OTTAWA–GATINEAU – Rogers Media shelled out $200,000 as part of a settlement over alleged violations to Canada's anti-spam legislation, plus agreed to improve its internal spam compliance program, the CRTC said Friday.
The Commission investigated Rogers Media for allegedly sending commercial emails containing an unsubscribe mechanism that did not function properly or which could not be readily performed by the recipient between July 2014 and July 2015. In addition, the electronic address used to unsubscribe was not valid for the required minimum of 60 days following the sent message, and the company failed to honour some requests to unsubscribe from receiving…
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TORONTO – Rogers has officially launched Fido’s first ever home Internet offering in parts of Ontario, as Cartt.ca reported early Thursday.
With pricing of $50 per month for 300 GB or unlimited for $65 per month, the service is both direct and strong new competition for the likes of independent ISPs VMedia, Beanfield and Teksavvy, who also serve urbanites with cheap high speed Internet. That pricing is only available to existing Fido Mobile postpaid customers. Non-Fido customers, or non-eligible Fido customers, can sign on for 300 GB for $70 per month or unlimited for $85 per month.
All plans include download speeds…
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TORONTO – Canadian sportscaster Dan Shulman is returning home to call select Toronto Blue Jays games on Sportsnet for the next two seasons.
Shulman, pictured, will join the broadcast team of Buck Martinez and Pat Tabler on at least 30 Blue Jays games on Sportsnet for the 2016 and 2017 MLB seasons, plus make appearances on Sportsnet shows Blue Jays Central, Blue Jays Central at Noon, Tim & Sid and on sportsnet.ca. He will also continue his work with ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball and NCAA Men's College Basketball broadcasts.
"Having hired Dan in 1995 for his first…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications will debut Fido Home Internet across areas of Southern Ontario today, Cartt.ca has learned.
Under the new service, eligible Fido wireless customers (whose demographic tends towards young urbanites) will get 300GB for $50/month at 30 Mbps download speed, which the company believes will work well for 1-3 people streaming in a home. They can also move to unlimited usage at any time, if they want it. Pricing for that was not immediately available.
Fido Home Internet’s pricing will stay the same from launch, with no early promotional pricing, term contracts or cancellation fees, and there’s…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will issue its first report on the performance of Internet services provided by the country's major Internet service providers (ISPs) next spring.
Data is currently being gathered from ‘Whiteboxes’ installed in the homes of the 4,500 participants who signed up to measure the performance of their broadband Internet services when the Commission unveiled the Measuring Broadband Canada program last May.
The Commission said Wednesday that the data will provide useful insight into network performance, including actual connection speeds, and provide a better understanding of whether certain Internet services from participating ISPs are delivering speeds as advertised….
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TORONTO – New Canadian business and financial news television channel Bloomberg TV Canada launched Tuesday in more than six million Canadian households.
An exclusive partnership between independent Canadian media company Channel Zero and Bloomberg Media, the new channel combines Canadian content and original programming with Bloomberg’s international news gathering to deliver high quality business, markets and economic coverage in Canada and around the world.
In addition to original shows such as The Daily Brief, hosted by Pamela Ritchie, and Bloomberg North, scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2016 featuring Amanda Lang, Bloomberg TV Canada will also deliver content…
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TORONTO – The fact that Wind Mobile has been able to see the type of growth its CEO describes as “amazing” shows a heavy demand for a wireless carrier that isn’t one of the big three or their flanker brands, Alek Krstajic told a conference last week.
And that pent up demand is populated with consumers who are willing to put up with a weak network, which Wind is working hard at bolstering, in exchange for lower prices and unlimited packages. “People want to see the underdog succeed,” said Krstajic, which is unlike the feeling he got when he worked…
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TWO OUT OF EVERY THREE Canadian households can stream over-the-top video services via their television sets using a dedicated streaming device or a game console or a laptop/PC, according to new research from Toronto’s Solutions Research Group.
The fall edition of the company’s syndicated Digital Life survey, which is based on 1,000 interviews in September 2015, took a close look at OTT video and TVE among other subjects and found:
The percentage of online households connecting a dedicated OTT streaming device (Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, etc.) to their TV nearly doubled from 12% to 22% since 2013.
Adding TVs connected…
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THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT that local TV is in a difficult spot. Declining ad revenue, audience fragmentation and erosion, the challenges of digital platforms, a lack of a dual revenue stream and the list goes on. But what to do about it? Some argue for a complete revamp of the local TV funding approach, while others are saying the CRTC only need to give local broadcasters more flexibility to work within existing rules.
The state of local TV is black and white, at least when looking at the revenue picture. As Bell Canada notes in its intervention into the…
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TORONTO – According to speakers like Sean Buckley, Founder & Executive Producer, Buck Productions, print, radio and TV should not be first to mind anymore.
Today's brave new world is about "genuine stories being told in different ways on digital platforms.”
Of course a large part of this social marketing, influencer-branding association, and ad buying shift remains experimental, but what is "new" is that product placement isn't about awkward Coke bottles in talent shows; but about well-scripted stories where the narrative is enhanced because the product is woven in.
"Smart-bombing" (old speak: "niche marketing"), was one term frequently over-heard at…
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