TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Telus and Cogeco Data Services have both stepped up to honour of Earth Hour on Saturday night.
Telus said that it will turn off all non-essential lights at 8:30 p.m. local time on March 26 at 28 of its major buildings across Canada in response to Earth Hour 2011’s global call to action in respect of climate change.
"By taking part in Earth Hour we are not only supporting a global initiative that raises awareness of the need for all of us to act responsibly, we are making a statement in support of environmental sustainability," said Josh Blair,…
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MONTREAL – Philippe Jette has been named vice president and chief technology officer of Cogeco Cable. In this capacity, he will be responsible for the company’s technological direction and strategic development, as well as the use and management of technologies for new and existing products.
Over the past two decades, Jette (pictured) has managed and lead business units and engineering organizations, telecommunications networks, and product and technology in Canada – through stints with Rogers, Bell Mobility and Bell Canada – and abroad.
"I am proud to have Philippe…
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MONTREAL – The Federal Court of Appeal has refused to hear an appeal by Astral Media to halt the now completed sale of 11 Quebec radio stations to competitor Cogeco.
According to a Canadian Press report, Astral spokesperson Hugues Mousseau expressed disappointment with the move, and accused the CRTC of “flouting its own policies and rules of procedure”.
Astral filed a motion with the Federal Court of Appeal last month seeking to overturn the CRTC’s decision to allow Cogeco to maintain a third radio station in the Montreal market. The move relaxes the Commission’s common ownership policy limiting…
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TORONTO – While generating profit remains a key goal for companies, how you create profit is even more important according to a Cogeco Data Services survey.
"While generating profit will always be the fundamental tenet of creating and selling goods and services, our survey results show that for many companies, how you create profit is even more important," said Cogeco Data Services president Tony Ciciretto in a press release. "Canadian business leaders are now saying that finding innovative ways to boost productivity is a smarter, more sustainable route to profitability rather than focusing on just cutting costs."
"The more a company…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable announced Tuesday the launch of its Ultimate 30 and Ultimate 50 High Speed Internet (HSI) packages for consumers in Shawinigan, Québec, as well as its new Business Ultimate 50 package for businesses.
Cogeco says the three packages, powered by DOCSIS 3.0, offer advantages in speed and pricing compared to competitors. The Ultimate 30 package offers speeds of up to 30 Mbps for downloads and up to 1.5 Mbps for uploads with a monthly download cap of 100 GB. For the Ultimate 50 package, speeds can reach 50 Mbps for downloads and 1.5 Mbps for uploads…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable added 6 new high definition channels to its Ontario lineup on Tuesday.
Effective immediately, HD customers can now subscribe to NFL HD, Big Ten HD, eqhd, radX, Treasure HD and Oasis HD.
"Our customers just love the outstanding quality of HD Television and the experience it brings”, said Ron Perrotta, VP of marketing and strategic planning at Cogeco, in the announcement. “We always strive to provide them with the most interesting and relevant programming in the market. This is why we continually invest in this technology. With the addition of these channels, our goal is to offer more…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable urged the CRTC to keep close watch over the potential merger between Bell and CTV in order to “preserve competition and protect consumer interests”.
Appearing Wednesday morning at the hearing into the transaction in Gatineau, president and CEO Louis Audet stressed the importance of obtaining specific regulatory safeguards as soon as possible, and definitely before the upcoming vertical integration policy hearing in June, to “prevent abuse of the dominant position” that the new conglomerate would have if the transaction is approved.
"Ultimately, Canadian consumers risk footing the bill for concentration and vertical integration in the absence of greater oversight”, he…
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GATINEAU – While producers and others argued how and where the $220-million BCE/CTV benefits package should be spent, the two largest carriers without broadcast or specialty TV divisions warned the CRTC that something must be done to rein in the power a combined BCE/CTV will have.
While the Commission has long prohibited content exclusives on the TV side (CTV has to make Comedy Network available to all carriers and can’t sign an exclusive with any one or two), our exploding media world has all experimenting, looking for new business models and lines of revenue on new, unregulated, platforms.
Part of that…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – The sale of Corus’ Quebec radio stations to Cogeco Inc. was completed on Tuesday as planned, the companies announced.
Cogeco acquired Montreal stations CKAC-AM, CFQR-FM, CHMP-FM, CKOI-FM and regional stations CFEL-FM and CFOM-FM in Quebec City, CHLN-FM in Trois-Rivieres, CHLT-FM and CKOY-FM in Sherbrooke, CIME-FM in St-Jerome and CJRC-FM in Ottawa-Gatineau.
To comply with the CRTC’s decision and the common ownership policy limiting the number of FM radio stations that can be operated by any one owner in a given market, Cogeco confirmed that it will sell the two FM stations in Quebec City, plus 104.5 FM in the Sherbrooke market. The three…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Cable has become the latest BDU to add Rogers Sportsnet One to its programming lineup.
Cogeco launched the five month old national sports channel on Wednesday in standard definition on channel 426 and in HD on channel 736. It also launched a “companion channel” called Sportsnet Sens which accommodates the regional broadcast restrictions of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.
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