GATINEAU – The CRTC today called for comments on adding five foreign third language services to the eligible satellite list.
The Commission issued the notice today after receiving requests from the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association and Rogers to add NTV Bangla, Azteca 13 International, TV Chile, TVE Internacional and Canal de las Estrellas Latinoamérica to the list of eligible satellite services for distribution on a digital basis.
NTV Bangla is a 24-hour general interest service offering a variety of programming including news, current affairs, sports, documentaries, comedies, movies, serial dramas, and children’s entertainment with 98% of its programming in…
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SAINT JOHN – Eastern telco Aliant is offering its customers a chance to buy a personal computer through the company.
Its new PC purchase program is a unique offer that will allow more Atlantic Canadians to get online. The program combines Aliant’s high speed Internet with a new home computer system, beginning at $54.95 a month (based on a three-year contract).
The company did not disclose which brand of computer it would be selling.
"Our research tells us that approximately 37% of Atlantic Canadians don’t have a computer or online access at home – this value-packed program will give…
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THE WIRELESS INDUSTRY AND broadcasters look to be readying themselves for a regulatory scuffle over the delivery of television to mobile phone handsets.
The wireless companies say that since the video signal they plan to make available to cell phone customers is delivered via IP, (over the Internet), that it therefore falls under the CRTC’s 1999 new media exemption order and should not be subject to regulation. Period. That order said the CRTC would stay out of regulating the Internet – a decision which was made when the web was still just a toddler, however.
The broadcasters say that television…
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TORONTO – David Garby has been hired as director, advertising sales for VisionTV.
An experienced advertising industry executive, he takes up this new position on July 25. He will be responsible for the continued growth of VisionTV’s advertising and sponsorship revenue as well as the expansion of its client list, while working hand in hand with VisionTV’s media partners, including Airtime Sales and Trillenium Media.
Before moving to VisionTV, Garby served as Account Manager for CHUM Television’s conventional stations. Prior to that, he worked on Craig Media’s launch of Toronto 1, and sold airtime for all of Craig’s conventional and…
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TORONTO – With huge top and bottom line growth in radio, Corus Entertainment today went to some lengths to show that it isn’t just happenstance or an anomaly, but a broad-based resurgence.
The company’s third quarter results, released Thursday, showed the company’s radio profits surged by 21% on a 12% increase in ad revenue. For public companies, this is always challenging. It’s great news now, but then the company is under pressure to grow even more next year.
Company CEO John Cassaday showed financial analysts late Thursday afternoon how broadly-based the spike in ad revenue is, saying 12…
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TWO THOUSAND AND NINE. Geez, when you spell it out like that, the year sure seems like a long way away, doesn’t it?
It isn’t. With the U.S. Congress and the National Association of Broadcasters now seeing eye-to-eye on a hard deadline of 2009 for the transition to digital broadcasting and the complete cessation of analog, it’s time for Canadian broadcasters to stomp on the digital/HD accelerator.
Broadcasters here have been awfully slow in getting digital TV broadcasting off the ground. While that’s angered HD’s early consumer adopters who long to fill their plasma, DLP or LCD screens with…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Having received an application for a new broadcasting license to serve Lethbridge, Alberta, the CRTC is calling for additional license applicants.
The deadline is September 12th, 2005.
As is customary, the Commission did not make public who has applied and warned it has not decided whether or not to award any licenses at all.
Lethbridge (pop. 77,500), about 200 kms south of Calgary, is currently served by six FM stations: CJTS (Spirit Broadcasting), CJRX (Rock 106 – Rogers Broadcasting), CKXU (University of Lethbridge), CFRV (The River – Rogers), CJBZ (B-93 Classic Hits – Jim Pattison Broadcasting) and CHLB…
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TORONTO – In less than two years, Musicrypt’s DMDS has become the de facto standard in the radio business when it comes to music distribution.
There just isn’t anything else out there as good as the Canadian company’s patented Digital Media Distribution System. Mailed or couriered CDs are joining relics of the past like 8-track tape as most Canadian radio stations have adopted Musicrypt’s free system. The freight is paid by the record labels themselves – all of whom have signed on to the ultra-secure, biometrically-protected system.
It’s fast, flexible and secure and is now in use by…
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TORONTO – Security is uppermost in the minds of on-line Canadians, a new survey released today shows.
According to the results of a new Internet safety and security poll from Rogers and Yahoo!, 79% of respondents feel it’s extremely important to protect their home computers from potential Internet and security threats. The nuisance of online threats is frustrating more users than ever before, even though 98% of polled users have security software installed on their personal computers.
The poll was released today at the same time the two companies announced the launch of a new integrated suite of…
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TIMMINS – Rogers Radio’s Q92 in Timmins has undergone a few personnel moves recently.
General manager market sales Mick Weaver recently departed to head up Rogers’ CHEZ 106 and Oldies 1310 in Ottawa, says Rogers Radio’s Timmins manager Art Pultz.
The market sales manager is now Angelo Lia while Pultz has now taken on a larger role as operations manager.
Q92’s popular morning man Darryl Spring is now working overnight at the Edge in Toronto – so the Timmins “drive” show is being hosted by Jeff Spindel, who joined from 97.7 Sun FM in Grande Prairie (OK Radio) with…
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