TORONTO – Food lovers may gorge on Bell Media’s Gusto over the holiday season thanks to a national free preview of the food and lifestyle channel.
The exclusive home to all-new Jamie Oliver programming in Canada, programming also features cooking series from lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, including the new Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party where she cooks and entertains alongside her unlikely friend and King of Kush, Snoop Dogg. Gusto’s lineup also includes superstar British chef Lorraine Pascale in her new series Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh And Easy Food, the perfectly paired exclusive series The Wine Show, plus hours of original Canadian programming,…
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GATINEAU – Differential pricing can benefit a broad range of players in the communications market, Telus told the CRTC on the fourth day of its DPP hearing, but just don’t let the vertically integrated (VI) entities use their “unnatural incentives” to give themselves an advantage.
“Since differential pricing practices increase the size of the market, they allow both carriers and content providers to spread these fixed costs over a larger number of consumers. This process has produced, and should continue to produce, newer and better services at stable or falling prices throughout the Internet ecosystem,” said Dr. Jeffrey Eisenach, managing…
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GATINEAU – Smaller broadcasters warned the CRTC on Wednesday that it must guard against differential pricing practices because they could have a significant negative impact on their content.
The Independent Broadcast Group told the Commission Wednesday morning it has to consider potential abuses from media companies which own both content and ISPs.
Brad Danks, CEO at OUTtv, noted in his opening remarks to the IBG’s appearance in the DPP hearing that it’s pretty clear that vertically integrated (VI) media companies are able to prefer their own content in ISP distribution. In addition, once the VI’s affiliated broadcast distribution arm gets ISP…
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MONTREAL – There may yet be hope that a group of Montreal-based entrepreneurs will launch a pair of news-talk AM radio stations in Montreal almost five years after the first was approved for a licence by the CRTC. Cartt.ca covered this back in July, saying then a launch looked unlikely.
Nicolas Tétrault, one of the partners in 7954689 Canada Inc. (known as TTP Media), posted (and then deleted) a video to YouTube last week announcing that the company has acquired dormant transmission equipment on the Kahnawake native reserve south of Montreal from Cogeco Media, and that…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC took matters in to its own hands Thursday, throwing out the wholesale high-speed access rates proposed by the country’s large cable and telephone companies in favour of its own.
In its decision, the Commission said that the proposed rates from incumbent carriers “were not just and reasonable” and that they were therefore revised downwards. It also expressed “significant concern” that that some of the companies have not conducted their cost studies in accordance with well-established costing principles and methodologies, and disregarded the CRTC provided Regulatory Economic Studies Manuals .
“Competitors that provide retail Internet services to Canadians using…
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TORONTO – Former Cogeco exec Antonio (Tony) Ciciretto as has been named president and CEO of TeraGo Inc. effective immediately, replacing Stewart Lyons.
Most recently president and CEO of Cogeco Peer 1 (formerly known as Cogeco Data Services), Ciciretto (pictured) also co-founded and was president of private investment firm TVN Group, plus held senior roles at Rogers Business Solutions and Bell Canada.
In addition to his role president and CEO, Ciciretto will also continue to serve as a member of TeraGo's Board of Directors.
"We are thrilled with the appointment of Mr. Ciciretto as the next TeraGo President and CEO," said Jim Nikopoulos, chair…
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GATINEAU – The full results of a first-of-its-kind independent, national study on broadband performance in Canada shows that Internet service providers (ISPs) largely meet or exceed their advertised download and upload speeds.
Participating ISPs in the survey (announced last year and for which preliminary results were made public in the spring), conducted by SamKnows and which was commissioned by the CRTC, included all the main wireline service providers in Canada, with the exception of Sasktel, which declined to participate, said the CRTC in a press release this afternoon.
The data collected will…
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TORONTO – UK-based digital radio streaming service Radioplayer is coming to Canada after joining forces with 15 Canadian radio broadcasters.
Launching later this year, the free app will allow Canadians access to their favourite English and French entertainment, news, sports and talk radio stations from Central Ontario Broadcasting, Clear Sky Radio, Cogeco, Corus, Durham Radio, Golden West, Harvard Broadcasting, Larche Communications, Newcap Radio, Pattison, Rogers, Rawlco Radio, RNC Media, Saskatoon Media Group, and Vista Radio.
Listeners will be able to access live and past radio broadcasts across the country through Radioplayer’s browser-player, and on connected devices through the iOS or Android…
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MONTREAL – SEASONS, a French-language channel dedicated to all things hunting, fishing and nature across the world was launched today by THEMA – a CANAL+ company, perhaps best known here as the distributor of Planete+.
SEASONS has been on the French market for 20 years in Europe and other francophone markets and is being launched now to coincide with the start of hunting season, a key period for over 400,000 hunters and nearly 815,000 Quebec fishermen. The launch of SEASONS will also be supported by a large-scale campaign (print, web and grassroots).
SEASONS is available now from Cogeco Cable and starting October, the…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Communications and Videotron must go back to the drawing board for parts of their respective disaggregated wholesale broadband offerings after the CRTC said Wednesday that while some of their head-ends meet the criteria, others do not.
Telecom Decision 2016-379 comes after a proceeding to determine if Bell Canada, Cogeco Cable, Rogers and Videotron's proposed network configurations comprise of access facilities as laid out Telecom Regulatory Policy 2015-326 (the wholesale broadband ruling). That ruling determined that while wholesale broadband access would still be mandated, it would only be available in a disaggregated model going forward, meaning that no…
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