DENVER and TORONTO – World Fishing Network posted the highest single-month viewership in the history of the network during the month of April as part of its North American free preview.
Overall, WFN said that it experienced a 265% increase in average audience viewership in the U.S. during the preview period. Participating providers included Antietam Cable, Bright House Networks, Cablevision (Optimum), CenturyLink, Cox Communications, DISH, MetroNet and Verizon FiOS.
In Canada, Access, Bell, Cablevision du Nord du Quebec, Cogeco, Eastlink, MTS, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct, Source Cable, TBayTel, Telus, Videotron and Westman participated in the preview. While Canadian television…
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TORONTO – Given the pile of money Rogers Communications paid for the rights to the National Hockey League games for the next 12 years, look for the wholesale fees paid for sports by BDUs – and their customers – to shoot up.
A research report recently published by Scotia Capital analyst Jeff Fan says that if you think sports makes up a big portion of BDUs’ programming costs now, just wait. When the sports genre was deregulated by the CRTC back in 2010, CTV/Bell Media served notice that rates for TSN (which had been the same for more than a…
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GATINEAU – New entrants and would-be wireless providers find themselves trying to again convince the federal telecom regulator that it needs to intervene in the wireless market. At the same time however, the incumbent operators tell the CRTC everything is working just fine as it is.
The comments come as the CRTC is studying the wholesale wireless services market with the goal of determining if the market is competitive enough or whether it needs to impose more regulations on roaming, tower and site sharing and others. All interventions can be found here. The public hearing is scheduled for September…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable has launched its Ultimate 120 High Speed Internet (HSI) residential package and the enhancement of its Turbo 20, and Ultimate 55 high speed Internet packages in North Bay and Peterborough, ON.
The company says that current subscribers will be able to benefit from this improvement immediately. The Turbo 20, and Ultimate 55 high speed package upgrade includes an upload speed increase from up to 2 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps, at no additional cost.
The newly launched Ultimate 120 High Speed Internet package offers download speeds of up to 120 Mbps and upload speeds of…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable, along with Magog Technopole and the downtown Magog revitalization committee, have launched wireless Internet along Principale and Merry streets in the city's downtown area.
The Wi-Fi hotspots on these two main arteries are powered by Cogeco, which installed 20 access points in that area. To log on, users simply choose the network "Cogeco Wi-Fi." With a population of 26,500 inhabitants, Magog is the central city of the Memphremagog Regional Country Municipality and the second largest in the Estrie region of Quebec after Sherbrooke. The launch of this pilot project is in keeping with Magog's vision of becoming…
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OTTAWA – The fact that 700 MHz wireless spectrum (taken back from TV broadcasters in 2011 and sold to wireless companies for $5.3 billion earlier this year) will continue to be used to transmit all sorts of video, shows proof we must look at rewriting the legislation governing the broadcasting industry, according to former CRTC commissioner Suzanne Lamarre.
She was speaking Thursday at last week’s Law Society of Upper Canada’s Biennial National Conference on New Developments in Communications Law and Policy held in Ottawa. “The 700 MHz band, formerly designated for over-the-air television… has officially been taken over by wireless…
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LOS ANGELES – Despite the increasingly powerful competitive threat posed by large Internet video providers like Netflix, some top cable executives believe that Netflix may start producing some benefits for them as well.
Speaking on an opening panel of the Cable Show here Tuesday, the optimistic MSO executives argued that Netflix may actually come to the aid of the cable industry now that a number of cable operators have struck peering or carriage deals with the online bide king. They seemed hopeful that these recent deals, such as last week's carriage agreements between Netflix and three…
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OTTAWA – Sun News has cracked the programming lineup at Bell.
The network said Wednesday that it has secured “a long-term spot” on Bell TV's basic satellite television and in Bell Fibe packages, and will also soon be available for the first time ever to Bell Aliant customers. Viewers can find Sun News Network on Bell Satellite TV on channel 506, on Bell Fibe channel 531 (or 1531 for HD) and on Bell Aliant channel 232.
The network said that the agreements follow a CRTC ruling in December “that told cable and satellite TV providers to treat all Canadian news channels…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable rolled out its Turbo 20 and Ultimate 55 High Speed Internet packages in Belleville and Trenton, ON on Monday.
The Turbo 20 package offers a download speed of up to 20 Mbps and upload speed of up to 2 Mbps, as well as a monthly data transfer capacity of 150 GB. The Ultimate 55 package offers speeds of up to 55 Mbps for downloads and up to 2 Mbps for uploads with monthly data transfer capacity of 275 GB. Both packages also include Cogeco’s full suite of security services at no extra charge.
"We always strive to…
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QUINCY, MA and PRINCETON, NJ – Cogeco Cable subsidiary Atlantic Broadband, as well as Grande Communications and RCN are the first U.S. cable providers to offer Netflix through the same set-top box used to watch live television.
The companies said Friday that the Netflix App will be fully integrated into their TiVo DVR service distributed by the three providers, meaning customers who subscribe to Netflix will be able to access the OTT service in addition to live TV, On Demand shows and other web content through one single device.
The partnership eliminates the complexity of multiple boxes, remote controls, input…
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