TORONTO – Shaw Media is supporting today’s kickoff of its newest (read “TVTropolis rebranded”) lifestyle channel DTOUR with a national multi-platform marketing and advertising campaign.
Shaw's DTOUR specialty channel launched today with a national promo campaign that included blanketing Toronto's Bloor subway station (above) with images from various reality series, including this one from Continue Reading
TORONTO – While James Moore told Cartt.ca on Tuesday the 700 MHz spectrum auction will not be delayed – nor will the federal government be revisiting its wireless policies – Rogers Communications CEO Nadir Mohamed is equally strident saying he has “absolutely not” given up on convincing the Industry Minister and the Prime Minister’s Office to change their minds on both fronts.
“I still firmly believe the best answer comes from dialogue and debate and discussion, and that’s the process we’re in. There’s no question in my mind that there’s always time to make the right…
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INDUSTRY MINISTER JAMES MOORE has fair sized reservoir of stamina. After two full days of going west to east talking wireless with just about everyone who’ll ask for his time – and with three days of that still lying ahead – he sounded fresh and combative when it was our turn Tuesday afternoon to talk with him.
For readers not vacationing incommunicado for the past two months, Minister Moore has taken this week to tour the country to talk up the federal government’s wireless policies in the face of an all-out onslaught of sustained criticism from…
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HAMILTON – Source Cable announced today it has added eight new On Demand networks from Shaw Media, bring its number of On Demand networks to 35.
The eight new Shaw Media specialty channels, which include Food Network, HGTV, History, H2, Lifetime, National Geographic, Showcase, and Slice, will provide Source Cable customers with 310 episodes of additional content.
Source Cable offers more than 430 television and audio channels including 108 HDTV channels.
www.sourcecable.ca
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CALGARY – The Alberta Flood Aid organization announced Wednesday evening that the Alberta Flood Aid benefit concert taking place at McMahon Stadium in Calgary on Thursday, August 15th will be broadcast and webcast live, commercial-free starting at 6 p.m. MT (8 p.m. ET) across Canada and around the world.
The star-studded 4 hour program, hosted by Brent Butt, can be seen live on the following outlets: * Omni Alberta Shaw Channels 4 (SD) and 214 (HD) (Calgary) * Omni Alberta Shaw Channels 11 (SD) and 214 (HD) (Edmonton) * Omni Alberta Telus Optik Channel 5 (SD) (Calgary and Edmonton) *…
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GATINEAU – With weeks to go before the Local Programming Improvement Fund gets cut in half, two independent television stations that rely on it are seeking access to a different fund designed to help small-market stations.
CJON (NTV) in St. John's, NL, owned by Newfoundland Broadcasting, and CHEK in Victoria, which is owned in part by its employees who bought it from Canwest, have asked the CRTC to add their stations to the Small Market Local Production Fund. The fund was established in 2003, to help compensate small-market stations for the audience fragmentation caused by direct-to-home satellite distributors. Funded by…
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BURNABY, B.C. – A telecom union which represents Telus and Shaw employees added its voice to the ongoing opposition to U.S. telecom Verizon's potential entry into the Canadian market, saying today that Canadians are being misled by the "mirage" that having a foreign carrier will mean increased competition and cheaper phone rates.
“Tempting voters with the lure of cheaper cell phone bills seems to be Mr. Harper’s plan, but it's a mirage. There is no guarantee of lower prices. It is a complete manipulation of the Canadian public,” said Lee Riggs, national president of the Telecommunications Workers…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media’s new lifestyle channel DTOUR will launch August 26th with a national free preview in over 10 million homes.
DTOUR’s programming lineup includes a number of exclusive new series that reflect DTOUR’s goal of providing “the drama, entertainment and ideas behind the everyday and the extraordinary.”
“Home to a spectacularly diverse lineup of lifestyle programming, DTOUR will give Canadians an all-access pass to further discover the world around them” said Barb Williams, SVP of content, in a release. “With a slew of new series delving into everything from out-of-this-world food to the…
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TORONTO – For as long as there has been cable television, the subscription has been tied not to the people paying the bills, but to the home, the physical place those people lived.
That’s changing rapidly.
Subscription TV customers are increasingly demanding they be able to take their content with them wherever they want, for viewing whenever they want, either streamed or pulled in on demand. Until very recently this was nearly impossible, but according to David Purdy, Rogers Communications senior vice-president of content, his customers will start seeing a lot more content available for multi-screen on demand viewing in –…
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CALGARY – Global announced today it will air a live two-hour benefit concert this Sunday that's been organized to raise funds for southern Albertans who are still recovering from last month's devastating flooding.
The Halo High Water flood relief concert will broadcast live from the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary on August 4 from 7-9pm MT.
Hosted by Canadian actors Tom Jackson and Graham Greene, the Halo High Water concert will feature live musical performances from an all-star roster, including Susan Aglukark, Michelle Wright, Paul Brandt, Dean Brody, George Canyon, Jim Cuddy, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Brett Kissel, and many more.
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