Bell Canada has announced it is launching a direct-to-cell satellite service in 2026 – offering customers video, voice, text and broadband data – through a partnership with Texas-based AST SpaceMobile. It’s the latest effort by the Canadian company to provide connectivity to the country’s most rural and challenging geographies, as global space companies race to […]
BIG Media, the global production company, distributor and channel provider, has locked in sales for multiple series with Canada’s leading entertainment companies: Corus Entertainment and Bell Media. The announcement was made by BIG Media co-founder and President Danny Wilk. Corus has acquired season 3 of Renovation Hunters (10 x 30’) and the upcoming season 4, […]
Australia-based production company RIISE Productions has announced its global expansion with the promotion of Amy McCulloch to Global Head of Development, Film and TV. RIISE Productions, part of RIISE World, creates original film and television IP with global talent, and is now in development with production companies internationally. McCulloch joined RIISE after a long tenure […]
Bell Media has been selected to become Dotdash Meredith’s new Canadian sales partner, expanding premium digital advertising in Canada. This partnership leverages Dotdash Meredith’s premium digital inventory as well as Bell Media’s powerful sales team and advertising expertise to expand the reach and effectiveness of digital ad campaigns across the country. The partnership sees Dotdash […]
Platform Communications has announced the appointment of Edward Bell as Associate Director. Bell brings over a decade of experience working with major tech and media brands, most recently at WPP’s specialist tech agency AxiCom. Over his career, he has driven global media relations programmes for data companies Kantar and the Open Data Institute, managed content and […]
Bell Canada is cutting its fibre spend over the next couple of years by C$1 billion (€0.68bn) in protest over the regulators decision on wholesale network access. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) moved to open up fibre networks run by large operators in the major cities of Ontario and Quebec, and set the […]
Canada’s Bell Media is made another round of job layoffs, amounting to 1,300 staff, around 6 per cent of its workforce, and has also shuttered six of its AM radio stations. Bell Media President and CEO, Mirko Bibic, said where possible, vacant positions will be eliminated to minimise the impact of the layoffs. “These roles […]
While the UK economy is widely expected to have entered a technical recession at the end of the year, the latest Q4 2022 IPA Bellwether Report signalled another quarter of total marketing budget growth across the final three months of 2022. Around one-fifth of survey respondents upwardly revised their total marketing spending in the fourth […]
Canadian multiplay telco Bell is one of a number of service providers to welcome a ruling by the Federal Court of Canada that orders a group of set-top box retailers to shut down operations and pay close to C$30 million (€20m) in damages and costs for making content available without authorisation and inducing Canadians to […]
THEMA, the distribution partner of the M6 international channel, has announced two major launches in Canada and the United Arab Emirates. The M6 International channel that brings together the best of M6 group programming with content from M6, W9, 6ter, Paris Première and Téva. M6 International offers French speakers and French people living abroad a […]