January 18, 2021 4 years ago

Cogeco officially launches Epico IPTV-Internet service

MONTREAL — As we told you Friday, Cogeco Connexion is officially launching today its new IPTV service, Epico, which offers an entertainment experience combining the Internet and television. Epico… Continue Reading

January 18, 2021 4 years ago

Corus-Comscore partnership to provide advertisers with branded-content measurement tools

TORONTO — Corus Entertainment today announced a new partnership to provide advertisers with Comscore Branded Content, a measurement tool for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms in Canada. “These… Continue Reading

January 18, 2021 4 years ago

Trudeau adds LEO, web giants culture contributions, to Champagne’s new ISED ministerial duties

Show journalists some respect, too By Christopher Guly OTTAWA – Three days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau massaged his cabinet with a mini-shuffle, he released on Friday “supplementary” mandate letters to… Continue Reading

January 18, 2021 4 years ago

CBC Licence Renewals: Corp. explains how Tandem keeps separate church, and state

By Denis Carmel GATINEAU – At 3:44 p.m. on Friday, January 15, the CRTC lawyer joked: “The moment you have long been waiting for,” before going with reading a… Continue Reading

January 18, 2021 4 years ago

Rural broadband: Connect to Innovate cut some communities from B.C. coast project

ISED officials said areas with 5/1 Mbps are already served By Ahmad Hathout BRITISH COLUMBIA’S BIG $45.4-million broadband project which is expected to run a 3,400-kilometre stretch of underwater fibre cable… Continue Reading

January 18, 2021 4 years ago

CES 2021: ATSC 3.0 will reach 70% of U.S. households this year; 0% in Canada

By John Bugailiskis WASHINGTON – Building on the initial rollout of NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) over-the-air broadcasting that has reached more than 20 cities and 80 TV stations, America’s broadcasters… Continue Reading

January 18, 2021 4 years ago

CES 2021: How Wi-Fi 6E could triple spectrum available

By John Bugailiskis ONE REALLY ENJOYABLE PART of the digital version of CES 2021 was not having to do battle with the other 170,000 attendees for a decent Wi-Fi signal… Continue Reading

January 17, 2021 4 years ago

CES 2021: Streaming now accounts for 23% of all U.S. viewing on TVs, says Nielsen

By John Bugailiskis THE STREAMING WORLD is beginning to show the same fragmentation cycle that cable TV experienced, according to Brian Fuhrer, Nielsen’s senior vice-president of product strategy and thought… Continue Reading

January 17, 2021 4 years ago

CES 2021: Where is my “MF” mask?

By John Bugailiskis AT THIS YEAR’S DIGITAL CES 2021, it should come as no surprise pandemic products could be clicked on everywhere. As reported previously, Covid-19 has been very… Continue Reading

January 17, 2021 4 years ago

New trio of Samsung 5G phones available January 29

By John Bugailiskis SAMSUNG LAST WEEK LAUNCHED a professional quality camera called the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, which also does double duty as a 5G smartphone. The launch focused on how… Continue Reading