MISSISSAUGA – Since launching in January 2007, Greater Toronto’s Most Wanted series on Rogers Television has worked with local police authorities to profile more than 100 unsolved cases and 500... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Rogers Wireless announced Monday that its Portable Internet service is now available in 152 urban and rural communities across Canada with the recent addition of 55 communities. With... Continue Reading
IT’S FUN TO PROGNOSTICATE. To try and read the tea leaves and make educated (or not) guesses about certain things. Sports (pro and amateur) is utterly built around such predicting,... Continue Reading
I’VE HEARD NO END of parallels spun in attempts to explain the complex structure we call the Canadian television industry. From cars and roads and traffic lights to water bottles... Continue Reading
FIRST, THE GENRE PROTECTION rules established by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission consist of two distinct components, with two distinct goals. The first rule is directed at limiting the... Continue Reading
LEAVE IT TO SHAW to not only demand genre protection go away, but to use a lovely incendiary word that broadcasters have long used against cable: monopoly. When Shaw Communications’... Continue Reading
WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE highest profile issue CRTC commissioners will tackle beginning next week’s policy hearings on broadcast distribution undertakings and specialty services is fee-for-carriage. That is, paying a new... Continue Reading
It has been argued in the media that “Cable companies have built profitable businesses based on the exploitation of free programming supplied by local broadcasters without giving any of the... Continue Reading
PORTLAND, OR – Rogers Cable has inked a deal with Rentrak Corp., which will measure the performance of the cableco’s on-demand services. “Rogers Cable is a pioneer in the communications... Continue Reading
INVIDI TECHNOLOGIES CEO DAVID DOWNEY has been long been dining out on John Wanamaker’s now ancient and clichéd quote: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble... Continue Reading