Flagship daily show The Big Story delves deep into day’s “critical story”
TORONTO – Rogers Radio launched a new podcast network Monday, complete with a daily show known as The Big Story.
The Big Story, available on Apple Podcasts and Google Play weekdays at 6:00 AM ET, breaks down one critical story every day – anything from politics and entertainment, to sports, technology and human interest – all in 15 minutes. Frequency Podcast Network will be home to all Rogers Media podcasts, including Sportsnet's A Swing and a Belt and 31 Thoughts.
Rogers Media’s director of digital radio and audio Jordan Heath-Rawlings is…
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TORONTO – EnStream and digital identity authentication company Payfone are teaming up to stamp out passwords with a new global mobile-based federated digital identity platform.
The new Mobile ID service, to be available initially in Canada, will allow consumers to log into accounts or verify transactions with any participating online service using a single mobile app on their phone. Backed by participating mobile network operators, the service will bring together EnStream's Mobile Connect solution with Payfone's Trust Score identity and fraud analytics solution, which is currently used by Fortune 100 banks, retailers, and health insurance companies, among others.
According to…
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TORONTO – Sportsnet will produce and televise over 150 English-language national hockey games throughout the 2018-19 NHL season across Hockey Night in Canada on Saturdays, Rogers Hometown Hockey on Sundays and Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey on Wednesdays.
The network is also the exclusive English-language Canadian home of the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on January 1, 2019, the 2019 NHL All-Star Skills Competition and NHL All-Star Game on January 25 and 26, and the Coors Light NHL Stadium Series on February 23. Sportsnet’s national schedule also includes the 19th annual Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada on February 9, the 2019 Stanley…
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GATINEAU – The communications needs of most Canadians are met with land-line telephones (still) and wireless plans. But if you’re a deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing Canadian (DDBHH), wireless video is essential. It offers mobility and efficiency, but of course video consumes a lot more data than voice.
So, when the CRTC determined the gap in the wireless service market was low-cost data-only service, or skinny wireless, and asked the big wireless companies to file new prices and capacities, the deaf community paid attention.
First, for them, the voice portion of any package is hardly useful, neither is voicemail service….
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TORONTO – Canadian 9-1-1 experts met at the end of May as the community continues to move forward towards the June 2020 deadline to transition to Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1).
Hosted by Rogers in downtown Toronto, the three-day meeting of the Emergency Services Working Group (ESWG) featured highly technical discussions around standards and operational best practices. Approximately 80 experts from across the country attended the meeting in person, with more joining by phone. Coincidentally, the ESWG meeting followed on the heels of an important CRTC Decision.
In Telecom Decision CRTC 2018-188, the Commission varied an earlier…
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VANCOUVER – In time for its recent open house in Vancouver, the LoRa (Long Range) Alliance announced a new partnership with Google Cloud as one of the major multi-national companies backing the LoRaWAN standard which is aimed at connecting the internet of things (IoT).
That cloud service provider with clout is the latest of 500 members around the world – including IBM, Cisco, Foxconn, Schneider and Bosch – to join the Alliance, whose work is to ensure a protocol that meets the varying worldwide standards and to certify devices to ensure interoperability. This is important stuff.
Travis…
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Competition Bureau invokes Sugar Wireless as a model to follow
GATINEAU – “Generally, the Bureau does not favour price controls. However, the presence of market power in this industry; the natural experiment offered by Sugar Mobile’s attempted entry into the wireless services industry; and the fact that similar LCDO Plans have arisen without government intervention in some foreign jurisdictions informs the Bureau’s view that LCDO Plans can increase economic welfare and consumer choice in Canada’s wireless industry.”
So says the Competition Bureau of Canada’s submission to the CRTC about the low-cost data only wireless plans submitted to…
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KITCHENER, ON – Residents in Ontario’s Tri-Cities, also known as Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo, have a new source for local news with the launch of KitchenerToday.com.
With editorial coverage led by Rogers Media's news and talk radio station 570 News, the digital site features local news, community events, obituaries, entertainment, current affairs, and weather. It also offers live stream video from the Rogers tv community channel, including The Jennifer Campbell Show and The Mike Farwell Show.
KitchenerToday.com is available on smartphone, desktop, and tablet and is targeted to the residents of Waterloo Region and Southern Ontario.
“The debut of KitchenerToday.com shows how committed we are…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media let go 75 full-time employees this week as it continues to scale back its print publishing division.
According to a National Post report, one-third of the company’s digital content and publishing department were laid off, including from big titles like Maclean’s and Chatelaine, in a reorganization that aims to “make the business sustainable given challenges in the publishing industry.”
A Rogers’ spokesperson quoted in the report said that all of Rogers’ brands will continue to operate and there will be no changes to the frequency of its print issues, adding the changes “do not impact the…
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TORONTO – As the Canadian wireless landscape continues to feel competitive heat from the likes of Shaw’s Freedom Mobile, Rogers CFO Tony Staffieri remains confident any impact is manageable.
“We’ve competed with Freedom, and the prior names of Freedom for upwards of 10 years now,” Staffieri said, speaking Wednesday at Scotiabank’s Telecom, Media and Technology Conference. “We compete not only on price, but also on network quality and points of distribution, among other factors. Getting the customer is one thing, but keep the customer is something else.”
Despite the Q4 2017 price war which saw Freedom disrupt…
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