TORONTO – Long-time Rogers radio personality Mike Cooper is calling it a career, announcing Friday that he is retiring from popular morning show Erin and Mike in the Morning on Toronto’s 98.1 CHFI FM.
Cooper (pictured) will continue to host the show Coop’s Classics Saturday evenings on 98.1 CHFI, but his last day on the morning show will be January 29. Details of a new co-host will be announced in the coming weeks.
A veteran radio personality of 45 years, Cooper first joined the airwaves as an on-air host at CKAT-FM in North Bay, ON. He took a position with 1050 CHUM in…
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LAS VEGAS – “Cable companies find it hard to accept that people don’t just want to watch TV in the living room anymore,” said Jay Mehr, EVP and COO of Shaw Communications as it announced the launch of its FreeRange app Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show.
The app makes content instantly available to subscribers no matter where they are and Mehr (pictured) told a gathering of industry partners and press that the cable company had partnered with Comcast and Cisco to leverage Comcast's X1 platform to provide a truly disruptive mobile experience by providing live…
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LAS VEGAS – Samsung announced a number of new products Tuesday which the Korean company says will leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) by always being connected to the Internet (assuming we’ll want that).
The company also revealed a new bezel-less curved SUHD TVs with Quantum dot displays, a refrigerator (pictured) so advanced it looks more like a giant smartphone that keeps your food cold, a new smartwatch and a large screen Windows tablet, the Galaxy TabPro S that looks like the Microsoft Surface.
“Samsung has continuously worked to help people live smarter lives, and this year we have taken a…
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TORONTO – Gains in Sportsnet’s television and radio audiences as well as triple-digit growth on Sportsnet.ca and mobile made 2015 the best year in the brand’s history, Rogers said Wednesday.
Highlights from the year include:
– For the period Jan. 1 – Dec. 31, 2015, Sportsnet delivered a 5.2 audience share and an average minute audience of 216,000, marking a year-over-year increase of 40%;
– A total of 10 Sportsnet broadcasts surpassed the 3 million viewer mark in 2015; 3 surpassed 4 million viewers; and 1 surpassed 5 million viewers;
– The prime-time edition of Sportsnet Central was the most-watched sports news program…
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TORONTO – A new fourth player in Canada’s wireless industry combined with increased wireline competition are two factors poised to significantly impact the Canadian telecom industry in 2016, says Canaccord Genuity.
An industry overview released Wednesday by analyst Aravinda Galappatthige says that company is taking “a more cautious stance” as it considers this year’s outlook for the telecom stocks, particularly when it comes to the big three incumbents BCE, Telus and Rogers.
Galappatthige predicts that wireless competition will heat up as a “resurgent Rogers Wireless” continues to aggressively add wireless net additions, and as regional player Videotron Wireless advances towards its…
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LAS VEGAS – In an attempt to avoid the format fiasco that hobbled the launch of Blu-ray/HD DVD, an inter-industry group has unveiled a “Ultra HD Premium” logo and agreed upon specifications it hopes will avoid confusion among consumers about the benefits of Ultra HD.
The new logo is reserved only for devices, content and services that have gone through a certification process that ensures they comply with performance metrics for resolution, high dynamic range (HDR), peak luminance, blacks levels and wide colour gamut among others. Over the course of the next few days at CES we will…
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OTTAWA – Telus is the second big wireless provider to reach an agreement with the Competition Bureau to credit or refund its customers who were charged for premium text messages that they had been led to believe were free.
The Bureau said Wednesday that Telus will issue rebates of up to $7.34 million to select current and former wireless customers after it concluded that the Vancouver-based telco made, or permitted to be made, false or misleading representations in advertisements for premium text messages in pop-up ads, apps and on social media.
The rebates will apply to Telus, Telus Mobility and Koodo customers…
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BRAMPTON – Cogeco Cable’s Ron Huinink has been elected president of SCTE Ontario Chapter board for 2015.
He joins Rogers Cable’s John Triassi and Andrew Laframboise and Telonix’s Scott McPhail who were also elected to the SCTE Ontario Board for a period of two years (2016 and 2017). They join current board members Mario Massi, Ivan Novello, Chris Skarica and Joe Caruso.
The organization said that nine candidates put their names forward and that voter turnout was strong.
The Ontario Chapter of SCTE has grown to over 900 members since its inception in mid-2003 and is the largest chapter membership in North America.
www.scte-ontario.com
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence said in the fall he hoped this would be the Christmas of 4K TV.
The Cisco 4K set top box the company touted that day in October is now being offered to all cable customers with rental cost of $12.95 per month and all 4K broadcasts will air on channel 999, beginning with the first live 4K NHL broadcast on January 23rd when the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Montreal Canadiens.
As well, as of Wednesday, customers in select neighbourhoods in downtown Toronto and the GTA now have access to Rogers Ignite…
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TORONTO – The CRTC has rebuffed an attempt by TekSavvy Solutions to stop Rogers Communications from removing a coax cable network in a Toronto townhouse complex. The independent ISP serves customers in the 347-home development using Third Party Internet Access (TPIA) from Rogers.
TekSavvy also argued that because Rogers, which is replacing the legacy facilities with a fibre to the premise (FTTP) installation, didn’t provide the requisite six months notice, it should get wholesale access to the fibre under the same terms and conditions as TPIA over coax. As well, this access should be available for the duration of the…
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