$800,000 in funding to be delivered over two years
VANCOUVER — The Rogers Group of Funds and Creative BC are partnering to provide $800,000 in new funding support for British Columbia producers of documentaries and factual series, the two organizations announced Monday.
The new Rogers + Creative BC Documentary and Factual Development Fund will launch in January 2020 and will deliver the $800,000 in funding over two years. According to a Rogers news release, this new fund represents the first time Rogers Group of Funds has partnered at the provincial level with another funding entity, with each partner contributing $400,000…
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Broadcasting pioneer to be the first Canadian inducted into Hall of Fame
“KNOW YOUR STUFF” is the advice Mary Ellen Carlyle gives to young men and women who want to make their own mark in broadcasting technology, because the challenges are difficult and numerous.
If anyone knows her stuff, it’s Carlyle, who has spent 30 years at the cutting edge of live event television broadcasting and thanks to her huge and diverse body of work, she will be inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame on December 17th in New York. She will be the sixth…
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MONTREAL – A week after receiving his NBA Championship ring, BCE CEO George Cope presided over his final quarterly conference call with financial analysts, delivering yet another strong three months – its 56th consecutive quarter of year-over-year EBITDA increases – for the Canadian telecom, wireless, TV and media giant.
As previously announced, Cope is retiring in January and the company’s new CEO during the next quarterly call will be current COO Mirko Bibic.
Bell (the co-owners of the Toronto Raptors along with Rogers and Kilmer Investments, which meant Rogers chairman Edward Rogers and Kilmer owner…
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GATINEAU – "The Commission is of the preliminary view that certain device financing plans may create a new barrier for customers to take advantage of competitive offers in the market.
“In particular, customers, who may benefit in the immediate term from lower monthly costs related to their devices, appear to be asked to accept terms and conditions that may require them to stay with their current WSP after the end of their wireless service plan commitment period or be charged for the remainder of the cost of the device,” reads the notice from the CRTC when it opened a Continue Reading
GATINEAU – After being told its first application was deficient, Videotron rewrote the CRTC to rectify the company’s application and request again the withdrawal for its unbundled up-to-1 Gbps download, up-to-100 Mbps upload service since as October 23rd, it no longer has any more wholesale clients on that tier.
As before the company wants to also grandfather its retail clients who pay for the service, but stop offering to any new customers.
The removal of top speed services tilts against the prevailing winds in the broadband world.
Generally, withdrawal/de-standardization like this takes place when a service is…
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Shaw CEO also warns regulators not to change things now
CALGARY – After showing strong wireless subscriber additions of more than 266,000 customers in fiscal 2019 and bringing in $1 billion in annual wireless revenue for the first time, Shaw Communications executives didn’t hold back their opinions during the year-end conference call with financial analysts.
CEO Brad Shaw, said the company spent the fiscal year (ended August 31) focused on adding broadband and wireless customers, expanding its wireless network in the west by rolling out its 700 MHz spectrum – all the while managing a large…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers Media’s podcaster Pacific Content announced today it has hired Jonas Woost as its director of business development.
Woost (right) will look to grow Pacific Content's roster of clients and podcasts, which already include Facebook, Dell Technologies, Red Hat, Mozilla, Charles Schwab, Audible, McAfee, and the New York Times T Brand Studio. Pacific Content produces original podcasts for and with brands.
Woost joins Pacific Content from Telus, where he was the executive producer of the Storyhive project. Prior to that, he was executive producer at CBC Music, the public broadcaster's digital music service. He…
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WITH THE FEDERAL ELECTION done, Canadians can go back to really important matters: will the Montreal Canadian make the playoffs.
In all seriousness, we know the Liberals will be forming the next government but from a minority standpoint. This means they will need the support (or the abstention) of only one of the Bloc Quebecois or NDP, but not both. So, there’s a little room to manoeuvre. Both of those parties are reported to be utterly broke, so they will have little interest to drive everyone back to the polls for now.
The ideological positioning of those parties looks to bring…
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There’s pain now, but “simplicity dividend” will pay off for Rogers, CEO promises
TORONTO – This summer, Rogers Communications was the first to take the leap into lower wireless prices and modern device financing plans, each with the goal of making things easier and cheaper for both the company and its customers.
The new plans, starting at $75/month for unlimited data (albeit slowed after 10GB) sent the wireless market (and the Regulator) into a bit of a tizzy in the summer as all of the…
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No word on Disney+
TORONTO – Rogers chief financial officer Tony Staffieri told financial analysts on Wednesday morning’s conference call to discuss the company’s third quarter results more apps are on the way for Rogers Ignite TV customers.
While the platform, which already carries Netflix, YouTube and as of this week Sportsnet Now to their customers’ televisions (and are integrated with the voice-powered remote too), Staffieri said DAZN and Amazon Prime Video are about to be added.
When asked about the cable division’s capital expenditures he said, “we continue to ingest some new apps including Amazon, our Sportsnet Now app, as well…
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