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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TORONTO – Soon to be launched Canadian SVOD service shomi has locked up more content after signing a multi-year deal with Starz Digital Media, the global digital and on-demand licensing and content syndication arm of Starz.
The deal includes exclusive second-window access to select Starz original series such as The White Queen, Da Vinci’s Demons, Black Sails, Magic City, Power and Spartacus.
“Our partnership with Starz brings a phenomenal mix of immersive dramas and loveable comedies to our members,” said Marni Shulman, shomi’s head of content and programming, in the news release. “Every program in this deal offers premium content for our viewers…
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TORONTO – Mystery TV will become Crime + Investigation on November 3, Shaw Media said Friday.
The re-branded channel, a partnership between Shaw Media and A+E Networks, will still offer series such Law & Order, NCIS, Rookie Blue and Haven, as well as exclusive docuseries like My Haunted House, I Killed My BFF and The Haunting of…
As part of the rebranding, Crime + Investigation will be available as a free preview to Rogers Digital customers from November 4 to December 11, 2014.
"With series that take viewers behind the crimes and into the investigations, Mystery TV has evolved into Crime +…
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OTTAWA – The phrase ‘you win some, you lose some’ rang true this week for Sun News Network after it won one application for final offer arbitration with Telus, but lost another such application with Rogers.
In final offer arbitration, the Commission examines the final offers submitted by the parties and selects one in its entirety. The Commission’s decision is binding on the parties, though in rare instances, where neither offer is in the public interest, the Commission may reject both offers.
In its decision between Sun News Network (SNN) and Telus, the Commission said that it considered rates paid by…
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TORONTO – With October named Small Business Month in Canada, Rogers is taking its Rogers Talks series on the road to help drive small business growth, the company said Tuesday.
Micro (companies with up to five employees) and small businesses will have the opportunity to hear from experts in social media, marketing and networking and learn how technology can create a competitive advantage in their business. Events will take place in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver from October 29 to November 13, and each one is open to any small business owner or employee.
According to new research conducted by…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable could add wireless service to its mix as the country’s newest Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), a move that it said will help foster wireless competition in a market dominated by incumbent providers.
In advance of its appearance Monday at the CRTC’s review of wholesale mobile wireless services, Cogeco said in a statement that it will seek “the implementation of appropriate regulatory measures to allow it to enter the wireless market as an MVNO to offer customers more choice, better value and differentiated wireless services”. MVNOs are mobile wireless service providers that lease capacity from facilities-based wireless…
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OTTAWA–GATINEAU – With wireless service networks now accessible to 99% of the population, more and more Canadian households are dropping their landlines, according to the 2014 edition of the CRTC’s Communications Monitoring Report.
The report, released Thursday, provides an overview of the Canadian communication industry for the year ended August 31, 2013. This year, the CRTC is releasing the report in three parts. The first, about the country’s broadcasting sector, was released earlier this month, and the third part will be released in October with data on international comparisons, the National Do Not Call List and consumer spending on…
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BANFF – Three days of great weather, stunning scenery, clean mountain air and a ton of networking and learning made for another super CCSA CONNECT conference, where much of the talk surrounded the lengthy and somewhat contentious TV Policy Review hearing.
After CRTC vice-chairman broadcasting Tom Pentefountas opened the conference Monday morning with his speech (one which pretty much stayed away from the hearing), one of the conference’s sponsors AMC’s Lesley Fields, showed she’d been listening to the Commission’s Let’s Talk TV hearing when she noted she felt nervous following Pentefountas saying: “I feel the need…
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TORONTO – Rogers and Shaw’s nascent subscription video-on-demand service shomi is adding some impressive new content to its library after finalizing agreements with FX, FXX, and Fox.
The deals include exclusive access to past seasons of FX and FXX originals, including Sons of Anarchy, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League, The Americans, Wilfred, American Horror Story and Louie. Come 2015, shomi customers will also gain access to past seasons of recently released dramas Tyrant and The Strain and comedies Married and You're The Worst.
Fox programming includes New Girl, Sleepy Hollow, Bob's Burgers, 24: Live Another Day, and Modern Family. Also available non-exclusively are episodes of Homeland, Glee, American Dad, and Family Guy.
"The titles offered on shomi are hand-picked by our team of…
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GATINEAU – Being exempted from regulation, CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said in 2013, is still a form of regulation. So, one shouldn’t get the sense that just because Netflix on Monday refused the Commission’s order to provide data about its Canadian users, the chairman feels he has no arrows left in his quiver.
In May 2013, during the third day of the hearing analyzing Bell Media’s second attempt to acquire Astral Media, CRTC chairman Blais said this: “I never talk about regulated and unregulated. I always talk about licensed and unlicensed for the very fact that one couldn't have exempted…
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