OTTAWA – You can’t sell what isn’t yours.
That, in a nutshell, is what some of the interveners into Mediadenovo’s application for a broadcast license have said about the company’s plans to sell the local availability advertising time on American specialty services to national Canadian advertisers. The concept will face the commissioners in a non-appearing hearing on February 22. Comments closed Wednesday. (A prior version of this story suggested this would be a traditional public hearing. At this time, that is not the plan.)
In 2009 Mediadenovo, a re-branded Only Imagine (which had a similar submission shot down by the CRTC in…
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ARLINGTON, Va. – Telus has been named the top philanthropic corporation for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Telus is the first Canadian company to ever receive this global honor, the group announced today.
The AFP will honor Telus with the 2010 Freeman Philanthropic Services Award for Outstanding Corporation at its Awards for Philanthropy event in Baltimore, Md. on April 13.
“A lot of companies talk the talk about philanthropy, but Telus really makes giving and volunteering a priority,” said Paulette V. Maehara, CFRE, CAE, president and CEO of AFP, in a press release. “Their approach to philanthropy and their demonstrated…
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TORONTO – The primary headline will be the $40 million raised by Canada’s broadcasters via a pair of telethons on Friday (one in Toronto and another in French in Montreal), but there are a lot of other stories out there of companies from our industry rallying their employees or their customers to the cause.
Canada For Haiti, Friday’s one-hour, commercial-free special produced collaboratively between CBC Television, CTV and Global Television and also aired on Citytv, has raised more than $13.5 million to date for relief efforts in Haiti, it was confirmed today. (Citytv also aired its own “Help for Haiti”…
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VANCOUVER – Telus says that it will allow shareholders to have a say on its executive’s pay.
The board of directors unanimously approved the adoption of a non-binding advisory vote by shareholders on executive compensation. This vote, to be held at the annual general meetings in May of 2011, will allow shareholders to give direct feedback to the board on the company’s approach to executive compensation.
The move complements Telus’ ‘pay for performance’ culture. On average, more than 70% of a Telus executive’s 2008 compensation was based on corporate and personal performance measured by a set of transparent, publicly-stated objectives, the company said.
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TORONTO – What would the start of a new year be without predictions?
According to David Neale, chief futurist and SVP strategic content and services for Telus, here are the top five mobility trends for 2010.
1) Your contacts make the call, not your phone.
Phones will no longer be organized around functions, but holistically around contacts.
It’s not about tasks anymore, it’s about people. Instead of categorizing communications by function such as text, voice and email, smart phone interactions will be centred around contacts, offering the flexibility to communicate however you wish, seamlessly, and to view your interactions with them without switching applications….
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WHEN IT COMES to the billions of dollars Canadians pay for television every year, the main numbers which are poured into everyone’s spreadsheets for regulatory analysis are basically the same.
Thanks to the public documents available through the CRTC or via the companies which are publicly traded, the folks in the TV biz have a pretty good sense of how much money consumers willingly fork over (or which is pried from our bank accounts, depending on your point of view) for television, our primary form of video entertainment, and how it is divided.
But once dumped into those spread sheets, those…
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VANCOUVER – Telus said that it expects its wireless and wireline broadband networks will power its performance next year.
In an announcement detailing its 2010 financial targets, the Western-based telco predicted that wireless revenue will increase 5 – 9%, depending on the amount of growth in wireless subscriber loading and the extent of ARPU erosion. It says that wireline revenue is expected to grow between -1 to 2% next year, reflecting data growth in business services and residential entertainment services largely offset by continued decreases in its traditional local and long distance segments.
Telus also said that increased data and roaming revenues from its…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – Globalive could launch its Wind-branded mobile service as early as next week, chairman Anthony Lacavera said Friday after learning that Industry Canada had overturned the CRTC’s decision barring his company from entering the Canadian wireless market.
Amid cheers from staff, Lacavera thanked the government for its decision which he called “testament that this country needs (wireless) competition.”
Industry Canada declared Globalive a Canadian company that meets the Canadian ownership and control requirements under the Telecommunications Act early on Friday morning, contrary to the CRTC’s decision in the Fall which determined that the company was not sufficiently Canadian-owned…
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VANCOUVER – Telus let go 125 managers from its business solutions group earlier this week as part of its on-going “efficiency programs” to redeploy staff within the company.
A Telus spokesperson confirmed to Cartt.ca that the move was planned earlier this year, as the company seeks to staff up in growth areas such as Telus TV and emerging small business markets, and trim in others.
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I LOVE GOING TO confabs like NextMedia. As Telus’ SVP Michael Hennessy tweeted earlier this week: “Finished 2 days at #nextMEDIA looking to future of digital media. No discussion of #FFC, #CRTC. Met real digital entrepreneurs. Awesome.”
Hennessy told me Monday at that conference that when it comes to the debate over value for signal for over the air broadcasters, he’s done. Telus won’t be appearing at next week’s hearing into the issue, the one ordered by the feds.
Indeed, two days at NextMedia (built off a backdrop of my four days in Denver at Cable Connection Week in October,…
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