TORONTO – Growth in cable, Internet, and telephony subscribers has led Cogeco Cable to predict a 36% increase in net income in 2006, the company announced at its annual shareholders’ meeting.
And the company is exploring adding wireless, like competitor Vidéotron will do in Quebec when it launches mobile phone services through Rogers, CEO Louis Audet told reporters.
Net income in 2005 nearly tripled, to $28.7 million, compared with a net loss of $32 million in 2004. Cogeco predicts net income will rise to $39 million in fiscal 2006.
In 2005, the company lost 2,400 basic cable subscribers, but…
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MONTREAL – The biography of Nathalie Simard, a former child star who was molested by a television broadcaster when she was a girl, will premier on Dec. 9 on video on demand for Vidéotron and Cogeco cable customers in Quebec.
The French-language program will be available for 99 cents. In January, it will be shown on the TVA network.
All proceeds from the airing of the documentary will go to the Nathalie Simard Foundation to counter pedophilia.
Directed by Yves Thériault, “Freed: Nathalie Simard’s Choice” follows Simard to the Ile d’Orléans near Quebec City, where she grew up, to the…
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TORONTO – The outlook for Canada’s traditional fixed-line telecom industry in 2006 is poor, while things are looking better for wireless services and the cable industry, according to the latest credit ratings report by Standard and Poors.
Competition for wireline business will hurt incumbent telcos (Aliant, Bell Canada, Manitoba Telecom Services, and Telus) as the cable operators and other players enter the telephony market, the report says. Likewise, though, the cablecos (Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw, and Videotron) will face more competition from telephone operators providing video services via DSL. “The blurring of boundaries between wireline, wireless, and cable will continue,”…
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KELOWNA. B.C. – May 17th and 18th, 2006 will see the launch of the Canadian Communications & Technology Trade Show & Seminars.
The show will build on the success of the Technology and Outside Plant show that Telonix initiated and hosted in B.C. this past spring – which sold-out to vendors in a matter of days.
This much anticipated new, two-day event will take place at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna, B.C.. “The full hotel and its facilities have been reserved due to the anticipation of this trade show being a sell-out,” says the press release.
It is…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable’s Gary Pelletier has been promoted to director, product marketing.
In his new position, Pelletier will be responsible for the overall acquisition and retention strategy, product, pricing and promotion for the cable television and high speed Internet businesses. His duties also include overseeing the development and management of the on demand platform and commercial services product marketing support.
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HAMILTON – Janice Lee, who is well-known to many broadcast distributors and programmers in Canada thanks to her many years in the industry, launched her new company this month, JLL & Associates.
Staying within the industry she has worked hard in and enjoyed for over two decades, Lee has over 30 years experience in marketing, strategic sales, public relations and product training.
The company has a full time digital designer on staff plus a talented project manager. They draw on other associates to meet all opportunities, from web site design to research.
“I will continue to consult several days…
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TORONTO – What do HDTV set buyers want when they bring their big, bright, expensive new TV home?
HD content, of course. However, what those in the TV industry are finding is that consumers are often under-informed when it comes to what’s available in high definition when they plug that set in.
So, in co-operation with Rogers Cable and Cogeco Cable, Astral Media’s The Movie Network has partnered with Future Shop and Best Buy on a cross-promotional initiative designed to promote The Movie Network and High Definition at retail stores across Ontario beginning tomorrow (Thursday, December 1, 2005.)
Consumers…
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TORONTO – Digital TV customers will be able to call on four different seasonal music channels from Max Trax and Galaxie while they roast chestnuts and stuff stockings.
Beginning December 1, four of the combined 40 audio digital music services from Max Trax and Galaxie will offer listeners uninterrupted, commercial-free music across a range of formats.
Max Trax’s Holiday Hits channel features timeless and contemporary songs ranging from Sting’s I Saw Three Ships and Madonna’s Santa Baby to Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas and The Barenaked Ladies’ Green Christmas.
Max Trax’s Instrumental Holiday channel features seasonal standards…
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TORONTO – The Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing of Canada has announced its 2006 officers and board members following an election held in September 2005. The tabulation was completed by CTAM National in Alexandria, Virginia and approved by CTAM Canada members.
They are: Officers: President: Domenic Vivolo, SVP Marketing and Sales, Astral Television Networks Vice-President: Shelley Blaine-Goodman, VP Canada, A&E Television Networks Secretary: Jean-Pierre Caveen, Director Affiliate Relations, Cogeco Cable Treasurer: Chris Fuoco, VP Affiliate Marketing, Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting
Board Members: Harris Boyd, Industry Relations, Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association Hawley Chester, Director – Canadian Sales & Marketing, Speed Channel…
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REDMOND, Wash., and LOUISVILLE, Colo. – An agreement announced Wednesday between Microsoft and CableLabs means Microsoft’s dream of easily delivering high-quality TV signals to PCs is right around the corner.
The world’s biggest software company and the North American cable industry’s research and development organization today announced they have reached an agreement that will allow Microsoft and PC manufacturers to bring to market digital-cable-ready Windows Media Center-based PCs in the holiday 2006 time frame.
These Media Center PCs, capable of supporting a CableCARD module, will allow consumers to enjoy one-way cable programming, including premium high-definition cable content, on their…
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