HALIFAX – Former EastLink co-CEO Dan McKeen has left the company, Cartt.ca has learned.
In an e-mail to Cartt.ca, McKeen confirmed his last day at Canada’s fifth-largest cable company in the country was Tuesday, October 27.
He plans to take a few months off before looking at other opportunities. “I have fully enjoyed my time at EastLink. I describe it as the opportunity of a lifetime,” he wrote.
Until this year, McKeen had been co-CEO of the company, along with Lee Bragg, but recent personnel shuffles at the top of the company saw a number of folks change jobs or depart. McKeen’s…
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HALIFAX – Former EastLink co-CEO Dan McKeen has left the company, Cartt.ca has learned.
According to sources, McKeen’s last day at Canada’s fifth-largest cable company in the country was Tuesday, October 27.
Until this year, McKeen had been co-CEO of the company, along with Lee Bragg, but recent personnel shuffles at the top of the company saw a number of folks change jobs or depart. McKeen’s role was altered, too, as his title was shifted to deputy chair, external relations as Bragg was named sole CEO and Debra Shaffner, president, among other personnel moves.
McKeen began his career in the cable industry…
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TORONTO –
Whether it’s true IPTV or a version of DSL doesn’t really matter and in a Canadian context anyway, that’s a significant number (right around the total number of people living in Windsor, Ont.). And they are building, experimenting and taking customers away from their primary competitors, cable.
This week in Toronto, a number of the traditional telecom companies which are now offering TV are meeting with the various programmers in Canada and from the States to talk about their expansion plans (more regions, more customers, more channels).
Most are adding channels and capabilities. Some are newer and serve a…
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TORONTO – A coalition of some of Canada’s biggest TV service providers have teamed up on a campaign to tell their side of the story on the contentious issue of fee for carriage.
Bell, Bell Aliant, Cogeco, EastLink, Rogers and Telus have joined forces on ‘Stop the TV Tax’ which they say is designed to ensure “that Canadians hear the whole story”.
"Cable and satellite subscribers have united to stop the broadcasters’ costly proposal because it amounts to a tax, pure and simple”, said Rogers vice chair Phil Lind, in a statement. “This tax will hit viewers for stations that have always…
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TIMMINS, ON – EastLink will sink $7.5 million in to an upgrade of its network in the northern Ontario community of Timmins.
In a presentation to Timmins city council earlier this week, EastLink said the expansion will allow for a “full range of competitive bundled services” such as home telephone service, high-speed Internet and digital cable and high definition television.
Some of the infrastructure will be completely replaced. EastLink said it will install 222km of new plant, consisting of 192km of aerial construction and 30km of underground plant.
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GATINEAU – Thanks to the recent edict from the federal government telling the CRTC it must hold a public hearing into the fee for carriage issue (even though the Regulator has long had a public process in the works), the Commission is now mulling what it’s going to do with two hearings on the exact same issue now scheduled a month apart.
As readers will have followed, the CRTC scheduled a fall hearing (BNC 2009-411) earlier this year to consider group licensing for broadcasters and fee for carriage for local conventional TV stations. While the hearing was amended from…
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DELTA, B.C. – Shaw Communications trucks have rolled into Delta, B.C. as Shaw Communications has launched an overbuild program in the region.
Shaw president Peter Bissonnette told Cartt.ca Monday afternoon that it began expanding its network about three weeks ago after receiving approval from the CRTC to grow its cable territory into Delta, Ladner and the surrounding areas southeast of Vancouver.
“We’ve got our cable up one side of the street and theirs on the other,” Bissonnette said when asked about the existing company already there, Bragg Communications-owned Delta Cable.
“We’ve been receiving calls from people there saying they would like to…
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SUDBURY – Cable operator EastLink has cut a further 21 jobs in its Northern Ontario division, based in the Nickel City, reports the Sudbury Star newspaper.
The cuts were primarily in tech support and IT and follows an earlier round of cuts this year, says the story.
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TORONTO – Canadian wireless operators will likely see a three percent decline in their service ARPU for 2009, with data accounting for 20% of wireless service revenue – and all of the growth, says a new report from Toronto’s Convergence Consulting.
Over the last year Canadian wireless voice revenue growth has moved into negative territory, while data growth continues to be robust, thanks to the growing adoption of smartphones/data devices, which the report estimates will reach 23% by year-end 2009 (and break 50% in 2014).
Based on what Convergence projects in terms of new entrants pricing (Wind, Dave, Public Mobile), and…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment has begun a multifaceted media campaign to promote its newly branded specialty service Dusk, formerly known as Scream.
The re-launch includes a new look and an expanded programming scope that focuses on suspense, supernatural and thriller programming catering to adults 18 – 49. The channel will be in free preview on EastLink digital cable, including its Aylmer, ON subsidiary Amtelecom, from September 9 – October 9, 2009.
The campaign also includes spots on 360 Cineplex screens in Vancouver and the Toronto area, video installations in some Toronto storefronts, print advertising, plus radio and TV spots.
“The evolution of Scream…
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