TORONTO – G4techTV Canada announced today that digital cable and satellite subscribers of Rogers, Cogeco, Shaw, Videotron, Star Choice, Bell ExpressVu and Sasktel will get a free preview of the channel through November – and a chance to win a $5,000 digital makeover.
Viewers can win by spotting the G4techTV contest icon. Every time the icon is spotted, viewers can enter online (www.g4techtv.ca) by naming the show where they saw the icon. At the end of November, G4techTV will pick one lucky winner to win a $5,000 digital makeover for the hottest tech and gaming gadgets. Continue Reading
TORONTO – The Canadian Football League (CFL) announced today that it has signed a two-year programming agreement with Corus Entertainment’s radio division to broadcast the Grey Cup championship game across Canada this year and next. This year, Corus Radio will broadcast the 93rd Grey Cup game from Vancouver’s BC Place on Sunday, November 27th. This exclusive agreement, administered by Deep Sky Sound Marketing Ideas, Corus Radio’s national marketing and programming division, extends Corus’ involvement in broadcasting the CFL as the official rights holder for six of the nine CFL teams.
The Grey Cup game will be covered…
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TORONTO – Brian Cooper, president and COO of Insight Sports, has resigned. This announcement comes a week after the company announced it hired Ron Bremner as CEO.
In an e-mail to friends and employees, Cooper said he has resigned to pursue other interests.
Six-year-old Insight (which is majority owned by investor and entrepreneur Larry Tanenbaum) owns a piece of the NHL Network and will soon launch soccer channel GolTV, Casino and Gaming Television (CGTV) as well as the World Fishing Network. It’s also behind the new pay television applicant Spotlight TV and owns a piece of Score Media.
“We’re…
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IT AIN’T EASY BEING an independent broadcaster in the unlimited channel universe.
There are so many channels (traditional and otherwise) which serve the same niches of Stornoway’s three channels – news and current affairs service ichannel; dance station bpm:tv; and The Pet Network – that injecting them into the collective conscious psyche of viewers is difficult.
It means a lot of grassroots marketing work. A lot of pavement-pounding, because the budget to be able to afford a mass-marketing campaign just isn’t there.
Then there are the rumors of the company’s imminent sale, or demise, to deal with. By the…
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TORONTO – 102.1 the Edge’s annual listeners’ choice awards will be hosted this year by actor/comedian/rap artist(?) Tom Green.
“Returning to his musical roots (his rap group Organized Rhyme had a Canadian hit with Check the O.R. in 1992), Green is not only the host of the 2005 CASBYs, he’s also one of the performers at the show,” says the press release.
Now a solo rap artist, Green and his Keepin’ It Real Crew (DJ E.Z. Mike, pro skateboard legend "Playboy" Jeremy Klein and MC Shawn Anthony) join previously announced CASBY (Canadian Artists Selected By You) performers Sloan, Theory of…
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OTTAWA – The cable industry saw solid signs of an end to the erosion of its traditional customer base in 2004.
The number of cable television subscribers 7.6 million at the end of August 2004, up 0.4% from a year earlier. “This modest increase followed four consecutive years of decline during which the industry lost a total of 442,000 multi-channel video services customers," says a report on the industry issued today by Statistics Canada.
Despite the turnaround, the overall market share of cable operators continued to decline last year as the two DTH companies continued to sign up new customers,…
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MONTREAL – Toronto will host the first-ever Children, Youth & Media Conference on November 10th.
Organized by the Alliance for Children and Television (ACT), the conference is the only one of its kind to bring together Canada’s creators, producers and broadcasters of youth programming. Modeled after Média-Jeunes, a highly coveted gathering the ACT has held in Montreal on four occasions, this new event is devoted to exchange, training and professional development.
Over 200 attendees, including a number of well-known specialists, will explore programming trends and share their views on the needs and interests of young people through workshops, discussions…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC Wednesday extended the commentary process on the cable industry’s request to kill the mandatory carriage requirement of local FM radio stations.
As first reported by www.cartt.ca, the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association has asked the CRTC to repeal section 22 of the Broadcast Distribution Regulations which say that Class 1 and 2 cable systems must carry all local FM stations in their market on their cable plant.
The CCTA told the Commission that about 4% of cable subscribers listen to the radio over cable and that its members could better use the plant capacity to…
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GRAVENHURST, Ont. – The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association drew a crowd while handing out its annual Galaxi Awards this afternoon at the Taboo Resort in Gravenhurst, Ont.
The presentation kicks off Cable Week at the golf resort which continues for the next two days.
The awards sponsors were law firm Fasken Martineau, the CBC’s Newsworld, Country Canada, RDI, Galaxie and RDI, Telefilm Canada and Deutsche Welle.
The winners are:
Outstanding Achievement Frederick T. Metcalf Award for Marketing Habillage 2004: ARTV
William Stanley Thomas Community Involvement Award * Comsep a rebatir: TV COGECO * We All Can: Shaw Cablesystems Continue Reading
QUEBEC CITY – Manitoba Telecom Services’ digital television division will see its 2005 revenue increase by a factor of two, says company CEO Bill Fraser.
The outgoing chief executive told the CIBC World Markets investors conference on Friday that MTS TV will bring in $22 million in revenue in 2005, twice what the service earned in 2004.
“We’re extremely pleased with the results,” he said. Looking back at its launch in 2003, Fraser pointed out – when asked if MTS can make a profit on its TV service – that the company took its fair share of lumps from…
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