HAVING COVERED THE Cable, radio, television and telecom markets for well over seven years now, you could say I was inspired.
I’ve written about so many entrepreneurs who gambled and won (and a few who gambled and lost, too) that I suppose it had to rub off on me.
Warning, blatant self-promotion now follows.
So, on Monday, May 2 at 4:13 p.m., www.cartt.ca went live and on Tuesday, our first-ever newsletter went out filled with original stories you…
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REGINA – Saskatchewan cable co-op Access Communications received a National Community Champion Award from the Canadian Cancer Society this week.
The award is given to corporations who have made a considerable contribution to the fight against cancer in more than one community. Past recipients include Husky Oil and Rogers Cable.
For the past four years the co-operative has been the event sponsor of Regina’s Relay For Life, an annual 12-hour marathon held to raise awareness and funds for the Canadian Cancer Society. Access7, the co-operative’s local community channel has broadcast the event live to it’s centers across the province…
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TORONTO – A nature-obsessed fourteen-year-old girl observes and documents the behaviour of human specimens at her high school in Naturally, Sadie, a new live-action comedy series for tweens making its premiere on Family on Saturday, June 25 at 6 p.m. ET/PT.
An original series with 26 half-hour episodes, Naturally, Sadie is produced by DECODE Entertainment (Radio Free Roscoe) in association with Family Channel.
According to the release: Wanna-be naturalist Sadie Hawthorne (Charlotte Arnold) looks for and finds amazing things to analyze all around her. But at her school, R.B. Bennett High (which makes it a definitely Canadian show), Sadie…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet announced today it has added 15 more Toronto Blue Jays road games to its Sportsnet HD schedule beginning with a trip to Cleveland to face the Indians Saturday, May 14 at 1 p.m. (ET).
That brings the channel’s total HD events between May and the end of August to 107.
The 15 road games added to the Sportsnet HD schedule feature: * Three against the Boston Red Sox (July 1-3) * Three versus the Baltimore Orioles (August 12-14) * Two against the New York Yankees (August 22 and 25)
With the additional 15 games in…
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OTTAWA – Serendipitously gathered together on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Rogers WAVE, the first North American high speed Internet on cable service, SCTE-Ontario members heard first hand that if traffic isn’t managed smartly, cable services, VOIP especially, will suffer.
About 100 of the chapter’s 400+ members came together at the Ottawa Travelodge West last Thursday and www.cartt.ca was there.
John Downey, broadband network engineer at Cisco; Tony Faccia, vice-president networks and capacity planning at Rogers Cable; Tom Donnelly, co-founder and v-p sales and marketing at Sandvine; and Lindsay Schroth of research company Yankee Group all made…
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