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YTV launches show featuring kid-created content

Corus Entertainment's YTV began airing Nickelodeon television property iCarly yesterday. The innovative show, which follows main character Carly Shay on and off webcam, as she clicks with kids everywhere by hosting her own home-grown web show, is the first scripted series to integrate kid-created content. Kids can go online to check out highlights of the latest webcasts from the series – plus additional footage not seen on-air – as well as to read weekly character blogs, send e-mails, ask questions, participate in polls, post comments and submit videos showing their talents, weird skills and homemade animated shorts. "When iCarly premiered last month in the U.S., it became the most-watched live action series premiere ever on Nickelodeon," said Scott Dyer, executive VP and GM of Corus Kids Television and Nelvana Studios in a press release. "We are excited to give Canadian kids the opportunity to enjoy and take part in this series."

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Slaight to receive CAB 2007 Gold Ribbon Award

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has announced that Gary Slaight, president and CEO of Standard Broadcasting Inc., has been chosen as the recipient of its 2007 Gold Ribbon Award for Broadcast Excellence. The award honours truly outstanding service to Canadian private broadcasting, and recognize exceptional human qualities and practical, innovative achievements that reflect a genuine concern for the highest broadcasting standards.

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End-to-end WiMAX solution not lip service from Nortel

The director of wireless product marketing at Nortel Networks Corp. tells Report on Wireless the company's decision to brand its own end-user WiMAX devices isn't lip service to customers. "It's table stakes to offer devices with your infrastructure," says Danny Locklear.

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Consumer groups criticize TSPs proposal for complaints commissioner

Consumer groups have panned the telecommunications service providers' Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS), saying it falls short of what the government called for and won't lead to better consumer protection for telecom services. The comments are part of a CRTC proceeding to determine whether the CCTS in its current form will best serve Canadian consumers and small businesses. 

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Telemanagement October 2007

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Banding together: unaffiliated broadcasters are finding a voice of their own…when they need to

Let's be clear, this is not a story about anyone withdrawing from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. In fact, it's quite the opposite. But while the formation of a splinter faction of broadcasters to rival the venerable CAB on regulatory issues would certainly make for great copy, it is interesting to note that despite the stark differences that exist among them, Canada's broadcasters remain united through membership in the CAB.

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Montreal Internet TV news network signs multiple revenue-sharing deals

MediaScrape, a Montreal-based Internet TV News Network (http://www.mediascrape.com/) has announced revenue-sharing deals with CBC, YouTube, SCTV-Indonesia, ATN-Bangladesh, Realitatea-Romania, TV Brussels, Armenia's Yerkir Media, Asia News International in India, and Rustavi in Georgia. MediaScrape has also released an integration that enables users to find breaking news videos through Google Maps. "Our revenue-sharing deals with YouTube and new broadcasters will build on our current platform of over 36,000 breaking news videos," said Tyler Cavell, publisher of MediaScrape, in a news release. "We will be adding Facebook applications and live translation in multiple languages in the coming weeks to grow our syndication audience-base even further." MediaScrape currently broadcasts over 100 breaking news videos from its editorial and translation bureaus in over 11 countries.

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Primus Canada and Mipps expand mobile WiMAX trial to Toronto

Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. and its subsidiary Mipps Inc. are expanding trials of mobile WiMAX technology to Canada's largest and most lucrative market.

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Shaw going after Concord again over lack of access

Shaw Communications Inc. continues to have its problems in accessing condo towers in Vancouver.

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Von Finckenstein: Can we regulate new media like it’s 1999?

CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein kicked off the commission’s New Media Invitational Session Monday by asking the three fundamental questions about the treatment of new media in our regulated broadcasting system: Is it a necessity to regulate commercial broadcasting over new media?; If so, what measures need to be implemented? and; How would one go about implementing them?

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