ALMOST ALL OF MY TELEVISION watching is on demand. My house is an OD house. I’m not saying all I watch are movies, old TV shows and kids stuff that... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Facing rapidly increasing demand, Dome Productions announced this week it has added a second high definition production truck to its fleet. The Rogers Communications/CTV Inc. co-owned company unveiled... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Shaw Communications has asked the CRTC to free its pay-per-view service from its geographic shackles. In its license renewal application for Shaw Pay-Per-View, the company has asked the... Continue Reading
CHICAGO - Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced today the two companies will collaborate on developing IPTV. S-A (which supplies digital cable set-top boxes to Rogers Cable and Videotron in... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Last week’s Canadian Telecom Summit saw the leaders of Canada’s largest ILECs stay relentlessly on the attack, hitting at the CRTC as well as Canadian cable companies. While... Continue Reading
MONTREAL –Videotron today announced the addition of RAI International to its channel lineup. This must be one excellent, in-demand channel, because Videotron is the third cable company in three weeks... Continue Reading
NIAGARA FALLS - For the first time in memory, the CRTC is coming to Niagara. And, will they get an earful on Monday when three days of hearings begin because... Continue Reading
THIS WEEK I THINK I finally saw a web-TV application that will actually work. It wasn’t on a television set, though, but on a mobile phone. Mark Henderson, the president of... Continue Reading
KELOWNA - The Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada presented its British Columbia regional awards at its confab in Kelowna last weekend. The 2004 TELEVISION winners are: Bert Cannings Award... Continue Reading
TORONTO – It was one of the plum contracts up for grabs among Toronto ad agencies and today Rogers Communications Inc. announced that, after a thorough review, it has selected... Continue Reading