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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GATINEAU – The NHL season was barely under way when Bell Canada filed a complaint with the CRTC over how Rogers is keeping an exclusive lid on some of the content for which it paid $5.2 billion.
In an application filed October 10th and just made public Tuesday on the CRTC web site, Bell says Rogers’ new digital services which extend the NHL experience online and on mobile, GameCentre and GamePlus, violate sections 3 and 5 of the Exemption Order for Digital Media Broadcasting Undertakings by giving the company an “anticompetitive advantage.” Rogers bought the NHL rights for 12 years from…
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TORONTO – Proving yet again that television can make for strange bedfellows, soon to launch Canadian streaming service shomi and Rogers-owned City are partnering with Netflix on a new original drama series called Between.
Dubbed the first partnership of its kind in Canada, Between will debut with six, one-hour episodes that will premiere on City and shomi in Canada, and on Netflix outside of Canada where the service is available. The series will join Netflix Canada’s library one year following its initial premiere.
Created by Canadian writer/director Michael McGowan (Still Mine, One Week, Saint Ralph) and produced by Toronto-based Don Carmody…
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TORONTO – Rogers has recruited former Cisco Canada president Nitin Kawale to become president of its enterprise business unit effective December 1.
Kawale joins Rogers from Cisco Systems Canada where he has held the position of president since 2008 with responsibility for all aspects of the Canadian operation including sales, marketing, finance, distribution and services. He joined Cisco in 1995 and has served in a variety of domestic and international roles.
As Rogers enterprise business unit president, Kawale will be responsible for the delivery of the company's enterprise business strategy and commercial plan covering small and medium business, enterprise and public sector…
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TORONTO – Cisco Canada has promoted Bernadette Wightman to president, replacing the departing Nitin Kawale.
A 15-year Cisco veteran, Wightman most recently served as the general manager for Cisco in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the other Commonwealth of Independent State countries, where she led the team in a challenging geo-political landscape and built a trusted business platform for the future. She brings extensive experience in customer, partner and service provider organizations to the Cisco Canada team, the announcement continued.
“Cisco is extremely proud of the accomplishments of our Canadian operations,” said Cisco SVP Americas Alison Gleeson. “Canada continues to…
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WHILE HBO CEO RICHARD Plepler said Wednesday the premium pay TV service will offer an over-the-top version of itself in 2015 to customers who aren’t traditional subscription TV customers, don’t look for it to come to Canada any time soon.
Both Bell Media and Corus Entertainment recently signed long term multiplatform deals with HBO which will allow the companies to control original and library content from the U.S. pay service likely until at least 2018. The deals with Bell (which operates TMN multiplex HBO Canada in the eastern half of the country and) and Corus (which…
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