TORONTO – Everyone knows Rogers Media owns the national NHL rights for all of Canada (and sublicences to Quebecor’s TVA for the French language national broadcasts), but there are regional rights and both Bell Media’s TSN and Sportsnet announced some of their schedules for the upcoming NHL season today.
The releases also note where those games can be found on Bell Media’s and Rogers Media’s radio stations.
TSN’s Ottawa Senators schedule features 55 regular season games.
TSN’s Toronto Maple Leafs schedule will consist of 26 games.
TSN’s Winnipeg Jets Regional schedule includes 60 games.
TSN’s…
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Rogers Infinte customers surpass 750,000
TORONTO – A handful of Canadian telecom executives didn’t hold back on their thoughts about the CRTC’s ruling on wholesale internet, MVNOs and more during BMO’s 20th Annual Media and Telecom Conference, held Tuesday.
“The footprint as a…
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New iPhone 11 models and Apple Watch Series 5 also revealed
CUPERTINO, CA — The Apple TV+ video subscription service is set to launch November 1 at an industry low price of C$5.99 per month, the company announced Tuesday at its fall product launch event where it also revealed its new iPhone 11 models, Apple Watch Series 5 and its newest iPad with a 10.2-inch display.
At a monthly subscription price of C$5.99 (US$4.99), Apple TV+ will compete directly against higher-priced streaming services in Canada such as Netflix (C$9.99 per month for its basic subscription) and Crave (C$9.99 per month for…
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TORONTO — The puck will drop on the sixth season of Rogers Hometown Hockey on October 6, when the Winnipeg Jets will face off against the Islanders in New York, with Sportsnet favourites Ron MacLean and Tara Slone hosting the show from Halton Hills, Ont.
The Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour presented by Scotiabank and Hyundai will get underway the first weekend of the 2019/2020 NHL season, with the free weekly festival kicking off October 5. Starting in Halton Hills, Ont., the Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour this season will make stops in 25 communities across the country to celebrate the local…
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TORONTO — Like Minded Entertainment founder, filmmaker and actor Mark Kassen announced Monday during the Toronto International Film Festival that his Hollywood-based production company has completed the acquisition and integration of Montreal-based media distribution technology company Vantrix Technology into its Like Minded portfolio. The result is the formation of two new entities — Like Minded Media Ventures and Like Minded Labs.
Vantrix is a pioneer and global leader in next-generation media processing and 360-degree camera systems. Since 2004, Vantrix technology has been embedded in most major wireless service providers and media distribution systems. It processes, optimizes and distributes pictures, video…
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NORTH BAY, Ont. – Canada’s Rural & Remote Broadband Conference today announced the line-up of speakers for its inaugural event.
Victor Fedeli, Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade will keynote Wednesday’s lunch address. “A theme for the conference is how rural and remote broadband impacts economic development, and as such Minister Fedeli’s insights cannot be missed,” said conference founder Amedeo Bernardi, in the press release.
The conference, themed “Bridging the Digital Divide” will be held at the Best Western Hotel and Conference Centre in North Bay, from November 12th to 14th.
Chris Seidl, the CRTC’s executive director, telecommunications will…
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TORONTO — Rogers announced it is the first national carrier to allow smartphone customers to finance the entire cost of their devices, by extending its financing options to include taxes on phones.
With its new device financing option, Rogers is letting customers get every phone for $0 down with 0% interest and no taxes paid upfront.
In July, Rogers announced its Edge Financing options that allowed customers to get the latest smartphones such as the Samsung Note 10 and iPhone XS at $0 down, 0% interest, with the retail price of the device paid through equal monthly payments over 24 months….
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TORONTO – Expect network investment to plummet, the growth of the digital economy in Canada to stall and an invasion of well-heeled foreign broadband resellers if the recent CRTC decision on third party internet access wholesale rates is not overturned, says a report published this week by TD Securities.
While saying he expects the decision to be challenged and overturned or at least revised, TD telecom and media analyst Vince Valentini pulls no punches in his analysis, saying the Commission-set wholesale rates and retroactive rebates are bad for the incumbent carriers, their customers and Canada as…
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23 jobs cut
MONTREAL — As Breakfast Television is celebrating its 30th anniversary in Toronto, Rogers Media is making cuts elsewhere, including cancelling its Montreal morning show entirely, and having some content at its Vancouver and Calgary shows sourced out of Toronto.
Staff in Montreal were informed after Thursday's broadcast that it would be their last. Eight jobs were eliminated by the cancellation in Montreal, leaving 41 people employed in Montreal between CityNews, OMNI and sales. Four jobs have been cut in Vancouver and 11 in Calgary.
"This decision was very difficult, but at the end of the day, the show…
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TORONTO – TeraGo announced Wednesday morning that it has hired a new VP whose goal will be to accelerate the company’s efforts to commercialize 5G fixed wireless commercial services in Canada utilizing 5G mmWave spectrum.
Irv Witte, who has over 20 years of experience in wireless communications, most recently with Rogers, has been hired as vice-president of 5G at TeraGo. Witte was most recently involved in Rogers’ 600 MHz auction and in network product management. He also oversaw the initial launch of the chatr wireless brand, and has B2B experience when he was VP of Rogers Wireless business marketing.
“As…
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