LAS VEGAS – Worldwide spending on consumer electronics will continue to slow in 2016 due to a variety of factors including China’s economic slowdown says researchers from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
Global sales of tech products fell by 8% in 2015 to $969 billion, according to research conducted jointly by the CTA and GfK, an international market research firm. Both the CTA and GfK forecast that sales will fall a further 2% in 2016 to $950 billion.
"We're seeing flat demand," said Steve Koenig, senior director of market research for CTA at a press event on Monday ahead…
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TORONTO – Global TV is testing the waters with a pilot based on the real life relationship between Canadian actor, television host, and executive producer Howie Mandel and his millennial YouTube personality son Alex Mandel.
Available exclusively on on GlobalTV.com and Global Go, The Family Business is a single camera comedy digital test pilot produced by Entertainment One (eOne) in association with Shaw Media. Once streamed, Canadians are encouraged to have their say about The Family Business by completing a survey.
Based on the Mandel men’s actual lives and experiences, with additional cast playing their family and…
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GATINEAU – A number of Canada’s Internet service providers are telling the CRTC that Bell Canada’s appeal for more restricted access to disaggregated wholesale fibre Internet access services is self-serving and in fact would lead to less competition in the market.
Bell is asking the Commission to review and vary certain provisions related to disaggregated broadband service (DBS) in Telecom Regulatory Policy 2015-326. The company has also filed an appeal of the decision to cabinet, as Cartt.ca first reported in October.
In its R&V, Bell argues that the Commission needs to add three conditions for granting access…
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OTTAWA – Women in Communications and Technology (WCT) has kicked off the second year of its Protégé Project, an initiative intended to propel rising female stars into top decision-making in Canada’s communications, media and technology sectors.
The WCT Protégé Project, with presenting sponsor Shaw Media, and partners Status of Women Canada and global non-profit organization Catalyst Canada, matches strong women leaders with executive champions to advance women into roles of power and influence in the knowledge-based economy.
After a successful pilot year in 2015, the WCT Protégé Project is designed to pick up where mentorship relationships end, the organization said. Continue Reading
TORONTO – Disney Junior and Disney XD will arrive in over eight million households this week through distribution partners across English Canada.
Corus Entertainment said Tuesday that the channels are available now through Bell Fibe TV, Bell Satellite TV, Bell FibreOp TV, MTS, Rogers, Shaw, Shaw Direct, Telus and various CCSA members. Cogeco Cable Canada and Eastlink will offer the channels starting Wednesday, and SaskTel customers will have access to the new services in the coming weeks.
Disney Junior, which is aimed at kids aged 2-7, launches with the network premiere of The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (pictured) on…
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TORONTO – Hollywood Suite tis gearing up for a national free preview of its four HDTV movie channels, from December 8 through to January 12.
The independent broadcaster said that the freeview is an opportunity for Canadian TV viewers to enjoy uncut and commercial-free movies on its newly rebranded channels devoted to the movies that shaped the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s.
“We’re excited to share Hollywood Suite with all Canadians this holiday season,” said president David Kines, in the news release. “We know this is one gift everyone will love."
The freeview includes access to Hollywood Suite On Demand, where available. Participating…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media’s Slice has partnered with Tetley Tea to serve up two and a half hours of commercial-free comedy which includes the broadcast premiere of the digital series MsLabelled and the cable premiere of the movie Pitch Perfect.
The special presentation will features the MsLabelled season two storyline woven into all ten commercial breaks during Pitch Perfect when it airs on December 5 at 9:00 PM ET/6:00 PM PT. In addition, Slice will present a 30-minute broadcast episode, cut from new content and both seasons of MsLabelled (pictured), on December 12 at 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT…
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TORONTO — Canadians still love their TV, love their cable packages, but they’re hungry for change, for flexibility, for a lower price, delegates of CTAM Canada’s packed Broadcaster Forum held last week in Toronto were told.
The TV industry folks in attendance were no doubt relieved to hear TV subscription value packs will continue to be relevant in a pick-and-pay world, especially as everyone gears up for the mandated introduction of skinny basic and pick-and-pay in 2016.
In fact, according to a recent study conducted by Charlton Strategic Research for CTAM, the majority of Canadian TV subscribers (57%) still…
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OTTAWA – The price of delivering Detroit to Vancouver, or Halifax to Hamilton, or any other distant TV signal to a market outside its territory will come under the microscope for the next two weeks at the Copyright Board of Canada.
Beginning Tuesday morning, the Broadcast Distribution Undertakings (BDUs) and the Retransmission Collectives will be facing off at a Copyright Board hearing over the value of distant television signals. The Collectives (who are the U.S. and Canadian TV stations, sports leagues, music collectives and such) tell the Board the number of distant TV signals available to Canadian TV subscribers has…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will issue its first report on the performance of Internet services provided by the country's major Internet service providers (ISPs) next spring.
Data is currently being gathered from ‘Whiteboxes’ installed in the homes of the 4,500 participants who signed up to measure the performance of their broadband Internet services when the Commission unveiled the Measuring Broadband Canada program last May.
The Commission said Wednesday that the data will provide useful insight into network performance, including actual connection speeds, and provide a better understanding of whether certain Internet services from participating ISPs are delivering speeds as advertised….
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