TORONTO – Rogers is kicking off a national event series and contest geared to driving small business growth in Canada, the company said Tuesday.
Starting next month, Rogers Talks will bring together experts in social media, marketing and sales to share knowledge and applicable best practices with small business owners and employees across Canada. Events will take place in Toronto, Kitchener/Waterloo, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver from October 28 to November 12.
In addition, the company will award five technology grand prize packages worth $20,000, including mobile devices from Rogers and BlackBerry, as part of a contest entitled Rogers…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media is promising its viewers, listeners and readers star treatment of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) which begins this Thursday, September 5 and runs through September 15.
TIFF fans can wake up on Thursday morning to Breakfast Television live from the red carpet at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto beginning at 5:30 AM. Throughout the festival, Entertainment City will continue to bring audiences the day’s first scoop on late-night, breaking entertainment news on television, online, tablet and mobile.
On City, viewers can catch Entertainment City on CityNews at 5, 6, and 11 p.m. ET where hosts Dina Pugliese, Melanie…
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NEW YORK – Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam told Bloomberg News on Monday that his company will not be entering the Canadian wireless marketplace after all and that it wasn’t all that interested in the first place.
He told the news organization in no uncertain terms the company is not interested in investing here and all the speculation that it might enter the Canadian market was “way overblown”. He told Bloomberg that Canada held some limited appeal for the company, but now that it announced it will pay British telco Vodafone $130 billion…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has decided November 5th is the day it will hear why Corus Entertainment should be able to purchase French specialty channels Historia and Series+, three Ottawa radio stations and the piece of Teletoon (including its other animation brands) it does not yet own.
In March, Corus agreed to purchase the assets in question as part of the divestitures required as conditions of the Bell Media purchase of Astral Media. While it already held 50% of Teletoon/Télétoon (as well as Teletoon Retro in English and French, and the Cartoon Network) with Astral, it…
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MONTREAL and TORONTO – Bell and Rogers have both sided with the NDP in the party’s call for an emergency meeting with the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to review the federal government’s wireless policy.
First proposed in a motion tabled by NDP Industry critic Chris Charlton, the meeting was officially scheduled to take place Tuesday, and will be held in camera.
“Public hearings are the ideal opportunity for open and constructive dialogue among consumers, government and industry to find a solution to the problem of the wireless loopholes,” said George Cope, Bell Canada…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media is supporting today’s kickoff of its newest (read “TVTropolis rebranded”) lifestyle channel DTOUR with a national multi-platform marketing and advertising campaign.
Shaw's DTOUR specialty channel launched today with a national promo campaign that included blanketing Toronto's Bloor subway station (above) with images from various reality series, including this one from Continue Reading
TORONTO – It will be a new era at Citytv when parent Rogers Media shortly completes a revamp of the network's creative brain trust. Malcolm Dunlop, executive vice-president of TV programming and operations, is leaving the house on August 30, a month before Claire Freeland, director of programming at Rogers Media Television, does the same.
Cartt.ca has learned the new era at Rogers Media to be unveiled in mid-September will, according to sources, see Dunlop's over-arching programming, scheduling and operations duties more evenly split between the next generation of leadership. Rogers TV division is expected to be built around Dunlop's…
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VANCOUVER – A new report from The Fraser Institute this morning says that Ottawa will only achieve its stated goal of providing Canadians with more choice and competition in the wireless marketplace if it removes restrictions on foreign ownership of telecommunication companies.
“The goal of achieving and maintaining a competitive market is not the same as having a minimum number of competing firms,” said Steven Globerman, Fraser Institute senior fellow and Kaiser Professor of International Business at Western Washington University, in the official press release. “By setting up rules that handicap the three large Canadian telecoms and favour small or…
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TORONTO – While James Moore told Cartt.ca on Tuesday the 700 MHz spectrum auction will not be delayed – nor will the federal government be revisiting its wireless policies – Rogers Communications CEO Nadir Mohamed is equally strident saying he has “absolutely not” given up on convincing the Industry Minister and the Prime Minister’s Office to change their minds on both fronts.
“I still firmly believe the best answer comes from dialogue and debate and discussion, and that’s the process we’re in. There’s no question in my mind that there’s always time to make the right…
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INDUSTRY MINISTER JAMES MOORE has fair sized reservoir of stamina. After two full days of going west to east talking wireless with just about everyone who’ll ask for his time – and with three days of that still lying ahead – he sounded fresh and combative when it was our turn Tuesday afternoon to talk with him.
For readers not vacationing incommunicado for the past two months, Minister Moore has taken this week to tour the country to talk up the federal government’s wireless policies in the face of an all-out onslaught of sustained criticism from…
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