MONTREAL – After already having launched on Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable and Bell ExpressVu PPV, Cogeco Cable has also added Survivor: Cook Islands to its on demand lineup.
Starting with tonight’s episode (October 12), Cogeco digital cable customers will be able to see the show on VOD the day after it airs by purchasing it, commercial-free, for 99-cents.
Rogers, Shaw and ExpressVu, however, are offering the show on demand immediately after it airs on Global Television while Global itself is offering the episodes the next day for free on the web.
The latest and the prior three…
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TORONTO – Survivor: Cook Islands fans have nothing to complain about if they miss their Thursday at 8 p.m. date.
Global Television today announced the show will be made available online at www.globaltv.com, joining prime time game show Deal or No Deal as the latest U.S. primetime series to be added to the network’s online programming library. Canadian original offerings on the site include: Global National with Kevin Newman, Global Currents, Falcon Beach and The Jane Show.
"The launch of the globaltv.com premium video player is a successful continuation in the network’s broadband video rollout – the free,…
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TORONTO – Last week the Ontario Association of Broadcasters presented its community service awards to several of the province’s broadcasters.
This year the OAB presented the Community Service Award for Radio – Small Market to Standard Radio St. Catharines/Niagara (CKTB/HTZ-FM/EZROCK) while honorable mention went to Durham Radio, CKDO AM/FM, Oshawa.
The Radio – Large Market Award was presented to CHUM Limited, KOOL-FM, Waterloo and honorable mention went to Rogers Media, CHFI-FM, Toronto.
The OAB Community Service Award winner for Television – Small Market was presented to CHUM Limited’s A-Channel, London. The Award for Television – Large Market went to…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) on Friday announced the election of two independent directors to its board: Michel J. Carter and Anne-Marie Jean.
Jean is a former television producer and currently serves as executive director for Culture Montréal. Carter is an experienced finance and broadcasting executive and former president and CEO of TQS Inc. and Cogeco Radio-Télévision Inc.
As part of its commitment to accountability and governance best practices, the CTF board screens all independent candidates to ensure they pass the CTF independence test, including Carter and Jean. In accordance with the corporation’s bylaws, the process includes…
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CANADIANS NEED TO PAY MORE for their TV, according to additional submissions to the CRTC on its conventional television policy review.
Filed last Wednesday three months ahead of the November 27th hearing, we could only plough through a few submissions at first, but having had a bit more time to read some more, it’s clear that TV distributors are in tough against many players who want to see wholesale subscriber fees paid to conventional broadcasters.
CTV, Quebecor Media (owners of TVA and Videotron), the Canadian Media Guild, ACTRA, and the Canadian Coalition of Audio-visual Unions all said they were…
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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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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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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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GRAVENHURST, Ont. – As the only cable gathering in the country now, the 13th annual Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual general meeting has this year attracted over 250 delegates, up from 180 last year.
Kicking off Sunday at the Taboo Resort with a relaxed, well-attended president’s reception, the AGM continued Monday morning with a four-hour table top trade show. Some of the vendors used the trade show to reveal a few new products aimed at the small cable system market (even though a couple of folks from Rogers and Cogeco also made the trip north).
TVC Canada unveiled its…
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