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Shaw adds five new HD services
Shaw, “ET Canada” to reno Toronto food bank
Tuesday’s episode will see ET Canada reporter Kim D'Eon, interior designer Penny Southam, and a group of volunteers complete a two-day, top-to-bottom renovation of the food bank's small apartment-style kitchen. ET Canada Gives Back will air throughout the week of December 19 at 7:30pm ET on Global.
"Our staff at ET Canada…
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TORONTO – Global News and Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) are joining forces on a partnership designed to improve journalism in Africa.
Over the next year, Global News will deploy six of its journalists to JHR's offices across Africa for three weeks at a time. While there, they will assist JHR's team to train local journalists to report on human rights and governance issues more effectively.
"We are honoured to be partnering with Journalists for Human Rights to create a program that will both further the cause of democracy and provide our journalists with an opportunity no other broadcast organization offers,"…
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CORD-CUTTING, OR SHAVING, could take a big, 1.7-billion-dollar bite out of Canadian television distribution revenues by 2017, according to a new report from RBC Capital Markets.
While that sounds pretty painful, the reports authors call that a modest hit to an industry which pulls in some $10 billion annually. The real challenge will be after that, during what they call the 2017-’19 inflection period, where cord-cutting could really accelerate, especially if over-the-top video services grab much more of the premium programming and the traditional industry isn’t proactive.
“Prior to our OTT inflection period, we do not expect the financial impact of…
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OTTAWA – Some companies are telling Industry Canada that it shouldn’t rush to open up TV white spaces spectrum, while another is saying let’s get on with it.
In reply comments to the consultation (that we first reported on here), the majority urges the department to consider all the pros and cons, ensure over-the-air TV isn’t negatively affected and watch how rollouts in other markets go before making a final decision on how it’s going to proceed. They say this will best ensure Canada gets it right.
As was argued by several parties in…
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MONTREAL – Both of Canada's two French-language private television networks made commitments to increase local news programming as CRTC hearings concluded Friday in Montreal.
Remstar, which bought the TQS network out of creditor protection in 2008 and eliminated its news-gathering operations, read the writing on the hearing walls and committed to increase local news programming on its five owned-and-operated stations after spending the week resisting calls to do so.
In '08, the CRTC gave what is now called V Interactions three years of reduced local news minimums when the station was purchased (from…
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TORONTO – The Movie Network, Movie Central and Shaw Media have signed on as Canadian partners for the international co-production of The Heretics.
The 12 x 60 minutes historical miniseries is set in 13th century France and is based on the Cathars, a ruthlessly repressed Christian religious sect. It is scheduled to go into production in Romania and the South of France in June 2012, with writing and post production in Canada.
The Heretics will have its Canadian broadcast premiere on Astral’s The Movie Network (eastern Canada) and Corus’ Movie Central (western Canada) in 2013, followed by a second window on…
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OTTAWA – A number of Canada’s independent cable operators have balked at signing a new omnibus carriage agreement for the up-to 30 specialty channels owned by Bell Media and instead are demanding the CRTC step in and decide who’s right.
According to sources with direct knowledge of the agreement and the ongoing battle, both Cogeco Cable and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance have been through a few rounds of official CRTC staff mediation, which hasn’t yielded much in the way of results. It now looks like the disputes are headed towards binding, final offer arbitration in front of a CRTC…
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VANCOUVER – Global News is launching a Mandarin-language newscast in Vancouver and Calgary starting next month on Chinese New Year.
The 30 minute show is set to air Monday through Friday at 7pm and 11:30pm PT on Shaw Multicultural Channel 116 in Vancouver, and at 10pm MT on Shaw Multicultural Channel 89 in Calgary, starting January 23.
Global National Mandarin's team will work closely with Global National to air original content and footage for its Mandarin-speaking audience by seeking out commentary from prominent sources in the Mandarin-speaking community to offer their expertise on the key stories of the day, the company…
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Global News partners with Journalists for Human Rights in Africa
BDU Outlook: OTT looks to trim $1.7 billion in revenue by 2017, but broadband income will compensate
SPECTRUM: We shouldn’t wait to move forward on white spaces spectrum deployment, says Shaw
French TV Hearing: TV networks commit to more local news during final appearance
Movie Network, Movie Central, Showcase partner on new international co-pro
Vertical Integration fallout: Independent BDUs refusing to sign Bell deal
Global readies Mandarin-language newscast
