REDMOND, Wash., and LOUISVILLE, Colo. – An agreement announced Wednesday between Microsoft and CableLabs means Microsoft’s dream of easily delivering high-quality TV signals to PCs is right around the corner.
The world’s biggest software company and the North American cable industry’s research and development organization today announced they have reached an agreement that will allow Microsoft and PC manufacturers to bring to market digital-cable-ready Windows Media Center-based PCs in the holiday 2006 time frame.
These Media Center PCs, capable of supporting a CableCARD module, will allow consumers to enjoy one-way cable programming, including premium high-definition cable content, on their…
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HALIFAX – EastLink and its employees helped raise $4,000 for the Sébastien Savage fund during the broadcast of a fundraising game played in honour of the injured Moncton Aigles Bleus hockey player.
He was left paralyzed in his upper and lower extremities after an accident during a game on October 22.
EastLink’s pledge line allowed viewer’s to participate by calling and providing a donation to this important fundraising event. EastLink received callers from viewer’s throughout the Maritimes and from across Canada who learned of the telethon and wanted to donate to Savage. Phone lines were open from 7 to…
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HALIFAX – EastLink Television pre-empted its Wednesday evening broadcast schedule to carry a fundraising game played in honour of Sébastien Savage. The Moncton Aigles Bleus hockey player was left paralyzed in his upper and lower extremities after an accident during a game on October 22.
The game between the Saint Mary’s Huskies and Moncton Aigles Bleus was played at the Halifax Forum and aired on EastLink Television at 7 p.m. this evening.
All proceeds from ticket sales are going to Savage and his family. The Saint Mary’s Huskies were originally scheduled to play the team on October 26 but delayed…
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SAINT JOHN – Aliant president and CEO Jay Forbes told financial analysts on Friday that he’s holding out hope that the CRTC will see it their way when it comes to forbearing from regulating its local telephony markets.
Aliant and all other Canadian telecom stakeholders faced the Commission during the week of September 26th to give their opinion on local telephony competition and at what stage the Regulator should de-regulate local phone markets.
The local forbearance hearing (which was attended by www.cartt.ca) was initiated by an Aliant request early in 2005 that it be relieved of regulation in 32…
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IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT a family-owned cable company will bring in an outsider to run it. Especially a telco guy.
But, when that cable operation is in the middle of turning into a telephone company, too, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea after all. Until June of this year, John Piercy was working as a consultant to Hamilton’s Mountain Cablevision, working out the kinks in its telephony offering, leading up to this past summer’s launch.
That’s when Owen Boris (Mountain’s founder) and his son Les asked Piercy (right) to come aboard full time as president. Les is…
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HALIFAX – Every fall the fine folks at EastLink play host to dozens of programming and technical suppliers who fly in from Toronto (mostly) to pay the company a visit and pass on a few things to the their employees – and then play a little golf.
This year’s one-day educational forum was entitled: “The Future Is Now” and is designed every year to be both interactive and educational with EastLink learning sessions in the morning and presentations from the programming community after lunch. Continue Reading
GRAVENHURST, Ont. – The final day of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance annual general meeting last Thursday was both informative and thirst-quenching.
While the first day was all about a trade show and golf, as reported by www.cartt.ca, day two was education-focused.
After hearing in the morning from lawyer Purdy Crawford on the value of leadership and American Cable Association president Matthew Polka on what’s up Stateside, Canadian Digital Television president and high definition missionary Michael McEwen outlined recent progress in HD deployment.
Most of his figures were out of the U.S.
Ninety percent…
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HALIFAX – EastLink Television will launch its new season of local programming on October 2nd.
Among a number of returning favourites, the channel will launch a new program: Real Wheels. This reality-style program is a “how-to” on the ins and outs of sport compact car modifications and will premiere in January.
Viewer favourites Harv’s Sportsland, EastLink Magazine, Welcome to My Kitchen and Two Guys and a Computer all return to the Fall program line-up. Rounding out the schedule includes last year’s hits: Wonderful World of Painting and Podium TV. Children’s favourite Sunshine Sue and You returns in December hosted by…
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GRAVENHURST, Ont. – The Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association drew a crowd while handing out its annual Galaxi Awards this afternoon at the Taboo Resort in Gravenhurst, Ont.
The presentation kicks off Cable Week at the golf resort which continues for the next two days.
The awards sponsors were law firm Fasken Martineau, the CBC’s Newsworld, Country Canada, RDI, Galaxie and RDI, Telefilm Canada and Deutsche Welle.
The winners are:
Outstanding Achievement Frederick T. Metcalf Award for Marketing Habillage 2004: ARTV
William Stanley Thomas Community Involvement Award * Comsep a rebatir: TV COGECO * We All Can: Shaw Cablesystems Continue Reading
QUEBEC CITY – Cogeco Inc. CEO Louis Audet said Thursday that the time has come for the company’s cable division to revisit offering wireless service to its customers.
With EastLink and Access Communications selling Rogers Wireless service and with Videotron announcing this week that it will brand and sell its own service on the Rogers network, Audet was asked at the CIBC World Markets annual investors conference in Quebec City whether Cogeco was actively considering the service addition.
“We’ve looked at it twice already,” said Audet. “We had concluded this time that we would launch our voice over IP…
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