WATERLOO, ON – Contrary to reports, BlackBerry has no plans to dump its handset business any time soon, executive chairman and CEO John Chen clarified on Thursday.
In a blog…
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TORONTO – Newly acquired television services Historia, Séries+ and Teletoon are already beginning to pay off for Corus Entertainment, the company said Thursday while reporting its second quarter results.
Consolidated revenues…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco’s nascent U.S. acquisitions helped to offset weak Canadian results for the second quarter of 2014.
Revenue for the period ended February 28, 2014 increased by 13.1% ($60.0 million)…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has denied requests from the CBC and Bell Media to average their respective weekly local programming requirements on a quarterly basis, rather than weekly, throughout the…
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OTTAWA – CBC will eliminate the equivalent of 657 positions as part of $130 million in budget cuts over the next two fiscal years, the national broadcaster announced Thursday. …
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LOSING THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE rights (and revenues) will move from the realm of “what if” to real, tangible cuts which will be felt directly by many CBC staffers…
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OTTAWA – Various parties continued to question the level to which Rogers Media will use its recently acquired NHL hockey content as a component of its Canadian programming expenditures…
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TORONTO – This is why big events like the Olympics are very important to mutliplatform media providers.
According to research conducted right after the Sochi Winter Olympics, 81% of Canadians…
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TORONTO – Reducing churn through much-improved customer service should be the top priority for newly minted Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence, according to a recent analysts report circulated on…
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OTTAWA – Consumer complaints received by the CRTC regarding bandwidth throttling by their Internet service providers (ISPs) for the first quarter of this year are down slightly from those…
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