TORONTO – Amazon’s Prime Video today announced production has started on a new Canadian Amazon Original documentary on the life and career of Ernie Coombs (above) – or as he is more commonly known, Mr. Dressup.
The feature-length documentary, which is currently untitled, will celebrate “the origins and history of Canada’s favourite children’s show, Mr. Dressup, which built a legacy of kindness, patience, inclusiveness, and creativity in 4,000 episodes across 29 years on CBC in Canada,” a press release says.
“The documentary will combine never-before-seen archival footage, interviews with series puppeteers and musicians, the Coombs family, and other notable Canadians, all sharing the impact the series…
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By Connie Thiessen
TORONTO – Radio broadcasters from across the country are once again coming together on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Friday, Sept. 30 with A Day To Listen 2022.
This year’s 12-hour broadcast will be hosted by JUNO Award-winning Indigenous singer-songwriters William Prince and Celeigh Cardinal. Airing from 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. local time, it will feature stories from Indigenous leaders, residential school survivors, elders, musicians, and teachers centred around the theme of “Messages of Hope.”
Produced by the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF), in partnership with Orbyt Media, last year’s A Day To Listen captured the Broadcast Dialogue Canadian Radio Award for Continue Reading
TORONTO — International students in Canada are quick to choose a wireless provider when they arrive here to study, according to a new report from Toronto-based consumer research consultancy Solutions Research Group (SRG).
SRG’s study found 71% of international students had a wireless account set up within the first week of arriving in Canada.
The top five wireless brands among international students are, in order, Fido, Freedom Mobile, Bell, Virgin and Rogers, with a total of 72% of the market, according to SRG’s International Students Report 2022.
In addition, Chatr and Freedom garnered the highest “definitely would recommend” scores among the providers,…
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ATLANTIC CANADA – Telecommunications service providers are working hard to restore service to parts of Atlantic Canada impacted by Hurricane Fiona over the weekend.
“While service has begun to restore for some of our customers in Atlantic Canada, there are many who remain impacted by this weekend’s hurricane,” Eastlink posted on Twitter yesterday afternoon. “Continued power outages as well as downed trees, poles and lines may still be impacting your service. Our crews are working hard to gain safe access to affected sites so that we can get you back up and running.”
Rogers also tweeted yesterday to say…
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Rebecca Eckler among the season’s guests
TORONTO — Rogers Sports and Media’s OMNI Television announced today its unscripted talk/variety show, The Elevator Show, will have its season premiere on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 10 p.m. ET on Omni 1 across Ontario.
“The Elevator Show concept can be described like this: Quirky Jewish host (Ieden Wall, above left) commandeers a condo elevator and uses the open elevator as a stage for comedy bits, man-on-the-street interviews and variety acts,” reads a press release.
“Residents gather outside the open cabin and become the studio audience. Wall wanders away from the elevator to partake in colourful,…
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OTTAWA – Industry minister François-Philippe Champagne met with the Canadian Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee today “to instruct them to come up with further measures to ensure reliable networks across the country,” he announced on Twitter.
“Keeping Canadians connected is critical,” another tweet from a thread on the topic says. “That’s why earlier this summer I directed the telecom industry to improve network reliability across Canada. But that was just a first step.”
Champagne goes on to say he will continue to hold the country’s telecom companies accountable and keep Canadians updated on…
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Another 260 homes, businesses to have access by fall 2022
OXFORD COUNTY – The Government of Ontario and Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) today announced 675 homes and businesses in Oxford County now have access to high-speed Internet and another 260 will have access by fall 2022.
The governments of Canada and Ontario have each invested over $950,000 through SWIFT to make this happen, according to a press release issued today by the province.
Details of the now completed projects are as follows:
Rogers Communications has been providing 484 homes and businesses in Drumbo and Gobles with service since May 17,…
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OTTAWA – Today and yesterday witnesses stressed the importance of getting Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, right to members of the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications – right for both broadcasters navigating a changing media landscape and for content creators who have built careers around the way things work online now.
Brad Danks, CEO of OUTtv spoke about the difficulties they have faced negotiating carriage on some online platforms and specified what he believes is needed is for the CRTC to be a backstop in the online environment as it currently is for Canada’s traditional broadcasting system.
“We…
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By Connie Thiessen
OTTAWA – New data shows the Canadian Energy Efficiency Voluntary Agreement (CEEVA) for Set-Top Boxes has resulted in a 58% drop in average energy consumption since the program’s launch in 2017.
Five of the largest Canadian Pay TV service providers (Bell Canada, Cogeco, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, and Videotron) are signed on to the program in addition to manufacturers (CommScope, EchoStar Technologies, and Technicolor, soon to become VANTIVA), the Consumer Technology Association and CableLabs. A second program was launched in 2019 for small network equipment (SNE), such as modems and routers.
According to a new independent annual report, the program has resulted in a fifth consecutive year of…
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LONDON U.K. — Canada’s national mobile operators — Bell, Rogers and Telus — have all been named as “5G Global High Performers for 5G Reach” in Opensignal’s 5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2022 report, released today.
The report from Opensignal, a U.K.-based mobile analytics company, compared users’ 5G mobile network experience by operator, to see how the operators stacked up globally. Data for the report was collected from Jan. 1 to June 29, 2022.
Opensignal’s 5G Reach metric “measures how users experience the geographical extent of an operator’s 5G network. It analyzes the average proportion of locations where users were…
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