CALGARY - Shaw Cablesystems announced a new video on demand agreement with Paramount Pictures. Shaw is the first Canadian company to come to a VOD deal with the movie and... Continue Reading
BURNABY – While the second quarter press release still intimated Telus may not launch its terrestrial digital television service, CEO Darren Entwistle told financial analysts today in a conference call that... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG - Shaw Cablesystems announced three new high definition channels have been added to its system in Winnipeg. The latest additions are: PBS (Fargo), NBC (Detroit), and ABC (Detroit). They... Continue Reading
I WAS A UNION MEMBER TWICE: For several summers as a labourer installing gas pipeline in Northern Ontario and for a four month stint as a part-time Bookmobile driver and... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – All the regional telcos used to work together to lobby the government like this under the old Stentor Alliance – an working group that was disbanded years ago... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – There are just under 40 independent telephone companies left in Canada – little telcos that for one reason or another, were never swallowed up by Bell Canada. All... Continue Reading
CALGARY – With provincial telco Manitoba Telecom Services taking away many video subscribers, it’s only natural that Shaw Communications would turn to Winnipeg to launch voice over Internet protocol telephony.... Continue Reading
VANCOUVER - Telecommunications Workers Union president Bruce Bell told CKNW radio host Bill Good yesterday that Telus employees will strike on Friday. That’s the date Telus said it would unilaterally... Continue Reading
TORONTO – While many of their radio brethren have either hopped on board one of the Canadian satellite radio license-holders or appealed to the government to rescind the licenses, Corus... Continue Reading
TORONTO – With huge top and bottom line growth in radio, Corus Entertainment today went to some lengths to show that it isn’t just happenstance or an anomaly, but a... Continue Reading