HUNTSVILLE – Delegates to the 2012 Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual Connect conference were advised by a series of speakers Monday afternoon (and we’re paraphrasing here) that their customers care... Continue Reading
HUNTSVILLE – Channel Zero president and COO Cal Millar officially announced a new channel at the CCSA Connect conference on Monday and shifted another to the online world. While accepting... Continue Reading
GRANTING BELL THE RIGHT to buy Astral Media will make an already big company that acts badly, enormous, add incentive for it act even worse, which in the end will... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – With its traditional business of residential television, Internet and phone in Canada maturing, Cogeco Cable CEO Louis Audet says the United States will be one of the company’s... Continue Reading
QUISPAMSIS, N.B. - The CCSA has renewed its agreement with Universal Electronics Inc (UEI) for the supply of remote controls and has added HDMI cables. CCSA connects over 100 independent... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – One wants the Bell deal to purchase Astral stopped, the other doesn’t – but in the end, independent cable group CCSA and Independent Broadcaster Blue Ant both say... Continue Reading
TORONTO – AMC president and CEO Josh Sapan will lead a discussion next month on the value of original programming and how to create entertainment brands of distinction in an... Continue Reading
QUISPAMSIS - The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) has added its voice to those speaking out against the proposed merger of Bell and Astral. Describing the matter as “profoundly a... Continue Reading
TORONTO – It’s not just about choice, it’s about how that choice is defined. According to the Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG), which lost its final offer arbitration dispute against Bell... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – While Friday’s CRTC rulings may indeed eventually pave the way towards more choice for consumers in the selection of TV channels, what remains unclear is whether that “choice”... Continue Reading