Union rejects last offer by a sliver, TELUS tries again with new agreement

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Motorola drops suit against Zafirovski, settlement could be barrier in new role

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Younger Canadians support federally funded broadband rollout

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CCR Editorial

The opinions expressed in this editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Decima Reports.

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New unregulated technologies could undermine broadcasters: CAB

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CCR People

Sandra Pugielli has left CHUM Ltd., where she was director of publicity for music and youth channels, to join CanWest MediaWorks Inc. as director of publicity, television and radio. She will be in charge of all publicity efforts for Global Television and will coordinate publicity for other TV brands (CH/Global News/Specialty Networks). She takes up her new job in late November. Also joining CanWest’s publicity team in the next few weeks are Yvonne Chiang as publicist for Global News, and Dan Kenning as publicist for the specialty networks. Chiang will be based in Vancouver, and Kenning in Winnipeg. The company is still searching for a Calgary-based publicist.

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CCR Short Takes

CAB questions CRTC on conventional viewing targets
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) calls the CRTC’s proposed goal of increasing the hours of viewing of English-language Canadian drama to 16.5% of all TV drama viewing on conventional networks, or an 80% increase from current levels, over five years "unrealistic." The association also disagrees with the commission’s expenditure target of an 80% increase over five years to 6% of total revenues earned in order to access the regulator’s ads-based incentives. Instead, the CAB is pushing for a 40% increase in both expenditures and viewing (CCR, Aug. 19/05).

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Rabinovitch tells hostile committee timing made lockout necessary

The chair of a House of Commons committee urged the head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to soon approach the federal government about the public broadcaster’s funding allocations for next year.

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Shaw adds Turner Classic Movies to analog cable tier at no cost

 Eight years after getting CRTC approval, Time Warner’s Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is now available in Canada, having launched October 31 in analog on Shaw Cablesystems and nationally on Shaw Communications Inc.-owned direct-to-home satellite TV distributor Star Choice. The reason the U.S. cable TV channel, which features classic movies, took so long to launch, according to both Shaw and the U.S. broadcaster, was due to having to work out copyright clearances for the Canadian market and to negotiating wholesale rights.

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Broadcasters profiting at expense of producers, CFTPA argues

Canada’s regulatory framework for broadcasting has led to increased profitability for private broadcasters, but they have not upped their financial contributions to Canadian programming on the conventional TV side, states the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA). The release earlier this week of the CFTPA-commissioned Nordicity Group Ltd. report, upon which the organization based its conclusions, sparked a war of words with the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), which draws on the study’s figures to argue the opposite.

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