TORONTO — Football fans across Canada should soon be able to include NFL Sunday Ticket in their cable or satellite subscriptions again, after live sports streaming service DAZN Canada announced Tuesday it has entered into distribution agreements with Bell, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel and other cable/satellite providers to carry NFL Sunday Ticket this upcoming season.
Mid-summer last year, cable and satellite providers in Canada were no longer able to offer NFL Sunday Ticket to their residential subscribers after DAZN Canada bought the rights to distribute all out-of-market NFL games on its streaming service and launched its NFL Game Pass…
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TORONTO — Sports fans in Toronto will have a new place to gather and grab a meal as Sportsnet announces its new restaurant, Sportsnet Grill, overlooking the Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto, will open on Wednesday.
Located at 1 Blue Jays Way inside the Marriott City Centre Hotel, Sportsnet Grill is a 220-seat, sports-themed restaurant that overlooks the Rogers Centre playing field, making it a prime destination for sports fans looking for a night out in a unique setting, Sportsnet said in a news release announcing the restaurant’s grand opening.
“In partnership with the Toronto Marriott City Centre Hotel, we’ve…
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OTTAWA — Canada’s largest, vertically integrated BDUs have a little over a year to start providing set-top box data to a national STB-based audience measurement system — a new condition of licence imposed by the CRTC when it announced August 2 the collective renewal of soon-to-expire licences for various terrestrial BDUs.
As it renews their respective licences for a new term starting September 1, 2018, the CRTC is imposing a condition of licence on Bell, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron that will require them to provide the set-top box (STB) data they collect regarding programming services they distribute to a national…
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DARTMOUTH, NS — Newcap Radio owner Newfoundland Capital Corporation reported Thursday its revenues in the second quarter of 2018 were down slightly compared to Q2 2017, saying its expansion into the Kamloops, BC, market had provided revenue growth to help offset soft results in Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador.
These were the first financial quarter results released from the company since its proposed acquisition by Stingray Digital Group was announced in May. On June 27, Newfoundland Capital’s shareholders approved the acquisition arrangement with Stingray, and the company received final court approval after the second quarter ended. Stingray’s acquisition of…
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Fibe 1.5 Gigabit to launch this month in Ontario
MONTREAL — BCE reported a healthy increase in revenue for the second quarter of 2018, driven by strong growth in wireless, combined with gains in broadband Internet and IPTV customers, the company announced Thursday morning.
In reporting its Q2 2018 financial results, BCE highlighted Bell Wireless’s postpaid wireless net additions of 122,092, an increase of 37.8% compared to the same quarter last year and its best second-quarter net increase in postpaid wireless customers since 2000, the company said in a news release announcing its Q2 2018 results. In comparison, last month Rogers Communications also…
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GATINEAU – On December 1st 2017, the CRTC’s new and improved Wireless Code came into effect, removing all restrictions on the unlocking of cellular phones, notably no more 90 days waiting period to do so and no more charging a fee to perform that service.
On December 6th 2017, the Public Interest Advocacy Center (PIAC) requested from the CRTC a clarification on the Unlocking Policy of the new code. There had been confusion as to whether the cell phone companies had the obligation to unlock the phones of people who were not their customers.
If my contract with the…
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TORONTO – The Canadian wireless market is about to face disruption akin to what T-Mobile wrought in the U.S., which will come as good news for Canadian consumers looking for much more data at a far lower price. The news likely won’t be so good for the likes of Rogers, Bell and Telus, who will have to respond.
Today, Shaw Communications’ Freedom Mobile will unveil a new ad campaign (TV, radio, outdoor, digital, social…) fronted by Canadian comedy star Will Arnett which takes dead aim at the complaints so many Canadians make daily – that their wireless bills are too…
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TORONTO — Beginning this Sunday, August 5, OMNI Television will broadcast Toronto Blue Jays games in the Tagalog dialect, with a trio of sportscasters providing live play-by-play and colour commentary.
Every Sunday for the remainder of the regular season, OMNI will air Blue Jays: Pinoy Edition on its OMNI.2, OMNI BC, OMNI Alberta and OMNI Regional channels. Its roster of sportscasters includes Mara Aquino, Mike Cruz and Charles de Torres, who will deliver Canada’s major league baseball team to ethnic and third language viewers with live coverage of home and away games.
“Sports has always had the ability to bring people…
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CHICAGO — Canadian users of Google Home and Amazon Echo Dot will be able to unplug and enjoy portability with their smart assistant devices thanks to Ninety7’s announcement on Tuesday that its portable battery base accessories are now available in Canada through London Drugs and Rogers.
Ninety7’s LOFT portable battery base for Google Home is being sold by both London Drugs and Rogers in their stores, while the company’s VAUX and DOX battery base accessories for Amazon Echo Dot are also being sold on London Drugs’ website. The retail price for LOFT is $59.99, while VAUX and DOX retail for…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has officially launched its long awaited cable TV upgrade this week as it begins to aggressively market Ignite TV in Ontario.
A TV spot featuring Lucy Liu, Gordon Ramsay, Paul Sorvino and real live Rogers technician Peter Dafos began airing Monday and Rogers has built three mobile units which will show off Ignite TV to the masses at various events across the GTA this summer. One was at the PGA Tour’s Canadian Open this past weekend in Oakville. It’s easier to show than to tell when it comes to new tech,…
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