CALGARY – Canadian teen sitcom Wingin' It season 2 has been named this year’s winner of the Shaw Rocket Prize.
Part of the Shaw Rocket Fund, the Rocket Prize awards $50,000 annually to an independently-produced Canadian children's, youth, or family program and its associated digital content.
An international panel of industry judges chose the top five programs out of the entries, and a jury of Canadian children 12 and under screened the finalists before chosing the second season of Wingin It as their favourite program.
Produced by Temple Street Productions in association with Family Channel, Wingin' It follows a typical teenager trying to…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable signed a “long-term agreement” for the continued distribution of all Shaw Media services, including popular channels History Television, HGTV Canada, Showcase, as well as on-demand rights to Global TV content.
The deal includes on-demand, online and mobile rights, through linear, VOD, broadband and mobile.
"It is extremely gratifying to renew our long-standing relationship with Rogers and secure their continued support of our leading specialty television brands. The agreement acknowledges our investment in programming, aggressive evolution to high definition offerings and leadership in the on-demand space," said Shaw Media president Paul Robertson, in the announcement. "This deal is a…
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OTTAWA – Shaw has been given the official go ahead by the CRTC to extend its local television satellite solution (LTSS) to Canadian viewers impacted by the digital television transition.
As part of its purchase of Canwest Global, Shaw earmarked a portion of its tangible benefits package to provide free local or regional TV services and the necessary satellite equipment and installation services for up to 31,500 households that were poised to lose access to local over-the-air stations as a result of August’s digital television transition. Shaw was authorized to allocate $1 million of this $15 million benefit to fund…
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CALGARY – Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi will appear live on Shaw TV Tuesday to take questions from Calgarians live in-studio.
Viewers can tune in on November 29 at 7pm on Shaw TV channel 10 and participate by submitting their own questions and topics through social media, phone and email. Shaw TV's Erin Strate will host the show.
Mayor Nenshi first appeared on Shaw TV in February, taking questions and providing context on the future direction of Calgary. This follow-up visit will allow viewers to interact with the Mayor a year after his election campaign.
"Live with Nenshi provides Shaw TV viewers the chance…
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CALGARY – Shaw’s fire log has returned to warm the homes of Shaw and Shaw Direct customers this holiday season.
From now until January 6, Shaw Cable customers can enjoy the Fire Log 24/7 on the Frame channel (165 SD and 212 HD) or the Shaw Christmas Tree, a 50-foot Colorado Spruce decorated with more than 6,000 multi-colored light bulbs as a free video on demand order.
Shaw Direct customers may curl up in front of the fire log by accessing INFO299 at select times or by downloading it for free on the VOD platform.
Watch Shaw poke fun at the fire…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media and production partner Insight Productions have sold the worldwide format rights for the original series Canada Sings to Endemol, the largest independent television and digital production company in the industry.
Canada Sings challenges Canadians to form glee clubs with their co-workers and compete in a head-to-head battle against another workplace glee team for their charity of choice. Global and Insight Productions recently announced season two of the one-hour series.
Under the deal, Endemol will sell the Canada Sings format internationally and draw on its network of production companies to produce locally adapted versions of the show in major…
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TORONTO – With subscriber additions at Wind Mobile, Public Mobile and Mobilicity well below what many had hoped, is the model failing?
That’s what Canaccord Genuity telecom analyst Dvai Ghose asked on Monday in a research note to clients. Noting the departure of Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin is the second new entrant CEO to leave over the past six months, Ghose wrote what many have been saying for some time now: This isn’t how is was supposed to be.
“Independent new entrant subscriber growth has been weak — WIND only added 41k net subscribers in Q3/11, down from 45k…
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CALGARY – Shaw Cablesystems is adding full seasons of Saturday Night Live to its video on demand library on a subscription basis.
Saturday Night Live is an award-winning late-night television comedy and variety show, and one of the longest running TV shows in North America. Several seasons are available now commercial-free for $2.99 per month, and viewers will soon be able to access over 30 years of the popular series.
"More and more, our customers are looking to access their content on demand – watching what they want, when they want," said Shaw president Peter Bissonnette, in Tuesday’s announcement. "Saturday Night…
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LAST YEAR AT THIS time, Kevin Crull was into week three of his transition from long-time telecom executive to the leader of the largest Canadian broadcasting company.
Now president of Bell Media, the company which owns the CTV and CTV2 conventional TV networks, 29 specialty channels including market leader TSN, 33 radio stations and the Sympatico.ca portal, Crull came over from Bell Canada’s telco side, having run Bell Residential Services for five years. For a decade prior to that he was a senior executive with AT&T and US West.
One of his final projects at Bell Canada was writing the business…
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CALGARY – Shaw has added Astral’s Disney XD in standard and high definition, Family Channel HD and Disney Junior to its cable lineup.
The family-focused channels are available now on free preview through January 10, 2012, and associated video on demand content will be added in December. The new channels and VOD content will join nine existing channels as part of Shaw’s ‘Family Pack’, while the HD channels will join its ‘HD Plus’ package.
“We’re proud to include this additional content to our already broad selection of family programming,” said Shaw president Peter Bissonnette, in the announcement. “With the launch of these…
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