TORONTO – Hosted by Canadian poet Ieden Wall (above), Canada’s newest late-night talk show, Canadian Jewish TV, kicks off Thursday October 1st at 11:30 p.m. on Rogers Communications’ multicultural broadcaster OMNI 1.
The show will feature interviews and performances from some of Canada’s most notable Jewish figures, and in keeping with Wall’s background, CJTV will also feature a spoken-word short-film series based on new poems from Wall’s upcoming book, The Wisdom of the Wall 2. His first book of poetry, Wisdom of the Wall sold over 30,000 copies.
“With the loss of established Jewish media like The Canadian Jewish News, CJTV…
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Cogeco decries “bad faith tactics”
MONTREAL and TORONTO — The latest maneuverings in the now open battle between Rogers and Cogeco — as the former persists in its efforts to take over the latter — were made public by Cogeco Wednesday.
After Rogers sent a letter Tuesday to Cogeco board member Louis Audet (president of Gestion Audem, the Audet family holding company and Cogeco’s controlling shareholder) suggesting Audet had behaved in an “unacceptable manner” after Altice USA and Rogers presented their joint proposal to buy the company on September 1, Cogeco published the Rogers letter on its website and issued…
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EXTON, Pa. — SCTE-ISBE, organizers of the annual Cable-Tec Expo, announced today a global cast of cable companies and organizations has stepped forward to provide sponsorship support for this year’s free virtual event, which will take place October 12-15.
Canada’s Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications, as well as Liberty Global in Europe, Millicom in Latin America, Midco in the United States, and the U.S.’s National Cable Television Cooperative all have become attendee registration sponsors of the all-digital event. Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Communications and the SCTE Foundation had previously committed sponsorship dollars to make Cable-Tec Expo Virtual Experience free for…
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Cogeco, meanwhile, awaits CRTC’s new wireless policies
By Greg O’Brien
TORONTO – Rogers Communications CEO Joe Natale on Tuesday explained a little more about why his company is pursuing the purchase of Cogeco Cable so hard (and why he’s not intending to back off), while a senior executive of its intended target insisted that pursuit will be fruitless.
“The bid is really about answering some basic questions as we look at our investment into the future,” Natale told BMO telecom and media analyst Tim Casey at the bank’s annual Media and Telecom conference, held virtually. The $10.3 billion bid for the company,…
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TORONTO — Apple today unveiled several new devices, including Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch SE, as well as two new iPad models and a new way to subscribe to everything Apple. (Jeepers, that’s four mentions of the company in one sentence!)
The company also announced a new Family Setup feature in watchOS 7 which extends the watch experience to the entire family, as well as a Fitness+, the first fitness experience built for Apple Watch.
Starting with the new device announcements, Apple Watch Series 6 offers a new feature that measures the oxygen saturation of the user’s blood,…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC announced today it has agreed to a nine-month extension of the deadline for the implementation of the STIR/SHAKEN framework for authenticating caller ID information for IP-based voice calls. The implementation deadline is now June 30, 2021.
STIR/SHAKEN stands for Secure Telephony Identity Revisited/Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs. The framework provides a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat fraudulent caller ID spoofing by authenticating and verifying the caller ID information. It’s something upon which the federal government is focused.
In December 2019, the Commission mandated Canadian telecommunications service providers (TSPs) implement the security…
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By Denis Carmel
MONTREAL – Since January 2019, Bell Media has been offering a “one-day subscription” to its TSN and RDS services on their website, allowing viewers to therefore bypass buying a Videotron cable package (even if they are already a Videotron internet subscriber) for a day, for $5, perhaps as a test drive, or to see one particular big game.
Videotron claimed in a court filing this is a breach of its contract with Bell and further claimed this type of offering could jeopardize the Canadian broadcasting system by content producers offering their services over-the-top.
In a decision last week, the…
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LANGLEY, B.C. — The government of British Columbia announced today a $2-million motion picture fund to help B.C. film and TV producers and creators to get projects off the ground as the industry restarts in the province.
“The past few months have shown us how quickly the motion picture industry can change,” said B.C. Premier John Horgan, in the government’s news release. “This new fund will help B.C.’s domestic film industry create new content so it can recover faster and get thousands of skilled workers involved in film and TV production back on set.”
Part of the province’s Covid-19 relief…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – Enough delay, say the independent ISPs.
TekSavvy, Distributel and the Competitive Network Operators of Canada on Friday filed applications with the CRTC demanding the incumbent telco and cable carriers file new tariffs as ordered by the Commission in its August 2019 decision setting new wholesale internet rates (CRTC 2019-288).
The decision gave the network owners until September 14, 2019 to do so, but only Telus filed. Later, SaskTel filed its tariff pages after a CRTC reminder. The other incumbents declined to do so, pending the three appeals of the decision filed shortly after the August 2019 rates…
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CHATHAM, Ont – TekSavvy Solutions, Canada’s largest third party internet access provider, said today that unless and until the network owners it uses starts paying the retroactive costs owed to it which was demanded by the CRTC, the company will stop paying its monthly wholesale fee payments to Bell and Rogers.
While praising yesterday’s decision from the Federal Court of Appeal, which upheld the wholesale rates set in August 2019 by the CRTC with a decision that also called for retroactive repayments of the difference between the interim rates and the new rates, dating back to 2016, TekSavvy drew…
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