TORONTO – Former Bell Media exec Catherine MacLeod has been named as the new president of the Television Bureau of Canada (TVB), replacing Theresa Treutler who stepped down from the role last December.
MacLeod was most recently SVP specialty channels and Bell Media production, where she was responsible for the brand and programming strategies across all of Bell Media’s non-sports specialty television and digital assets, including Discovery, Bravo, Space, Comedy, Much, MTV, and TheLoop.ca, plus was responsible for in-house production and original digital video content. Prior to that, MacLeod was VP business and legal affairs at Bell Media,…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media’s Showcase is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a new look and logo designed to reflect the channel’s “big and dramatic sensibility”.
Beginning this week, viewers will see a refreshed brand, on-air and off-air, infused with colourful creative elements that complement the channel’s famed character-driven dramas and blockbuster movies, reads the announcement. The channel’s distinctive new logo, a throwback to the original Showcase logo, anchors all of the on-air elements, from station ID bugs to advertiser billboards, and is complemented by a vibrant and interchangeable colour scheme used in customized brand image spots. The channel’s new tagline…
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DENVER and TORONTO – Just in time for spring, World Fishing Network will be available on a free preview to cable, satellite and telco subscribers in North America for the month of April and into early May.
Dedicated to the angling lifestyle, the network’s programming includes instruction, tips, travel, tournaments, cooking, boating and outdoor recreation with some of the most recognized personalities in the angling community. Starting April 4, World Fishing Network will begin airing 21 new and returning shows with new episodes, including original productions JP DeRose Breaking Boundaries, Bill Boyce’s Cali and Hookin’ Up with Mariko Izumi, along…
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OTTAWA–GATINEAU – Canada’s new emergency alert system may have officially launched this week, but it can’t reach all Canadians after some of the country’s biggest TV service providers, including Bell and Shaw, have delayed its full rollout.
Known as Alert Ready, the system notifies Canadians of emergency situations over their radios and through their televisions. Issued by emergency management officials such as fire marshals, police officers and public health personnel, the alerts are meant to warn the public of dangers to life and property, like severe weather, water contamination and industrial disasters, as well as Amber Alerts.
While all cable and satellite…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications has named Vito Culmone as its executive vice-president and chief financial officer, effective June 1, 2015.
With more than 25 years of experience as a financial professional, including 15 years as a senior financial executive, Culmone (right, in his LinkedIn photo) most recently served as CFO for Calgray-based WestJet Airlines Ltd., where he built a strong reputation for his ability to build sustainable shareholder value, reads the announcement. He also has held leadership positions at Molson Inc. and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
"We are excited to attract one of the country's top business and financial executives to become…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications said that a syndicate of lenders have provided a US$395 million term loan and a US$85 million revolving credit facility for its new data centre firm ViaWest.
The facilities were used to repay the outstanding debt under ViaWest's prior credit facility and for its general corporate purposes. The term loan matures in March 2022 and the revolving credit facility matures in March 2020.
Shaw bought the Denver-based colocation, cloud, and managed services provider last July for US$1.2 billion.
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SEATTLE and TORONTO – Popular online video publishing and video management solutions provider thePlatform is providing the back-end video management for Rogers’ and Shaw’s subscription video-on-demand service shomi.
An independent subsidiary of Comcast, thePlatform’s cloud-based mpx video management system provides several back-end functions for shomi. Specifically, mpx provides easy workflow management of video ingest; metadata management; subscriber management and viewing rights enforcement; and automated publishing across device and video player profiles, says a press release the company put out this morning.
“Shomi has raised the bar for multiscreen video entertainment for Canadian viewers,” said Marty Roberts, co-CEO of thePlatform,…
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TORONTO – Doug Murphy officially assumed the role of president and CEO Corus Entertainment on Monday, replacing the retiring John Cassaday.
Murphy, pictured, joined Corus in 2003 and has held numerous senior management positions at the company, most recently as EVP and COO with responsibility for the company’s television and radio divisions. Previously, he was EVP and president of Corus Television; EVP and GM of Corus Kids; and president of Nelvana and Nelvana Enterprises. Before joining Corus, Murphy spent 10 years with the Walt Disney Company in a variety of senior executive positions in Canada, the United States and Japan.
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NEW YORK and TORONTO – Shaw Media’s History has picked up a fourth season of the acclaimed drama series Vikings.
The renewal comes with five episodes remaining in the series’ third season, which airs Thursdays at 10:00 PM ET/PT.
Vikings tells the extraordinary tales of the lives and epic adventures of these warriors and portrays life in the Dark Ages through the eyes of Viking society. The gripping family saga of Ragnar (Travis Fimmel), Rollo (Clive Standen), Lagertha (Canadian Katheryn Winnick) and Bjorn (Canadian Alexander Ludwig) continues in season three as alliances and loyal friendships are questioned, faith is catechized and…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media and Shaftesbury’s digital studio Smokebomb Entertainment have joined forces with brand agency shift2 and Schick Quattro for Women on MsLabelled, a new fashion-focused multiplatform comedy series aimed at female millennials.
Designed to run both online and on air, MsLabelled is a witty, vlog-style series set in the fast-paced, high-pressure world of fashion. The 20 x four-minutes series features and is executive produced by Jeanne Beker, and stars Rebecca Liddiard as Ella (pictured), a young fashionista who tries to find her own voice in the industry by launching an upstart fashion blog, after landing a job at…
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