MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched TSN2, TSN2 HD and Super Channel HD.
TSN2 and its HD twin, TSN2 HD, is a 24-hour sports digital network, featuring 800+ hours of live and exclusive major league sports action that won’t fit on the main TSN channel.
Pay service Super Channel HD provides series, movies, documentaries and music all in high definition. Starting today, these channels are now offered to the majority of Cogeco Cable Digital Cable customers in Ontario.
"As digital and HD television become increasingly mainstream, Cogeco Cable continues to invest in the technology to ensure its customers have…
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MONTREAL – CanWest Broadcasting is rebranding Lonestar, a Western-themed cable channel, as MovieTime, a digital offering of popular Hollywood movies. CanWest says that MovieTime, which goes live Oct. 6, will feature more than 250 Hollywood movies.
Catering to adults 25-54, MovieTime will offer viewers unparalleled access to an extensive collection of contemporary hit movies.
"There are few things that generate as much excitement, delight and passion as people’s most-loved movies and with MovieTime, we are thrilled to give audiences a one-stop channel to catch all their favourite hits," says Barb Williams, executive vice-president, content, Canwest Broadcasting.
Canwest says Movietime reflects its on-going…
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TORONTO – The SCTE Ontario chapter is holding their fall meeting at the Premiere Banquet and Convention Centre on October 21, 2008. The meeting will explore the opportunity and technical requirements for deploying and supporting commercial and small-business services. All members are now invited to submit a simple one paragraph outlining a topic they would be willing to present at the meeting.
Presentations should be approximately 20-30 minutes in length and be primarily technology or best-practice centric. Of particular interest are real-world examples or case studies of successful commercial or small-business deployments including any of video, data, telephone, or…
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IF THERE’S ONE THING distributors don’t like, it’s being told what to do by the CRTC.
As we saw during the April hearings into broadcast distribution undertaking and specialty service policy, cable companies don’t like linkage rules or must-carries or carriage restrictions or much of anything else they “have” to do.
Cable altogether opposed the licensing of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network as a must-carry, 91(h) channel in 1999, but the Commission still licensed it as a channel which all distributors must carry as a basic service. APTN is one of those channels that furthers the goals of the…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable said today it has completed the $200 million purchase of Toronto Hydro Telecom, the telecommunications subsidiary of Toronto Hydro Corporation, which was announced on June 13, 2008.
The new subsidiary of Cogeco Cable will now operate under the name of Cogeco Data Services Inc.
"The completion of this acquisition represents a significant step for Cogeco Cable because it strengthens our position in the business market segment," said Louis Audet, president and CEO of Cogeco Cable. "Mr. Dave Dobbin, president of Cogeco Data Services Inc., and his management team will continue to operate and lead this…
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TORONTO – Top line results from the Canadian radio ratings across Canada won’t cause too many PDs to break into a sweat.
A few top line (A12+) ratings share highlights:
* Cogeco’s CJMF-FM 93.3 (Rock and Talk) saw a nice spike to a rating of 13.8, up from its S1 showing of 10.8 and well ahead of a year ago, when it came in with a 7.1 showing
* Astral’s English-language Montreal rock station, CHOM-FM rebounded in the ratings to an 11.8 in this book. That’s up from S1’s 9.9 rating but still well off S2 2007’s 14.
*…
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OTTAWA – A review of broadcasting in new media is utterly unnecessary, says an unprecedented joint submission to the CRTC by Canada’s largest Internet service providers.
Friday was the deadline for submissions on PN 2008-44, which only asked for comments on what the scope of any future proceeding on Canadian broadcasting in new media might be. The Commission wants advice on what questions it might ask when it decides to undertake a review of what new media is doing to broadcasting and what Canadian regulations might have to say about it. At this point, it doesn’t want to…
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MONTREAL – Revenue at cable company and radio broadcaster Cogeco Inc. increased by 13.8% to $284 million in the third quarter and by 13.6% to $816 million for the first nine months of fiscal 2008, ended May 31st.
Operating income from continuing operations before amortization grew by 22.4% to $117.2 million in the third quarter and by 21.1% to $327.8 million for the first nine months. Free cash flow reached $37.1 million in the third quarter and $79.5 million for the first nine months.
In the company’s cable sector – which is by far the largest division of the…
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TORONTO – Sounding not unlike the advice sometimes given in its namesake magazine (er, not that we’d know for sure…) Corus Entertainment CEO John Cassaday said he isn’t willing to “settle” for an average distribution deal when it comes to the company’s youngest digi-net, Cosmopolitan TV.
While the channel is carried by corporate relative Shaw Communications as well as Bell ExpressVu, neither Rogers Cable nor Cogeco Cable in the east, for example, carries the channel, which was launched on Valentine’s Day this year, and was profiled by Cartt.ca.
While Cassaday wasn’t specific about the carriage terms Corus is demanding…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has added three new on-demand channels, Food Network On Demand, HGTV On Demand and National Geographic Channel On Demand, to its Ontario digital line-up.
Digital cable customers to these three channels can watch some of the most popular programs on the channels free any time they want with Cogeco On Demand.
Subscribers have access to 40 hours of content at all times for each of the channels.
Food Network On Demand is on channel 665, HGTV On Demand on channel 664 and National Geographic Channel On Demand on channel 678 or from the VOD main menu…
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