TORONTO — With the Stanley Cup qualifiers and round-robin seeding games now complete, Sportsnet announced Monday its broadcast schedule for the first round of the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Sportsnet’s exclusive English-language national coverage begins Tuesday, August 11 with four games on Sportsnet, CBC, Sportsnet 360, across the Sportsnet Radio Network and via livestream on SN Now and NHL Live.
In addition, Sportsnet’s coverage of phase two of the 2020 NHL Draft Lottery is scheduled to air today at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and SN Now, as one of the eight teams eliminated during the qualifying round will…
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MONTREAL – The mid-summer NHL playoffs are paying off so far for Quebecor Media’s TVA Sports.
The first three games of the Montreal Canadiens-Pittsburgh Penguins series, (August 1, 3 and 5) drew 37.6% market share among adults aged 25 to 54 and a peak audience of 1,238,000 viewers in game three, according to Numeris numbers, in a release from the broadcaster. Game four is Friday at 4 p.m. and the Habs have a 2-1 best-of-five series lead.
“Against all expectations, summer means hockey in Quebec this year and we are seeing excellent results for our sports channel,” said Patrick Jutras, senior…
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T-shirt from Ojibwe artist available through Rogers aims to build awareness of residential schools’ impact
TORONTO – Starting today, and ahead of World Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Sunday, a special orange t-shirt designed by Ojibwe artist Patrick Hunter will be showcased across Rogers Communications-owned media assets, including Today’s Shopping Choice and available at tsc.ca/wewearorange.
Proceeds from sales will go to the Orange Shirt Society’s ongoing efforts to expand Indigenous education and to inform Canadians on the history and impact of the country’s former residential school system – and advocate for action on reconciliation.
Commissioned by Rogers, Hunter’s t-shirt was unveiled in…
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VANCOUVER and WINNIPEG – Rogers Communications Step Up to the Plate initiative with Food Banks Canada has arrived in British Columbia and Manitoba, the company announced Thursday.
The company is delivering food hampers that will provide more than 1,343,000 meals for local food banks in B.C., which will help fill the plates of more than 63,000 British Columbians. In Manitoba, Rogers is delivering food hampers that will provide more than 393,000 meals for local food banks which will help more than 18,000 Manitobans.
The Step Up to the Plate initiative started in June at Rogers Centre in Toronto, with Rogers…
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By Greg O’Brien
GATINEAU – The federal government’s Competition Bureau was a rather prominent player during the now 16-months long CRTC process reviewing the regulations governing the wireless market in Canada.
UPDATE, Aug. 7: Please see the bottom of this story for an update from the Competition Bureau.
Last year the Bureau fought the carriers and the Commission for access to confidential data from Canadian wireless companies so it could do its own “objective economic analysis” of the market, telling the Commission in 2019 the “information that we are seeking is critical to our ability to make an evidence-based submission…
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OTTAWA — Rogers Communications’ Step Up to the Plate initiative with Food Banks Canada has now arrived in Ottawa, delivering food hampers that will provide more than 709,000 meals to local food banks and help fill the plates of 34,000 people across Ottawa, the company announced today.
“Ottawa is where we live, where we work, and where we raise our families. It’s our responsibility to step up locally and today that’s through food donations and volunteer time,” said Heidi Bonnell, Rogers’ president of National Capital Region and vice-president, federal government affairs, in the news release. (Pictured are some of…
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TORONTO — Demonstrating the pent-up demand for the return of live sports, a total of 10.7 million viewers tuned in last Saturday and Sunday to Sportsnet for the resumption of the NHL and NBA seasons, according to the Rogers-owned sports broadcaster.
Beginning on Saturday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT, Sportsnet aired more than 33 hours of live sports coverage across its TV channels, CBC, Citytv, the Sportsnet Radio Network and via stream on SN Now and NHL Live.
Scoring a 19% audience share, Sportsnet’s coverage garnered a combined average minute audience (AMA) of 821,000 viewers on Saturday and Sunday. Overall, in…
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GATINEAU — Iristel has filed a complaint with the CRTC alleging Rogers has been manipulating caller ID information for some of its retail mobile subscribers to make it appear as though calls are originating from the United States, which Iristel claims gives Rogers an undue preference.
According to Iristel’s Part 1 application, posted to the Commission’s website on Monday, Iristel believes the alleged scheme is “designed to circumvent routing arrangements between companies who are Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) and some of their international partners,” and would allow Rogers “to benefit from termination rates that are more advantageous than those they…
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MONTREAL — Bell Canada launched today its new Bell Streamer, an all-in-one 4K HDR streaming device included with all new Bell Alt TV Premium subscriptions. Alt TV is Bell’s app-based live TV streaming service.
Powered by Android TV, the compact Bell Streamer device (6.5 cm x 6.5 cm) offers TV customers in Ontario and Quebec one-stop access to Alt, Crave, CTV, Fibe TV, Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, DAZN, hayu, CBC Gem, ICI Tou.tv, Tubi and others.
Bell Streamer also offers access to thousands of apps via Google Play, and features a remote control with one-button access to Google Assistant (for voice…
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MONTREAL — TVA Group’s Incendo production company announced Monday principal photography has started on You May Kiss the Bridesmaid, a TV movie being shot on location in Montreal.
Written by Vancouver-based screenwriter Nastasha Baron, the movie stars Canadian actress Tori Anderson (Killjoys, No Tomorrow) along with actors Kristopher Turner (A Little Bit Zombie, Stuck) and Julia Borsellino (Une femme d’exception, Nothing Has Changed). Director of the film is Caroline Labrèche (Rule of 3, Thicker Than Water).
Food influencer Scarlett Bailey (played by Anderson) is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to work as a pastry chef in one of New…
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