TORONTO – CTAM Canada is once again inviting members to the Rogers Centre in Toronto to see MLB's the Toronto Blue Jays take on the Baltimore Orioles on April 22, 2014.
This will be a ticketed event for CTAM Canada members only, with dinner and drinks provided.
Tickets priced at $25.00 each will soon be available to purchase. More details to follow closer to the event.
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TORONTO – Premium sports network beIN SPORT has officially arrived in Canada after launching on Bell, MTS and Rogers.
beIN SPORT and beIN SPORT en Espanol provides viewers access to exclusive coverage to soccer matches from La Liga, Serie A, and Ligue 1, as well as tennis, rugby, boxing and motor sports.
Bell and Rogers subscribers may now select beIN SPORT as an add-on paid service with their subscription to Bell TV and Bell Fibe on channel 1412, and on Rogers’ channel 391. beIN SPORTS Play Canada is also available…
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TORONTO – With the 2014 Major League Baseball season set to kick off later this month, Sportsnet has every base of the Toronto Blue Jays’ season covered.
The network announced Thursday that it will make all of the team’s 162 games available on every device on Sportsnet, Sportsnet 590 The Fan and on computer, mobile and tablet via sportsnet.ca, the Sportsnet mobile app and Rogers Anyplace TV. In addition to the games, Sportsnet magazine’s Blue Jays Preview issue will available on newsstands and Next Issue beginning March 27.
Broadcast coverage begins March 31 at 3:30 PM ET/12:30…
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TORONTO – Susy Papais is assuming the role of vice president of finance for Insight Productions.
Papais, (pictured), has a well-rounded history working in television and media, starting in 2001 at Alliance Atlantis, with stints from 2002 – 2007 at Rogers Broadcasting (Radio) and Corus Radio, and most recently as director of finance at Teletoon. In her new role, she will oversee the day-to-day financial operations for both corporate and production accounting plus assist with a variety of growth initiatives and new opportunities at the production company.
"Susy brings an experienced, watchful eye and great energy to this role," said president and…
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TORONTO – This week marks both the arrival of spring, and a jump in the price of most voice and data plans offered by the country’s wireless incumbents and their respective flanker brands.
Bell matched Rogers Wireless and Telus Mobility this week by increasing the price of the majority of its plans by $5 per month. Virgin, Fido and Koodo, owned by Bell, Rogers and Telus, respectively, all increased prices by about $5 per month earlier this month.
The price hike will help to offset the introduction of unlimited voice and text plans by all three incumbents last year, plans that include…
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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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