MONTREAL – Higher subscription revenues at Quebecor Media’s specialty TV channels combined with lower content costs for its over-the-air channels drove revenues in its broadcasting sector up 2.6%, or by…
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OAKVILLE – Emergency management authorities in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island used The Weather Network’s localization technology this week to issue test emergency warnings to the…
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TORONTO – Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. last month launched three new video-on-demand (VOD) services on Rogers Cable.
The VOD channels for the specialty TV broadcaster’s HGTV, Food Network and…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications Inc. announced Thursday it plans to implement a two-for-one stock split of its issued and outstanding Class A participating shares…
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LAS VEGAS – The default mode for small cable operators is often to apologize for their lack of size said Midcontinent Communications VP Tom Simmons in a session at…
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MONTREAL – Videotron added 29,000 digital TV customers for a total of 653,000 in the first quarter ended March 31, and also recorded net gains in Internet and telephony…
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TORONTO – CHUM Ltd. is turning to its archives and former DJs to celebrate the 50th year in operation of its 1050 CHUM radio station.
The radio station is…
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LAS VEGAS – The U.S. cable industry, while showing off their new bandwidth capabilities this week at their annual get-together, have been sending a message to their regulator and…
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OTTAWA – Auditor-General Sheila Fraser isn’t as worried about the appointment process at the CBC as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Corp. or the unions, which complain it’s too political.
Asked…
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AURORA, ON —York Region District School Board has signed a 10-year, $15-million deal with Rogers Business Solutions to provide an Internet network in all of its 179 elementary and…
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