TORONTO – The Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University announced last week the launch of a new independent, three-year, research study on Canadian sports fan, in partnership with Sportsnet and in collaboration with the Future of Sport Lab (FSL).
Said to be the first-of-its-kind academic study, the “Canadian Sport Fan Index will provide key insights on the attitudes, behaviors and trends of sport fans across Canada,” said the press release. “The research will focus on the post-Covid era examining how fans are engaging with professional sports teams and leagues as they deal with limited access to live events,…
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TORONTO – Long-time Sportsnet personality Sid Seixeiro announced last week he is leaving Sportsnet’s and 590 The Fan’s Tim & Sid to join Citytv’s Breakfast Television as its new co-host.
Beginning March 10, Seixeiro will join Dina Pugliese to talk about a lot more than sports.
“It’s been a dream to work 20 years in the sports industry, especially alongside Tim Micallef, and express my passion and love for sports on a daily basis,” said Seixeiro in the Rogers Sports and Media press release.
“However, I’ve always been curious to explore other areas of the business and this was a unique opportunity…
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Advanced service joins all-in-one-video push
By Greg O’Brien
MONTREAL – This week, Cogeco Connexion became the latest company to tell consumers if they want all of their video in one place, epico is the best place to find it.
After an extended trial period with employees (1,200 of the company’s 2,000 Canadian employees have it in their homes) and a handful of customers (over 12,000 customers now have epico), the company took the wrapper off the newest, and for now the most advanced, pay-TV system in Canada. We’re calling it that because its Android TV operator tier operating system from MediaKind gives…
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TORONTO — Branded Cities, a leading out-of-home (OOH) media company, today announced it has signed a new long-term agreement with Rogers Sports and Media to re-develop the Rogers Tower (above) which houses its Citytv studio in downtown Toronto.
The tower overlooks Yonge-Dundas Square, located in the heart of Toronto at the busy intersection of Yonge and Dundas streets. Rogers first acquired the tower at 33 Dundas St. E. in 2007 as the new home of the company’s Citytv and OMNI Television stations.
A complete overhaul of the Rogers Tower will begin in the third quarter of 2021, where Branded Cities will…
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But really, everyone is pretty good, winning in one metric or another…
SEATTLE — According to Seattle-based Ookla’s latest Speedtest Global Index, Telus was the fastest mobile operator among the top Canadian providers in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Using Speedtest Intelligence data from October to December 2020, Ookla gave Telus a speed score of 87.88 (calculated using results from devices built on modern chipsets). The next-highest speed score in Q4 2020 was awarded to Bell (84.51), followed by Rogers (73.05), Rogers’s flanker brand Fido (71.64) and Shaw’s Freedom Mobile (35.62).
In terms of latency, Freedom Mobile had the lowest…
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Telus achieves lowest network latency
SEATTLE — As was the case in the previous quarter, Rogers Communications ranked as the fastest fixed broadband provider among top Canadian providers in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Seattle-based Ookla’s latest Speedtest Global Index measurement of network speeds in Canada.
Based on Speedtest Intelligence data from October to December 2020, Ookla awarded Rogers a fixed-broadband speed score of 147.12. Close behind was Canada’s other big cable company Shaw Communications with a speed score of 146.96, followed by Telus (105.9), Bell Canada (103.62), Cogeco (98.27), Videotron (94.65) and TekSavvy (39.36).
Ookla’s speed score…
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By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – Canada’s largest telecoms are telling the Supreme Court of Canada a lower court fumbled a decision in favour of lower wholesale rates by attributing a line of reasoning that was allegedly never made by the CRTC, abrogating its responsibilities to review the correctness of the regulator’s decision.
That line of reasoning is based on how the CRTC structured its decision in the summer of 2019, when it ordered a lower rate at which smaller telecoms pay for and sell bandwidth from the larger telecoms. At issue in front of the Federal Court of Appeal was whether…
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CALGARY and EDMONTON — Last week, Sportsnet announced it will continue to deliver exclusive regional coverage of Alberta’s NHL franchises through a multi-year regional broadcast rights extension with the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers.
Sportsnet has been the regional broadcaster of the two teams for the past 10 years, and the extended agreement will see the Rogers-owned sports network remain as the exclusive home to all Oilers and Flames games through the 2023-24 NHL season. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“As Canada’s home of hockey, we celebrate the passion Western Canadian fans have for these storied franchises and are proud to…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – Late in 2019, in following up its universal service objective decision, the CRTC decided to study the barriers to building new facilities or to accessing or interconnecting with existing facilities in order to extend broadband networks more efficiently into underserved areas, including areas where, due to a lack of such networks, speeds don’t meet the service objectives.
Of course, in March 2020, the pandemic hit, and a vast number of Canadians went home to work, becoming completely dependent on their home’s high-speed Internet to continue work and school. Access to high-speed Internet rapidly became a political…
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WATERLOO – Five projects announced today by Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) will deliver broadband service down 130 kilometres of roads within the region of Waterloo, bringing better connectivity to more than 1,000 homes and businesses.
Including the investments from the companies and SWIFT (whose money comes from the federal, Ontario and local governments), over $11.6 million will be spent on these upgrades, says a SWIFT release.
SWIFT will cover $7.8 million of the costs of the five fibre-to-the-home projects.
The projects are:
North Frontenac Telephone Corporation has been awarded funding to support two FTTH projects which will collectively service 103…
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