TORONTO – Vice Media Canada has named former Blue Ant Media exec Vanessa Case as its senior vice-president, head of studio, effective immediately.
Case (pictured) was most recently EVP content at Blue Ant Media and is a senior media executive with deep expertise in content strategy, delivering business growth, and development and execution for global companies, including owned intellectual property (IP), co-productions and international financing, reads Wednesday’s announcement. She has also held positions at Shaw, CanWest and Alliance Atlantis.
In her new role, Case will head up all Vice Studios' productions in Canada, including development, production, financing, sales and licensing, as…
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MARKHAM, ON – The Ontario Association of Broadcasters will present the 2018 Ontario Hall of Fame Award to both Barbara Williams and Ross Kentner at the organization’s fall conference.
A Board nominated honour, the Ontario Hall of Fame is presented to individuals who have spent most of their careers working for private broadcasters and demonstrated a commitment to the highest standards of broadcast excellence.
Barbara Williams (pictured right) is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Corus Entertainment Inc., where she oversees all strategic and operational aspects of Corus’ content across conventional and specialty television, Nelvana, digital, and radio properties.
Prior to her…
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VANCOUVER – Journalist Sarah MacDonald is joining Global BC starting September 4, Corus Entertainment said Tuesday.
A graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, MacDonald (pictured) began her journalism career with Shaw Cable in 2007 before moving to CTV Vancouver. She relocated to Toronto in 2010 where she worked on Canada AM and CTV’s National News.
MacDonald is well known in the BC market where she has worked as a reporter with CTV Vancouver since 2013.
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OTTAWA – Registration is now open for the ‘Canadian Communications Policy and Legislation: Time for a Review’ presented by the Canadian Chapter of the International Institute of Communications.
Scheduled for October 31 and November 1, 2018 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, the event promises to bring together communications regulators, policy makers and lawyers from Canada and the U.S. to debate the key issues affecting broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet today.
Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien will moderate the opening morning plenaries, and confirmed speakers include CRTC chair Ian Scott, CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait, and U.S. FCC Commissioner…
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I WOULD IMAGINE a large percentage of Cartt.ca readers own a car of some sort.
So, why did you buy yours? Transportation, right? Gotta get from A to B, and C, D, F… What, though, did you need it to have? My own car needed to be the family truckster, except far less ugly than Clark Griswold’s. I needed space, decent mileage, reasonable price and it had to not be a minivan or SUV. I bought my Toyota Venza new. It’s nearly nine years old now and I have been very happy with it.
This is not a Toyota advertisement, however.
What…
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Customers can keep TiVo though
MONTREAL – Cogeco Connexion will roll out the MediaFirst IPTV platform from MediaKind (previously Ericsson Media Solutions) to its Canadian cable customers starting next year.
The company said Tuesday that the MediaFirst platform will offer customizable video content, wireless receivers, voice activated controls, and access to Android Google Mobile Services “for a complete video offering”. MediaFirst is the same video platform deployed by Bell Fibe, Telus Optik, and SaskTel's MaxTV, and this decision from Cogeco diverges from the path set by Shaw, Rogers and Videotron, who chose Comcast's X1 platform for their next generation TV offering.
It…
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TORONTO — Football fans across Canada should soon be able to include NFL Sunday Ticket in their cable or satellite subscriptions again, after live sports streaming service DAZN Canada announced Tuesday it has entered into distribution agreements with Bell, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel and other cable/satellite providers to carry NFL Sunday Ticket this upcoming season.
Mid-summer last year, cable and satellite providers in Canada were no longer able to offer NFL Sunday Ticket to their residential subscribers after DAZN Canada bought the rights to distribute all out-of-market NFL games on its streaming service and launched its NFL Game Pass…
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EXTON, PA — The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), in conjunction with its global arm, the International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE), has created a new Generic Access Platform working group within the SCTE•ISBE Standards program to promote technical innovation in node housing interfaces.
The Generic Access Platform (GAP) project, conducted within the Interface Practices Subcommittee (IPS), is intended to develop standardized physical, thermal, mechanical and electrical interfaces for node housings or families of node housings, SCTE•ISBE said in a news release.
The GAP project is being chaired by two engineers from Charter Communications and the working group’s members…
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OTTAWA — Canada’s largest, vertically integrated BDUs have a little over a year to start providing set-top box data to a national STB-based audience measurement system — a new condition of licence imposed by the CRTC when it announced August 2 the collective renewal of soon-to-expire licences for various terrestrial BDUs.
As it renews their respective licences for a new term starting September 1, 2018, the CRTC is imposing a condition of licence on Bell, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron that will require them to provide the set-top box (STB) data they collect regarding programming services they distribute to a national…
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TORONTO – The Canadian wireless market is about to face disruption akin to what T-Mobile wrought in the U.S., which will come as good news for Canadian consumers looking for much more data at a far lower price. The news likely won’t be so good for the likes of Rogers, Bell and Telus, who will have to respond.
Today, Shaw Communications’ Freedom Mobile will unveil a new ad campaign (TV, radio, outdoor, digital, social…) fronted by Canadian comedy star Will Arnett which takes dead aim at the complaints so many Canadians make daily – that their wireless bills are too…
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