TORONTO – Hockey Night in Canada set a record for audience reach on the opening Saturday in October of the 2014-15 NHL season.
Rogers said that 9.8 million Canadians tuned into some or all of the new look Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, while the debut of Rogers Hometown Hockey (Toronto @ New York Rangers) Sunday on City averaged an audience of 1.07 million viewers, the third most-watched Sunday broadcast in City history.
Saturday’s Game One average audience (7 PM ET / 4 PM PT) (Pittsburgh @ Toronto; Montreal @ Philadelphia; Ottawa @ Tampa Bay; Calgary @ St. Louis; Washington @…
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TORONTO – Former Google exec Jacob Glick is taking on the newly created position of Rogers’ chief corporate affairs officer.
Glick joins Rogers from Google Inc., where he has held a number of leadership positions including head of the global central public policy and government relations team and Google Canada's public policy and government relations team. Before Google, he was general counsel, director of policy development and corporate secretary with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and a litigator with McCarthy Tétrault.
As Rogers’ chief corporate affairs officer, Glick will be responsible for leading one integrated corporate affairs team including regulatory…
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OTTAWA – Spectrum set asides, eligibility to purchase set-aside spectrum, and the band plan remain the primary sticking points for Canada’s wireless service providers in reply comments to Industry Canada’s consultation on the AWS-3 spectrum auction framework.
The country’s large wireless operators have panned many aspects of the department’s proposed approach to the AWS-3 auction. A 30 MHz set-aside that includes spectrum contiguous to previously auctioned AWS-1 spectrum gives new entrants a considerable leg up, they argue. Not only do they believe that the set aside is the wrong approach, they think if the department does indeed set…
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TORONTO – As the puck officially dropped Wednesday night, some 55,000 hockey fans live streamed their favourite teams online using Rogers’ new NHL GameCentre LIVE app, the company said Thursday.
Rogers NHL GameCentre LIVE is a mobile app that offers English and French online streaming rights to a range of live national NHL games as well as 800 classic games from the NHL Vault. Fans with a regional Sportsnet subscription with a participating BDU can live stream their local team's regional games. The app also includes GamePlus, which offers viewers a second screen experience replete with new camera angles and replays.
Some…
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TORONTO – Asian Television Network International’s newest station ATN Channel V launched this week on Rogers Cable and Bell Fibe.
ATN Channel V offers a mix of entertainment that reflects the tastes, preferences and platforms of Indian youth. Reaching out to almost 50 million viewers every week in India, Channel V is owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of 21st Century Fox.
"We are excited to launch this new general interest channel specifically for our younger audience who are a big part of our total audience and overall business plan," said ATN president and CEO Dr….
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MARKHAM, ON – Building upon the success of last year's inaugural session, the Ontario Association of Broadcasters’ fall conference will once again include an industry executive town hall.
This one hour session, moderated by well-known consultant and former CRTC Commissioner Rita Cugini, will include:
– Erica Farber; CEO Radio Advertising Bureau, USA;
– Jim MacLeod; president and CEO, Numeris;
– Geoff Poulton; president, Vista Radio;
– Raj Shoan; Ontario Commissioner, CRTC;
– Paul Ski, CEO, Radio, Rogers Broadcasting; and
– Vanessa Thomas, Head of Canada, Songza – Google.
Covering all aspects of the industry – from content creators, buyers, sellers, research, regulation and ultimately the consumer, this…
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OTTAWA – The Recycle My Cell Student Challenge is back for a fifth year, so c’mon kids and gather up those old mobile devices.
Canadian students from kindergarten to post-secondary are challenged to recycle as many old wireless devices and accessories as possible between October 20 and November 21, 2014. The school in each province and territory that collects the most cell phones (based on school population) will be awarded $500 to be used towards a school environmental project. As a participation prize, eligible schools will receive $1 for every phone they collect and recycle through Recycle My Cell (up to a…
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WE COULD WALK through the various undertakings and final replies filed by the many contributors to the CRTC’s TV Policy Review, but we’ve done more than 40 stories on the whole proceeding. The issues are well known and have been dismantled and well-explained repeatedly here – but it’s the final brief filed by American broadcaster Viacom which has set tongues wagging.
(Ed note: Yes, the filings and oral presentations of both Netflix and Google have been stricken from the record as threatened since neither company responded to the October 2 compliance deadline set by the Commission)
In its final reply…
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THE INITIAL CALL FOR THE REVIEW of the broadcasting system and the launch of the Let’s Talk TV consultation process was met with both skepticism and guarded optimism in the industry.
In many ways the industry had this coming. The price for cable television has increased dramatically over the past few decades, outpacing rises in price of most household commodities. The associated explosion in the number of channels, combined with the rise in price has created what behavioral economists call a “correlation effect”. This causes people to assume that the number of channels is the main cause of…
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TORONTO – Rogers customers can get up close and personal with their favourite NHL players and teams this season with new technology dubbed GamePlus.
GamePlus, available within Rogers NHL GameCentre Live, will offer hockey fans new cameras and angles, plus create an exclusive second-screen hockey experience, the company detailed Monday. The new cameras include:
– In Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, Sky Cam sits at the 200 level and follows the puck red line to red line at six metres per second;
– Ref Cam (pictured) is on the referee’s helmet and puts fans on the ice to get in on face…
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