WINNIPEG and KING TOWNSHIP, ON – Rogers said Monday that it has improved its wireless service in eight locations in Manitoba as well as in Ontario’s King Township as part of its multi-year network plan to bring gigabit LTE and 5G to its customers.
The upgrades will impact Rogers and Fido customers in Winnipeg, Falcon Lake, Woodridge and Neepawa in Manitoba as well as the Schomberg Village area along Hwy 27 in King Township in Ontario.
The enhancements will also improve the wireless experience for its business customers in these areas.
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Ethnic license now held by OMNI up for grabs next week
SECTION 9(1)(h) OF THE Broadcasting Act says the CRTC can “require any licensee who is authorized to carry on a distribution undertaking to carry, on such terms and conditions as the Commission deems appropriate, programming services specified by the Commission.”
It’s commonly known in the industry as the must-carry clause, the one applied to certain TV channels in which cable, satellite and IPTV are forced to offer in their entry packages. They include the main local broadcasters and a handful of other channels which the Regulator believes fills an “exceptional…
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HAMILTON – Community television channel Cable 14 is behind a series of public service announcements designed to promote Hamilton Food Share’s organizations and programs to local residents in need.
Through a campaign called ‘14 Ways To Feed The Hammer’, the PSAs will feature not only how these organizations support individuals over the holidays, but how they ensure that vulnerable citizens have access to food all year round. According to the news release, approximately 10,000 Hamilton households will reach out to the emergency food system for assistance in providing their family with the celebrations that many of us take for…
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Just part of negotiations, though
TORONTO – Within its most recent bills to some of its cable TV customers, Rogers Communications noted that as of January 1, 2019, their roster of channels will be a little lighter.
“From time to time, we adjust our channel lineups to reflect the changing viewership trends of our customers. As of January 1, 2019, Stingray Juicebox, Stingray Retro, Stingray Loud and Stingray Vibe, will no longer be in your TV package,” reads the note at the bottom of the bills.
All four music video channels are ones which Stingray purchased from Bell…
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TORONTO – Digital radio streaming app Radioplayer Canada has announced a prototype touchscreen radio app for dashboards designed to show how smart 'hybrid' technology can transform in-car listening.
‘Reference Radio’ displays HD Radio, FM, and Internet radio streams as a single list of stations, meaning that the driver just taps a station logo to play it, and the system automatically selects the best signal source. Voice control, podcasts and personalization will be trialled in the next phase of development.
"Reference Radio represents another major step toward an even better user experience for radio listeners," said Radioplayer Canada board chair and Rogers…
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OTTAWA – The Connecting Families program which was announced in June by Navdeep Bains, Minister of Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) at the Telecom Summit, in Toronto was unveiled this week.
The government is not subsidizing ISPs to provide the low-cost Internet service but is investing $13.2 million over five years to refurbish and deliver up to 50,000 computers to eligible families through the Computers for Success Canada program, as well as to develop a secure online portal through which eligible families can sign up for the initiative and access the low-cost Internet service and/or a refurbished computer.
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Receives $52M in federal, provincial funding
MONTREAL – The governments of Canada and Quebec are throwing their support behind the development of NorthStar, a new global environment information platform that aims to help humanity track our impact on Earth and its natural resources.
The NorthStar platform is being developed by Montreal-based satellite technology start-up NorthStar Earth & Space, which has now received C$52 million in additional financing from strategic partners.
Based on a 40-satellite constellation with sophisticated sensors and information delivery capability, NorthStar will enable new advances in continuous environmental management including pollution detection, charting the health of the world's oceans and…
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And it needs to be much better
TORONTO – Getting your latest TV show discovered and viewed in a fast-changing media landscape may be as easy as asking Alexa or an X1-powered voice remote.
"Voice search is now revolutionizing how content is being discovered," Michael Gray, senior manager of on demand and SVODs at Rogers Communications, told the CTAM Broadcasters’ Forum in Toronto on Tuesday.
The days of just scrolling through channel guides may be numbered, agreed Erik Ramberg, vice president of global business development at MediaKind, formerly Ericsson Media Solutions. "Alexa: watch The Handmaid's Tale," is all you need to…
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TORONTO – Length matters.
That's one of the findings of a poll of Canadian TV viewers and the video content they consume which was conducted by Charlton Strategic Research, and unveiled Tuesday at the CTAM Broadcaster’s Forum in Toronto on Tuesday.
Charlton's Gord Hendren told conference attendees that an online survey of 3,168 Canadians over 18 years of age revealed the total time spent watching long-form video content, or over five minutes in length, is up among total Canadian TV viewers.
Millennials, though, are bucking the trend.
Hendren said his poll revealed younger Canadian TV viewers from 18-34 years of age spend less…
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TORONTO – Radio is killing the radio star and needs a rebuilt system focused on creating local content if it’s ever to bring audiences back from listening to music on the Internet. That was the consensus from an industry panel (pictured) on the state of radio held last week at the Ontario Association of Broadcasters 2018 Conference at the Toronto Airport Marriott.
“Music has become commoditized,” argued Geoff Poulton, president of Vista Radio, which owns 41 smaller market radio stations in B.C, Alberta, Ontario and the Northwest Territories.
“You used to compete on music in the good old days. We have…
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