TORONTO – Univision Canada launched a high definition version of its signal Friday, becoming the first national all-Spanish language TV channel in the country to do so.
The channel is currently available in over 1.8 million Canadian homes through TV providers including Rogers 780, Bell TV 699, Bell Fibe 867, Shaw 508, Vidéotron 248 and MTS channel 517.
Owned and operated by TLN, Univision Canada’s programming lineup includes daily news, award-winning telenovelas, talk shows, live music specials, and soccer coverage, complemented by made-in-Canada community programming.
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TORONTO – John Bitove will step down as chairman of the board of Sirius XM Canada at its next annual meeting in January, and will be replaced by Tony Viner, current member of the board of directors and audit committee chair, as well as former president of Rogers Media.
The audio entertainment company made the announcement Thursday in conjunction with the release of its fourth quarter and fiscal 2014 year-end results.
"It is hard to believe when we started the process of bringing satellite radio to Canada in 2002 that one day we would grow from zero to 2.6 million subscribers,…
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TORONTO – Rogers is teaming up with digital media company Vice Media to produce and distribute youth-focussed Canadian content for mobiles, tablets, computers and TV screens, here at home and around the world.
The announcement, made Thursday morning in Toronto, said that Vice Canada properties will form part of a $100 million joint venture between the two companies that will include a new multimedia production facility in Toronto, Vice Canada Studio; a dedicated Canadian TV channel called the Vice TV Network that will launch next year; and fresh mobile content, including exclusives for Rogers and Fido customers.
Vice launched in Montreal in 1994 as…
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TORONTO – We don’t know what it is (although there is much speculation in the Twitterverse), but Rogers CEO Guy Laurence will be making a “REALLY BIG ANNOUNCEMENT” in Toronto’s Entertainment District this morning.
We’re told it’s not supposed to be anything that will move the financial markets in any direction and it appears to be an announcement from the Rogers Media division, not Cable or Wireless. Beyond that, we don’t know. The press release promises it will be "ground-breaking", however. We don't think it's shomi-related though, since the launch party for…
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TORONTO – The CBC announced Wednesday it has purchased the broadcast and multiplatform rights to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang Korea and the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. However, it won’t be working alone.
The public broadcaster also announced a broad partnership with both Bell Media and Rogers Media to bring “unprecedented” coverage of the Games to Canadians on all platforms.
While financial details of the rights purchase were not announced, the deal was termed an “extension” of the existing deal the CBC signed for the 2014 and 2016 Games. “We gave an offer…
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BELLEVUE, WA – Bell placed first in two of Canada’s biggest three markets for wireless speed and reliability, according to tests done by an independent mobile analytics firm.
In its second set of reports on Canada's mobile experience, U.S.-based RootMetrics posted results from its more than 71,000 data, call and text tests, performed using the same phones that consumers can purchase, off the shelves, at their operator’s stores.
The company tested Bell’s Rogers’ and Telus’ networks in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, in addition to regional networks Wind (in Toronto and Vancouver) and Videotron (in Montreal). It conducted the tests in a…
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TORONTO and MARKHAM – Rogers’ sports scores and stats channel Sportsnews has settled in to channel 500 in the Rogers Cable lineup using the Audience software platform produced by Capital Networks.
The channel, billed as a 24/7 source for sports scores and information, ties in to Rogers’ ample NHL coverage with the ‘Red Light look’ (pictured) two hours prior to the day’s first hockey game and continues while live NHL games are being played. The channel features live scores, stats and Twitter feeds from various Rogers personalities, all displayed within seconds via the Audience data automation capabilities.
“On a busy night…
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TORONTO – Asian Television Network International launched its newest channel ATN Rishtey on Rogers Cable this week.
Rishtey is Viacom18's second entertainment channel in the South Asian entertainment space, offering a variety entertainment from genres including format and fiction shows, multicultural and regional programming, kids programming, lifestyle shows and Bollywood movies, all catering to the South Asian diaspora. ATN Rishtey is available on Rogers Cable channel # 924.
"We are excited to launch this new general interest channel in Hindi language to our vast and loyal subscriber base on Rogers Cable”, said ATN president and CEO said Dr. Shan Chandrasekar, in…
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TORONTO – Google exec Deepak Khandelwal will become Rogers’ new chief customer officer effective November 10.
Khandelwal joins Rogers from Google Inc. where he is currently VP, global customer experience with customers in over 100 countries world-wide. He joined Google in 2010 and led the transformation of its customer experience operations. Prior to Google he worked at McKinsey & Company from 1994 to 2010, becoming a principal in 2001. An engineer by trade, Khandelwal is a disciplined, process oriented problem solver who brings a deep passion for technology and a customer first approach.
As chief customer officer, Khandelwal will be responsible for…
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TORONTO – New subscription video-on-demand service shomi could debut as early as November 3, according to an invitation to its launch event received by Cartt.ca on Tuesday.
Owned jointly by Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications, the service was scheduled to launch “in early November” first to the 4.5 million combined subscribers of Rogers’ and Shaw’s Internet and cable TV customers for $8.99 per month. After six to 12 months of beta testing, Rogers and Shaw said that they will then determine what the distribution model will be going forward.
shomi will work initially on select set-top boxes, the Xbox 360, online…
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