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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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 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.
www.cogeco.com
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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.
www.shaw.ca
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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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TORONTO – Following its successful November 30 launch, Family Channel’s newest multiplex offering, Playhouse Disney, is now available to subscribers of Cogeco Cable, Mountain Cablevision, and Access Communications.
SaskTel launches the service on February 21st.
These four television providers, servicing communities in Ontario and Saskatchewan, join Bell ExpressVu in delivering educational and entertaining programming for young children. ExpressVu has carried Playhouse Disney since launch.
“We’re thrilled that Cogeco Cable, Mountain Cablevision, SaskTel and Access Communications recognize the unique entertainment and value proposition that Playhouse Disney offers subscribers,” said Joe Tedesco, vice-president and general manager, Family Channel and Playhouse Disney….
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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.
www.cogeco.com
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