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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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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