TORONTO – Goldman Sachs is appealing an Ontario court’s decision to allow Shaw Communications to proceed with its takeover of debt-laden CanWest Global.
The move means that the…
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TORONTO – More Canadians now catch their favourite TV shows on-line than by personal video recorders and video-on-demand combined.
According to results from the Q4 edition of Digital Life Canada,…
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TORONTO – What’s not to like about RfoG, asked speakers at the SCTE Canadian Summit Tuesday morning at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre?
Suppliers, of course, offered a number of…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is offering its residential telephone service subscribers free long-distance calling to Chile after the country was rocked by an earthquake on February 27, 2010.
“To support customers…
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VANCOUVER – Bell Canada will double Olympic hockey hero Sidney Crosby’s gold medal winnings in a charitable donation to the Sidney Crosby Foundation.
The Foundation, created Crosby’s home province of…
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TORONTO – Family entertainment company Fresh TV has set up a Twitter account for one of its animated characters in an effort to help promote its new series.
Penned by…
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TORONTO – Although they were hard pressed to admit it, cable operators at Wednesday’s SCTE Canadian Summit acknowledged that customer complaints to their call centres are often the best measurement of…
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MONTREAL – Profits at Quebecor soared by almost 50% thanks in large part to the strength of its telecommunications subsidiary Videotron Ltee.
Net income for the company’s fourth quarter ended…
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GIVEN WHAT HAS now happened since the value-for-signal/fee-for-carriage hearing, an alert reader reminded us of something CRTC commissioner Timothy Denton pondered as the folks from Shaw Communications appeared in…
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OTTAWA – The Cable Public Affairs Channel has named Jeremy Clark as its director of network and programming operations.
Effective March 15, Clark will head up CPAC’s programming department, working…
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