RIMOUSKI – Télévision Quatre-Saisons (TQS) viewers in eastern Quebec will get their own regional news bulletin, if licence proposals submitted by TQS and Télévision MBS are accepted by the CRTC.
Under the proposals, a two-person bureau based in Rimouski would produce a three-and-a-half minute news segment, five days a week. Another three minutes daily would offer community notices and public service announcements.
The new service would supplement existing TQS news bulletins produced in Rivière-du-Loup and Montreal, and would serve Rimouski, Mont-Joli, Matane, and the Matapedia Valley, a population basin of about 100,000 people.
Cogeco Inc.-controlled TQS has asked the…
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APPROXIMATELY FIFTY SUPPLIERS from the U.S. and Canada are expected in Kelowna at the 2007 Canadian Communications & Technology Trade Show & Seminars.
This annual two-day event will take place at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna, B.C. on May 30-31, 2007.
Vendor and sponsorship packages are now available plus the call for technical papers for seminar speakers.
Cable companies, telcos, sub-contractors, telecommunications providers, and utilities will be invited to attend the seminars and trade show. Attendee information will be distributed in January once the seminar topics are in place. By offering a low attendee fee, companies are able…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable announced Tuesday the launch of Anime Network On Demand, a new subscription video on-demand service offering a line-up of new creations and classics.
Launched in North America in late 2002, Anime reaches more than 40 million households with what it describes as “an entire animé library at your fingertips, from brand new shows to old school classics, giant robots to magical girls and even dubbed and subtitled programming”.
Included in the line-up is the original series Gatchaman, the show that started some of the favourites, such as Battle of the Planets and G-Force, says a…
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KELOWNA – Building on a successful first year, organizers say the 2007 CommTech Trade Show is already expected to be a sellout.
Over 300 attendees visited the 2006 show in May, including buyers, operations management, sub-contractors, inside and outside plant technicians, planners and educators from cable companies, telcos, CN Rail, universities and utilities.
The 2007 CommTech Trade Show and Seminars is scheduled for May 30 and 31 at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna.
Click on the corresponding links for the vendor brochure, registration form and event program advertisement information.
Organizers are looking for seminar presenters…
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MONTREAL – Today, Cogeco Cable’s Quebec HD customers have access to 11 high definition television channels, eight of which are in French, as the company added to its HD lineup.
“The growing popularity of large TV screens confirms it: our customers are constantly looking for exceptional image and sound quality when they watch television,” said Ron Perrotta, vice-president, marketing, Cogeco Cable. “We are putting all our efforts towards providing the best HD offering possible. Only two months after launching five new HD channels in Ontario, we are proud to provide our customers with the most complete French HD offering available…
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TORONTO – The Ontario Chapter of SCTE is looking to add additional strong leaders to its board of directors.
The chapter has grown substantially since it’s inception in mid-2003. The bylaws require six board members, elected for two-year terms, with three board members replaced each year in order to provide continuity. Laura O’Hare (White Radio), Robin McIntyre (Rogers), and Rob McCann (Clearcable) have reached the end of their two-year term. John Anderson (Telcordia), Boris Eventov (Cogeco) and Bruce Marshall (Mountain Cable) will remain until the end of 2007.
All current Ontario members can nominate candidates for the board. Nominees…
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CALGARY – Thanks to the addition of 43,744 local phone customers in the fourth quarter, bringing its total to 212,707 voice subscribers, Shaw Communications today announced net income of $210.4 million in the quarter ended August 31, three times its net income of $70 million for the same quarter of 2005.
Net income for the year was $458.3 million, up from $153.2 million last year.
While digital phone subs grew pretty quickly (although a little off the pace of the third quarter), new Internet customers also grew at a good clip, adding 25,907 in the fourth quarter. Digital TV…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable launched its voice over IP local phone service today in St. Catharines and Thorold, Ontario.
It was also launched last week in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Virgil. "Since its initial launch, the 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," said the press release – as the company also noted in its year-end results, reported here last week.
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TORONTO – G4techTV Canada announced Monday that digital cable and satellite subscribers will get to see its high-tech and gaming programming through the month of November at no charge.
As well, the Rogers-controlled digital specialty service is offering viewers a chance to win a five day trip for four to Honolulu, Hawaii and tickets to the NFL Pro Bowl football game in February 2007.
The winner will also receive four passes to the Madden Championship online football gaming tournament being held in Hawaii.
Participating BDUs include: Bell ExpressVu, Rogers, Cogeco, Videotron, Persona, Access, Telus, MTS, Mountain Cable, Source, and…
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WHEN NBTEL FIRST CAME to market in 1998 with a digital TV product serving customers in Moncton and Saint John, N.B., the cable industry laughed.
Sure, it was all-digital television, but each TV needed its own set top box, channel-changing latency was a problem and due to the limitations of the early ADSL technology it used, all the TVs in the house had to be tuned to the same channel. Fine for homes without a second TV, but not so much for most folks.
At the time, NBTel (which is now Aliant) was the North American leader on the…
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