MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable Inc. are expecting their senior executive officers to own more of the two companies. “To reflect best corporate governance practices in Canada,” Cogeco announced Monday it was upping the minimum share ownership levels for people such as Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable President and CEO Louis Audet.
Audet is expected to acquire shares equaling at least five times – previously it was three – his base salary. He will have until October 2011 to reach that level. The minimum share ownership level to be held by Audet may be comprised of multiple…
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MONTREAL – All of Cogeco Cable’s services, except digital TV, grew faster in the second quarter ended February 28 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to financial results released Wednesday.
Cogeco Cable added 13,961 net digital TV customers in the second quarter of 2007 compared with 24,547 in the same period last year.
Cogeco said the digital TV slowdown reflects a maturing of the digital TV segment following a period of robust growth. As well, the company adjusted the service offering and price gap differential between analog TV services and digital TV services in the second…
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BURLINGTON – Cogeco Cable today made official the addition of three new high definition (HD) channels to its Ontario line-up.
They are:
* Sports channel Score HD * National Geographic HD * Showcase HD
For Ontario customers who already subscribe to the standard definition version of these new HD channels and who the pay the $5.99 monthly HD Access Fee, no additional charges will be required to access these three new HD channels.
Cogeco Cable’s digital television service has added more than 80,000 new customers in fiscal 2006, added the company.
www.cogeco.ca www.thescore.ca www.nationalgeographic.ca www.showcase.ca…
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MISSISSAUGA – Ontario’s SCTE Cable-Tec Games will be held Thursday, April 26 from 2:30 p.m. to approximately 9 p.m. at the Mississauga Grand.
This will be the only Games event in Ontario this year, but the top technicians will again be eligible for prizes and will represent Ontario at the National SCTE Games held at the annual Cable-Tec Expo, June 19 to 22 in Orlando.
"We are planning a big event so get your company’s top techs whipped into shape now. We also have a team event again this year. Participation is open to all cable techs in Ontario,…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable will add movies from Twentieth Century Fox to its video on demand lineup as of today.
The studio’s new release line up features X-Men The Last Stand, Ice Age: The Meltdown, The Devil Wears Prada and Little Miss Sunshine, in addition to other new releases and library titles. On April 4th, Borat will debut.
"Our VOD service is growing in popularity and we are thrilled to be associated with 20th Century Fox, which produces many blockbusters each year. This agreement will enable us to enhance our VOD selection as well as our customers’ VOD experience,"…
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MISSISSAUGA, ON – Canada’s digital specialty channel BITE Television has been nominated for an international Emmy in the Interactive Channel category.
BITE Television’s content consists of user-generated, acquired and in-house short-form productions. The three- to five-minute edgy shows target the 18 to 34-year-old male demographic. Last week, the channel finalized an agreement to provide Amp’d Mobile with short-form content.
“While we are still a very young company, it’s great to be internationally recognized,” said company president and CEO Jeffrey Elliott.
Mississauga-based BITE Television, which launched in April 2005, is available on channel 322 on Rogers Cable, channel 123 on…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has launched a public proceeding to set out rules regarding the installation of a network interconnection device (NID) when the incumbent local exchange carrier’s (ILEC) network is disconnected from the inside wire at the home of a residential customer who has elected to take a cable telephone service and no longer wishes to use any services provided on the ILEC’s network (Telecom Public Notice 2007-3).
The commission is asking for comment on whether a NID should be installed at the premises of a residential customer when no such device is present; should the cableco or…
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GATINEAU – Leave it to the mavericks at Shaw Communications to best articulate how carriers feel about granting analog channels preferred status once digital migration occurs.
In its intervention, which opposes all of the applications, Shaw’s senior vice-president of corporate and regulatory affairs Ken Stein writes: "Shaw considers that the Digital Migration proceeding and the subsequent gazetting of applications for mandatory digital carriage on basic has been a colossal waste of time and energy for Shaw. Shaw’s request for packaging flexibility to serve consumers and meet unprecedented competitive challenges, all of which will strengthen the system and protect it…
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TORONTO – The death knell has been sounded so often for radio that many take it as gospel the oldest type of electronic media is on an irrevocable slide downwards.
But with results like these, which have been persistent for some time now, those bells must now be muted.
According to Canadian Broadcast Sales, the national radio sales company that is owned by Corus Entertainment and Rogers Communications, the Canadian radio industry continues to produce strong revenue growth with a 6.8% increase in sales over the first two quarters of 2007. Second quarter growth of 4.9% was supported by…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco-controlled broadcaster TQS created a new position this week, vice-president, new media and corporate affairs and hired former TVA executive Serge Bellerose to fill it.
"There is no question that the emergence of new media is providing great new opportunities and challenges for TQS. Our industry faces technological changes that affect the television landscape on a daily basis. We are well aware of the enormity of the task and it is for this reason that we have created this new position within our management team," said René Guimond, president and CEO of Cogeco Radio-Télévision and TQS, said…
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