HALIFAX – EastLink continues to expand its network and customer base with the re-branding of Persona’s western systems.
In the coming months, Persona customers in Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba will be introduced to the EastLink name and will receive their communications and entertainment services under the EastLink brand.
“As we enhance our presence in Western Canada and continue to invest in EastLink’s modern fibre optic network, we look forward to delivering an enhanced range of entertainment and communications products and services with the network reliability for which EastLink is known in other markets," said president and COO Deborah Shaffner,…
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TORONTO – The Movie Network launched two additional high-definition channels on Wednesday, MExcess HD and MFun! HD.
Available free of charge to TMN subscribers, the new channels will mirror the programming available on MExcess and MFun!’s respective standard-definition channels.
“With the addition of these new channels, The Movie Network and its classic movie service, Mpix, have five HD channels collectively and boast the most HD movies of any network in Canada,” said Domenic Vivolo, SVP of marketing and sales for Astral, in the announcement.
The channels are available on Rogers and Cogeco Cable immediately. They will launch with Bell TV next week, and…
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TORONTO – Media companies looking to monetize their content with online subscription models would be advised to look for additional sources of revenue.
According to results from the Q3 edition of Digital Life Canada, Solution Research Group’s quarterly trend survey.
The research benchmarked consumers’ willingness to pay for various types of content online. Only 14% said they would pay for newspapers online; TV shows did better at 22%, and books seemed worthy of payment to 29%. At the top of the list was movies which had the most potential, with 37% indicating a willingness to pay.
Those currently paying for online or…
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HALIFAX – EastLink is offering its digital cable customers free previews of Setanta Sports and TSN HD, just in time for the holidays.
Setanta Sports, which bills itself as the home of International Sport, will be available from November 27 to November 29, while TSN HD can be seen from November 26 to January 6, 2010.
"EastLink is continuously providing opportunities for customers to preview the diverse channels in our digital TV line-up," said president and COO Deborah Shaffner, in the announcement.
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TORONTO – The high definition television subscribers of Bell TV say they love their nature and sports channels, according to a new Angus Reid survey done for independent broadcaster High Fidelity HDTV.
Leading the way is Oasis HD, a nature and natural history channel owned and run by Toronto-based High Fidelity HDTV Inc. According to the survey, Oasis HD is the high definition television channel most-often talked about or recommended to others.
Among the 505 Bell TV subscribers surveyed – who had at least one HiFi channel – Oasis HD ranked ahead of Bell’s other HD offerings (see chart).
"We have known…
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HALIFAX – Over 70 channels are being viewed free of charge by EastLink digital cable customers this month, the company announced in Friday.
"We’re offering a month-long free-view as a way of saying thank you to our customers," said Deborah Shaffner, president and COO, in a press release.
"In addition to introducing our customers to new channels, free previews allow us to showcase the many great channels and specialty programming available through EastLink Digital TV."
Participating channels, which include digi-nets and time-shifted broadcast channels include:
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TORONTO – High Fidelity channels Oasis HD, Equator HD, Treasure HD and Rush HD have begun a month long free preview.
Available on Rogers, Bell TV, EastLink, Sasktel and Source Cable, the company hired ad agency Endeavour to handle the campaign and the media buy, which features radio, television, and print elements.
“We know once viewers sample our exceptional programming, they love our channels and stay with us,” said High Fidelity HDTV co-founder Ken Murphy, in a statement. “We chose Endeavour to help convey the tremendous visual quality of our HD line up in a consumer campaign that targets Ontario viewers.”
To…
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TORONTO – While data will account for 19% of wireless service revenue – and all of 2009 service revenue growth in Canada – a 2% decline in Canadian wireless service ARPU is predicted by Convergence Consulting Group.
Growing adoption of smartphones/data devices, “which we estimate will reach 23% by year-end 2009 (and break 50% in 2014), is helping to drive data revenue growth,” says the report, as voice revenue has moved into negative territory.
As for the new entrants (and taking into account that Globalive likely won’t be in the market in the short term), “based on what we project new…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications and Bragg Communications are in discussions on potential system swaps, Cartt.ca has learned.
A source with direct knowledge of the talks said late Wednesday on condition of anonymity that the two companies are negotiating a deal in which the primary assets exchanged would be Bragg’s Delta Cable and Coast Cable systems in southern B.C. (and potentially some of EastLink’s other operations in Western Canada, too) in exchange for Rogers’ systems in St. John’s, Corner Brook and Gander, Nfld.
The deal would certainly make sense for Bragg’s EastLink cableco since it owns many small systems throughout Newfoundland &…
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HALIFAX – Former EastLink co-CEO Dan McKeen has left the company, Cartt.ca has learned.
In an e-mail to Cartt.ca, McKeen confirmed his last day at Canada’s fifth-largest cable company in the country was Tuesday, October 27.
He plans to take a few months off before looking at other opportunities. “I have fully enjoyed my time at EastLink. I describe it as the opportunity of a lifetime,” he wrote.
Until this year, McKeen had been co-CEO of the company, along with Lee Bragg, but recent personnel shuffles at the top of the company saw a number of folks change jobs or depart. McKeen’s…
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