MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has announced it has expanded its home phone service to nine new Ontario communities including: Camlachie, Harrow, Colchester, Blenheim, Ridgetown, Dresden, Port Sydney, Ancaster and Montpellier Trail. Customers from these regions can now subscribe to Cogeco's Home Phone service starting at $14.99 per month.
To sign up, customers can select one of the three packages plus any additional calling features they wish. Cogeco's technical services is free of charge when combined with a subscription to another Cogeco service.
"We're excited to launch our Home Phone service in these 9 Ontario cities because we know it truly is…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco has added five new high definition channels to its lineup in Ontario.
Effective immediately, YTV HD is available on channel 726, Family HD is on channel 725, HGTV HD is on channel 760, Food Network HD is on channel 761 and W HD is on channel 763.
“Our HD TV service offers so much diversity and quality that our customers just want more and more”, said Ron Perrotta, VP of marketing and strategic planning, in the announcement. “Adding these five channels that cater to a variety of tastes and needs is perfectly in synch with our goal of…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has released its first corporate social responsibility report.
Using Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines, such reports typically cover an organization's environmental, social and economic performance. Cogeco noted that the three core environmental issues specifically relevant to its operations include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the production of primarily electronic waste, and the use of raw materials.
The qualitative and quantitative data contained in the report will serve as the starting point “for a process of continuous improvement to achieve an appropriate balance among our financial, social and environmental objectives”, the company said. It also announced plans to publish…
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MONTREAL – Profits at Cogeco Inc. were up by 20.4% for its first quarter of 2012, largely on the strength of its Canadian operations.
The Montreal-based company said Thursday that profits for the period ended November 30, 2011 were $47.9 million, up from $39.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2011. Consolidated revenues were $387.5 million, a 13.4% increase from last year, while revenues for its Canadian operations were up 9.8% to $315.4 million.
Cogeco's primary service units (the sum of its television, high speed Internet and telephony service customers, formerly reported as RGUs) in its cable subsidiary increased 1.8% to…
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MONTREAL – While its competitors in the telecom industry are becoming more vertically integrated, Cogeco president and CEO Louis Audet says his company is comfortable in its position as a mid-sized telecom and has no plans to copy companies like Bell and Rogers by acquiring TV specialty channels or building a wireless network.
Audet has a reason to be confident. Cogeco's first-quarter earnings, released Thursday morning before the annual shareholders' meetings of the company and subsidiary Cogeco Cable, shows its profit up 20% to $47.9 million from $39.8 million for the first quarter of last year,…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. has officially completed its acquisition of transit advertising company Metromedia CMR Plus Inc.
The deal, announced last month, will see Metromedia Plus added to radio division Cogeco Diffusion and headed up by SVP Richard Lachance.
"Combined with our portfolio of radio stations in many of Quebec's markets, the addition of Metromedia Plus brings a diversification of our media operations and a higher impact media offering for our advertising partners," Lachance said in the announcement.
Metromedia Plus represents over 100 public transit markets in Quebec and across Canada.
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TORONTO – Disney XD and French-language Disney Junior have cracked the programming lineup at Cogeco Cable.
Disney XD debuts to Ontario Cogeco Digital subscribers as part of a three-month preview on channel 99, while the preschool network, available to Quebec-based subscribers, is available on channel 89, also part of a free preview. The launches of the two networks form part of a long-term renewal agreement between Astral and Cogeco Cable for Astral's movie and kids services.
"It is fantastic to have Cogeco on board with Disney XD and Disney Junior en Francais," said Joe Tedesco, SVP and GM, Astral Kids, in the…
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BURLINGTON – After 37 years in community programming, Cogeco’s senior director of communications and programming, Maureen Tilson-Dyment, called it a career this week.
A tireless worker and community proponent, Tilson-Dyment (pictured) began as a cable channel volunteer and her career culminated in a standing-room only retirement party Monday evening at the company’s Burlington headquarters which drew just about every community leader and politician from the region.
She has held a number of roles over the years and in her most current one, she was responsible for provincial community relations and information, media and government relations, company outreach and event programs, sponsorships…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco is buying Metromedia CMR Plus Inc., a Quebec company that operates an advertising rep house in the public transit sector.
Metromedia represents over 100 public transit markets, notably in Montreal, and other Quebec regions, as well as in “major cities and numerous markets” in the rest of Canada, Cogeco said. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"The acquisition of Metromedia, added to our Quebec radio station portofolio, is an excellent opportunity to diversify our media activities and create a compelling new media offering for advertisers by combining radio and transit advertising”, said Cogeco president and CEO…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Diffusion shut down its Sherbrooke-based radio station CJTS-FM Tuesday at noon after failing to find a buyer. The move puts a dozen employees out of work, the company confirmed to Cartt.ca.
After approving its acquisition of Corus’ Quebec radio stations last April, the CRTC told Cogeco to divest of three of the stations in keeping with its common ownership policy which limits the number of stations in one market owned by the same company. Cogeco sold off two of its four Quebec City area stations last week to Leclerc Communication Inc., as Cartt.ca reported.
Cogeco said…
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