MONTREAL – With just days to go before Bell Let's Talk Day on January 28, Bell officially kicked off the $1 million annual Bell Let's Talk Community Fund for 2015.
Applications are now being accepted for grants from $5,000 up to $50,000 for community-based mental health initiatives from coast to coast to coast. Applications are open to registered not-for-profit organizations and registered charities to fund localized mental health programs, and the selection process is aided by mental health experts from across Canada.
The 2015 application period is open until March 31, and all 2015 Fund grants will be disbursed before…
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MONTREAL – CTAM Canada’s newly elected board of directors for 2015 includes a number of familiar names and faces.
The executive committee is:
– Gary Pelletier from Accedo as president for the second of his two year term;
– Drew Robinson from Shaw Media as vice-president;
– Jennifer Salmon from CCSA as secretary; and
– Jeff Taylor from DHX Media as treasurer.
In the recent elections, the CTAM Canada membership re-elected Pelletier, Robinson and Leslie Fields from AMC Networks to continue on the board for another two year term. First-time board members John Fulton from Shaw Communications and Shawn Praskey from Corus Entertainment were also…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. doesn’t think it can expand its territory through acquiring other Canadian cable companies, and it doesn’t want to start building its network out to compete directly with its neighbours, so its strategy for stopping its losses in TV subscribers in Canada comes down to one word: TiVo.
The company started offering the advanced set-top box to its Atlantic Broadband customers in the United States last year, and in Ontario in November, and will start offering it in Quebec starting this spring. The TiVo box is a whole-home DVR capable of recording six channels at…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable kicked off fiscal 2015 with “solid” first quarter financial results that included a 14.1% jump in profits.
For the first quarter ended November 30, 2014, the company said that revenue increased 4.6% to $497.0 million, up from $474.9 million last year, driven by growth of 1.8% in its Canadian cable services segment, 15.2% in the American cable services segment and 3.5% in the Enterprise data services segment. Revenue increased organically from most operating units combined with favorable foreign exchange rates in its foreign operations.
Adjusted EBITDA rose 3.5% to $218.9 million, compared to $211.5 million in the same…
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LONDON – Addressable TV ad campaigns are driving TV ad revenues to “insane” levels in some markets, according to David Downey, CEO and president of Invidi Technologies, a developer of targeted advertising systems, originally founded in Edmonton and now headquartered in Princeton, N.J.
Downey made his comments earlier this month at the Future TV Advertising Forum held in London, England. Click here for the full presentation.
Talked about for years, addressable TV ad systems use dynamic ad insertion technology to allow advertisers to target specific household audiences, based on age, income and other demographic factors,…
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En 2007-2008, ils étaient nombreux dans l’industrie canadienne de la télévision à se demander qui était ce drôle de type qui achetait toutes les marques musicales.
À l’époque, tout le monde croyait que la musique était une industrie en déclin, complètement dépassée par la révolution numérique — un domaine dont les gens d’affaires sérieux devaient s’éloigner, et non pas investir. Ce n’était certainement pas un secteur où l’on planifiait construire une nouvelle entreprise d’envergure mondiale. Il ne manquait pas de sceptiques lorsqu’est arrivé sur la scène de la télévision canadienne Eric Boyko, être au verbe rapide et entrepreneur à l’énergie…
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BACK IN 2007-08 THERE were no shortage of people in the Canadian TV industry who’d whisper, “who’s the crazy guy buying up all the music brands?”
The prevailing wisdom then said music was a shrinking, sinking business, utterly upended by the digital revolution and one to be fled by serious businesspeople, not embraced. It was certainly not something upon which to build a brand new global enterprise. Oh, there were plenty of naysayers when Eric Boyko (pictured in his Montreal office), a speed talking ball of frenetic, entrepreneurial energy, entered the Canadian TV scene. (Pour la version française, s'il vous…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has named Richard Shea as president and CEO of its American subsidiary Atlantic Broadband, and David Isenberg as its president and chief revenue officer, effective January 1st.
Current president, CEO and company co-founder Edward Holleran has decided to step down from his position effective January 1, 2015, but will stay on as vice president of industry relations on a part-time basis.
Both Shea and Isenberg have been with Atlantic Broadband since it was founded in 2003. Shea began his career with the company as chief information officer and has served as chief operating officer the past two years,…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched its home phone service in the Quebec municipality of Paspebiac, located at the south end of the Gaspe Peninsula.
All Cogeco customers, and the majority of the residents in this area, may subscribe to the service immediately by selecting either the Basic Line, Select or Freedom package and adding on calling features such as voice mail, call display, call waiting and three-way calling.
"We're excited to launch our Home Phone service in Paspebiac because we know it truly is what our customers are looking for: flexibility, choice and competitive price”, said Anne Isabelle Roussy, Cogeco’s…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Data Services has unveiled plans to launch Canada’s first Public Cloud service early next year, providing Canadian businesses with public, private and hybrid cloud capabilities.
The company said that the new Public Cloud will offer customers the choice between flexible enterprise-class virtual environments, including Microsoft's Hyper-V and VMWare's vSphere platforms. The Public Cloud will also provide access to advanced features including virtual data centre, next-generation storage performance management, hybrid capabilities and geo-redundancy supported by managed security, ITand public and private connectivity options. Customers will be able to manage their cloud environment through new portal capabilities that provide…
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