DARTMOUTH, NS – Newfoundland Capital Corporation subsidiary Newcap Inc. received CRTC approval Friday to proceed with its purchase of CHNI-FM in Saint John, NB from Rogers Broadcasting.
The Commission also approved Newcap’s request to delete conditions of licence relating to the station’s programming, allowing it to move from a News/Talk to a music format, and approved changes to the authorized contours of CHNI-FM.
"This licence is a great fit for our company as it expands our presence in New Brunswick and represents our entry into the Saint John market”, said president and CEO Rob Steele, in a statement. “We are…
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DALLAS, TX – Approximately one-fifth or 20% of Canadian television service subscribers downgraded their service over the last 12 months, with many opting for an Internet video option instead, according to a new research report from Parks Associates.
The report, Video in Canadian Households, analysed the market for subscription home video services via an online survey of 1,500 Canadian broadband households in the last quarter of 2013.
Among Canada’s nine largest TV service providers, nearly one-third (29%) of Telus Optik TV subscribers said that they had downgraded to a less expensive TV package with fewer channels or features in the last year. …
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TORONTO – Just in time for NCAA March Madness and the upcoming NHL and NBA playoffs, TSN has launched its TV Everywhere app TSN Go.
Featuring more than 6,000 hours of live sports coverage and in-house shows like Off The Record and That's Hockey, TSN Go offers live streaming and full length video on demand access to TSN subscribers via their smartphone, tablet, and computer. In addition, TSN2 subscribers will also be able to live stream TSN2's slate of live programming.
TSN Go is immediately available to all Bell TV and Rogers customers for free with a subscription to TSN, and…
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TORONTO – Rogers has closed its concurrent Canadian and U.S. financing transactions of approximately $2.1 billion to help fund its purchases at last month’s 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction.
Using that amount in addition to cash on hand and other available debt, Rogers pledged to invest $3.29 billion to deploy 20 MHz of spectrum, a move its says will result in enhanced network coverage and a better mobile video experience for customers in both rural and urban areas across the country.
Rogers acquired 22 licences – the majority of it in the A and B blocks – in every region of…
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MOST AGREE THE PRIMARY reasons why Netflix – and for that matter all web-based media – has a growing advantage over traditional media are the streams of data they gather and use to make real-time decisions. It’s the so-called Big Data that web-based companies gather to make magic and produce profits.
At Thursday’s Content Industry Connect event hosted by the Banff Media Festival organizers, one attendee (we’re told it was a fellow named Ahmad Iqbal from a company called Atendy) asked what is the best question I’ve heard put to a panel of broadcasters in a very long time, saying:…
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TORONTO – Unable to come to a new wholesale carriage agreement, Rogers Cable dropped Speed from its channel lineup March 1st.
The channel originally came to Canada in 1997 as Speedvision as a part of the third tier of analog specialty channels launched that fall and has been a cars-and-motorsports channel ever since – a place where gearheads and race junkies could watch shows on how to fix cars and race cars – as well as to see a huge number of live car, truck and motorbike races. It was acquired by Fox in 2001 and renamed Speed Channel, and…
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TORONTO – Many folks love to tell Canadian TV executives what they should – or should not – be doing. Really, anyone with a TV set does that regularly.
But when it comes to those with a keyboard and a national platform, or with a famous name or job, their gripes often offend and are taken to heart. At Thursday’s Content Industry Connect day put on by the Banff Media Festival, broadcast executive, investor and producer Peter Sussman kicked off the industry leaders panel by quoting noted thorn-in-the-Canadian-TV-industry’s-side, Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle. In a fall 2013 column…
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TORONTO – Canadian broadcaster George Stroumboulopoulos will lead Rogers’ “dream team of broadcasters” anchoring its NHL national coverage across all Rogers properties, as well as Hockey Night in Canada beginning this fall, Rogers announced Monday.
Together with hockey talent Don Cherry, Ron MacLean, Daren Millard and Jeff Marek, the team will deliver more than 500 regular season games across 13 networks and seven platforms, including up to seven games every Saturday night, plus Hometown Hockey every Sunday hosted from communities across Canada, and every game of the NHL Playoffs and Stanley Cup Final. The announcement comes as Rogers gears up…
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TORONTO – Astral Media co-founder Ian Greenberg is being inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame.
The induction ceremony will take place during Canadian Music Week at the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards gala scheduled for May 8, 2014 at the Kool Haus in Toronto.
One of four brothers who founded Astral, Greenberg played an integral part in the company’s 50-year history by gradually transforming it from a photographic specialty business into one of Canada's leaders in pay and specialty TV, radio, out-of-home advertising, and digital media. As president and CEO of Astral from 1995 until BCE's acquisition…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON – Rogers has chosen Monroe Electronics’ messaging platform to provide emergency public alerts in select markets across Canada, announced its Canadian distributor, Capella Telecommunications.
Monroe’s One-Net platform filters and forwards targeted alerts from Canada’s National Alert Aggregation and Dissemination (NAAD) system with full support for Canada’s unique Common Alerting Protocol messaging profile (CAP-CP). This will allow customers in affected regions to receive emergency alerts in multiple languages and instructions in both visual and audio formats.
“This is an important step in the process of providing emergency public alerts for our customers”, said Eric Bruno, Rogers’ VP of video product…
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