MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has added 26 new high definition channels to its Ontario HD line-up.
Effective immediately, Cogeco’s HD television customers may access History Television HD, MovieTime HD, CBS College Sports Network HD, TLC HD, KTLA HD, WPIX HD, and WSBK HD.
The cableco also revamped its ‘Super Sports Pack’ to include 23 distinct HD channels, each one dedicated to a specific sport, including NFL Sunday Ticket, NHL Center Ice, MLB Extra Innings, NBA, OHL, Nascar and U.S. College Basketball and Football.
“Our HD Television service continues to draw new subscribers every month, which confirms that customers appreciate the variety, quality…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable rolled out a new high speed Internet package Tuesday for its business customers in the Burlington, Oakville, Milton and Halton areas of Ontario.
Powered by DOCSIS 3.0 technology, ‘Business Ultimate 50’ replaces the company’s ‘Enterprise’ packages, offering an unlimited bitcap and a faster download speed of up to 50 Mbps, and an upload speed of up to 2 Mbps.
Cogeco’s customers who currently subscribe to the Business HSI Enterprise service in those areas will be upgraded to the Ultimate 50 package at no extra cost. The package costs $189.95 per month with a three-year commitment, $199.95 per month with…
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TORONTO – When the Apple iPad finally does make it to Canada, Cogeco Data Services says it will be ready.
Starting May 10th, the company will offer users a new One Zone WiFi service designed specifically for the hot new device, similar to its iPod Touch plan that it launched last year.
The plan will provide users with unlimited access to Cogeco Data’s One Zone network for $5 per month. Its One Zone network stretches throughout Toronto’s downtown core – from Front Street in the south to just north of Bloor in the north and from Jarvis Street in the east to Spadina…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – Corus Radio is officially exiting the Quebec radio market.
The company said this morning it has reached an agreement with Cogeco Inc. for Cogeco to purchase the Corus Quebec radio stations: Montreal French (CKOI 96,9, 98,5, CKAC Sports – including CKAC’s digital licence), Montreal English (The Q 92.5), Quebec City (102,9 Souvenirs Garantis, CKOI 102,1), Gatineau (104,7 Souvenirs Garantis), Sherbrooke (107,7 Souvenirs Garantis, CKOI 104,5), Trois-Rivières (106,9 Souvenirs Garantis), St-Jérôme (CIME 103,9) for approximately $80 million. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.
“Corus Entertainment has made the strategic decision to divest of its Corus Quebec…
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MONTREAL – Add Cogeco Cable to the list of cable companies who feel that their community TV channels are working fine as is.
At its appearance Wednesday at the CRTC community TV poilcy hearing, Cogeco offered up independent surveys by Environics Research Group and Cible Recherche that found that approximately 41% of its Ontario households watch TVCOGECO on a weekly basis, and that 90% of the people served said that they believe that the channel “provides a valuable service to the community”.
In Quebec, 57% of Cogeco’s customers watch TVCOGECO every week, a rate that is higher than the 65% observed in…
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MONTREAL – After working hard to stabilize the company’s operations in Portugal, Cogeco president and CEO Louis Audet said Thursday morning that his company is back looking for assets to buy.
“Hence, we believe the time has come for this company to start looking at reasonably priced, reasonably sized, ‘non-farm-betting type’ of acquisitions”, Audet said in a call with analysts, after releasing the company’s second quarter financial results.
Noting that such opportunities in Canada were slim, Audet said that the company would look in Europe “at markets we feel have growth potential”. While he declined to elaborate on the potential size…
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TORONTO – Thanks to an innovative new backup system, Cogeco Data Services says that it can go green without going dark for Earth Hour.
The data communications provider said that during Earth Hour on March 27 from 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm, it will disconnect from the electrical grid and generate its own clean power using its natural gas generator. The generator will power its entire co-location facility using clean burning natural gas, which in turn will reduce the company’s electrical consumption within the City of Toronto by up to 447 KW – the equivalent of powering down 71 residential homes…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable introduced a new high speed Internet package to its customers in the Burlington, Oakville, Milton and Halton areas of Ontario on Tuesday.
Called ‘Ultimate 30’, the new package is powered by DOCSIS 3.0 technology, allowing Cogeco’s residential customers access to speeds of up to 30 Mbps for downloads and up to 1.5 Mbps for uploads, with a monthly download cap of 125 GB.
Compared to competitors in its footprint, Cogeco said that its Ultimate 30 package offers the fastest download speed at the most affordable price available today.
“With this addition, our Internet services offer customers more flexibility and…
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MONTREAL – Perhaps due in part to some public pressure, Cogeco Cable has signed on to offer the video-on-demand coverage of the Olympics offered by the Games’ Broadcast Media Consortium.
Cogeco joins Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, EastLink and its subsidiary Delta Cable and Source Cable in offering the 700 hours of VOD content free of charge beginning February 13 with the Opening Ceremony.
All coverage will be available within 24 hours after its original airing to Cogeco’s digital cable customers in Québec and Ontario that have access to VOD on channel 600.
A Cogeco spokesperson wrote in an email to Cartt.ca that…
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EXTON, PA – Cogeco Cable’s Erik Jenson is one of seven SCTE members to be awarded a grant from the organization for professional development.
The fourth quarter’s SCTE Foundation grants are earmarked for such professional development purposes as SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2009, Jones/NCTI courses, a bachelor’s degree program, and an industry certification program.
The other grant recipients are:– Robert Dignum of Yelm, WA;– Lowell Flanner, Sunflower Broadband;– Gary Paulson, Comcast Cable;– Brent Sager, Broadband Solutions;– David Stuart, in-transition member;– Amelia Urban, Jones/NCTI.
The SCTE Foundation was established by the SCTE Board of Directors in 2005 and…
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