TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Rogers Radio listeners in the Toronto and Vancouver regions can now enjoy crisp quality sound with the availability of HD radio, the company said Monday.
Stations now available in HD audio include KiSS 92.5 and 96.9 JACK FM in HD1, 680 NEWS and NEWS 1130 in HD2, and Sportsnet 590 The FAN in HD3. The HD broadcasts are accessible on any portable or in-dash HD-enabled device. Listeners may also experience enhanced digital content on their HD radio devices, such as song titles, album art, and artist information.
“We are constantly looking at ways to enhance the listener experience,” said…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – A drop in advertising revenue helped slow the pace of growth at Canada’s specialty, pay, PPV and VoD television services in the broadcast year ending August 31, 2015, according to the CRTC’s statistical and financial report for this sector released Thursday.
Pay, Pay-per-View, Video-On-Demand and Specialty Services – Statistical and Financial Summaries 2011-2015 said that the sector generated revenues of $4.3 billion in 2015, a modest 0.5% increase over the $4.2 billion earned the previous year, which was hampered by a $19 million decline in advertising revenue, which was offset by a $30.6 million increase in subscription revenues.
The report…
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TORONTO – Bell Media’s The Comedy Network is readying new series and epsiodes as it preps for a free preview from June 30 – August 4.
The new content includes the linear TV premiere of the CraveTV original hit Letterkenny and the new series Wrecked (pictured), a half-hour single camera comedy that follows a group of plane crash survivors trying to make a new life for themselves on a deserted island. It also includes a marathon of The Detour, the return of Angie Tribeca, and new episodes of Just For Laughs: All Access.
The Comedy Freeview is available on TV service…
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REGINA – BCE’s acquisition of MTS could result in new government policies designed to create incentives for additional wireless competition, says SaskTel’s risk assessment report of the proposed deal.
SaskTel, a crown corporation owned by the people of Saskatchewan, said the analysis of the risks of the potential transaction will become part of the strategic planning process that it undertakes annually. The report, commissioned in May and released Monday, was conducted by Mark H. Goldberg & Associates Inc. as the independent third party.
Key risks outlined in the report include:
– The further concentration of the market in…
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TORONTO – Rogers-owned The Shopping Channel (TSC) is making its easier to pick up some deals after launching a new t-commerce shopping experience on Apple TV.
Available now in the App Store, the ShopTSC app for Apple TV allows customers to stream both live and pre-recorded broadcasts, browse exclusive items, and purchase their favourite TSC products and brands directly from their TVs. The app features a program guide and user-friendly menu bar to navigate and browse more than 15,000 available products, while the digital shopping cart feature allows customers to manage an account and load their shopping cart for…
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OTTAWA – Cities do not have the right to stop cell phone towers from being built on municipal land, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.
In a decision released Thursday, Canada's top court said that Montreal suburb Chateauguay did not have the right to prevent Rogers Communications from building a telecommunications tower to fill gaps in its wireless coverage.
The court ruled in Rogers’ favour after determining that the notice of reserve issued by Chateauguay was beyond the scope of the municipality’s power.
“… the notice of a reserve seriously and significantly impaired the core of the federal power over…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) has officially unveiled its new radio marketing and advocacy bureau known as Radio Connect.
Radio Connect will demonstrate the many advantages of radio, from the medium’s ROI to clients looking to meet business goals, to its unique ability to provide engaging, relevant, and locally-focused entertainment to listeners from coast to coast, reads Thursday’s news release.
Sarah Garvie was named executive director of Radio Connect and Paul Ski as special advisor to the executive director.
Garvie has an extensive background in radio planning, selling and buying, and is committed to showcasing Canadian radio’s strengths, continues…
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CRTC addresses financial viability of news in local and community TV decision
GATINEAU – The CRTC is redrawing the local news and community TV landscape, however, it stopped short of creating a new funding mechanism for all local news operations.
Rather, the Commission is giving vertically integrated entities added flexibility in how they allocate money, while independent broadcasters will get access to a new fund and some immediate financial help (however, the full, new funding mechanisms don’t start until September 2017).
The Commission argued in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2016-224 that the VI companies (Rogers, Bell, Quebecor, Corus) have the wherewithal to…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC will consider broadcast licence renewal applications from Canada’s big English- and French-language ownership groups at two public hearings this November.
The Commission said Wednesday that it will review applications from French-language ownership groups Bell, Corus, Quebecor and Groupe V starting November 22 in Laval.
The public hearing to review the applications from the English-language ownership groups Bell, Corus and Rogers, plus Shaw Communications and Telelatino Network, will begin on November 28 at the CRTC’s headquarters in Gatineau.
The deadline for the submission of interventions/comments/answers is August 2, 2016.
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TORONTO – Rogers-owned OMNI Television has filed an application with the CRTC for a new must-carry, multilingual and multicultural channel to be known as OMNI Regional.
The proposed national channel would be comprised of four feeds: Pacific, Prairies, and East, mirroring OMNI’s local stations in those regions, plus ICI Quebec via a strategic partnership with Montreal ethnic television station International Channel/Canal International (ICI) aimed at French-language ethnic communities in that province.
As part of its proposal, OMNI Television is asking for inclusion in basic TV packages (pursuant to section 9(1)(h) of the Broadcasting Act). Current local OMNI stations in Toronto, Edmonton,…
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