Note: The number of cable TV customers acquired by Videotron has been updated based on new information provided by the cableco.
MONTREAL – Videotron grew its cable TV, Internet, telephony and…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable said Thursday it had expanded its phone service to Ridgeway, Ontario.
The phone service costs $44.99 a month for customers who also take Cogeco’s high-speed…
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TORONTO – A group of Canadian investors led by W. Judson Martin, Martin Goldfarb, Robert Foster and Slaight Communications has infused The Fight Network’s parent company, TFN Global Inc.,…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC on Thursday turned down HDTV Networks Inc.’s bid for a licence to operate a national, English-language high-definition over-the-air TV service (Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-75).
“HDTV…
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VANCOUVER – TELUS announced on Thursday a proposed offering in Canada of $500 million worth of seven-year senior unsecured Notes.
The Notes will be sold through a syndicate of…
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TORONTO – CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada will be broadcasting live and on-demand select games of the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs in Mandarin at CBCSports.ca.
“CBC is committed to…
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OAKVILLE, ON – The Weather Network and MétéoMédia are introducing TrafficEye Mobile to Canada in what is being billed as the first time a service with immediate weather and…
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LEAVE IT TO SHAW to not only demand genre protection go away, but to use a lovely incendiary word that broadcasters have long used against cable: monopoly.
When Shaw…
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TORONTO – The CRTC must maintain its Canadian content spending requirements for Canadian pay and specialty TV services, the Coalition of Canadian Audio-Visual Unions (CCAU) stated Wednesday in a…
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WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE highest profile issue CRTC commissioners will tackle beginning next week’s policy hearings on broadcast distribution undertakings and specialty services is fee-for-carriage. That is, paying a…
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