TORONTO – With several smaller cable operators looking to launch (and in the middle of launching) video on demand, CTAM Canada has put together a panel presentation on the topic for the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual general meeting next month.
"Building your VOD Business Plan" will feature a panel of experts expounding on about their VOD successes and challenges ranging from the ROI of VOD, securing content for the service and adver tising opportunities.
Delegates will also get a first-hand look at recent CTAM Canada research on VOD in Canada.
The panel members are: David Purdy, vice-president and…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – This year’s Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual general meeting will happen next month in Mont-Tremblant, Que.
Following the AGM on the morning of Sept. 24 will be a bulk purchasing trade show, the awards luncheon (with a keynote speaker to be announced), a CTAM presentation, and a CRTC reception for CCSA members only.
This year’s conference theme is “Pixel Nation.” “Pixel Nation, like technology, is a group of individual units that join together to form a solid and clearly defined structure,” the CCSA says. “CCSA members are these individual ‘pixels’ and collectively as one, are able to realize new ideas, fulfill…
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QUISPAMSIS – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance has a new Master Affiliate Agreement for the distribution of 13 CTV Specialty channels.
They are: TSN, The Comedy Network, CTVNewsnet, Discovery Channel, BNN – Business News Network, OLN, RDS, RIS (Le Réseau Info Sports), Animal Planet, Travel + Escape, Discovery Civilization, ESPN Classic and NHL Network.
With a subscriber base of approximately one million, the CCSA represents the commercial interests of 88 independent member companies for group purchases of programming, equipment and services.
“We sincerely thank CTV for patiently working with CCSA to conclude this very significant Master Agreement dealing with…
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OTTAWA – Quebecor and MTS Allstream are not alone among telecom and cable firms in their desire for a wireless spectrum auction that would shackle the "big three" mobile phone companies in Canada.
Among those aligned with the Quebec and Manitoba companies that have been leading the charge to have spectrum in the auction set aside for new entrants – and who have also proposed other rules like mandated roaming and tower sharing – include: Cogeco Cable, the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance, Shaw Communications, EastLink, the Assembly of First Nations and Toronto Hydro Telecom, among others.
The list…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – SeaChange will supply Canadian Cable Systems Alliance member companies with video on demand systems in an exclusive deal between the manufacturer and the buying group.
"We’re ensuring the independent cable community’s power to compete and thrive especially as consumer access to other video programming choices widens rapidly," said Alyson Townsend, CEO of CCSA, in a release. "Video-on-demand is absolutely part of the picture of complete subscriber satisfaction regardless of the size of a cable operation.
CCSA’s 90 member companies serve nearly one million television subscribers in communities from British Columbia to Newfoundland. Its collective buying power…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – Capella Telecommunications and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance have signed a bulk purchase master agreement for ARRIS Touchstone Telephone Modems (eMTA’s).
“CCSA is pleased to endorse Capella Telecommunications Inc., one of the leading distributors for voice products, for the supply of ARRIS (eMTAs). Capella’s product knowledge and technically experienced staff are well positioned in Canada to serve our members,” said Sylvia Janssen, director of purchasing at CCSA.
“Capella is a particularly good fit with CCSA members,” says Norm Slater, president of Capella. “We seek and supply innovative products, but we also provide thorough technical and engineering…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance and Hi Fidelity HDTV have signed a master agreement covering the distribution of all four of the all-HDTV company’s channels
“We are very pleased to have concluded this long term distribution agreement with High Fidelity HDTV. These four original high definition channels will be a welcome addition to the HD services our members offer their subscribers,” said Alyson Townsend, CCSA president and CEO in a release.
Specialty service operator High Fidelity HDTV owns and operates Oasis HD, Treasure HD, Rush HD and Equator HD. The company has a close relationship with…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – While pleased the government altered the final telecom deregulation order last Wednesday so that small cable operators will get an 18-month head start if and when they decide to enter the local phone market, the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance blasted its decision to drop the winback restrictions.
The alliance, which represents more than 90 small cablecos across the country, said it “remains deeply disappointed” at the immediate removal of the 90-day winback restrictions.
When the order is gazetted on April 18, large incumbent phone companies will be allowed to try to “win back” telephony customers with lucrative…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – The 14th annual Canadian Cable Systems annual general meeting will happen this fall, September 23 to 25 at Mont Tremblant, Que.
The hotel is the Fairmont Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Québec
www.ccsa.cable.ca www.fairmont.com
Program and trade show details will be revealed in the coming weeks. However for your planning purposes, the program will include:
Sunday, Sept. 23rd – President’s Reception Monday, Sept. 24th – Business Day Tuesday, Sept. 25th – Golf Day
We will be sure to notify you in the spring when the AGM on-line registration is open.
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The idea that Canada’s signal distributors should pay conventional broadcasters fees to carry their signals is “trash” according to Rogers Communications CEO Ted Rogers.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday following his company’s appearance before the CRTC on day three of its over-the-air TV review hearings, Rogers countered the many broadcaster arguments in favour of such charges, known as fee-for-carriage (FFC), made over the hearing’s first two days. He said broadcasters should look to new technologies – not new regulations – for new revenues. “These guys should get back to high def and keep up with the new stuff.”…
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