BOSTON – The future weighed heavily on the minds of marketers at this week's Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing Summit held in Boston Monday to Wednesday. ********** At first glance,... Continue Reading
EXTON, Pa. – Rogers Cable’s Senior VP, Network Engineering and Operations, Dermot O’Carroll, has been named chair of a committee of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers. O’Carroll is chair... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Rogers Cable has asked the CRTC to add two Arabic channels to the list of eligible foreign satellite services that can be carried in Canada on a digital... Continue Reading
BOSTON – "Clearly, I was wrong," David Purdy told CTAM Summit delegates today. The Rogers Cable vice-president and general manager of television was talking about his (formerly) held opinion that... Continue Reading
IT'S EASY TO FIGURE OUT just what the American cable operators are doing when you travel to conferences Stateside. The SCTE Cable-Tec show in Denver last month was no different.... Continue Reading
BOSTON – Fifty Gold and 109 Silver Mark Awards were presented on Day One of the 2006 CTAM Summit here in Boston.Among the Gold winners was a Canadian company: Astral... Continue Reading
TORONTO – BBM released its latest round of radio ratings Monday afternoon, and the pecking order was shuffled a little in Toronto and Vancouver. The A12+ top line results show... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – The CRTC has approved requests to show VOD and PPV programs that include commercials if they were already aired on Canadian TV and the show is offered for... Continue Reading
"REGULATORY APPROVAL" are the two stock words every media sale announcement made in Canada has attached to it. As in: "Agreement XYZ will close after the required regulatory approval." Wednesday's... Continue Reading
TORONTO – All the newfangled communications technology in the world can't get around a shovel through a fibre line. Many Rogers Wireless Blackberry users were without service for about three... Continue Reading