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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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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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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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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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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