MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has added Teletoon Retro to its digital channel lineup.
Launched October 1st, the channel offers familiar friends like Fat Albert, Tom & Jerry, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Superfriends.
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TORONTO – There are two large cable operators based in the province of Quebec, but each have their own different ideas of where growth will come from.
One, Videotron, envisions building itself into an important wireless player. The other, Cogeco Cable, has so far shunned wireless investments in favor of pursuing growth outside of North America.
Its 2006 acquisition of Cabovisao, which now serves over 300,000 customers in Portugal has been nothing but positive for the company as revenue and margins have risen throughout 2007. The integration of the new division is now complete.
The company launched digital cable…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable launched its newest personal/digital video recorder, the Motorola DCT3080, in its Quebec territories today (southern Quebec, concentrated around Trois Rivieres).
The box is not available in Ontario (an earlier version of this story said it was. We apologize for the error.)
"Current users will tell you: using a DVR significantly improves your TV experience. The fact that the DVR is simple to use and allows users the freedom to watch programs of their choice whenever they want, greatly improves the television-viewing experience. We’re very pleased to offer this new receiver to our Quebec customers because it completes…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable’s call centres won a pair of customer service awards this fall.
Two of the them come from the Service Quality Measurement Group Inc. (SQM), an international firm that measures and evaluate call centers in several sectors.
Cogeco’s call centres, located in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec and Burlington, Ontario were awarded the Highest Customer Satisfaction in the Telecommunications/TV Industry Award, and the FCR and/or Csat Improvement Merit Award, which recognizes the best improvement in first call resolution (FCR) and/or customer satisfaction (Csat) greater than 8% over the previous year.
Cogeco accepted the awards this week at the SQM…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has extended its Wi-Fi Internet access to the Kingston and Windsor areas with more than 100 new hot-spots, the company announced Wednesday.
The service, available for free to all Cogeco high-speed Internet customers in Ontario, has also been extended to all non-Cogeco customers on a pay-per-use basis.
Last March, Cogeco launched its Wi-Fi Internet access in Ontario with nearly 150 access points spread throughout Burlington, Oakville and Hamilton.
“Wi-Fi continues to grow in popularity as more and more people need an Internet connection to work, study or surf while they are on the go. We…
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BURLINGTON – Cogeco Cable has added Astral Media’s Mpix OnDemand today as part of Cogeco’s Ontario digital line-up.
All Cogeco Cable Digital television customers who subscribe to The Movie Network and Superstations Movie Package will have free access to Mpix OnDemand, a subscription video on-demand (SVOD) service offering classic movies which are five years or older.
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MONTREAL – While things on the cable side of the ledger are clipping along nicely, Cogeco Inc. is now reviewing its options when it comes to Television Quatre Saisons, the Quebec broadcaster it owns with CTVglobemedia.
TQS is perennially the third-place network and compared to the company’s cable operations in Canada and Portugal, a small part of the Cogeco puzzle, but because of a challenging TV ad market in Quebec, its owners (Cogeco has 60%, CTVglobemedia, 40%) have retained CIBC World Markets “to assist in assessing the strategic options available to them in connection with TQS,” says the press…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco is making more than a few doubters eat crow these days, given its recent operating results.
When it acquired Portugal’s Cabovisao on 2006, there was a lengthy line of complainers decrying the company’s decision to branch out beyond Canada. But, results across the Atlantic have been stellar and the company’s Canadian growth has continued unabated.
For the fourth quarter and the full year of fiscal 2007, ended August 31st, consolidated revenue grew 39.7% to $244.3 million and 51.4% to $938.9 million, respectively. Consolidated operating income before amortization increased 40.6% to $102.4 million and 46.6% to…
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MONTREAL – The majority of Cogeco Digital Cable customers in Ontario can now see LeafsTV in high definition.
Leafs TV HD will be available for free to the majority of Cogeco Digital Cable subscribers who are paying the HD Access Fee of $5.99 per month and who also subscribe to Leafs TV in standard definition. Leafs TV HD includes exclusive live broadcasts of Toronto Maple Leafs games.
"With more than 43,000 new digital subscribers in the three first quarters of fiscal 2007, Cogeco Cable’s Digital Television service offers variety, quality and control that our customers are looking for," said…
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MONTREAL – Videotron, Bell ExpressVu and Cogeco cable have all signed on to distribute a high definition version of the sports specialty TV channel, Le Réseau des sports (RDS), when it launches Wednesday.
The channel, broadcasting in high definition 24 hours a day, seven days a week, will air all the Montreal Canadiens games during the 1007-08 season, along with all major sports events, including major golf tournaments, the Super Bowl, the Grey Cup, tennis, major league baseball playoffs and Formula 1 races. About 1,000 hours of original HD programming will be produced by the channel over the next…
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