MONTREAL – Videotron has unveiled the name of its new IPTV platform based on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform, à la Rogers and Shaw.
Speaking at the Canadian Club of Montreal…
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REGINA – SaskTel is launching its maxTV Stream IPTV platform in 13 more rural communities.
Pre-loaded with 55 channels, VoD, and built in apps for accessing Netflix, CraveTV and YouTube,…
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OTTAWA – Former Governor General David Johnston has been appointed as Canada’s first-ever independent commissioner of televised leaders' debates during federal elections.
According to a CTV report, the new…
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NEW YORK – CBS All Access will launch its new psychological thriller series Tell Me A Story in Canada on Wednesday, October 31.
Tell Me A Story takes the world's…
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OTTAWA – With the federal election less than a year away, the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) is broadening its gavel-to-gavel coverage of Parliament to prep voters before they…
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The TV tax battle
By Phil Lind with Robert Brehl
FEW THINGS GET ME SEETHING like the Canadian television networks’ attempted fee-for-carriage cash grab, the so-called “TV tax.” After everything cable…
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Cable technologists embrace DAA as a complement to DOCSIS 3.1, fibre deep and other technologies
ATLANTA – Believing their industry's hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) networks have plenty of life left in…
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VANCOUVER – Nearly two years after the CRTC decreed broadband a basic telecom service for all Canadians, a collection of federal, provincial, and territorial ministers have agreed to the…
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SMITHERS, B.C. – A new Rogers’ cell tower being installed along Highway 16 that promises to bring continuous network coverage from New Hazelton to Smithers, as well as to Witset…
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TORONTO – CBC is serving up a new podcast that promises listeners a deeper understanding of the news of the day, from a distinctly Canadian perspective.
Hosted by award-winning investigative…
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