OTTAWA and TORONTO – Glassbox Television has received CRTC approval to buy digital specialty channel travel + escape from CTV for $10 million.
As part of the deal, the…
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TORONTO – Third quarter profits at Rogers Communications dropped 24% as Canada’s largest wireless company began to feel the impact of new wireless competitors.
Net income fell to $370 million in…
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TIMMINS – Bell Aliant’s service areas are, quite literally, all over the map of eastern Canada.
From the tip-top of Quebec to southwestern Ontario, the westernmost regions of Ontario to…
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WITH CELLULAR CONNECTIVITY no longer just for mobile phones and laptops, a variety of portable entertainment devices (PEDs) incorporating cellular connectivity are providing a growing revenue opportunity for network…
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TORONTO – The Ontario Association of Broadcasters (OAB) celebrated 60 years as over 100 delegates packed its annual conference and awards dinner in Toronto last week.
To mark the…
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TORONTO – Astral RadioPlus kicked off their expansion into Atlantic Canada by opening of a national sales office in Halifax this week, and by hiring Karen Fryer as its new national account manager.
"The…
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HALIFAX – Bell Aliant has sold its Xwave information technology division to Bell Canada in a deal valued at $40 million.
Tuesday’s announcement said that with xwave now part of…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – Shaw’s acquisition of the TV assets formerly controlled by Canwest Global garnered cautious approval from a number of industry stakeholders.
After the Commission gave its official…
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GATINEAU – Canada’s major cable companies and telcos are squaring off against MTS Allstream and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre over the CRTC’s authority to mandate broadband as an…
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NEW ORLEANS – In a cable first, industry engineers are now openly debating how to make the big jump to IPTV as they aim to stretch their networks’ reach…
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