TORONTO – The Moxi whole home media solution from ARRIS was named the ‘Technology Most Likely To Succeed’ at the Innovation Showcase at the SCTE Canadian Summit on Tuesday.
Moxi’s demonstration featured the Moxi UI, Moxi media platform with Moxi HD DVR and Moxi Mate multi-room players, and Moxi Portal. The system is designed to time- and place-shift the delivery of media content, whether via digital cable, the home network or integrated Internet services, throughout the home where Moxi is available.
“The Moxi HD DVR and Moxi Mate products provide a very compelling solution for cable operators,” said Steve Irvine,…
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EXTON, PA – The SCTE will showcase five innovative products and solutions designed to drive new value for cable system operators at its first Innovation Showcase in conjunction with the SCTE Canadian Summit in Toronto.
ARRIS, Kindsight, Motorola, Sandvine and Vecima Networks will demonstrate new approaches in a variety of technology areas, ranging from content management and bandwidth usage management to bandwidth reclamation and identity theft.
Using mobile text messaging, Canadian Summit attendees will then be able to vote for one of the five solutions as the ‘most likely technology to succeed’. The winner will be announced during the…
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MONTREAL – Perhaps due in part to some public pressure, Cogeco Cable has signed on to offer the video-on-demand coverage of the Olympics offered by the Games’ Broadcast Media Consortium.
Cogeco joins Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, EastLink and its subsidiary Delta Cable and Source Cable in offering the 700 hours of VOD content free of charge beginning February 13 with the Opening Ceremony.
All coverage will be available within 24 hours after its original airing to Cogeco’s digital cable customers in Québec and Ontario that have access to VOD on channel 600.
A Cogeco spokesperson wrote in an email to Cartt.ca that…
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GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB – EastLink introduced its local telephone, Internet and digital TV service in Grande Prairie Tuesday, as it continues to re-brand Persona’s western systems.
The move came after the completion of an upgrade of its digital network in the area which the company said cost “millions”.
"This investment speaks to our commitment to bring more services throughout Grande Prairie," said president and COO Deborah Shaffner, in a statement. "As the first to offer competitive phone service in the Grande Prairie area, this upgrade allows EastLink to offer residents choice in local telephone, and the opportunity to experience the convenience,…
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TORONTO – Cable viewers can watch many of their favourite Olympic moments over and over again, on demand thanks to a video on demand agreement signed with four cable operators.
More than 700 hours of video on demand coverage in English and French of the 2010 Winter Games will be available via Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, EastLink and its subsidiary Delta Cable and Source Cable, free of charge. This represents more than triple the amount of on demand coverage of Turin 2006 (221 hours).
(Ed note: As a Cogeco Cable customer and Olympics fan, we here at Cartt.ca are very hopeful…
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TORONTO – The primary headline will be the $40 million raised by Canada’s broadcasters via a pair of telethons on Friday (one in Toronto and another in French in Montreal), but there are a lot of other stories out there of companies from our industry rallying their employees or their customers to the cause.
Canada For Haiti, Friday’s one-hour, commercial-free special produced collaboratively between CBC Television, CTV and Global Television and also aired on Citytv, has raised more than $13.5 million to date for relief efforts in Haiti, it was confirmed today. (Citytv also aired its own “Help for Haiti”…
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HALIFAX – Just three months after his departure from EastLink, Dan McKeen’s career will continue in the same East Coast city in which it began.
The former co-CEO at Bragg Communications-owned EastLink was recently named senior vice-president of customer solutions at Bell Aliant. He left EastLink October 27, 2009 and begins his new job next Thursday.
In an interview with Cartt.ca, McKeen (who spent 24 years first at Halifax Cable, right out of university, which later was purchased by Bragg) is happy to be staying put, while looking forward to moving on. “This lets me work in the industry…
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TIVERTON, Ont. – While wireless newcomers like Wind and Public and DAVE get all the press as they launch in the big Canadian cities this year, the people in places like Collingwood, Owen Sound, Kincardine and Tiverton, Ont., will also have a new mobile competitor in 2010.
Their nearly 100-year-old ILEC, Bruce Telecom, plans to add wireless this year – to go along with the next generation service it launched in 2009, digital television.
“We have a fairly wide product offering,” new CEO Eric Dobson told Cartt.ca in an interview Wednesday (his third day on the job), “and in the second…
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HALIFAX – Former EastLink exec Dan McKeen will be joining competitor Bell Aliant effective January 28, 2010.
As the SVP of customer solutions, McKeen will assume leadership and responsibility for all aspects of marketing, sales and contact centre operations. He takes over the role from Heather Tulk who was recently appointed SVP of residential products at Bell Canada in Toronto.
Prior to this role, McKeen held a number of positions at Bragg Communications under the Eastlink brand, including director of marketing and new business development and, subsequently, co-CEO.
“Dan’s knowledge of the telecommunications, internet and television markets across our territory is both first-hand and deep”, said CEO…
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GATINEAU – For those of us who have been to a few of these CRTC get-togethers, Marjorie Lemieux will likely stick in our minds for a while.
Dressed in a bright purple sweatshirt, the Rogers Cable customer was on the first consumer panel of the day (a group pulled together from submissions via the “Stop the TV Tax” campaign) for hearing 2009-614, the one called by the CRTC in response to cabinet’s call for a report on the implications of paying a fee for conventional TV.
“My name is Marjorie and I want to stop the TV tax,” she began, adding…
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