TORONTO – A day after his surprise departure from CBC, Scott Moore has been named to the new position of president of broadcasting for Rogers Media. Rogers also…
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OTTAWA – Ruth Thorkelson, senior vice-president of public affairs at the Retail Council of Canada (RCC), described merchants’ mood towards mobile payments as “neutral to frosty” because they don’t…
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THE ONTARIO CHAPTER of the SCTE is calling for nominations to fill three open seats on its board of directors.
SCTE Ontario has over 500 members, making it the second-largest…
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TORONTO – Rogers is adding CTV’s prime time content to its on-demand platform, the company said Tuesday.
The announcement comes days after its biggest competitor – Bell – announced that…
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MONTREAL – Solid third quarter growth at Videotron helped to offset declines at Quebecor’s media division for its third quarter ended September 30th.
In its telecommunications segment, the company recorded…
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TORONTO – Oprah Winfrey’s new channel will debut in Canada on March 1, 2011, two months after its U.S. premiere, Corus confirmed Tuesday.
At an upfront presentation to advertisers…
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ACCORDING TO THE third quarter results of parent company Orascom Telecom, its Canadian operation, Wind Mobile, now has over 140,000 subscribers in Canada.
As of the end of September this…
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TORONTO – Scott Moore, director of CBC Sports and general manager of the CBC Revenue Group, is leaving CBC effective immediately.
Tuesday’s surprise announcement did not include details on Moore’s…
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TORONTO – Glassbox Television has completed its acquisition of the Category 1 specialty channel Travel + Escape from CTV.
Under a transitional services agreement, the physical broadcast operations of the…
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A GRASSROOTS INITIATIVE designed to stop incumbent ISPs like Bell, Rogers and Shaw from implementing usage-based billing seems to be quietly gaining momentum.
Led by the consumer group OpenMedia.ca, the campaign launched…
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