TORONTO — Following the historic first NHL broadcast in Plains Cree last season in conjunction with Rogers Hometown Hockey’s visit to Enoch Cree Nation, Sportsnet and APTN are expanding their partnership to deliver more NHL games over the next three seasons, the companies announced Monday.
In total, a minimum of six NHL games per year will be broadcast on APTN in Plains Cree, with the first Cree-language broadcast of the 2019-20 NHL season featuring the Winnipeg Jets vs. Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday, January 19 at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.
Sportsnet will continue to deliver the broadcast production, which will feature…
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) announced the first speakers lined up for the Prime Time 2020 conference to be held January 29-31 in Ottawa.
The speakers who have been announced include:
Soumya Sriraman — Founding President & CEO, BritBox
Craig Engler — General Manager, Shudder
Catherine Tait — President & CEO, CBC/Radio-Canada
Amal Baggar — Vice-President, Scripted Programming, NBCUniversal International Studios
Madeline Buxton — Culture & Trends Manager, YouTube
Nataline Rodrigues — Director of Original Programming, Rogers Media
Christa Dickenson — Executive Director, Telefilm Canada
Andrew Peterson — Head of Content Partnerships, Canada, YouTube
Valerie Creighton —…
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New Yonge/Dundas store showcases all of what Rogers does – and will be able to do in the future
TORONTO – Just in time for Christmas, Rogers Communications will open a state-of-the-art flagship retail store, Rogers 302, tomorrow (December 12).
Located in one of the busiest intersections in the country (50 million people per year pass through Yonge and Dundas), the 9,000 sq.-ft. space – at 302 Yonge St. – will provide an in-store experience unlike any other across the Rogers retail chain.
Rogers 302 will showcase all of the latest wireless, connected home technology, and media content for consumers and businesses….
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GATINEAU – As we’ve reported, one of the outcomes of the Let’s Talk TV process was the creation of a national ratings service to include set top box viewership data from all major TV carriers – which was enshrined in the conditions of licence for large BDUs.
However, with Videotron’s status still unclear since it abandoned the process earlier this year despite its condititions of licence requiring it to take part (the Commission has since turned down its request to pull out and the Federal Court has refused to hear…
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NEW YORK – Anaïd Productions’ The Liquidator has been picked up in the U.S. by A+E’s FYI TV. The half-hour series, which has been broadcast for four seasons in Canada on Rogers Media’s OLN and in over 100 countries, will start airing this Friday December 6, at 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
The “King of Deals”, liquidation master Jeff Schwarz (pictured), is the star of the series where viewers are taken inside his unpredictable and unconventional buy-and-sell deals. His is the owner of Direct Liquidation, one of the biggest liquidation houses west of the Rockies.
He’s a flea…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC today launched an online survey in an attempt to better understand the needs, behaviours and habits of Canadians regarding their mobile wireless services.
The survey, announced this morning, forms part of the CRTC's review of mobile wireless services, which began in February 2019. “The survey results will help determine whether further action is needed to ensure that the needs of Canadians are being met in the mobile wireless market,” says the press release.
Canadians have until December 31, 2019, midnight PST to complete the survey.
The CRTC will hold a public hearing starting on February 18, 2020, in…
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However, Bell has not given itself an undue preference, the Commission says
OTTAWA — Although the CRTC has determined Bell has not provided itself with an undue preference when it comes to how toll-free calls are currently routed in Canada, the Commission does agree with Rogers that Bell should deploy one-way toll trunks to connect to Rogers switches in the Bell operating territories in which Rogers also provides service. Bell now has 150 days to comply with the Commission’s directive.
After several months of attempted negotiations with Bell, Rogers in May filed a Part 1 application asking the CRTC to settle…
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THE CONTINUED ASCENT of Netflix, followed by new online rivals like Disney+, Comcast's Peacock and Apple TV+ – each brimming with original programming to woo new subscribers – threatens to replace the great unbundling of cable TV with the great rebundling of streaming services.
That's the warning of U.S. cable pioneer and top industry strategist John Malone (right), who told his Liberty Media (he’s chairman) investor day last week there's a big downside to simplifying online TV subscription sign-ups by packaging streaming services together.
"This is frankly the mistake that the cable industry made over the years, of agreeing to save…
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Innovative broadband policy is driving investment
By Ken Campbell and Reef Read
U.K. LABOUR LEADER, Jeremy Corbyn recently announced, as part of his election platform, he would nationalise the telecom broadband infrastructure in that country and provide free broadband to all residents.
This sent a shockwave through the U.K. telecom industry.
Planned investments from the many new private fibre companies entering the market were stalled and pending transactions were stopped as investors reconsidered fibre infrastructure investment until after the U.K. election.
For his part, Tory party leader Boris Johnson has announced his government would force an accelerated deployment of fibre to all U.K. residents…
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ISED arm twists itself into knots trying to give MVNO its stamp of approval, but this could be a good compromise
IF I’M RUNNING ONE of Canada’s existing wireless companies, I’m relieved after reading the Competition Bureau’s most recent submission to the CRTC’s Wireless Policy Review.
However, if I’m hoping to launch a new mobile virtual network operator once the CRTC updates said policy, I might be crying into my beer a little.
After a summer of regulatory back-and-forth where the Bureau successfully fought hard for access to confidential information that only the companies themselves and…
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