CALGARY – As reported last month by Cartt.ca, Shaw Communications is dropping the Cancom name from its repertoire of brands, changing it to Shaw Broadcast Services.
The company also announced some other new names:
* Cancom Tracking, a leading provider of electronic on-board computing and communication solutions for the Canadian trucking industry, will be re-named as Shaw Tracking.
* Star Choice Communications, Canada’s second-largest DTH satellite television provider, will now be branded as Star Choice, a Shaw Company.
* Big Pipe, an operator of a national fibre-optic backbone network of data networking and Internet services, will change its name…
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VANCOUVER – Telus launched a pair of products today that will help lost customers find where they’re going and let parents electronically track their kids.
Navigator and Kid Find are the two new GPS services that will help "consumers get increased peace of mind whether on the road, at the park or going trick or treating," said Robert Blumenthal, Telus senior vice-president of products and services, in a press release.
Navigator and Kid Find now operate throughout Telus’ 1X Digital PCS coverage area in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe region, which stretches from Oshawa to Kitchener, and…
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CALGARY – As if there aren’t enough gobblers on the TV schedule already, Shaw Cable will mark the Thanksgiving holiday with Turkey TV, a signature channel featuring all turkey, all the time, the company announced today.
Shaw customers can tune in to Shaw’s community cable channel for Turkey TV on Thanksgiving Day for "on-going coverage of exciting turkey action and entertain your family and friends with this exclusive, premiere holiday blockbuster," says the press release.
Turkey TV will offer non-stop coverage of "a beautiful, roasted turkey, surrounded by fresh greens, carrots and tomatoes in an open flame forno oven….
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HAVING WORKED IN ALL SECTORS of the TV industry over a number of years, one of the trends that was always in the back of Mitch Nadon’s mind was employee and executive training, recruitment and skill development.
The founder of MediaINTELLIGENCE has worked in production and post production, animation (Nelvana), and broadcast (CTV and TVOntario) in various roles, from management to production to regulatory. She has experienced how excellent companies, bosses and employees work and how lesser ones don’t work as well.
It’s a company’s employees who have the most direct effect on the bottom line and Nadon (pictured…
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HALIFAX – Customers want to know they have choice in their TV channel lineups and programming selection, even if they don’t really intend to exercise that choice, EastLink co-CEO Dan McKeen told almost 50 people Monday morning at the first-ever CTAM Canada East Coast breakfast (which was sold out).
Held between EastLink’s very popular CSR programming training day on Sunday and the Nova Scotia cable company’s much-anticipated Fall Classic golf tournament Monday afternoon, the morning CTAM session saw a pair of programmers (Corus Entertainment VP Lisa Lyons and Turner Networks’ Doug Lindauer) face a pair of operators (McKeen and…
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CALGARY – Western Hockey League games will continue to be shown on Shaw Television for the next three years.
The channel will air at least 24 regular season games across Western Canada this year and as many playoff games as possible.
“We have a great partnership with the WHL and are very pleased to extend our broadcast agreement out to and including the 2009 – 2010 season,” said Peter Bissonnette, President, Shaw Communications Inc. “At Shaw our vision is to deliver our customers an exceptional customer experience. The coverage of Western Hockey League games is a prime example of…
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CALGARY – The Shaw Rocket Fund is calling for entries to its $50,000 prize for the best independently produced Canadian youth or family program.
The juried prize celebrates the best in programs aimed at youth 13 to 17 years, as well as programs targeted at families. Shows of any genre, format, and length are welcome to apply.
The deadline for entry is Nov. 24 at 5 p.m. Mountain Time. Entry details are online here.
The entries will be judged by a jury international panellists within the children’s broadcasting or production industries from five countries. The jury will select finalists,…
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IT’S NO WONDER THERE couldn’t be a CAB submission to the CRTC on the TV policy review.
While there is some agreement on what must be done to alter the course of conventional television in Canada, along side the regularly substantial chasms in opinion between the usual suspects – distributors and broadcasters – there are also substantial variances between fellow broadcasters on what must be done to secure the future of conventional television stations and companies.
So, for this most important of policy reviews, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters had to step aside and tell its members that since…
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CALGARY – "Every 96 seconds we are installing a new Shaw Digital Phone customer," said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications, in kicking off the company’s fall marketing campaign pushing its new telephony service even harder.
Shaw is attacking in most of its major markets, including Winnipeg where MTS has taken thousands of Shaw Cable customers who chose to go with MTS TV.
Shaw’s Digital Phone service includes unlimited calls to Canada and the U.S., 1000 international calling minutes per month to Europe, the U.K., and Asia Pacific, as well as six calling features, all for one flat monthly…
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CALGARY – Following recent announcements that Survivor: Cook Islands will be available on pay-per-view on Bell ExpressVu and on video on demand with Rogers Cable, Shaw Communications announced its own agreement with CBS Paramount International to provide the reality series on demand.
Each episode will be available for several days after the initial television broadcast on Thursday nights on Global Television.
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