all three operating companies contributing to the year-over-year growth, including 47% growth at Wireless, 5.3% growth at Cable and 27.1% growth at Media.
Consolidated quarterly operating profit grew 26.9% year-over-year, with 47.6% growth at Wireless (to $364.8 million compared to June 30 2004) and 13.9% growth at Media (to $44.2 million), offset by a 1% decline at Cable (to $171.6 million). The company passed the one million high speed Internet subscriber mark during the quarter.
Wireless ended the quarter with a total…
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HALIFAX – EastLink announced today it will be official communications provider and offer exclusive event coverage as part of a sponsorship deal with the Atlantic Film Festival, September 15-24 in the Nova Scotia city.
EastLink will support the festival through its high speed Internet service, local telephone and cable services. It’s also a first in that the partnership will see EastLink Television – with the support of its employees and volunteers – provide exclusive programming and live coverage of the event. This will include interviews with major stars, directors and festival organizers; live coverage of red-carpet Galas, including the…
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