TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada has been awarded the Canadian broadcast rights for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Tuesday.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As lead broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada pledged to work with broadcast partners Bell Media and Rogers Media to provide Canadians with “full access to all the excitement of the Olympic Games”. The three partnered on coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympics earlier this year.
“This is clear recognition of the exceptional coverage CBC/Radio-Canada provided for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games – the most watched in history”, said…
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TORONTO – CTAM Canada has announced the industry leaders who will take centre stage at next month’s Broadcaster’s Forum entitled ‘Engaging Canadians with TV Everywhere’.
Scheduled for November 19 from 1:00 to 5:00 PM at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, the second annual event will feature exclusive, new, Canadian-specific market research, and two moderated panels that will discuss distribution and technology, debate current industry hot topics, and share insights.
Panel #1: Consumer Adoption of TV Everywhere
With subscriber adoption of authenticated TV Everywhere (TVE) products on the rise in the U.S., the value proposition appears to be…
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MARKHAM, ON – Retired Rogers radio executive John Hinnen will receive the 2014 Hall of Fame Award from the Ontario Association of Broadcasters at the organization’s fall conference this Thursday.
The OAB Hall of Fame Award honours private broadcasters who have devoted a substantial part of their career to the Canadian broadcasting industry and demonstrated a commitment to the highest standards of broadcast excellence and community service in their role.
Hinnen, pictured, began his career at CKLB (now CKDO) in Oshawa and moved to Rogers in 1974 as a sportscaster for CFTR. In 1993, he led the team that transformed CFTR from…
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TORONTO – Rogers rolled out LTE-Advanced, the next evolution of wireless technology that combines its 700MHz and AWS spectrum, to Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Windsor, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Moncton, Fredericton, Halifax and Saint John on Friday, and said that more markets will soon follow.
Rogers was the only carrier to secure two blocks of contiguous 700MHz spectrum across the country's major geographic markets, it said. This 700 spectrum, located in select rural and urban locations, carries wireless signals across longer distances, while the AWS spectrum has greater capacity and is suited for high density towns and cities.
The company noted that…
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TORONTO – With just weeks until its November launch, shomi announced a new content deal with Warner Bros. International Distribution for new and library series, as well as select feature films.
The Rogers and Shaw-owned subscription video-on-demand service will become the exclusive streaming home to TV series including 2 Broke Girls, Two and a half Men, Shameless, Falling Skies, and the Canadian premiere home of the new Rob Thomas series iZombie (pictured).
The deal also includes film titles such as Blade Runner, Two Weeks Notice, Ocean’s Eleven, The Goonies, Unforgiven, Waiting for Guffman, the Lethal Weapon series, Mad Max movies, the Batman and Superman series and a collection of Stanley Kubrick…
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TORONTO – CTV and the Canadian Marketing Association have revealed the team of judges set to crown Canada’s best Super Bowl commercial.
FUSE Marketing Group president Stephen Brown will quarterback the panel of judges for the inaugural Super Bowl Canadian Ad Challenge. The Challenge, which kicked off in August, is looking for the best original creative specifically targeted to Canadians for CTV’s exclusive Canadian coverage of Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, 2015.
The judges are:
– Stephen Brown, President, FUSE Marketing Group;
– Joseph Bonnici, Partner, Creative Director, Bensimon Byrne;
– Jennifer Hedger, TSN broadcaster;
– Peter Ignazi, SVP, Executive Creative Director,…
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TORONTO – The Rogers sports department sure has been keeping its wireless division hopping with all this new hockey business.
Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence said yesterday that in just the first two weeks of the hockey season, there have been one million downloads of its new NHL GameCentre app and that 650 Terabytes of data have flowed through the app with an average of 80,000 fans streaming live games and on-demand video content through the application. Big numbers. A good start.
While many are doing this on Wi-Fi to save their data plan, there has been undeniable stress on the…
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TORONTO – Rogers’ third quarter profits fell 28% while revenues rose slightly over the same period last year, the company announced Thursday.
For the quarter ended September 30, 2014, Rogers posted net income of $332 million, down from $464 million in the third quarter of 2013, on operating revenue of $3.25 billion, which increased marginally from $3.22 billion year-over-year. Adjusted net income was $405 million, a 19% drop from $501 million last year.
Rogers said that consolidated revenue increased 1% this quarter, reflecting revenue growth of 2% year-over-year in Wireless and 3% in Business Solutions, while revenue in Media was steady,…
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HAMILTON and TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today in its third quarter results that it has purchased Hamilton’s remaining independent cable company, Source Cable, for $160 million.
Source Cable is a cable, Internet, and phone service provider with approximately 26,000 homes passed and 43,000 total service units, says the Rogers press release. For years it was known as Southmount Cable, before a rebranding effort in 2003.
The company has approximately 16,000 basic cable customers, however that figure is not in the press release. Using that number, the traditional cable valuation metric over the…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media Sales SVP Jack Tomik is leaving the company at the end of this month after completing the launch and implementation of Rogers Media’s integrated multiplatform sales service model known as One Call.
He will be replaced by Alan Dark (pictured), currently vice president of national sales for Rogers Media, effective November 3. Tomik will work with Dark, a key leader on Tomik’s sales leadership team, to ensure a seamless transition, reads Wednesday's announcement.
“Jack was hired to create and launch our new sales service model, and he did that with great success in less than two years. The…
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