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Alberta media news, events & personalities
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 On September 12, 2013, Calgary's CKMX flipped from classic country to an all-comedy format as Funny 1060 to feature stand up comedy bits performed by major stand-up and improvisational comedians. Launched to coincide with the Calgary Comedy Festival, the station is one of several Bell-owned stations to air programming from the 24/7 Comedy. See more Alberta media news |
 The Irrelevant Show is back for its fourth season on CBC Radio One with live tapings in the Edmonton area beginning September 20. Every week, the cast of The Irrelevant Show brings you a buffet of award-winning comedy sketches and songs, recorded before a live audience in and around Edmonton.The show ranges all over the comedy map, from the everyday to the surreal. See more Alberta media events |
 The Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) announced that Calgary-based Producer Murray Ord will be honoured at the 2013 David Billington Award Luncheon to be held on Saturday, October 26, 2013 in Calgary. Murray Ord's career spans 35 years in the film and television industry ranging from acting, production, and development to financing. See more Alberta media awards |
 Dave Rutherford has retired from Calgary's CHQR.Now hosting from 9 to noon are Roger Kincade and Erin Kelly. The new afternoon host is Dave Taylor, formerly a Calgary MLA.Over at Edmonton's CFCW, James Gruff Gushnowski, replaced Danny Hooper as co-host of their morning show with Sharon Mallon. See more Alberta media moves |
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Alberta Media Media Personality: Russell Bowers, CBC Radio One
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 Russell been a broadcast journalist for nearly 25 years with work that has taken him from St. John's, NL to Prince Rupert, BC. His work has been featured locally, regionally, and nationally on programs like The Current, Definitely Not the Opera, As It Happens and The Sunday Edition. He's had a variety of news and storytelling assignments from breaking news to award-nominated documentaries. See more Alberta media personalities |
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Alberta Newspaper: Calgary Journal
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The Calgary Journal is published by the journalism students at Mount Royal University. Students write stories, edit content, take photos and create the layout for this award-winning community newspaper that serves the City of Calgary. (It won the 2010 Peacemaker Award for North American newspaper excellence from the Associated Collegiate Press). See more newspapers in Alberta
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 Wisdom, published two times annually, features in-depth articles about the people of Grande Prairie Regional College, with an emphasis on leadership, knowledge, alumni achievement, and philanthropy. The 36-page, four colour glossy magazine is distributed by direct mail to over 10,500 alumni and major supporters of Grande Prairie Regional College. See more magazines in Alberta |
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Alberta Radio Station: CKXU Lethbridge
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 CKXU-FM is a campus radio station broadcasting at 88.3 FM, from the University of Lethbridge. CKXU began as CKUL in 1972, when a public address system was set up in University Hall to broadcast musical content inside the building.The station was managed by a three-member executive under the auspices of the University of Lethbridge Students' Union. See more Alberta radio stations |
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Alberta Television Station: NUTV Calgary
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 NUTV is Alberta's only non-profit independent community access tv station and one of the oldest campus-based, tv production societies in Canada. Established in 1983, NUTV attracts viewers from the University of Calgary community and beyond. It is part of the University of Calgary Tri-Media Alliance, comprising of The Gauntlet, CJSW 90.9, and NUTV. See more Alberta television stations |
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Alberta Book: Film & The City
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 Film and the City examines fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007 in this first comprehensive study of Canadian film and "urbanity." Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Calgary's George Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience urban spatiality. See more Alberta books |
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Alberta Film: Road to Saddle River
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 The Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) is celebrating their 40th year by partnering with the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) to provide a free screening of Road to Saddle River at Metro Cinema on September 29. Shot in Alberta, the film is a comic odyssey of an East European butcher, the Cowboy Kid, heading west to find Saddle River. See more Alberta films |
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Alberta Blog: Decades of Decadence
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 Rebecca Klemke's blog, RKkitchen.com, is "an ever evolving, interactive,choose-your-own-adventure-with-food experience." Almost everything you see on the blog can be clicked on. So, bounce around clicking on things that intrigue you. She wants RKkitchen.com to be a conduit for happiness, like butter is to good food. See more Alberta blogs |
 The University of Alberta recently launched an online course designed to answer all your (or your children's or student's) burning questions about Dinosaurs, the fascinating animals that once walked the earth many years ago. Dino 101 offers the opportunity to learn from one of the world's foremost dinosaur experts, Philip Currie, who founded the Tyrell Museum.
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Media Publicity Plans Workshop - Edmonton & Calgary
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Media Publicity Plans Workshop
Successful media publicity grows from a well-thought out and carefully executed media plan that takes into account your organization's mission and goals. It helps achieve them by communicating the right kind of information through the right media using the right tools at the right time. You'll leave the workshop with a written media publicity plan and a toolbox of new and traditional tools that will help you effectively communicate your organization's news for the coming year. Edmonton:Wednesday, Sept 25 1 to 4pm $245 See more and registerCalgary:Thursday, Sept 26 1 to 4pm $245 See more and register
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Alberta Media Directory
Want to have your fingers are more than 850 reporters, show hosts, editors and news producers in Alberta on any computer with an internet connection 24/7? Self Service Subscriptions*Self service subscribers have access to the online Alberta media directory anywhere from a month or a year. See more about self service subscriptions*self service subscriptions only available to nonprofit organizations in Alberta. Distribution Subscriptions We'll distribute your media releases in Edmonton OR Calgary OR Alberta and post it to Twitter and Facebook and more.. See more about LOCAL distribution
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This workshop or any of our other workshops are available as private one-on-one sessions at your office or mine or online anywhere in Alberta. Fees start at $275 for a three hour session. For more information and to book a private session, please call me at 780-695-5675.
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I hope you like the new design & layout of this newsletter. It is especially designed to make it easier to read on smartphones and mobile devices as well as to reflect the new design of our also newly updated mediamag blog. If you like the new design of the newsletter and the blog, please share the articles on Facebook, Twitter and your other social media networks. You'll find easy-to-use sharing buttons on the top of this newsletter and colourful sharing buttons at the top of each blog article. If you have any comments about the content, the new design or something you would like to share with me, I would be happy to hear from you. If you would like me to feature your newspaper, radio or tv station, magazine, book, blog, website, film, Alberta media news, event or award in mediamag blog or this newsletter, please contact me. |
 Marilyn JonesPublisher, editor, workshop instructor phone: 780-695-5675 email: marilyn@mediamag.ca |
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