CALGARY – Newly rebranded Bite TV has been added to the Shaw digital cable channel line-up, Bite owner Glassbox Television announced today.
The comedy-focused channel will be in a free preview to the end of November along with The Pet Network, Movieola and Silver Screen Classics.
www.bite.ca www.shaw.ca
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GATINEAU – The CRTC decision on the purchase of Canwest Global Communications’ TV assets by Shaw Communications will be announced tomorrow at 4 p.m., a Commission spokesperson told Cartt.ca.
Watch the Commission’s web site or Cartt.ca when the news breaks.
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TORONTO – Shaw Cable has added The Pet Network to its channel line-up today – in a free preview until the end of November.
The move will make the digital specialty network, which offers programming for animal lovers, available for the first time to viewers throughout Western Canada.
“We are pleased to have the channel affiliated with our partners at Shaw, and delighted that many more Canadians will now have the opportunity to enjoy The Pet Network,” said Martha Fusca, president and CEO of Stornoway Communications, which operates The Pet Network and its sister stations ichannel and bpm:tv.
As Shaw inches closer…
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OTTAWA – "We successfully overcame many challenges and managed to come out of the year stronger, more focused and more financially sound than we were at the outset," said CBC/Radio-Canada board chairman Tim Casgrain in kicking off the Corp’s second Annual Public Meeting held Wednesday morning in Ottawa.
Canadians from across the country participated via live webcast as Casgrain, president and CEO Hubert Lacroix, and VP and CFO Suzanne Morris reviewed the highlights of 2009–2010, provided an overview of the next year and took some questions.
Lacroix focused on the myriad changes in the media industry globally – and locally as…
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TORONTO – Canwest Broadcasting’s chief marketing officer, Walter Levitt, will be leaving the company once it is purchased by Shaw Communications.
Levitt (pictured), former head of marketing at Alliance Atlantis, came on board in 2005, about two years before Canwest purchased the former Alliance Atlantis specialty channels. He and his team raised the profile and lifted the buzz around the specialties and the main network with several innovative marketing campaigns which invariably included robust digital aspects and social media integration.
“As you know, Shaw is a Calgary-based cable and satellite company with a long-serving head of marketing. In planning the integration of the…
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CALGARY – As the country celebrates Thanksgiving, Shaw is moving towards its goal to deliver a million pounds of food to registered food banks by November 15th, 2010.
As part of its ‘Together Is Amazing’ charitable campaign, the company announced that it has partnered with Campbell Canada and Safeway food stores to help fill local food banks across the country.
"According to Food Bank Canada’s HungerCount, nearly 800,000 Canadians go to bed hungry every night – a third of whom are children," said EVP Brad Shaw, in a press release. "We can change this. Working with Campbell’s, Safeway and our communities is…
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TORONTO – Retiring CTV CEO Ivan Fecan worked in TV all of his life. He was a producer, director and executive at a number of levels. As CEO, he knows all there is to know about how TV in Canada works.
The background of the new CTV CEO-to-be is far different.
Kevin Crull, president of residential services at Bell Canada (CTV’s new parent, pending regulatory approvals) was appointed COO today. He takes the job January 1st and will become CEO once Fecan retires when the Bell acquisition is closed sometime in early 2011.
While Crull knows he’s going to have…
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OTTAWA – Quebecor Media Inc. surprisingly revealed yesterday that the company was no longer going to seek “must carry” status for its Category 2 English language all news specialty channel Sun TV News.
The revelation marks a stunning reversal from previous statements that the channel required must carry status to be able to compete with the other specialty news stations, CTV Newsnet and CBC Newsworld (the company’s last application to the CRTC said without must-carry, the business case couldn’t work). Now the company says it will work within current CRTC rules, which will require Quebecor to negotiate carriage…
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GATINEAU – Be careful, dig deeper and have a look around at what other information is out there, the final submissions from several interveners tell the CRTC as the Regulator writes its decision allowing Shaw Communications to buy Canwest Global.
No CCAA discount
The Directors Guild of Canada insists in its submission that Shaw should be forced to pay the full 10% tangible benefits package – and for that matter, the company should be paying based on an even higher valuation of Canwest.
While the Commission and Shaw settled on a transaction valuation of $2.047 billion, that’s actually an amazing bargain, writes…
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CALGARY – Shaw is imagining what millions of Canadians can do together.
That feeling of unity, and the strength that comes from being part of a community, is the goal of the ‘Together is Amazing’ movement recently launched by Shaw. The charitable initiative uses Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct, Shaw Tracking, Shaw Broadcast and Shaw Business Solutions – and their extensive geographic footprint, to provide Canadians with a springboard they can use to connect, share, inspire and create.
"We believe that when acting together, people can create magic. They can bring the impossible to life”, said EVP Brad Shaw, in a statement…
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