MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has added Quebecor Media’s Les idées de ma maison, a brand new digital channel, to its cable lineup.
The channel is devoted to home decoration, renovation, do-it-yourself, cooking, landscape design and lifestyle programming.
“Fans eager for new ideas to revamp their living spaces are sure to find everything they could wish for with original TVA series such as Ma maison Rona, Tout simplement Clodine, Le brunch de Maman Dion, Maman Dion and Dodo Déco and hit series including Martha Stewart Living and La touche d’Olivier,” says the press release.
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OTTAWA – Minister of Industry Jim Prentice has been “about to” introduce new copyright legislation for about three months now at least, according to Ottawa sources.
Perhaps March will be the month it happens…
In the meantime, the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright has submitted a position paper to the minister “urging the government to strike a balance in copyright reform that reflects the needs of users and creators,” says its letter.
Besides the members in the headline, the BCBC also includes smaller stakeholders like EastLink, Cogeco Cable, SaskTel, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and the Retail Council of…
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MONTREAL – New pay TV service Super Channel is now available to Cogeco Cable customers.
"We are thrilled to offer our customers the possibility to enjoy this new pay television service. Super Channel brings a wide range of frequently-updated movies and exclusive TV series from Canada, the U.S. and from around the world," said Ron Perrotta, vice-president, marketing of Cogeco Cable.
The Super Channel package is now available throughout many of Cogeco Cable’s markets in Ontario, and will be more extensively deployed in Ontario in the months to come. The package, which offers new series, hit movies, documentaries, extreme…
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MONTREAL − CTVglobemedia’s French sports news channel, RIS Info-sports, has passed the one million subscriber mark, the company has announced.
“Barely three years after its launch, RIS has exceeded our expectations. For a digital network to reach one million viewers on the francophone market in so little time is exceptional,” said Gerry Frappier, president of Réseau des sports, in a release. “Today, 1.6 million viewers* get their information from RIS Info-sports every month.”
“We have been able to enhance our service offer to francophone sports fans. In addition to instant access to sports information 24/7, francophone viewers benefit from…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable added Parry Sound as its latest market in which the company offers its voice over IP digital phone service.
Residents can now take advantage of Cogeco Cable’s all-inclusive Digital Phone offer for as little as $44.99 per month if they subscribe or are already a subscriber to Cogeco Cable’s High Speed Internet and/ or Cable Television service.
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HAMILTON – Fibre to the home is certainly possible – and from a pure bandwidth point of view, certainly desirable. From an economic point of view, though? Not so much.
And is such a conversion going to happen any time soon here in Canada? Not likely. At least that was the consensus around the lunch table I sat at Tuesday at Carmen’s Banquet Hall in Hamilton during the SCTE Ontario Chapter Winter Technical Conference.
Well over 200 from the technical and engineering side of the cable industry descended on Hamilton to hear 10 speakers wax eloquently about the advantages…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable announced today the launch of its Digital Phone service in Smiths Falls and Perth, Ontario.
“A comprehensive, accessible, and competitive offering, residents can now take advantage of Cogeco Cable’s unique and all-inclusive Digital Phone offer for as little as $44.99 per month if they subscribe to Cogeco Cable’s high speed internet and cable television service,” reads the release.
“Since its initial launch, the Digital Phone service has had a snowball effect on the number of subscriptions to other Cogeco Cable services and its deployment has been enthusiastically welcomed in the markets where it was introduced.”…
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CALGARY – The Shaw family purchased a million shares of their own company this week, which would have cost them about $19.5 million.
A month ago, it would have cost them about $25 million, but the stock price – along with many on the TSX, has drifted downwards in the past 30 days. Rogers Communications has dropped from $45 to $38 over the same time frame and Cogeco Cable has tumbled from $48 to the $39 range as well.
The Shaw family now holds 47,669,356 Class A and Class B shares of their company.
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MONTREAL – Two potential buyers signalled enough interest in financially strapped Quebec television network TQS this week to convince a Quebec Superior Court judge to give the network another 45 days of court protection from creditors.
Judge Pierre Journet said the receipt of two letters of intention from the two unnamed suitors was an indication that TQS’s financial situation has not worsened to the detriment of creditors, and that a further delay constitutes a “reasonable and credible” condition to finding a long-term solution.
TQS was granted 30 days’ protection in December. The new delay gives controller RSM Richter…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched expanded its digital phone coverage to the Lake Ontario towns of Port Hope and Cobourg.
“Since its initial launch, the Digital Phone service has had a snowball effect on the number of subscriptions to other Cogeco Cable services and its deployment has been enthusiastically welcomed in the markets where it was introduced,” says the company’s press release.
Cogeco phone service can be had starting at $44.99 per month – and an additional $10 off per month for the first 12 months.
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