CCR Update

TELUS likely to launch TV service in November
TELUS Communications Inc. plans to launch its TV service at the beginning of November, well-placed industry sources tell Canadian Communications Reports. A spokesperson for TELUS said the company at this time would not disclose the launch day for its TV service. Earlier this year, TELUS’ executive VP of government and regulatory affairs Janet Yale said that the telco’s mobile TV service, which was licensed in August 2003, would be operational by year-end (CCR, Feb. 14/04). TELUS’ unsettled labour dispute apparently contributed to the delay in the launch. Back in February, Yale said the delay was a matter of priorities and that enhancing the company’s DSL offerings was more important.

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Mobile video is broadcast: CFTPA head

Earlier this month Guy Mayson, president and CEO of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CTFPA) responded to the CRTC’s call for submissions on mobile video services and the possible application of the New Media Exemption Order to them (PN 2005-82). In his letter, excerpted below, Mayson argues the proposed services from Bell, Rogers and Telus are clearly broadcasting undertakings, and therefore fall outside the exemption order.

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CNM People

Vancouver-based mobile entertainment content developer Mobile Operandi has a new chief executive. Bill Bryant is a veteran of online shopping firm Netbot Inc. as well as Qpass, a digital content management software firm, and has been involved with more than 20 high-tech and Internet firms over the past 10 years. Bryant will head up the firm’s new U.S. headquarters in Seattle, to open later this year.

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CNM Short Takes

Montreal’s FNC film fest gets Sympatico site
The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montreal (Montreal New Film Festival) will partner with web portal Sympatico MSN and interactive content marketer Tribal Nova to bring the experience of web TV to the festival. Sympatico’s High Speed Zone/zone haute vitesse will host a festival microsite featuring technical information and extracts from more than 60 of the works appearing at the festival, which takes place October 13 to 23, as well as a daily schedule of events. The Sympatico presence will augment the festival’s main web site at www.nouveaucinema.ca.

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Fight file sharers with tougher Copyright Act: CRIA head

In Ottawa this week to kick off a campaign to protect "products of the mind," the Canadian Recording Industry Association’s president urged the federal government to adopt tougher measures against unauthorized file sharers, in line with other nations, when it considers a bill to revise the Copyright Act this fall.

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New media changing the animation industry: OIAF panel

A panel of new media practitioners issued a clear message to the traditional broadcast animation industry at the recent 2005 Ottawa International Animation Festival: get ready for the future.

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BC new media tax credit still alive, still growing

A tax credit program launched in 2003 for BC-based new media small businesses has survived a provincial election – and its own success – to grow to serve nearly twice as many firms this year.

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Innovation key to getting Canada to the next level: Industry minister Emerson

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