MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable announced Tuesday it had acquired all the assets of MaXess Networx, the telecommunications division of EnWin Energy Ltd., which is the City of Windsor’s energy company.
Details of the deal, including the price tag, were not immediately available.
MaXess Networx operates a broadband network equipped with next generation ATM and Ethernet technology in southwestern Ontario. The broadband network has the capacity for data networking, high-speed Internet access, e-business applications, video conferencing and other advanced communications.
Cogeco Cable, which also offers broadband services in southwestern Ontario, plans to use the MaXess Networx to expand its service…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable launched its digital phone service in Huntsville, Bracebridge and Gravenhurst, Ontario, the company announced Tuesday.
Cogeco’s digital phone offer is priced from $44.99 a month for customers who are already high-speed and/or digital TV subscribers, but a promotion offer will give them $10 off their monthly bills for 12 months.
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MONTREAL – Quebec film and television production company Remstar Corporation has won the bidding war for the financially troubled TQS television network.
TQS’s Board of Directors and the networks’ shareholders announced Monday their approval of Remstar’s offer, shortly after it was accepted by Quebec Superior Court Judge Pierre Journet.
The terms and the amount of the offer were not revealed, but Remstar’s co-president and CEO Maxime Rémillard said in a statement that “our business plan will take TQS beyond traditional television broadcasting. That’s how we believe we can best respond to the challenges facing the Quebec television industry.”
“We’re…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Cable has launched Family On Demand, announced Family Channel’s owner, Astral Media, today.
The new service will offer a minimum of 30 hours of programming from Disney, including Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, together with popular Canadian series such as Life With Derek and Naturally, Sadie. Family On Demand will also offer entertaining and educational programming from Playhouse Disney.
The titles offered on Family On Demand will be offered to Family Channel digital subscribers at no additional cost so kids can watch their favourite shows as often as they choose.
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MONTREAL – Four unnamed suitors have submitted bids for Quebec’s financially strapped TQS television network, but neither Rogers Communications nor RNC Média (Radio Nord Communications), who have been rumoured as suitors for the troubled French broadcaster, are among them.
TQS and the court-appointed controller, RSM Richter, said late Monday that four offers were received by the Monday deadline and they will be evaluated in the coming days. TQS entered bankruptcy protection in December and the courts gave the company until this week to find firm offers.
“The deposit of these four firm offers demonstrates the industry’s interest in TQS…
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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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TORONTO – The last remaining Toronto independent cable holdout has decided to sell to the big red machine.
Rogers Cable announced this afternoon that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Aurora Cable, subject to CRTC approval. Aurora Cable provides cable television, Internet and telephony services in the Town of Aurora and the community of Oak Ridges, in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
(Ed Note: While the purchase price was not release by either company, Aurora serves approximately 16,000 customers, offering cable, digital cable, high speed Internet and voice in a wealthy demographic. Using a conservative guesstimate of $2500 per subscriber,…
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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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