TORONTO – A “challenging” fourth quarter contributed to a shortfall of -12.7 % in national radio sales for the 2009 broadcast year, says Canadian Broadcast Sales (CBS).Q4 was down -25.2%... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable’s Louise St-Pierre has been promoted to senior vice-president, residential services, the company has announced.In this newly created position, she will be responsible for customer service, technical... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canada’s two largest cable companies have very different opinions of a nine-year old agreement that had its genesis during a March 2000 dinner in Toronto between Ted Rogers... Continue Reading
GUESS WHAT? Canadians don’t want to pay any extra per month for their television. They also don’t want to lose their local TV stations.Independent producers think that broadcasters should have... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The CRTC will require the owners of Canada’s biggest distributors and broadcasters to publicly disclose aggregate financial data.Ownership groups such as Astral Media, BCE, Bragg Communications, CBC, Canwest... Continue Reading
FIVE OF Canada’s biggest cable companies have complained to the CRTC for extending a filing deadline – two days after the deadline had already passed.Calling it “both unprecedented and unacceptable”,... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Cogeco Cable has completed an internal corporate reorganization of some of its subsidiaries.The activities of Cogeco Cable Quebec Inc. have been transferred to Cogeco Cable Quebec General Partnership... Continue Reading
THE ONTARIO chapter of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is seeking submissions on business continuity or disaster recovery planning experience for its Fall meeting and vendor show on... Continue Reading
WHILE WE WAIT for the CRTC to decide whether or not Al Jazeera English can be distributed in Canada by cable, satellite and telco TV companies, I already have it... Continue Reading
HAMILTON – After half a century in cable, Owen Boris decided this year, at the age of 77, it was finally time to retire.In July of 1959, Boris launched Mountain... Continue Reading
