BURLINGTON – Cogeco Cable today made official the addition of three new high definition (HD) channels to its Ontario line-up.
They are:
* Sports channel Score HD * National Geographic HD * Showcase HD
For Ontario customers who already subscribe to the standard definition version of these new HD channels and who the pay the $5.99 monthly HD Access Fee, no additional charges will be required to access these three new HD channels.
Cogeco Cable’s digital television service has added more than 80,000 new customers in fiscal 2006, added the company.
www.cogeco.ca www.thescore.ca www.nationalgeographic.ca www.showcase.ca…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable will add movies from Twentieth Century Fox to its video on demand lineup as of today.
The studio’s new release line up features X-Men The Last Stand, Ice Age: The Meltdown, The Devil Wears Prada and Little Miss Sunshine, in addition to other new releases and library titles. On April 4th, Borat will debut.
"Our VOD service is growing in popularity and we are thrilled to be associated with 20th Century Fox, which produces many blockbusters each year. This agreement will enable us to enhance our VOD selection as well as our customers’ VOD experience,"…
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BURLINGTON – Cogeco Cable launched its Wi-Fi Internet access in Ontario Friday with nearly 150 access points spread throughout the Burlington, Oakville and Hamilton areas.
Now, all Cogeco Cable High Speed Internet (HSI) customers in Ontario will be able to take advantage of this new service, at no additional charge. For Cogeco HSI customers, accessing the Internet or their e-mail accounts through their portable wireless devices outside their home or office will now be as simple as logging in with their Cogeco email address and password, around any of these access points.
“Wi-Fi continues to grow in popularity as…
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LEAMINGTON – Cogeco Cable launched phone service in Leamington and Kingsville, Ontario this week.
"Since its initial launch, the Digital Phone service has had a snowball effect on the number of subscriptions to other Cogeco Cable services and its deployment has been enthusiastically welcomed in the markets where it was introduced," says the press release.
Residents can now take advantage of Cogeco Cable’s telephony offer starting at $44.99 per month if they subscribe to Cogeco Cable’s High Speed Internet and cable television service.
www.cogeco.com
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Inc. announced today it will be issuing 4.5 million subordinate voting shares, raising $173.2 million on a bought deal basis at a price of $38.50 per share.
The company, with cable, Internet, and telephone services in Quebec, Ontario, and Portugal, says net proceeds from the offering will be used to repay debt and for general corporate purposes.
Under the offering, the shares will be offered for sale to the public in each of the provinces and territories of Canada. The underwriting syndicate includes Scotia Capital Inc. acting as bookrunner and is being co-led by GMP…
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BROCKVILLE – Cogeco Cable has announced the launch of its digital phone service in Brockville, Ont.
With this latest service extension, Cogeco hopes to boost subscriptions to other company services. To this end, Cogeco is offering promotional package deals covering digital phone service, cable TV, and high-speed internet.
As of Nov. 30th, according to company statements, digital telephone service was available to 72% of homes in Cogeco Cable territory in Quebec and Ontario.
www.cogeco.ca.
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. posted substantial growth in the first quarter of fiscal 2007, driven largely by its cable operations in Ontario, Quebec and Portugal.
In the first quarter of fiscal year 2007 revenue increased by 45.9% and operating income before amortization increased by 45.8% compared to the same period last year.
Cogeco Cable achieved one of the best revenue generating units growth of its Canadian operations history and includes results fro, Cabovisao – Televisao por Cabo, Portugal.
The media sector (Cogeco is the majority owner of TQS and also owns several radio stations) contributed to these results with…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Radio-television said Tuesday it will not exercise its right to purchase the 40% interest in Quebec broadcaster TQS that it doesn’t already own and that the parties have agreed to extend its partnership agreement until at least January 1, 2009.
The change of control of Bell Globemedia on August 31, 2006 triggered the right for Cogeco to acquire all of CTV’s shares in TQS. Cogeco owns 60% of the network.
"We mutually agreed to postpone the put call option window that would have opened February 15, 2007… to January 1st 2009," said Cogeco CEO Louis Audet.
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has told its customers that HDNet is coming December 13th, and that as of December 1st, it is changing how it prices high definition channels.
The company will no longer offer the HD Theme Pack as a stand-alone package for $6.99 a month or as a theme pack option for its Digital Select customers and will instead charge a new HD system access fee of $5.99 per month.
Customers who pay the monthly HD access fee will be able to see all of the HD versions of every standard definition channel available to them. And…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable announced Tuesday the launch of Anime Network On Demand, a new subscription video on-demand service offering a line-up of new creations and classics.
Launched in North America in late 2002, Anime reaches more than 40 million households with what it describes as “an entire animé library at your fingertips, from brand new shows to old school classics, giant robots to magical girls and even dubbed and subtitled programming”.
Included in the line-up is the original series Gatchaman, the show that started some of the favourites, such as Battle of the Planets and G-Force, says a…
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