TORONTO – Keith Pelley, president of Rogers Media, joined a very select group of graduates from Ryerson University yesterday who were recognized as cutting-edge leaders in their industry.
Pelley who graduated from Ryerson’s Radio and Television Arts program in 1986 received the Alumni Award of Distinction Award in recognition of a “career marked by outstanding professional achievement and distinguished personal service.” Pelley told Citytv that “Ryerson laid the foundation for me to get my start in my career and from there I’ve had some real good breaks.”
Pelley became President of Rogers Media in September of 2010, a position previously held…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC’s Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF) is either a necessary source of cash desperately needed to keep some local TV stations on air, or a stimulus program circa 2008 that now should be terminated. However, if the Commission is tabulating submissions for and against (and it isn’t) LPIF the 1300-plus submissions so far on the CRTC web site land squarely on the side of maintaining it.
The fund was created almost three years ago (in the midst of the financial crisis and just prior to the destructive Stop-The-TV-Tax vs. Local-TV-Matters battle), before Shaw and Bell bought into…
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OTTAWA– The winning schools from across Canada who competed in a national recycling challenge for mobile phones and accessories where announced today. The 2011 Recycle My Cell Student Challenge, held in partnership with Waste Reduction Week in Canada, saw Canadian students from kindergarten to post-secondary collecting as many old wireless devices as possible, including cell phones, smartphones, wireless PDAs, pagers, accessories and cell phone batteries.
For 30 days beginning October 17, students from 134 schools across Canada participated in the second annual challenge and collected more than 6,000 wireless devices and close to 600 kilograms of wireless accessories and batteries….
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EDMONTON – Rogers Radio station 91.7 The Bounce today announced the homecoming of Russell James as its new program director later this month.
“We’re excited to have one of Canada’s brightest programmers back in our studio, bringing his progressive attitude, innovative ideas, and innate connection with the music industry back to the birthplace of his Edmonton radio career,” said Al Ford, operations manager, 91.7 The Bounce.
James has mixed music at parties for the likes of internationally-recognized stars including Prince and Justin Timberlake. He began his Edmonton radio career at 91.7 The Bounce in 2007, and helped propel the station to…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications says claims by Bell Canada and Telus that the two wireless competitors and collaborators aren’t sharing spectrum are false. In fact, Telus is using Bell’s spectrum in Toronto for Long Term Evolution (LTE) services, according to Ken Engelhart, senior vice-president of regulatory at Rogers.
Earlier this month, Telus began advertising a 75 Mbps LTE service in Toronto. According to Engelhart, it would be impossible for Telus to provide an LTE service with those kinds of speeds in the 10 MHz of bandwidth it holds in Toronto. It would need 20 MHz to do it. Besides, he…
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NEW YORK – The wireless industry continues to be one of the most difficult markets to break into and according to a just released report from Moody’s Investors Service in the U.S. A&T and Verizon Wireless hold a commanding lead in the American market, that the ratings service predicts will only widen.
"AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless have better network coverage, wider capabilities and wider profit margins which gives them a competitive advantage that smaller rivals just can't match," said Mark Stodden, a Moody's analyst and author of the report. "It is too late for competitors to invest and catch up;…
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TELUS INSISTS THAT THE joint Long Term Evolution (LTE) infrastructure build the company has signed with Bell Canada is simply that: an agreement to share the costs of building out a national LTE network. Nothing more.
There will not be any spectrum sharing, says Michael Hennessy, senior vice-president of regulatory and government affairs at Telus in an interview with Cartt.ca. He explains that the premise of deploying the LTE network in conjunction with Bell is to reduce their respective capital costs of building a national network. “We each control our own spectrum and we’re using our own spectrum to support…
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VICTORIA – Broadband equipment manufacturer Vecima Networks is expecting revenues for fiscal 2012 of $90 million to $100 million, and gross profit margins to hit the “top end of our targeted 30% to 40% range,” reads the company’s press release this morning.
The company reported second quarter fiscal 2012 revenue of $21.2 million, an increase of 6% compared to the first quarter of fiscal 2012, which it credited primarily to increased sales of recently introduced and new products. "Increased revenue from our recently introduced and new products signals that the expected revenue shift away from our legacy products is continuing….
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OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada today confirmed a lower court ruling that internet service providers are not broadcasters and therefore not subject to the Broadcasting Act, nor the policies which have sprung forth from that law.
Back in 2009, the CRTC sent the question of whether or not ISPs are broadcasters to the Federal Court to decide, since many on the creative side of the industry insisted they are and should be contributing to the production of Canadian content passing through those wires or over those wireless waves. Plus, the Commission figured then that…
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MONTREAL – BCE’s acquisition of CTV last year is paying off as the company saw fourth quarter profits jump by 52.8%.
BCE reported quarterly net earnings of $486 million, up from $318 million in the same period last year.
At its main Bell Canada subsidiary, operating revenues were up 12.6% this quarter to $4.58 billion, as revenues from Bell Media, Wireless, TV and residential Internet offset declines in local and access, long distance and data product revenues. For the full year 2011, Bell's operating revenues were $17.13 billion, an increase of 9.3% compared to 2010, while EBITDA increased 8.6% to $6.31…
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