TORONTO – Just in time for summer vacation season, Bell Media’s video-streaming service TMN Go is allowing subscribers to download content on their mobile devices.
The national launch of offline viewing includes thousands of movies and series titles from The Movie Network, HBO Canada, and The Movie Network Encore, available for download on iOS and Android tablets and smartphones, all for playback without an internet connection.
The offline viewing feature is available now to TMN subscribers with Bell Fibe TV, Bell Satellite TV, Bell Alliant, Bell MTS, Cogeco, Eastlink, and Rogers. An ad campaign promoting the new feature is scheduled to…
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TORONTO – Hollywood Suite will offer the red carpet treatment to new customers in Ontario, B.C., and Alberta after finalizing agreements with Cipher TV (AEBC Internet Corp), Beanfield Metroconnect and Frontline 360 Inc. for its four HDTV movie channels.
“We are thrilled to satisfy more and more Canadians’ appetites for nostalgic, high-quality programming with our growing service partnerships,” said Hollywood Suite content distribution VP Julie Kumaria, in the news release. “With an illustrious, expansive film catalogue and monthly movie premieres to boot, Hollywood Suite is excited to deliver the customers of Cipher TV, Beanfield Metro Connect and Frontline 360 unparalleled…
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MONTREAL – French-language hunting and fishing channel Seasons is launching on Videotron beginning June 15.
Distributed by Canal+ Group subsidiary Thema, Seasons launched in Canada in 2016 and is also available through Bell Fibe TV, Cogeco, CCAP, Sogetel and Cablevision.
Programming includes Terroirs, a magazine show about men and women perpetuating their regions’ traditions; Pêches Modernes, featuring the latest technological breakthroughs in fishing; and Chasses au Pluriel, a program about responsible hunting geared towards protecting the environment.
Seasons added that it airs 50 hours of programs about hunting and 50 hours of programs about fishing each week, including previously-unreleased documentaries and other…
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TORONTO – An increasing number of Canadians are not only opting for alternative video services, their level of satisfaction is higher for alternatives than for their traditional pay TV service, according to new data from J.D. Power.
The Canadian Television Provider Customer Satisfaction Study measures overall satisfaction with television service providers based on six factors (in order of importance): performance and reliability; cost of service; programming; communication; billing; and customer service. The Canadian Internet Service Provider Customer Satisfaction Study is based on five factors (in order of importance): performance and reliability; cost of service; communication; billing; and customer service. Continue Reading
TORONTO – ISED Minister Navdeep Bains opened the 2017 Canadian Telecom Summit with a speech outlining a number of new government initiatives, but there was one overarching message that has to burn the ears of the incumbent network providers in attendance who were listening.
That is, your prices are far too high.
“The bigger barrier is prices, which are especially high for low-usage cellphone plans,” the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister said in his speech to delegates.
“I get letters regularly from Canadians who are concerned that they are being priced out of the market,” he added in the speech.
“Our government…
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TORONTO – Bell, Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw, and Videotron were among the stakeholders present at last week’s inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Voluntary Agreement for Set-Top Boxes (CEEVA).
The parties, which also included set-top box manufacturers ARRIS and EchoStar Technologies as well as Natural Resources Canada, met to further earlier discussions over a voluntary agreement announced in January to cut the total annual energy consumption of Canadian set-top boxes. Supporting organizations CableLabs and the Consumer Technology Association were also in attendance at the meeting.
CEEVA said Thursday that the implementation of commitments are expected to reduce…
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MONTREAL –TV, Internet and home phone provider VMedia, announced this week the launch of its TV service to Quebec City, Gatineau, Sherbrooke, Trois Rivières, Shawinigan, Saguenay, Chicoutimi, Rimouski and their surrounding areas.
Along with the company’s broadband and home phone packages, VMedia says it is the only triple play alternative to the major incumbent players in those markets (such as Bell, Cogeco and Vidéotron). “Already a successful competitor with a growing customer base in Montreal, as well as Ontario and the Western provinces, VMedia will now offer better prices and more choice and flexibility in TV, internet and phone…
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HAMILTON – Like many community cable channels, Cable 14 has been airing bingo for some time. Half a century, in fact.
To some, that may sound like something from a quaint, bygone era we’ve forgotten about where your grandma would the only one who would still care to watch and play along. However, it’s the second-most popular piece of programming on the channel’s schedule (behind the OHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs games), and it’s not just for the blue-hair set.
“You see people watching it in bars and restaurants now. They’re tuning it in and they’re selling bingo cards there. There are bingo…
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TORONTO – Irwin Gotlieb’s company is in charge of a third of the world’s advertising budget and he came to Toronto last week to tell Canada’s broadcasters to get on with addressable advertising, measure better, and work co-operatively, or his company will soon be spending its clients’ money elsewhere.
In an appearance at the Future of TV Ads Conference Thursday at Steam Whistle Brewery and in an interview with Cartt.ca, the global chairman of Group M implored Canadian broadcasters – especially those with TV distribution arms as well – to follow the lead of much of the rest of the…
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Top 10 priorities
TORONTO – Expectations will be high for Joe Natale when he takes the elevator up to the 10th floor of 333 Bloor St. E. for the first time as CEO of Rogers Communications.
Since he has such a long history in Canadian telecom and wireless and stellar track record leading so much of the growth at Telus since joining that company in 2003 (and departing in 2015), Bay Street expects Natale to waste no time making his presence and his priorities felt.
BMO Capital Markets telecom/media/cable financial analyst Tim Casey even went so far as to construct a top-10…
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