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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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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GATINEAU – Be careful, dig deeper and have a look around at what other information is out there, the final submissions from several interveners tell the CRTC as the Regulator writes its decision allowing Shaw Communications to buy Canwest Global.
No CCAA discount
The Directors Guild of Canada insists in its submission that Shaw should be forced to pay the full 10% tangible benefits package – and for that matter, the company should be paying based on an even higher valuation of Canwest.
While the Commission and Shaw settled on a transaction valuation of $2.047 billion, that’s actually an amazing bargain, writes…
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CALGARY – Shaw is imagining what millions of Canadians can do together.
That feeling of unity, and the strength that comes from being part of a community, is the goal of the ‘Together is Amazing’ movement recently launched by Shaw. The charitable initiative uses Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct, Shaw Tracking, Shaw Broadcast and Shaw Business Solutions – and their extensive geographic footprint, to provide Canadians with a springboard they can use to connect, share, inspire and create.
"We believe that when acting together, people can create magic. They can bring the impossible to life”, said EVP Brad Shaw, in a statement…
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CALGARY – Add Media Access Canada (MAC) to the list of stakeholders disappointed with Shaw’s proposed tangible benefits package.
After appearing in front of the Commission on Wednesday, the group issued a statement Thursday expressing its disappointment with Shaw’s plan to allocate $3 million in tangible benefits “to media accessibility, including video description of all national interest programming funded under our benefits initiative.”
“Tangible benefits are supposed to benefit the entire broadcasting system”, said Beverley Milligan, MAC’s acting president and CEO, in a statement. “Shaw apparently plans to treat its own costs as tangible benefits. It’s ‘we-know-best’ approach is not just…
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CALGARY – While it’s still falls below the norm, Shaw Communications today dramatically increased the amount of money it plans to spend on tangible benefits once its acquisition of Canwest Global is approved.
Company executives appeared before the CRTC Thursday morning in Calgary in their final oral reply to the week’s interveners and announced $72 million had been added to the company’s original package of benefits proposed coming into the hearing.
When broadcasting companies change hands, the Commission normally requires that 10% of the purchase value (in this case $2.047 billion) be set aside to spend on projects that are deemed…
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CALGARY – When Shaw Communications completes the purchase of Canwest Global, the vertically integrated entity will be so large and influential that some safeguards have to be attached as new conditions of license, a number of interveners told the CRTC Wednesday during its hearing into the deal.
Two of them, Telus and Pelmorex (owner of The Weather Network and Météomédia) brought lists of what those safeguards should be. Another, the Canadian Media Production Association, asked the Regulator to ensure the new company (controlled by the Shaw family) negotiates Terms of Trade in good faith – and doesn’t get cozy with…
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