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 – 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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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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NETWORK EXPANSION NEWS
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Telus invests $600,000 for coverage along Vancouver Island highway
COWICHAN VALLEY, B.C. – Telus announced today it has invested $600,000 to bring new wireless coverage to more than eight kilometers of the Island Highway between Shawnigan Mill Bay Road and Lakeside Road located on the southern part of Vancouver Island.
The project is part of the 10-year Connecting British Columbia agreement signed with the Province of B.C. in 2011. Under the terms of the agreement Telus will connect more than 1,700 kilometres of unconnected highways with wireless service.
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OTTAWA – Global satellite operator Telesat reported a 7% increase in consolidated revenue for its second quarter, driven in large part to the launch of its newest satellite into commercial service in May, the company announced Thursday.
For the quarter ended June 30, 2013, Telesat reported consolidated revenues of $216 million, an increase of $14 million compared to the same period in 2012.
Adjusted EBITDA was $172 million, an increase of 10%, or $16 million, over the same period in 2012.
Year to date consolidated revenues were at $435 million, an increase of $37 million…
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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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OTTAWA – Saying the Minister of Industry has no right to change the policies governing the 2008 Advanced Wireless Spectrum auction now, Telus has filed an application in Federal Court asking for a judicial review of the June 28th spectrum transfer policy framework released by then-Industry Minister Christian Paradis.
(We predicted such a legal backlash in April when Industry Canada told the Canadian wireless companies then that it wanted to add new restrictions on the sale of wireless spectrum that had been cleared to be sold after a…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON – Capella Telecommunications recently announced it has been named the Canadian distributor for InnoTrans Communications’ products and solutions.
“Capella has a history of introducing leading edge equipment to the Canadian marketplace and is pleased to continue this history with InnoTrans. We believe the compelling technical performance offered by InnoTrans coupled with Capella’s strong technical expertise will offer great value to Canadian operators in this highly competitive time in our industry” said Capella Telecommunications president Norm Slater in a release.
InnoTrans, based in San Jose, Calif., says it has revolutionized node splitting and fiber…
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