TORONTO – Hollywood Suite’s four HD commercial-free movie channels are now available to Cogeco Cable digital customers throughout Ontario. Featuring over 400 HD movies per month, uncut and unedited, Hollywood Suite is: WarnerFilms (channel 875), MGM Channel (channel 874), Sony Movie Channel (channel 873), AXN Movies (channel 872). Cogeco Cable HD TV customers can now enjoy a free preview of all 4 Hollywood Suite movie channels until March 31st, 2013.
“Kicking off the New Year with a bang, Hollywood Suite offers Cogeco Cable customers an incredible variety of blockbuster titles on four stunning HD channels” said Ron…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Cogeco reports that revenue increased by 5.9% to $366.6 million in its first quarter of fiscal 2013, ended November 30, 2012. Operating income, before depreciation and amortization, increased by 11.6% to $156.6 million, compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2012. But profit fell to $47.1 million compared to $47.9 million for the same period of the previous fiscal year.
Cogeco attributes the decrease to the cable segment and due to an increase in income taxes, the acquisition costs related to the acquisition of Atlantic Broadband (ABB) and last year's profit from the…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL and VANCOUVER – Cogeco Cable is buying Peer 1 Network Enterprises for $526 million as it continues to focus on expanding its cloud and data computing services. Cogeco is offering $3.85 for each Peer 1 share, a premium of 30.5% compared to the stock’s closing price on Thursday.
Peer 1 is one of the world's leading internet infrastructure providers, specializing in managed hosting, dedicated servers, cloud services and colocation. The acquisition of Peer 1, combined with Cogeco Cable's existing data centre capabilities, will increase the scale and scope by adding the capability to service an…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Aimed at Ontario’s multi-ethnic communities, Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) launched 23 new channels on Cogeco Cable on December 12.
The channels add content to Cogeco’s third language services and help the Canadian multi-ethnic majority watch TV as if they live in their home country without leaving their couch in Canada says ECG.
“We are very excited to partner with Cogeco on the launch of these services. These channels will assist Cogeco to grow their subscriber base by capturing new clients that have been previously underserved by a minimal amount of ethnic offerings,”…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Cogeco Cable has expanded its South Asian channel line-up to include 26 channels from ATN. The new channels were launched on December 12, 2012 in different genres including General Entertainment, Bollywood Movies, News & Current Affairs, Music, Lifestyle and regional language channels i.e. Punjabi, Bangla, Tamil & Urdu.
"We have had an incredible demand for our Television Channels in the vast urban population served by Cogeco and we are delighted to launch these Compelling ATN services" said Dr. Shan Chandrasekar, President and CEO of ATN.
All channels are available in various packages…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday that the CRTC does not have the jurisdiction to allow conventional over-the-air broadcasters pursue a wholesale fee from BDUs for the carriage of their signals. The court’s decision should just about bring to a close the so-called fee-for-carriage (FFC) or value-for-signal (VFS) debate.
The court heard the case back in April which was essentially between the big BDUs, which had always stood against VFS, and Bell Canada. Canwest Television was listed as a respondent, but that was a leftover artefact of the earlier case as Canwest’s new…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Canada's Telecommunications Hall of Fame has announced that Omer Girard, a founding father of Canadian cable television, is the 2012 recipient of the coveted Neotelis Canadian Telecom Career Service Award for material contributions to the promotion of telecommunications in Canada. Girard, soon to celebrate his 92nd birthday, was selected to receive the Canadian Telecom Career Service Award for industry leadership and vision, innovation in service and dedication and sacrifice in advancing the interests of the Canadian cable television industry.
Omer Girard's outstanding career in the Canadian telecom industry began 55 years ago…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada will release its ruling on whether or not the CRTC has the jurisdiction to let conventional, over-the-air local broadcasters pursue a fee for the carriage of their signals by subscription television providers. The appeal was heard back in April, as Cartt.ca reported.
The ability for local broadcasters to charge a cable, satellite or telco TV provider a wholesale fee (and by extension of course, Canadian subscribers) has been something TV station owners have pursued off and on for decades. The CBC asked for the ability to pursue…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched its Turbo 20, Ultimate 40 and Ultimate 60 High Speed Internet (HSI) packages in Chelsea and Wakefield, Quebec. The company says its DOCSIS 3.0 HSI packages offer speed and pricing comparable to competitors in the region.
"We always strive to offer our customers more flexibility, speed and choices. Today, the whole family can use the Internet at the same time for online banking, video gaming, shopping or for downloading videos or films, and all with the same service. Cogeco's HSI packages Turbo 20, Ultimate 40 and Ultimate 60 meet those…
Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Having heard nine days of complaints, plaudits and the general direction of questions being asked by commissioners CBC/Radio-Canada committed to air more programs of national interest (PNI), regional French-language programming and children’s TV shows during the reply stage of its CRTC licence renewal hearing which wrapped up on Friday.
Some of the new proposals in French language services include 100 hours of per year of original Canadian programming, a commitment to do its best to reach 10 hours of local production in the Windsor market beginning in September 2013, and a willingness to accept a condition of licence…
Continue Reading
