GATINEAU – Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre-Karl Péladeau challenged the CRTC today to re-write its “little red book” of more than 400 broadcasting rules and regulations or risk seeing... Continue Reading
CALGARY - Shaw Communications announced today that its channel line-up will be changing April 22, 2008 through April 24, 2008 in all markets to accommodate new high-definition (HD) channels and... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Rogers Communications Inc. today announced that high school students from 15 cities across Canada collected over 18,500 used wireless devices as part of the inaugural Rogers Phones-for-Food High... Continue Reading
KIDSCO, THE JOINT VENTURE CHANNEL owned by NBC Universal, DIC Entertainment and Corus Entertainment Inc. is offering a video-on-demand service in South Korea. The new VOD service, which launched on... Continue Reading
BELOW ARE SOME QUICK QUIPS, a few lines – and their explanations, that we found interesting over the first four days of the CRTC’s hearing in broadcast distribution undertaking and... Continue Reading
TORONTO – A disgruntled Bell ExpessVu customer has received court approval to proceed with his case against the satellite TV distributor’s administrative fees. The plaintiff, Peter De Wolf, has been... Continue Reading
CALGARY – Telus Corp. is telling its customers not to give out personal information to people who call, and to hang up on them as a phone scam has emerged... Continue Reading
CALGARY – Shaw Communications acquired 6,524 new basic cable TV subscribers for a total of 2,241,503 at the end of the second quarter ended February 29, according to financial figures... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. earned $15.9 million in the second quartered ended February 29 as revenues improved 14%, or $33.5 million, to $271.9 million. That compares with a profit of... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – To many we’ve talked to so far this week, it smacks of re-regulation, not de-regulation, but commissioner Michel Morin wants to know what the industry thinks of a... Continue Reading