CALGARY – Consolidated service revenue at Shaw Communications for the fourth quarter and full fiscal 2010 year of $939 million and $3.72 billion was up 8% and 10%, respectively, over the comparable periods last year.
This will be the last full fiscal year as a pure carrier company and under CEO Jim Shaw, as the company will close its purchase of Canwest Global on October 27th and Jim’s brother Brad is slated to take the CEO’s seat January 13th.
Total service operating income before amortization of $423 million and $1.76 billion, respectively, improved 7% and 14% over the same periods. Excluding…
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TORONTO – Silver Screen Classics and Movieola-The Short Film Channel have been added to the Shaw Cable lineup, reports Channel Zero, the two channels’ parent company.
“Silver Screen Classics offers the best in westerns, musicals, comedies and gritty film noirs,” noted said Cal Millar, president of Channel Zero “and all of it without commercial interruption.”
Movieola features the very best in action, drama and comedy short film, from Academy Award and global film festival winners to cult favourites. “Short form content is a fast growing and in demand programming category in today’s quick-paced society,” said Jennifer Chen, director of programming for…
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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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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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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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GATINEAU – Atop Broadband received a Class 1 Broadcast Distribution Undertaking license from the CRTC today to serve the Greater Toronto Area.
Under its license the company can serve Ajax, Aurora, Bolton, Brampton, Caledon, East Gwillimbury, Etobicoke, Georgetown, King City, Markham, Milton, Mississauga, Newmarket, Nobleton, Oakville, Orangeville, Oshawa, Pickering, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, Toronto, and Vaughan (Kleinberg, Maple and Woodbridge).
The company is owned by Robert Socci, president of Atop Communications, and according to the proceeding’s documents, it appears it will be an over-the-top video provider that will provide its own set-top box using its customers’ existing cable DOCSIS or telco…
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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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