OTTAWA – While the main governmental expert panel reviewing the Telecom, Broadcasting and Radiocommunication Acts is only now getting under way, some of the most interesting conversations on the…
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OTTAWA – A consensus may be emerging which says while we need to change the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts, that can be done only as long as those changes…
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LONDON, UK – Canadian wireless carriers received high marks for its consumer mobile video experience, ranking ahead of all other countries in North and South America, including the U.S., says mobile analytics…
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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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