TROIS-RIVIÈRES, QC – Cogeco Cable launched a customized version of TiVo to its Quebec-based cable customers Monday, some five months after first rolling it out in Ontario.
The Cogeco TiVo's fully integrated advance search function explores live television as well as recorded, on-demand and online content, according to the announcement, plus offers full integration of Netflix into the platform. Netflix subscribers can access the content this service offers through the TiVo platform by way of a simple unified search, without having to use additional external devices. TiVo also helps users discover new content by providing personalized recommendations, plus…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s publicly traded television service providers combined lost a record 65,000 TV subscribers in their respective 2014 fiscal years (November 30/December 31, 2013 to November 30/December 31, 2014), up sharply from just a few hundred lost in their 2013 fiscal years, according to a new report released today
New research from Ottawa-based research and consulting firm Boon Dog Professional Services also shows that the publicly traded TV service providers lost 21,380 TV subscribers combined in their 2014 fiscal fourth quarters, almost double the 11,323 lost in the same periods in 2013.
“The trend continues to show the…
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GATINEAU – There are always some interesting figures which emerge with the publishing of the annual aggregate returns of the large carriers and broadcasters by the CRTC.
Below are a few highlights from the data filed by Canada’s cable, satellite and IPTV companies (we’ll look at the conventional TV, pay and specialty and radio numbers later) for the broadcast year ended August 31, 2014.
Of the subscriber losses suffered by the large, established TV carriers (cable and satellite brands Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct, Videotron, Bell Satellite TV, Cogeco Cable and Eastlink) almost all went to…
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OTTAWA – While some have yet to react and others have decried the CRTC’s decisions today on the carriage portion of the Commission’s TV Policy Review, the overall reaction has ranged from generally positive to indifferent. Bell Canada and Quebecor Media have chosen not to respond as yet.
Shaw Communications president and CEO Brad Shaw:
“We support the Government’s direction and the Commission’s commitment to maximize choice for Canadians – as citizens, producers, and consumers. We are pleased that the Commission has built on the foundation of previous Talk TV decisions to support a bold yet balanced and orderly policy framework…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Data Services has launches Canada's first geo redundant multi-hypervisor-public cloud and self-service management portal.
The enhanced Public Cloud Virtual Data Centre (VDC) service provides customers with the choice between flexible enterprise-class virtual environments, including Microsoft's Hyper-V and VMWare's vSphere platforms, reads the announcement.
All customers subscribing to the new platform will also have access to the Cogeco Data Services' new self-serve portal capabilities through which they can manage, configure and automate their cloud environment in a customized manner suited to their unique ICT requirements. This includes access to real-time visibility, the ability to take advantage of many self-service…
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OTTAWA — The CRTC announced Thursday it is closing the file on a complaint from the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) regarding various cable carriers’ wholesale high-speed access (HSA) services, and directed CNOC and the cable carriers to address outstanding issues through bilateral discussions or the CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee (CISC).
In Telecom Decision CRTC 2015-40, the CRTC further directed CNOC and the cable carriers in question to submit a report, within 90 days, on the state of progress in resolving these issues. The cable carriers who were specifically included in CNOC’s original complaint, first submitted to the CRTC…
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TORONTO — Following on its exclusive deal last summer to distribute WWE’s flagship programming in Canada, Rogers announced today it has reached carriage agreements for WWE Network with multiple television providers.
Rogers became the exclusive Canadian distributor of WWE Network through 2024 in a 10-year broadcast and multimedia agreement reached with WWE in August.
In addition to Rogers and Eastlink, the premium WWE Network linear TV channel will soon be available to Cogeco Cable Canada, Shaw and Shaw Direct, Telus Optik TV and Telus Satellite TV, and Vidéotron subscribers. (In a Rogers press release issued today, no word was…
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MONTREAL — Cogeco Data Services says its new 100,000-square-foot data centre in Montreal is on track to launch this coming spring.
Currently under construction in the suburb of Kirkland, the company’s new state-of-the-art facility will be designed to Tier 3 standards. It will provide customers in Montreal and the surrounding area with access to advanced colocation, managed IT and cloud services.
“We are very excited to add another advanced facility to our growing data centre footprint,” said Tony Ciciretto, president and CEO, Cogeco Data Services and Peer 1 Hosting, in a news release. “The new centre is specifically designed to…
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MONTREAL — CTAM Canada president Gary Pelletier has joined Accedo as the country manager for Canada. Accedo is a provider of TV Everywhere solutions for media and distribution companies worldwide.
In his new role, Pelletier will be responsible for building Accedo’s business in Canada, as well as helping customers plan and deploy their TV Everywhere projects.
Prior to joining Accedo, he had been VP Marketing at Stingray since 2009. He held various senior marketing and product marketing positions at Cogeco from 2002 to 2009. He has also served as director of marketing for Super Écran for Astral.
Pelletier has an…
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WE HATE THE WORD predictions. Research companies are good at that, but nobody can really predict the future. However, we do like making educated guesses – and now that we’re a month into 2015, we feel we can make some of those with better data than what we could have done before Christmas, when “prediction” articles are so fashionable.
So, here are a few of our prognostications…
Cord cutting will grow. Subscription TV providers used last year’s Deloitte TMT predictions and some middling overall results to show that cord-cutting is not happening – at least not at…
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