TORONTO – CTAM Canada is moving its Broadcaster Forum to a larger venue to accommodate larger than expected registration demands by members.
Scheduled for November 20 from 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM, the event will now take place in the Frontenac Room at the Westin Harbour Castle, just down the road from its previous location at Corus Quay in Toronto. CTAM will re-open registration for the event later this week.
The afternoon will consist of three panels, two of which will be moderated by Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien. Senior executives from major broadcasting…
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GATINEAU – Corus Entertainment will face the CRTC today in the last stage of its quest to purchase a number of media assets being sold by Bell Media.
In March, Corus agreed to purchase French specialty channels Historia and Series+, three Ottawa radio stations and the half of Teletoon it didn’t own in a $400 million deal which is part of the divestitures required as conditions of the Bell Media purchase of Astral Media. While Corus already held 50% of Teletoon/Télétoon (as well as Teletoon Retro in English and French, and the Cartoon Network)…
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GATINEAU – Corus Entertainment was on the hot seat today, defending its proposed $400 million purchase of specialty services Teletoon, Historia and Series+ in front of the CRTC. The company is buying the assets from Bell Media as part of the latter’s requirement to divest assets resulting from its purchase of Astral.
“We are here today to convince you that we are not only the best possible home for these assets but that our acquisition of these services is in the public interest. Allowing Corus to continue to grow will translate into more spending on Canadian programming and healthy competition…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media has named Brad Kubota as vice president, Western Canada media sales and client solutions, effective December 2nd.
In this newly-created role, Kubota will oversee the Rogers Media sales and client solutions team in Western Canada, leading the creation and execution of innovative sales solutions on behalf of the company’s advertising partners. Based in Vancouver, Kubota will drive revenue targets by working with leaders across Rogers Media to develop a market-leading sales vision and growth strategy, the company said Monday.
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from Rogers Communications to shift its licenses for its cable business, on-demand business and Sportsnet service to Mountain Cablevision as part of a corporate reorganization.
Rogers acquired Hamilton Ontario-based Mountain Cablevision from Shaw earlier this year. In an application to the CRTC, Rogers requested the issuance of broadcasting licences to Mountain under the same terms and conditions as those in effect under the current licences and authorization for Rogers Communications Partnership (RCP) to continue operating its broadcasting distribution, video-on-demand, and pay-per-view undertakings. Rogers explained its request was for…
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TORONTO – Al Jazeera English launched on SaskTel this week, making it available to over 97,000 SaskTel maxTV subscribers through channel 58.
The international news channel, which launched in Canada in 2010, is now available through Telus, Bell TV, Rogers, Cogeco, Shaw Cable, Videotron, MTS Allstream and CCSA member cable systems. Al Jazeera already reaches more than 250 million homes in over 130 countries around the world.
“Subscribers to SaskTel maxTV service now have access to Al Jazeera English’s comprehensive offering of news, documentaries and programmes from over seventy bureaus worldwide,” said Kimeran Daley, head…
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TORONTO – Just in time for Halloween, Corus-owned children’s publisher Kids Can Press has kicked off a marketing campaign in support of the latest book from its best-selling Scaredy Squirrel series.
The campaign is centred around a one-minute Public Service Announcement (PSA) starring Scaredy Squirrel, the notoriously cautious children’s book character, where he offers safety tips for trick-or-treating based on the just-released book Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Halloween.
Together with Montreal author-illustrator Mélanie Watt, Kids Can Press worked with an animator from Nelvana and audio and post-production specialists at Corus to bring Scaredy to…
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THURSDAY WAS DARN BUSY (in fact, as we write this, it’s Friday morning). The CRTC launched its national conversation with Canadians on our TV system and each of Rogers Communications, Corus Entertainment and Shaw Communications released their latest quarterly results.
A common theme among the public appearances by CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais in Laval and Toronto, as well as the conference calls led by Rogers CEO Nadir Mohamed, Corus CEO John Cassaday and Shaw CEO Brad Shaw was how providing more choice for consumers when it comes to…
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HAMILTON – Source Cable has launched Shaw Media’s TV Everywhere service Global GO.
Source customers may now access all episodes from the most current season of Global shows, including NCIS, NCIS LA, Survivor, The Millers, Chicago Fire, Hawaii 5.0 and Dracula via their computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone and Android device free of charge after signing in with their Source Cable credentials.
"We are very pleased to offer Global GO to our customers in Hamilton, Ontario", said Darryl Chandler, VP operations and general manager, in the news release. "Source Cable is committed to continually improving and increasing…
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INDUSTRY MINISTER JAMES MOORE likely caused a number of folks in the Canadian subscription TV business to choke on their turkey this Thanksgiving weekend.
In a few media interviews, Moore dropped a preview bomb of this Wednesday’s Throne Speech by saying the federal Conservative government will make it its business to micromanage sectors of the economy, beginning with dismantling the TV channel packaging practices of Canadian broadcasters and broadcast distribution undertakings. “We don’t think it’s right for Canadians to have to pay for bundled television channels that they don’t watch,” he told CTV’s Question Period in an interview broadcast Sunday…
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