MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable continued its market-by-market rollout of voice service today, launching its Digital Phone in Chatham, Ont. (about an hour east of Windsor).
Currently, 32% of homes passed in Cogeco’s territories (which includes Hamilton/Niagara/ Burlington/Oakville, Windsor, Kingston, Trois Rivieres and other areas) have access to Digital Phone service. Service will continue to be rolled out to most cities in Cogeco Cable’s territories by the end of 2006.
Chatham residents, along with those of areas already served in Ontario, can now take advantage of this offer starting at $54.99 per month. Subscribers to Cogeco Cable’s HSI or cable…
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KITCHENER – With topics such as the “mapping of advanced cable services (digital video, voice and data) to the seven-layer OSI model in order to decipher the functionality associated with each layer,” the next meeting of the Ontario chapter of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers looks to be a good one.
To be held February 2, 2006 at Bingemans Centre in Kitchener, “attendees will gain a better understanding of what OSI layers cable technicians can readily access and those levels they will be directly responsible for. The benefit of this program will be a better understanding of network…
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MONTREAL – Radio, specialty TV and pay TV certainly are good businesses to be in.
Astral Media continued its string of growing, glowing quarterly reports reporting strong revenue, EBITDA, cash flow, etc for the first quarter of fiscal 2006, ended November 30, 2005.
The company said today that consolidated revenues totaled $153.8 million for the first quarter, an increase of 10% over the same quarter last year. EBITDA for the first three months increased 15% to $48.7 million and cash flow from continuing operations rose 17% over q1 ’05 to $34.5 million.
" Astral Media continued to show solid…
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MONTREAL – First quarter net income at Cogeco Inc, jumped 47.4% to $4.6 million compared to the same period last year.
This increase in the first three months of fiscal 2006, ended November 30th, 2005, is mainly attributable to the cable sector, which benefits from increased digital video services, high-speed Internet (HSI) and digital telephony penetration as well as rate increases. Higher radio advertising revenue also helped.
Net additions of Cogeco Cable basic customers were approximately 10,900 compared to about 7,700 for the same period last year. “The sustained appetite for digital video and HSI services continues to prevail…
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KELOWNA, B.C. – The Canadian CommTech Trade Show & Training Seminars supplier tables are now 40% sold out.
This brand new, much-anticipated two-day trade show and seminar series will take place at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna, B.C. on May 17 & 18. The full hotel and its facilities have been reserved due to the anticipation of this trade show being a sell-out.
It is anticipated that this greatly expanded trade show should attract approximately 40 to 50 technology, communications and outside plant suppliers from Canada and the U.S. Cable companies, telecommunications providers, sub-contractors and telcos will be…
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MONTREAL – Quebec MSOs are hungry for French-language digital channels, so Astral Media’s newest pay channel, dedicated to classic films, cinépop, has been added to the cable lineup in Cogeco’s Quebec territories.
“Adding cinépop to our line-up really increases the added value of Cogeco Cable’s digital cable service. Besides offering superior sound and picture quality and being adaptable to the customer’s taste, digital cable television now offers enriched French-language content,” said Ron Perrotta, Cogeco’s vice-president, marketing.
The cinépop channel is offered free starting today, for a three-month period, at position 305. At the end of that period, on March…
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JUST IN TIME FOR Christmas, www.cartt.ca has given away a 42” HDTV. We did the draw Friday evening and the winner is Nigel Fuller, regional vice-president, CHUM Television Ontario (right).
Second prize, the iPod nano, is going to Rick Fraser v-p marketing at Access Communications.
As for the 50 winners of signed copies of the children’s book M is for Maple. They are:
Brad Phillips, Citytv Vancouver Gordon Lee, CTV Specialty Victor Haddad, Milk River Cable Club, Georgina Schnubb, Masset-Haida TV Society Steve Ward, Grand Bend Cable TV Brett Manlove, CanWest MediaWorks Sam Fiander. Ramea Broadcasting Richard French, CRTC Glenn O’Farrell, CAB…
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CANADA’S CABLE AND SATELLITE companies want one thing when it comes to high definition television: More.
More HD channels. More HD content. More HD Canadian content. In the larger markets at least, HDTV set owners are increasingly tuning to their HD channels only, taking advantage of their big, bright, new toy. They, in turn, are beginning to apply some pressure on their cable company or satellite provider to make more channels available.
“Demand is high,” says the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance’s legal counsel Chris Edwards. “Everyone is looking to get as much high def as they can get.” The…
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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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