• Ted Rogers has been dead for one year, but his name is alive and well in Toronto where a street and a new broadcast center were this week dedicated in honor of the late media baron. A portion of Jarvis Street — between Bloor and Charles Streets, close to the headquarters of Rogers Communications — has been re-named Ted Rogers Way. This week also saw the official ribbon-cutting of the new Rogers production facility, into which its Citytv and OMNI stations moved earlier this year. Toronto is also home to Rogers Centre (still ‘SkyDome’ to stubborn locals) and the Ted Rogers School of Management, part of Ryerson Polytechnic University.

• Awards season is well underway, and has already been good to Colin Mochrie and Norman Jewison. Mochrie is set to receive the ACTRA Toronto award of excellence, while — from the ‘mixed blessing’ department — comes word that Jewison will take the next lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of America on Jan. 30. The honor puts the CFC chief alongside greats such as Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Clint Eastwood.

• Speaking of trophies, the NFB and its Waterlife picked up two at the Canadian New Media Awards. The board itself won best online screening room for www.nfb.ca, while Waterlife Interactive, the web supplement to the well-regarded documentary about H2O, took best cross-platform project. The site was designed by Jam3 in Toronto. Best online comedy performance went to Montreal’s homemade Têtes à claques.

• DHX Media has promoted Anne Loi to SVP of finance and operations. She will oversee operations for the company and continue to handle production financing and banking for the DHX family. Loi also remains atop DHX’s Decode Interactive.

• The CRTC has issued a licence to Black Entertainment Television Canada, a cable channel, like BET in the U.S., offering music, film, arts and live performances aimed at the black community.

• Mic Rodgers (Universal Soldier: The Return) has signed to direct A Matter of Time, an action-thriller from executive producer Daniel Heffner of the Saw franchise, Philip Roe and Peter Sheldrick (Dead Mary).

• Veteran newsman Max Keeping is retiring after 51 years from CJOH in Ottawa, handing co-anchor duties at the CTV station to the network’s Graham Richardson.