QUISPAMSIS, NB – Canadian Cable Systems Alliance and Rogers Media have completed a Master Affiliate Agreement for the distribution of FX Canada. The terms of this deal provide CCSA members with multiplatform rights including SD, HD, VOD and BODO (broadband-on-demand-online) versions of the service.
“We are very pleased to have reached this agreement,” says Alyson Townsend, CCSA President & CEO. “We are confident FX Canada will be a valuable addition to the line-ups of our 110+ member companies.”
“FX Canada boasts a distinctive roster of compelling programming and we are thrilled to have concluded…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications is proposing to make our smart world a whole lot smarter by powering more than one million machine-to-machine connections and bringing a cloud-based hosted data analytics offering to market this year. The company plans to grow its traditional M2M business to include big data and analytics as well as professional and managed services, and expects the market revenue for the overall M2M ecosystem in Canada will reach $1 billion in the next three years.
At a roundtable discussion today at the new Toronto Rogers Wireless Innovation Centre (pictured), Nadir Mohamed, Rogers…
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TORONTO – Bob Babinski is the new Executive Producer & Local Content Manager for City Montreal, overseeing City’s new, local weekday morning show, Breakfast Television and new, 30-minute weekly sports show, Connected Montreal says Rogers Media.
Born and raised in Montreal, Babinski comes to City with more than 25 years of television experience – both on-camera and behind-the-scenes. As a former sportscaster for CBC Television and CBC Radio in Montreal, he’s covered the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Expos, and such events as Hockey Day in Canada, the 2006 and 2008 Olympic Games, and the 2010 FIFA…
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NEW YORK – India-based satellite television channel Zee TV, in partnership with Ethnic Channels Group Limited (ECG), is launching Zee TV Canada on February 1 on Rogers, Bell and Telus.
Asian Television Network International (ATN), which serves Canada's Asian community, recently decided not to renew its licensing agreement for it rights to Zee TV's Hindi programming when it expires on January 31, 2013.
Zee TV will now be available to Canadian viewers as a 24/7 service for the first time. Canadian viewers who enjoyed Zee’s top programming such as Pavitra Rishta, Punarvivaah and…
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AFTER SIX YEARS, SATELLITE radio produced its first-ever profit in Canada when earlier this month SiriusXM Canada reported it was $3.3 million in the black for the first quarter of fiscal 2013.
For executive chairman John Bitove, that Q1 result is vindication after plugging away just as XM Canada to begin with – in competition with Sirius Canada – and then finally merging with it in 2011 two years after the American satellite radio companies combined themselves. Satellite radio faced numerous launch obstacles, chiefly convincing people to want to pay for radio in the first place,…
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TORONTO – City is encouraging fans of its new half-hour comedy Seed to “make a baby” with its Seed Baby app ahead of the show’s premiere on Monday, Feb. 4 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.
Available today, the app can be downloaded free of charge for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch via the App Store or at iTunes.ca. Beginning Monday, Jan. 28 through to Sunday, Feb. 3, City viewers can get an exclusive sneak preview of the full-length first episode at Citytv.com/Seed, or by downloading the City Video app at Google Play or via the…
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WIND MOBILE WANTS THE federal government to throw whatever book it can at Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications over their recent spectrum deal.
Last week – as part of a multi-faceted $700 million transaction – Rogers Communications paid $50 million to Shaw Communications for an option which assures Rogers will purchase Shaw’s AWS spectrum when it is allowed to come on the open market in late 2014.
As a new entrant to the wireless game, Shaw paid $190 million for spectrum in the 2008 auction that was set aside just for wireless newcomers. Wind Mobile, Videotron, Shaw,…
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MONCTON – Consumers in Newfoundland and New Brunswick “in coming months" will be able to automate their home security when Rogers begins offering its Smart Home Monitoring service. The service also can take control of a home`s lights, cameras, thermostats, and appliances remotely through a smartphone, computer or tablet. Bell Aliant also announced earlier today it would be rolling out a similar service sometime this spring. Both services are still subject to licensing approvals and pricing has still not been set.
"We know Canadians want to be connected wherever they go. With Smart Home…
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AMONG CANADIAN TELEVISION executives, no one is more active on Twitter than Kirstine Stewart. Some feel Twitter is an waste of time and it sure can be if you let it, but for Stewart, EVP of English Services at the CBC and a smart user of the social network, Twitter is a good way for @KStewartCBC to listen to Canadians, get her message out – and even make her personal opinions known, about more than just the CBC.
Of course, her tweets are often back-slapping congratulations for this or that CBC program doing well in the ratings (there have…
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OTTAWA – It’s common these days to see Internet speeds still advertised with “up to” speeds that rarely ever approach the average speeds that subscribers will actually experience in practice. The problem is that most consumers believe they are getting, at least some of the time, the advertised speeds says the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) because they are not being properly informed. It’s calling on the Competition Bureau and CRTC to play a more active role in monitoring the compliance of ISP speed and performance claims in advertising and to develop rules for broadband labelling.
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