VANCOUVER – Rogers Media announced Wednesday it has acquired Pacific Content, a branded-content podcast company that produces original podcasts for clients across North America.
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
With the launch of the company’s Frequency Podcast Network last year (which leverages a lot of its radio talent), Rogers Media continues to see growth its audio business. Rogers also owns and operates 56 radio stations across the country.
Today, notes the Rogers press release, 26% of Canadians tune in to podcasts once a month, while 18% listen weekly (Source: Canadian Podcast Listener, May 2018)….
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THUNDER BAY, Ont. – Municipally-owned wired and wireless operator Tbaytel announced Monday at its annual general meeting it earned $193.3 million in revenue in 2018, up 1%, and contributed $17.5 million to the municipality through a fixed annual dividend payment to the City of Thunder Bay.
Tbaytel provides wired and wireless telephony and broadband, as well as subscription television in northwestern Ontario.
Since the Tbaytel Municipal Service Board’s inception in 2004, Tbaytel has paid $278.5 million in dividends to its shareholder, which puts the company on pace for contributions of just under $300 million in 2019, reads…
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TORONTO – Canadian mobile repair service Mobile Klinik is set to open new locations inside select Walmart Supercentres across the country.
The store-in-store program will begin with Mobile Klinik's 50th location, scheduled to open mid-May inside the Scarborough West Walmart in Toronto. Future locations include Airdrie, AB; London, ON; Oshawa, ON; and Fredericton, NB.
The stores will offer the same services offered at other Mobile Klinik Professional Smartphone Repair locations, including while-you-wait smartphone and tablet repair and care of almost all makes and models of devices; a range of certified pre-owned phones; and accessories such as chargers, cases, screen protectors and headphones.
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications recent issuance of debt securities to help cover the costs of its spectrum purchases generated more than it had planned.
The company said Wednesday that its previously announced offering of US$1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.35% senior notes due 2049 in the United States, and CDN$1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.25% senior notes due 2029 in Canada generated aggregate net proceeds of CDN$2.7 billion.
Rogers added that the net proceeds from these offerings will be used to fund its $1.73 billion acquisition of the 52 (out of 64) 600 MHz spectrum licenses, with the remainder used for general…
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TORONTO – Rogers’ Citytv has nailed the exclusive streaming rights to the darkly comedic series Catch-22 from director, executive producer, and Oscar winning actor George Clooney.
Based on Joseph Heller’s novel of the same name, Catch-22 is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger, Yossarian (Christopher Abbott, Girls), a U.S. Air Force bombardier in World War II who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem isn’t the enemy, it’s his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly in order to complete their…
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MONTREAL – The company's Big Three wireless companies are offering a helping hand to Canadians impacted by the spring floods in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and New Brunswick.
Telus said that it is providing $50,000 in funding and in-kind support, including cash donations for local flood relief as well as food and items such as chargers and comfort kits for those in the hardest hit areas. Its employees are also pitching in by helping to fill and deliver sandbags to homes in vulnerable zones in Ottawa and Pierrefonds-Roxboro in the Greater Montreal Area, and by participating in local clean-up activities in the region of La Beauce.
In addition:
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GATINEAU – After hearing from a range of Canadians via Facebook in February and March (some who had cogent complaints and arguments, some who, um, did not…), the CRTC this week gathered up final written submissions on its new proposed Internet code of conduct for providers of retail fixed internet services.
Canadian carriers generally support such a code, or at least the idea of one, which would “enhance the transparency of Internet contracts, help consumers, regardless of who their Internet provider is, to better understand their rights and responsibilities under these contracts and enable them to…
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TORONTO – In a ruling issued Tuesday, April 23,2019, the Ontario Superior Court decided to stay a case brought by Iristel/Ice Wireless against Telus which relates to a dispute between the two companies over failed calls to the North.
This is the latest development between the two telcos who have each blamed the other for hundreds of phone calls to northern Canada failing to get through.
While the CRTC issued its interim ruling in November, making sure calls went through properly, it still must determine whether the traffic at issue is wrongly stimulated by Iristel as Telus claims…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has priced a Canadian offering of $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.25% senior notes due in 2029.
The net proceeds of this Canadian offering will be approximately $991 million, and, together with other debt funding, will help to fund the $1.725 billion cash investment required to acquire 52 of 64 of the twenty year 600 MHz spectrum licenses available to the company, Rogers said late Tuesday.
The sale of the Canadian notes is expected to close on April 30, 2019.
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MISSISSAUGA – New technologies and access to vast quantities of data promise to create smart cities, which improve sustainability, create economic development, and enhance quality of life for people living and working in them. At Commtech East last week, a panel of industry experts (pictured) offered insight on what has to happen if our cities are to get smarter.
John Jung, executive director of Intelligence Community Forum (ICF) Canada, explained there are now about 200 cities all over the world the ICF has recognized as intelligent communities. He added there are likely thousands of additional cities which could be added…
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