YORKTON, SK – The Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival has opened the nomination process for the 2009 Golden Sheaf Awards competition and is including community cable productions in 2009.
The Festival offers 21 category and three craft awards, plus the newly announced ‘Global Issues Award’ and the ‘Ruth Shaw Award’. Awards for community cable productions and student productions have also been added this year.
Entries for the 62 year-old festival will be accepted until February 1, 2009. Nominees will be announced in March, and the Golden Sheaf Statues awarded at the gala on May 23, 2009 in Yorkton, SK….
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TORONTO – Rogers Wireless has rolled out its 3.5 next generation network across the country.
Calling it “the fastest mobile network in Canada”, the Rogers press release says that it’s the first North American wireless carrier to offer customers peak downloads of 7.2Mbps on a national network. The network allows “customers to communicate in innovative ways with mobile multimedia, download large files ultra-fast and utilize Internet speeds on the go that are similar to a standard broadband connection.”
The 7.2 Mbps High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network is the latest and fastest 3G service available, offering mobile download speeds…
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TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Shaw Cable customers in Sportsnet’s Pacific and West regions will now get more programming in HD.
Shaw launched the regional Sportsnet HD channel feeds in place of the national one in these markets earlier this week, meaning those viewers can now watch programming that was previously blacked out due to regional restrictions. For example, BC viewers can now see Vancouver Canucks games on their Sportsnet HD Pacific channel, rather than an alternate channel.
The regional HD feeds are available only to viewers in Shaw markets that are fed via fibre. Shaw communities who receive satellite…
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TORONTO – It was an overflow house of hundreds of family, friends, politicians and Canadian business glitterati who gathered in Toronto’s St. James Cathedral on a grey, rainy Tuesday morning to pay their final respects to Ted Rogers, the founder of Rogers Communications and one of the leading lights of Canadian business.
Rogers died December 2nd of heart disease at the age of 75.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, former PM Brian Mulroney, Shaw Communications founder JR Shaw and his son, CEO Jim Shaw, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle, Bell Canada CEO George Cope, Astral chairman Andre…
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TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Shaw Cable customers who watch Rogers Sportsnet HD on channel 211 will now receive Sportsnet West HD or Sportsnet Pacific HD on the same channel.
Effective immediately, Shaw Cable viewers will receive regular regional HD programming when scheduled, along with HD editions of sports highlight show Sportsnet Connected on weeknights.
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TORONTO – Nominations close Wednesday, December 10th for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) brand new Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award.
The SCTE, along with Aurora Networks as the primary sponsor and Cartt.ca as the publishing partner, last month announced the development and launch of a new award that annually will recognize a young cable telecommunications engineering professional in Canada who is already making his or her mark on the industry.
The Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award will debut as part of the inaugural SCTE Canadian Summit, which is set for Tuesday…
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It is with great sadness that Rogers Communications Inc. announces the death of company founder Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, a visionary communications industry pioneer and a titan in Canadian business. He was 75.
(Ed Note: The following is the full press release detailing Ted Rogers’ life, issued by Rogers Communications.)
Mr. Rogers, known for his relentless drive, built Rogers Communications into a Canadian leader in wireless telecommunications, cable television, broadcasting, publishing and more. Mr. Rogers’ name is synonymous with innovative, high-quality communications products across Canada.
He leaves his wife, Loretta; four children: Lisa, Edward (Suzanne), Melinda (Eric) and Martha; and…
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TORONTO – With the privatization of Bell Canada looking like it’s dead, what with the release last week that KPMG can’t deliver a positive opinion on the solvency of the big telco post-deal, speculation has run rampant that Telus might still be interested in merging with Bell.
Scotia Capital analyst John Henderson issued an investor’s report saying that he believes there’s a 15% chance Of “Belus” happening. Telus did seriously want to kick Bell’s tires back in mid-2007 when the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and its partners put together its deal to buy Bell, but the western telco Continue Reading
CALGARY – Shaw and Star Choice customers can get in to the holiday spirit with the return of the fire log and Christmas tree channels.
Starting today, customers can tune to a channel dedicated to a “natural”, flickering fire, or enjoy coverage of a 50-foot Colorado Spruce that has been decorated with more than 6,000 multi-coloured lights and hundreds of festive ornaments, the company announced.
"With both the Fire Log and Christmas Tree channels airing over this year’s festive season, Shaw customers will experience holiday programming like never before," said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications. "Our Fire Log…
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OTTAWA – The CAB has handed out their annual scholarships to Canadian broadcasting and communications students. The cash awards are designed to assist with the students’ education.
The CAB Jim Allard Scholarship was awarded to Elyse Skura, who is studying media theory and production, journalism broadcasting at the University of Western Ontario/Fanshawe College.
The BBM Canada Scholarship was awarded to José Domingo Mora, a Ph.D candidate at Simon Fraser University’s business marketing program.
The Astral Media Scholarship was awarded to Karima Aoudia, a Ph.D student at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM).
As well, the Ruth Hancock Scholarship Foundation awarded…
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