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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I’VE GOT A BIT OF A SOFT spot for the CBC because when you grew up where I did, the CBC was it.
Apologies to CTV’s Northern Ontario precursor, MCTV, but when I think of old shows from my youth, it’s most often the CBC that springs to mind. Like sooo many of my fellow Canadians, when I think of the Ceeb, I invariably recall many frigid Saturday evenings inside watching Hockey Night in Canada: Me and my father sitting down with a big bowl of warm, greasy, salted popcorn. I usually fell asleep right after Peter Puck during the…
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MONTREAL – Driven primarily by a growing cable division, Cogeco Inc. saw revenue increase by 21.4% to $199.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2006, ended August 31st.
Net income in the quarter came in at $10.3 million in the quarter, as compared to $630,000 in the same quarter of 2005. For the full fiscal year, net income was $23.1 million, while 2005 saw a net loss of $19.8 million
With the acquisition of Portugal’s Cabovisao as a contributing factor, the number of Cogeco revenue-generating units jumped from about 1,348,000 at the beginning of the fiscal year to approximately…
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MONTREAL – After already having launched on Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable and Bell ExpressVu PPV, Cogeco Cable has also added Survivor: Cook Islands to its on demand lineup.
Starting with tonight’s episode (October 12), Cogeco digital cable customers will be able to see the show on VOD the day after it airs by purchasing it, commercial-free, for 99-cents.
Rogers, Shaw and ExpressVu, however, are offering the show on demand immediately after it airs on Global Television while Global itself is offering the episodes the next day for free on the web.
The latest and the prior three…
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TORONTO – Voting for the board of directors for CTAM Canada ended October 3rd.
The strong slate of 15 board members will build on the solid growth the chapter experienced through 2006.
Re-elected for a one-year term are:
* Harris Boyd – president, Harris D. Boyd Consulting * JP Caveen, – Director Affiliate Relations, Cogeco Cable * Hawley Chester – Director Canadian Sales and Marketing, Speed Channel * Chris Fuoco – VP Affiliate Marketing, Alliance Atlantis * Mike Lee – CSO, Rogers Communications Inc. * Greg O’Brien – Editor and Publisher, Cartt.ca * Domenic Vivolo – SVP Marketing and…
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MISSISSAUGA – The fall SCTE-Ontario Chapter meeting is set for this Thursday, October 12, 2006 in Mississauga.
The theme of the meeting will be: "Testing and Troubleshooting Advanced Cable Networks". Speakers with real-world experience will share their testing methodologies.
Tony Holmes from Trilithic will review VOIP and return spectrum testing and troubleshooting using various techniques to isolate problems in the field; discuss the power of addressing service level assurance, subscriber self test methods and Packet Cable specific test applications.
Dale Turner from Mountain Cable will demonstrate several Blackberry applications that were developed at Mountain Cable for monitoring, testing and…
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