TORONTO – Rogers, Telus and SaskTel were quick to endorse Connecting Families, the new initiative designed to help make the Internet affordable to low income Canadians, announced Wednesday by Innovation, Science and Economic Development minister Navdeep Bains at the Canadian Telecom Summit.
Connecting Families will invest $13.2 million over five years, starting in 2017-2018. For $10 per month, up to 220,000 qualifying households will receive an Internet package of no less than 10 Mbps download speeds (or the fastest available) and a minimum of 100 GB of data usage each month, with no equipment or installation fees. Families must…
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TORONTO – We’ve oft been in audiences covering dreary, news-free ministerial speeches. The Navdeep Bains keynote to the 2018 Canadian Telecom Summit today in Toronto was not that.
The Innovation, Science and Economic Development minister came with a crisp, fully loaded speech which satisfied some important needs for which many of the Canadian telecom gathering’s delegates have been clamoring (and he didn’t say “middle class families” once).
An issue which Summit co-founder Mark Goldberg and others have long been hounding various governments about has been the lack of a national, co-ordinated program to help connect low income families to the Internet….
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TORONTO – Post-Vice, Rogers Media is growing, diversifying — and in a better place than a year or two ago.
That's the word from Rogers Media president Rick Brace, who hailed his company's effort to turn around the media giant, especially on the traditional TV front as viewers increasingly migrate to Netflix, Facebook, Google and others. "As a television executive, you always want to be number one," Brace told Cartt.ca on Tuesday ahead of his company's Upfront presentation in Toronto.
"But, from the standpoint of City, we approach it with a practical attitude: what's the best we can do to ensure…
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TORONTO – Once fully deployed, the move to 5G wireless will fundamentally change how we live in Canada, but when and how that will happen is still open to much debate. That’s the message from a panel of telecom executives who gathered on Tuesday at the 2018 Telecom Summit in Toronto to discuss the opportunities and challenges of the next wireless revolution.
In time, 5G will power self-driving cars, but for now it’s the federal government that is driving the 5G show in Canada and it’s taking the slow lane when it comes to releasing spectrum. While Rogers, Telus, Shaw…
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TORONTO – Sportsnet and Twitter are bringing back Ice Surfing as a weekly show for the 2018-19 NHL regular season.
Rogers Media said Tuesday that Sportsnet Ice Surfing will jump from game to game, providing up-to-the-minute analysis and sharing immediate reactions of all the evening’s biggest plays. Hosted by Sportsnet personalities, the show will also include special guests, live interviews and real-time interaction with fans who are watching on their Twitter feed.
"Producing a show that brings fans the best plays of the night, as they are happening, from every game in the league, allows us to curate a first-rate hockey…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media is launching companion streaming services for its Citytv and FX linear services this fall, allowing viewers to catch up on an episode or an entire season of their favourite shows.
The services, Citytv Now and FX Now, will be subscriber authenticated, ad-supported, and available online, on mobile apps for iOS and Android, TV Everywhere platforms, and on Video-on-Demand through set-top boxes to TV service providers across Canada.
“Marrying the immersive experience of premium and prime-time television with the immediacy of on-demand, the Citytv Now and FX Now streaming services are a natural extension of the viewer experience,”…
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TORONTO – OMNI Television will air Toronto Blue Jays games in Tagalog every Saturday starting this summer.
Parent Rogers Media said Friday that Blue Jays on OMNI will air home and away games on OMNI.2, OMNI BC, OMNI Alberta and OMNI Regional using Sportsnet’s live feed, similar to how it does Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition.
More details, including on-air commentators and date of the first broadcast, will be announced at a later date.
“OMNI Television continues to evolve the range of programming it offers, and we are excited to be bringing our audiences Canada’s baseball team in our first-ever baseball…
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TORONTO – If you put together CHCH, CHEK, NTV and YesTV and help power it with sales agency Airtime Television Sales (which also reps Thunder Bay’s two TV stations), did you know you had a network of independents which cover 93% of Canadians?
That’s the pitch IndieNet (which is what the group calls themselves) has been making to advertisers now for two years. Airing an eclectic mix of local news, their own locally produced shows, new U.S. programming, old (but-much-loved-and-please-call-them-retro-instead) series, classic popular movies and other independent programming, these broadcasters offer up a diverse, pan-Canadian audience. Since IndieNet was formed,…
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TORONTO – Filming is underway for the second season of Bad Blood, the original drama series inspired by real life underworld figure Vito Rizzuto.
City said Monday that the eight new 60-minute episodes of the series will air this fall. Star Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy) reprises his role as multifaceted mobster Declan Gardiner, helming a new cast featuring Louis Ferreira (Breaking Bad, S.W.A.T), Anna Hopkins (Shadow Hunters), and Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp).
Season 2 picks up five years after Rizzuto’s death when his former right-hand man Gardiner (Coates), is the reigning king of the Montreal drug trade – that is, until a…
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TORONTO – RTDNA Canada recognized journalistic excellence over the weekend, announcing the winners of its Network RTDNA Awards of Excellence.
“With a record number of entries this year, the competition was as tough as ever and our valued judges presided over some truly remarkable submissions” said RTDNA Canada president Ian Koenigsfest, in the announcement. “The exceptionally high standard of entries from all regions and all market sizes indicates that quality of journalism continues to thrive in Canada. Winning an RTDNA Award of Excellence once again indicates the pinnacle of our craft on all platforms. Congratulations to everyone involved in producing…
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