Sportsnet and the Calgary Flames announced Friday an 11-year extension of their exclusive regional broadcast partnership.
Sportsnet has been the home of the Flames’ regional broadcasts since the network’s inception in 1998, and this new long-term extension means the Calgary team’s regional broadcasts will remain on Sportsnet through to 2035.
“Sportsnet has been providing Flames fans with the very best content and coverage of our team for many years and we are thrilled to extend our broadcast relationship for eleven more,” Calgary Flames president and CEO John Bean said in a statement….
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By Connie Thiessen
Amazon, Rogers Communications, and the National Hockey League (NHL) have announced a two-year agreement to bring Monday night NHL hockey to Canadian fans on Prime Video.
The NHL’s first exclusive national broadcast deal with a digital-only streaming service in Canada, Prime Monday Night Hockey will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024/25 and 2025/26 seasons. Produced by Prime Video, it will feature a new broadcast team offering analysis and play-by-play coverage, and stream live exclusively to Prime members in Canada.
“Rogers’ partnership with the NHL has been incredibly successful and integral to…
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The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) released Thursday its 2024 mid-year report, which shows a 43 per cent increase in the number of complaints from telecom and TV customers in Canada between Aug. 1, 2023 and Jan. 31, 2024, compared to figures in the CCTS’s mid-year report a year ago.
For the six-month period, the CCTS accepted 10,663 customer complaints, compared to 7,451 complaints at last year’s midpoint, the new report says. Of the complaints received during the report’s timeframe, 9,272 were concluded, having raised 19,879 issues.
Wireless service issues remain the leading…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said Wednesday that the company expects to see increased wireless subscriber movement between carriers throughout the year in part due to heightened competition and ease of switching.
The cable giant saw its rate of postpaid customer defections for the first quarter of the year increase to 1.1 per cent compared to the 0.79 per cent it logged in the same quarter last year.
Staffieri said part of this came from the competitive offers from other carriers that seeped from the holiday season into the new year. Quebecor’s Freedom, for example, has been pushing and holding…
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Rogers announced Wednesday it has signed a 10-year agreement with global media and technology company Comcast to bring the latest Xfinity broadband, smart home and connectivity products and technology to Canadians across the country, starting later this year.
A new device powered by Entertainment OS, Comcast’s next generation of connectivity, will soon be available to Rogers customers as well as an expanded suite of home security products and features developed by Comcast and Xfinity.
The Entertainment OS platform will simplify the viewing experience by bringing live sports, entertainment and news, on-demand and streaming apps into…
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Quebecor said it will rethink pricing strategy as a result
By Ahmad Hathout
Quebecor will need to accept Telus’s rate to connect to its wireless network, the CRTC ruled Monday, eliciting a scathing response from the Montreal company that included a promise to reconsider its low-cost pricing and suspend the launch of certain plans in Manitoba.
Telus and Quebecor could not come to an agreement on the price-per-gigabyte component of that access, so they each presented their respective prices and asked the CRTC to make that determination via final offer arbitration.
While it said both offers would allow Quebecor’s mobile virtual network…
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CBC/Radio-Canada announced Monday highlights of its planned coverage of the upcoming Olympic Games being held in Paris this summer from July 26 to Aug. 11.
“CBC’s comprehensive coverage of Paris 2024 will feature live broadcasts from every venue and include every Canadian medal-winning moment, totalling more than 3000 hours of live content across the public broadcaster’s multiple platforms,” reads a CBC press release.
Team Canada will be among the approximately 10,500 athletes (5,250 women and 5,250 men) representing 206 countries taking part in these Olympic Games.
“As we mark our 24th Olympic Games as Canada’s official broadcaster, we look…
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By Ahmad Hathout
The CRTC is asking for comments by Friday on a request by a consortium of internet service providers urging the regulator to rule on the eligibility of the big three telecoms to lease bundled access to middle and last mile fibre facilities both under the interim, and any future permanent, mandated regime.
The consortium – which is made up of Bell, Cogeco, Eastlink, TekSavvy, and the indie rep the Competitive Network Operators of Canada – filed a request dated March 28 to the CRTC asking for a final ruling before May 7 on whether Bell, Rogers, Telus and…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Canada’s largest broadcasters are once again asking for a court order to actively block websites that are allegedly streaming their content without a licence.
The broadcasters, including Rogers, Bell, Groupe TVA, and Fubo TV, filed with the Federal Court on April 5 a request for a dynamic site blocking order to eliminate from view the illegal streaming of sports content to which they have the sole rights to broadcast.
An order of this kind would mean that internet service providers, who are applicants and third parties in this case, will be forced to actively block during…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers wants the CRTC to limit the time telcos reserve space to attach wireless equipment on their own poles, according to a submission to the regulator.
The ask comes in response to a consultation launched by the commission inquiring, among other items, about whether it has jurisdiction over wireless attachments on telco-owned or controlled structures. The CRTC holds the preliminary view that it has concurrent jurisdiction over those structures with the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), which has domain over towers and siting.
Beside recommending that the CRTC confirm that jurisdiction – which…
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