MONTREAL – Cogeco’s radio subsidiary Cogeco Diffusion Inc. has sold off Métromédia CMR Plus Inc. (Cogeco Métromédia) almost four years to the date that it first acquired the transit advertising company.
The company said Tuesday that Cogeco Métromédia has been sold to Bell Media Inc., the owner of Astral Out of Home. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cogeco Métromédia is an out-of-home advertising company specializing in the public transit sector.
"Our experience with Cogeco Métromédia has been both positive and profitable," said president and CEO Louis Audet, in the news release. "We have been in the media industry since Cogeco's…
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BRAMPTON – Cogeco Cable’s Ron Huinink has been elected president of SCTE Ontario Chapter board for 2015.
He joins Rogers Cable’s John Triassi and Andrew Laframboise and Telonix’s Scott McPhail who were also elected to the SCTE Ontario Board for a period of two years (2016 and 2017). They join current board members Mario Massi, Ivan Novello, Chris Skarica and Joe Caruso.
The organization said that nine candidates put their names forward and that voter turnout was strong.
The Ontario Chapter of SCTE has grown to over 900 members since its inception in mid-2003 and is the largest chapter membership in North America.
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TORONTO – Telus will join the increasing number of data centre providers in Canada offering hybrid cloud services that connect applications in corporate-owned or hosted private clouds or infrastructure, to public clouds.
The Vancouver-based telecommunications company said last week the new hybrid cloud service – to launch early next year – will allow organizations to shift workloads including virtual machines, operating systems, data, and applications between their private clouds (usually applications that need high security) and public clouds (applications that are under development or are less mission-critical).
"It's going to provide the ability to move workloads between these environments…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Canada has named Daniel Boisvert as VP marketing and innovation, and Antoine Shiu as VP business solutions sales.
Boisvert (right) has more than 25 years of experience with large corporations in the telecommunications, media and new technologies fields, most recently as president of Strategika International. He has also been president and CEO of Sympatico-Lycos (Bell Canada), and held strategic positions with BCE, Bell ActiMedia and Teleglobe.
In his new role, Boisvert will provide strategic leadership to roll out flexible products and services that are on the leading edge of technology, reads the announcement. He will also…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Inc. needs shareholder approval to officially change its name to Cogeco Communications Inc., a moniker that it says better expresses its footprint, and clearly and strongly evokes its profile and unique areas of expertise.
The company said Wednesday that this topic was added to the agenda in the proxy circular to be delivered to shareholders next week, and that voting on the new name will take place at its annual shareholders' meeting on January 13, 2016 in Montreal.
In addition, the company is also reviewing of the name of its Cogeco Cable Canada subsidiary, though this analysis…
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MONTREAL – Content producers and distributors must figure out how best to be constantly innovative if Canadian content is to thrive in the new on-demand world.
That was the message Thursday as the CRTC and National Film Board’s 'En Route to the Discoverability Summit' workshop series came to Montreal. Like Tuesday’s session in Vancouver, there was a lot of discussion about how the media world has changed, and some interesting, if vague, suggestions on what to do about it.
The event started much like the previous one did, with speeches from men in suits (in French this time…)…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA) has named Marcia Douglas as director, business affairs and digital initiatives.
For the past five years, Douglas (pictured) has “lived at the crossroads of broadcast and digital media” as program manager for the Bell Fund, plus was also an analyst for both the Cogeco Fund and the Independent Production Fund. Prior to that, she was a producer, an assistant director, a production manager, and worked in original programming at Corus Entertainment.
Based in the organization’s Toronto office, Douglas will report to General Counsel and Legal & Business Affairs VP Marla Boltman, and Marguerite Pigott,…
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OTTAWA – While Canadians complained less about their wireless services last year, the number of Internet-related grievances jumped by 52%, the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS) said Wednesday in its annual report.
The report, Making The Tough Calls, showed that the CCTS received 9,988 customer complaints in 2014-15, down 12% from 11,340 in 2013-14, and maintained an 87% resolution rate. Wireless services complaints once again topped the list with 52.9% of all complaints, followed by 26.1% for Internet, 18.2% for local telephone service and 2.8% for long distance.
“For the second year in a row, complaints declined somewhat”,…
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TORONTO – Disney Junior and Disney XD will arrive in over eight million households this week through distribution partners across English Canada.
Corus Entertainment said Tuesday that the channels are available now through Bell Fibe TV, Bell Satellite TV, Bell FibreOp TV, MTS, Rogers, Shaw, Shaw Direct, Telus and various CCSA members. Cogeco Cable Canada and Eastlink will offer the channels starting Wednesday, and SaskTel customers will have access to the new services in the coming weeks.
Disney Junior, which is aimed at kids aged 2-7, launches with the network premiere of The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (pictured) on…
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TORONTO – Hollywood Suite tis gearing up for a national free preview of its four HDTV movie channels, from December 8 through to January 12.
The independent broadcaster said that the freeview is an opportunity for Canadian TV viewers to enjoy uncut and commercial-free movies on its newly rebranded channels devoted to the movies that shaped the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s.
“We’re excited to share Hollywood Suite with all Canadians this holiday season,” said president David Kines, in the news release. “We know this is one gift everyone will love."
The freeview includes access to Hollywood Suite On Demand, where available. Participating…
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