TORONTO – A final reminder from CTAM Canada that registration is closing Friday May 10 for its 2013 Strategic Marketing Course taking place May 29-30.
The two-day executive strategic marketing program is an opportunity to join executives from a number of companies, including Astral, Bell Media, Blue Ant Media, Cogeco, Corus, Rogers, Shaw, Shaw Media, Stingray Digital, TVO and more. Space for the two-day event is limited to 50 participants and are being offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Led by Harvard Business School Professors Bharat Anand and Rajiv Lal, this year’s program…
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MONTREAL – Bell Canada and Astral Media executives attempted a bit more of a conciliatory approach in presenting its new, sharper, different, application to the CRTC which seeks permission to bring the two companies together under changed conditions compared to last time; but the questions from the panel of commissioners were equally as tough as the first go-around in September 2012.
(The details of the deal – already approved by the Competition Bureau, can be found here – and the company’s opening presentation unveiled nothing new, as demanded by the CRTC. So, the real story was…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco announced today it has filed a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus with Canadian securities regulatory authorities for up to $1.5 billion of debt securities.
These debt securities may be offered periodically over a 25-month period during which the short form base shelf prospectus remains valid. The company says specific terms of any debt securities will be described in one or more shelf prospectus supplements to be filed with the securities regulatory authorities.
When finalized, the short form base shelf prospectus replace Cogeco’s existing short form base shelf prospectus which expired January…
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MONTREAL – As part of its application to buy Astral Media, BCE is asking for an exception to the CRTC's common ownership policy that would allow it to own an extra English-language radio station in Montreal. This would allow it to keep sports talk station CKGM (TSN Radio 690) while buying three Astral stations. Without it, Bell says it will be forced to sell the station or turn in its licence.
But during questioning on Monday at a hearing in Montreal, commissioner Suzanne Lamarre floated the idea of another option: forcing Bell to keep CKGM in its current format and…
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MONTREAL ? Cogeco Cable announced it has expanded content for its On Demand Online service to include almost 3,000 television show and movies for its digital TV subscribers.
The catalogue of shows include already broadcasted content from The Movie Network On Demand, HBO Canada On Demand, Treehouse On Demand, Global On Demand, Super Ecran On Demand, Teletoon On Demand and Radio Canada On Demand.
Cogeco says content from available on demand channels is updated regularly, with content from new VOD channels being progressively added to the online service. The cableco?s on demand online…
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GATINEAU – Applicants in the CRTC’s 9(1)(h) process this week have been on the hot seat during the first two days of the hearing trying to demonstrate that their respective services meet the “exceptional” test required to be a mandatory TV service.
“Given its exceptional nature, the CRTC has set the bar very high for obtaining a mandatory distribution order on digital basic pursuant to section 9(1)(h). The CRTC’s policy requires that a service seeking such an order must clearly demonstrate its exceptional nature and that it achieves important public policy objectives under the Act,” Commission chair Jean-Pierre Blais said…
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MONTREAL – If you live in Quebec and happen to notice a slight improvement in your internet service, it may be due to the launch of the province’s first Internet Exchange Point (IXP) today.
The Montreal Internet Exchange, a non-profit organization working to create a more robust, higher-performing Internet in Quebec, along with its partners, officially launched the first Quebec Internet Exchange Point, bringing faster Internet to users across the province.
“The launch of the Montreal Internet Exchange, also known as QIX, is a critical step towards creating a faster, more robust Internet, not just…
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THE SIZE OF GLOBAL cable companies has always been defined by the number of basic cable customers they have. For decades, basic cable has been the first buy-in for any household wanting more than the TV channels they can capture off-air.
That, however, is changing. Today’s customers often want to talk about broadband first because increasingly, they want their web and e-mail before their favourite shows. Besides, they can often find those favourite shows online via that broadband connection, negating the need for traditional cable TV service of any kind, depending on what sort of entertainment they like.
Shaw Communications CFO…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Inc. announced today it is proposing a private offering of US$400 million of senior unsecured notes due 2020. The notes will be guaranteed by the company’s wholly-owned restricted subsidiaries.
Cogeco said it will use the net proceeds from the offering to partially repay a term loan the company entered into with its acquisition of Peer 1 Network Enterprises in January. The notes and guarantees will be offered only to “qualified institutional buyers” as defined under Rule 144A under the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Inc. reports that second quarter revenue increased by 32.7% to $458.5 million, and by 19.3% in the first six months to reach $825.1 million. Earnings from continuing operations for the quarter that ended February 28 were $58.5 million compared to $31.1 million a year earlier. It mostly attributes the increase for the quarter to the operating income from the recent acquisitions of ABB and Peer 1.
If the two acquisitions are not factored in, profit dropped by about $25 million in the quarter to $56.5 million compared to $81.5 million for the same period of…
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