Bell wants customers to cancel service, not competitors

A Bell Canada and Bell Aliant application requesting consumers be the ones charged with cancelling local and long distance service when switching to another provider is being panned by its largest competitor in Ontario.

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Give cable/DTH subs access to same TV programming online: GlassBox TV

The CRTC should adopt new rules that allow cable and satellite TV subscribers to access the same television services on web and mobile portals, executives from GlassBox TV told the CRTC’s new media hearing today.

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MedSchoolTV experiments with Internet broadcasting for medical information

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto is transforming Instructional television (ITV) into a free web-based broadcasting service that is experimenting with new advertising models, new formats and new technologies to find out how people use ITV and why. It’s also demonstrating how universities and other institutions can create new distribution windows for their proprietary video content.

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UTC touts Canada as model for allocating spectrum to utilities

The US Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) is urging the Federal Communications Commission to take a page out of Industry Canada’s playbook when it comes to addressing the spectrum needs of utilities.

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Canadian expert chairing SCTE study on 3D over cable

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Ontario proposes making film tax credits permanent

The McGuinty government today proposed legislative amendments to make the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit and the Ontario Production Services Tax Credit permanent for domestic and foreign productions.

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Going global – tips for rookie exporters

Some of the very factors that drive globalization at the macro level, including electronic communications, and especially the Internet, make it possible for even small and medium businesses to go global today. How easy? Read on.

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Digital platforms, global recession threaten Canadian production industry: CFTPA report

The challenge of reaching audiences through digital platforms and the global economic downturn pose considerable threats for the Canadian film production industry, warns a report released yesterday in Ottawa.

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CTV places Brandon station up for sale

CTV Television Inc. says it will not seek to renew the licence for CBC affiliate, CKX-TV Brandon (and those of its rebroadcasters in Foxwarren, McCreary and Melita) when the licences expire at the end of August 31, 2009. This is also the date when CKX-TV’s longstanding CBC affiliation expires.

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