BRUCE COUNTY, ONT. — BlackburnNews.com reported this morning that a proposed plan to sell Bruce Telecom to Halifax-based Eastlink has been revived, after Kincardine, Ont.’s town council voted 5-4 in favour of directing its mayor to reopen talks with Eastlink to see if it’s still interested in buying publicly-owned Bruce Telecom.
Eastlink pulled out of the $26-million deal in August 2014, after the Competition Bureau expressed its concerns about the proposed sale.
Kincardine mayor Anne Eadie said if Eastlink is interested in revisiting the deal, the parties involved will need to work through the issues raised previously by the…
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OTTAWA – The participant list for Industry Canada’s upcoming AWS-3 and 2500 MHz auctions this spring is beginning to take shape. Among those who have confirmed to Cartt.ca that they have submitted applications to participate in the two aforementioned auctions are Rogers Communications and Telus Corp.
SaskTel says it applied for the AWS-3, but noted it is ineligible for the 2500 MHz sale. Bell Canada and Eastlink wouldn’t confirm or deny that they filed applications. Vidéotron and MTS hadn’t replied to Cartt.ca by deadline.
Wind Mobile, which recently completed a restructuring, had previously announced its…
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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 – 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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HALIFAX – After adding the World Wrestling Entertainment Network (WWE) to its channel lineup, Eastlink has officially broken the 200 HD milestone, the company said Wednesday.
Priced at $11.99 per month, WWE Network is a new 24/7 HD specialty channel featuring the best of WWE content, including all live WWE pay-per-view events, original series, live in-ring action, reality shows and a video-on-demand library.
WWE HD is the latest in a series of HD channel launches at Eastlink that also include Sundance Channel HD, CosmoTV HD, Nick HD, ATN HD, Super Ecran 1 HD, TFO HD, Historia HD, MSNBC HD, TVA Sports 2 HD…
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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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TORONTO – Launching next Thursday for customers of Bell, Telus, Bell Aliant and EastLink is the traditional TV industry’s latest salvo in the battle to retain customers by providing more content to television subscribers on more devices at any time.
This morning at the Bell TIFF Lightbox, the company officially revealed CraveTV, a $4-a-month service which will give subscribers to a traditional TV package access to more than 10,000 hours of content on their handsets, tablets, PCs and their regular set top boxes. It will also be available soon on other platforms such as AppleTV, Chromecast and Xbox.
Costing…
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HALIFAX – Eastlink is offering its TV customers more content on more platforms with the addition of Bell Media’s new CraveTV, plus TV Everywhere offerings CTV Go and TSN Go.
Free to Eastlink video customers, CTV Go provides TV customers with live streaming of select CTV and CTV Two programming via their TV, computer, tablet or smartphone, while TSN Go gives TV customers the ability to watch TSN's five national feeds live on multiple platforms, anytime, anywhere. Bell Media’s new subscription video-on-demand service CraveTV will be available to Eastlink customers later this month for $4 a month.
"Our customers are watching more…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has issued determinations to resolve a billing dispute between Bell Aliant and Eastlink over payments for service poles.
The Commission clarified that a “service pole” is to include all poles on which the only attachment is a wire that provides service to a particular customer. It also found that an error rate should not be applied to the pole census results in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and that Eastlink should be required to pay census fee charges but not late payment charges where there is a valid dispute.
The Commission further determined that, where…
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