TORONTO – Discovery launched its TV Everywhere app Discovery Go this week, pledging to become the first in Canada to offer content in 4K Ultra HD.
Launching with 4,500 hours of programming from Discovery, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Discovery Science, and Discovery Velocity, that total will swell to more than 7,000 hours by January 2016, reads the company’s news release.
Content includes complete season stacks of series such as Highway Thru Hell, Deadliest Catch, Close Encounters, Shark Week, and How It’s Made, alongside current episodes of the network’s flagship daily science program Daily Planet. The release added that Discovery networks programming in 4K…
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PEOPLE ARE ALREADY CALLING Justin Trudeau our first “selfie” Prime Minister. Images of him on the campaign trail – and the day after the election – mugging with various Canadians who have one arm outstretched and the other around our PM-to-be number in the hundreds of thousands. He’ll apparently even click it for you, if you like.
Of course, those snapshots are then uploaded to the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn or any other sharing platform to display to followers around the country and the world. Just Google “Justin Trudeau selfie”.
Invariably, those images ride…
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OTTAWA – Late Thursday, Bell Canada applied to the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to appeal the CRTC’s recently announced Wholesale Code of conduct which it established for the TV industry as part of its Let’s Talk TV policy review process.
The Commission released the Code September 24th.
The CRTC has overstepped its jurisdiction with this Code, says the Bell application to the court. “The purpose of the Wholesale Code is to govern the commercial relationships between Programming and Distribution Undertakings. In doing so, the Wholesale Code conflicts with the Copyright Act and exceeds the CRTC’s…
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NEW ORLEANS – The cable industry's long-awaited transition to all-IP video world is finally becoming a solid reality after years of brave talk.
At the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo show in New Orleans last week, Comcast CTO and EVP Tony Werner said North America's largest MSO has firmly put its stake in the IP video future. Speaking in the show's opening general session, Werner boasted Comcast will have all of its linear and VOD services available over IP by the end of the next March.
In fact, Werner revealed that 95% of Comcast's vast U.S. cable footprint already has all of its…
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TORONTO – CBC has named Chris Harris as executive producer, digital, scripted, effective immediately.
Harris, pictured, returns to CBC from his most recent position as VP strategy and business development with content studio Secret Location, a position he held since 2013. He previously spent more than seven years with CBC, from 1999–2006, as an award-winning interactive producer and journalist, working in Sports, News, Kids, and Television. In 2006 he joined Alliance Atlantis/Canwest where he led the digital content teams at Shaw Media and Canwest as both director and head of oine content, plus was Shaw Media’s first ever head of social media.
In his new role,…
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TORONTO – Telus has teamed up with Fleet Complete and Intact Insurance to create a fleet-management insurance offer for Canadian businesses.
The easy-to-use GPS fleet tracking solution from Telus provides realtime visibility into the location of fleet vehicles and integrates with the Intact Insurance platform to report on performance that may result in reduced insurance costs, while also encouraging safer driving.
"Telus Fleet Tracker is one of the most comprehensive and widely used fleet tracking solutions in Canada," said Telus’ VP of the Internet of Things Shawn Sanderson, in the news release. "my Fleet Solution takes this offering one step further…
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TORONTO – CBC has named Tara Ellis as executive director of scripted content effective October 19.
Ellis, (pictured), was most recently senior director of original drama content for Shaw Media. Prior to that, she was Alliance Atlantis's VP of content for Showcase, and executive in charge of production for CBC.
In her new role, Ellis will lead CBC's scripted content teams as they continue to raise the bar in comedy and drama, kids programming and digital originals, reads the announcement. Ellis will report to programming GM Sally Catto and reporting to her will be the senior directors of drama, comedy and…
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TORONTO – On Monday, Rogers Communications made a commitment to 4K, ultra-high definition TV that no one else on the globe has yet made.
Beginning in 2016, the company will broadcast over 100 live sporting events (300 hours at least) in 4K, including all Toronto Blue Jays home games and at least 20 NHL games. It is also bringing to market a brand new Cisco 4K set top box for its cable customers, upon which Netflix will ride as an app, the company announced Monday.
Speaking of the global OTT video leader, Rogers has also signed a…
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TORONTO – TSN will be the home of every tackle and scrum of this year’s Rugby World Cup which kicks off Friday, live from England.
The network’s exclusive coverage of the event runs September 18 – October 31 and will include all 48 games of the tournament, including in-depth coverage of every Canada matchup, plus the playoffs and final. Coverage begins Friday at 2:00 PM ET with the opening ceremonies, followed by the tournament’s opening game featuring hosts England vs. Fiji.
French-language coverage of all 48 tournament games is available on RDS. TSN subscribers can access live streaming and on-demand viewing…
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TORONTO – Today Hollywood Suite announced that its four HD movie channels will be relaunched on November 2nd as Hollywood Suite 70s Movies, Hollywood Suite 80s Movies, Hollywood Suite 90s Movies and Hollywood Suite 2000s Movies.
Right now, the channel branding is Warner Films, MGM Channel Sony Movie Channel and AXN Movies.
“With a focus on consumer choice in an era of vigorous competition and regulatory change, the new unified and simplified Hollywood Suite brands will create an emotional connection with consumers by leveraging the nostalgic value of the greatest films of the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s,” said Hollywood Suite…
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