TORONTO – While rating the industry as “outperform”, a BMO Capital Markets report published Monday says the Canadian media and telecom business will generate $62 billion in revenue in 2012 and see an overall growth rate of about 3%, as compared to last year. Of that revenue, about 75% comes from our big four of BCE, Rogers Communications, Telus and Shaw Communications.
While wireless, wireline broadband and specialty television will continue to be the revenue drivers, overall growth will be partially offset by declines in legacy data, voice and print media, says the report. Look for the overall share of…
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TORONTO – A new extended app from Rogers Communications turns iPads and iPhones into virtual remote controls. An addition to Rogers NextBox 2.0 experience in Ontario, Rogers Anyplace TV Home Edition application is available on iPad and iPhone today and launching on Android tablets and smartphones this year.
The app makes it possible to use advanced search, a virtual remote control, live stream news, sports and entertainment, and remotely manage and set PVR content, all on a tablet. Rogers claims it’s the first Canadian telecommunications company to offer an integrated remote PVR management and live TV…
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MONTRÉAL – A total of eight Canadian production companies will receive financial support from the latest round of disbursements from the Quebecor Fund.
A total of $2.88 million was allocated to the following production companies: Idéacom International Inc., PVP Projet Jar Dwellers Inc., Productions La Voix Inc., TVA Productions Inc., Cité-Amérique Inc., Communications Swan Inc., Québec Inc. (Triplex Films Inc., Jimmy Lee Inc., Groupe Média Upside Up Inc.) and Les Productions Kenya Inc.
The eight selected productions will air on TV5 Québec Canada, TVO, History (Shaw Media), Société Radio-Canada, TVA, Télé-Québec, Canal Savoir, Astral…
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TORONTO – Citytv has launched a new video app for Android that features full-length episodes of prime-time hits and is free to download at the Google Play Store.
“Citytv continues to be first to market in delivering premium content on digital platforms,” said Andrea Gagliardi, Senior Director and General Manager, Broadcasting, Digital, Rogers Media. “The new City Video Mobile app for Android offers the same great user experience as our other innovative apps, enabling even more Canadians to connect with our great lineup of prime-time shows.”
The City Video Mobile App…
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TORONTO- Asian Television Network International (ATN) believes it has the recipe for success with the launch of its Food Food channel that offers a taste of the culinary culture of the Indian sub-continent. The 24-hour service is being carried nationally across Canada on Rogers Cable as a free preview and will be distributed through many other systems across Canada in the very near future says ATN.
"Canadian's of South Asian origin consume on an average of over four million meals per day or 120 million meals per month and needless to say, we are excited…
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FENELON FALLS, Ont. – In surprising a move that is sure to make many raise an eyebrow or two and set some industry tongues wagging, independent cable operator Cable Cable has decided the TV Everywhere video on demand option it will offer its customers is Apple TV.
The company (with about 5,000 cable customers and over 6,000 broadband customers in the Kawartha Lakes region) launched a Christmas promotion this week where triple-play customers (cable, broadband and home phone) can call to receive a free Apple TV box (regular retail price: $109). The company is not walking away from its cable…
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AFTER A LONG CAREER in telecom in Canada, Len Katz calls his time at the CRTC the best years of his career.
The 61-year-old former vice-chairman, telecom (and former Bell Canada and Rogers executive) is spending some time now taking a deep breath, a bit of a break, after seven-plus extraordinarily busy years at the Commission. While he admits some boredom has already set in since leaving last month, he is happy to be able to spend extra time with family before deciding what to do next.
Despite some rumours in the summer, his health is good after recovering from a…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media is partnering with Seneca College to create a four-month internship entitled GenNOW, giving students the unique opportunity to gain real work experience as on-air radio announcers in Canada’s most competitive radio market while also earning a course credit.
Beginning January 2013, select students enrolled in their final year of Seneca College’s Broadcasting – Radio program will each take the helm of the microphone on KiSS 92.5, hosting overnight shifts from the station’s downtown Toronto studio.
“Developing the skills of future on-air talent and giving back to the community are…
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TORONTO – Sixteen Candles, one of the most popular teen movies from famed 1980s movie director the late John Hughes, will be the first movie shown on Rewind, Channel Zero’s latest specialty channel brand, when it launches Saturday.
Replacing Movieola in channel lineups (the short film channel moves to its new online home) Rewind will feature flicks such as The Godfather, Blues Brothers, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Moonstruck, Edward Scissorhands and many others – all targeted towards Generation Xers who came of age in the 70s, 80s and 1990s. In fact, the whole first weekend is being dubbed “High School…
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SEED, THE NEW CITYV SITCOM now shooting in Halifax, will debut in Atlantic Canada, as across the country, early in 2013.
Citytv just won’t simsub the sperm donor comedy in the Maritimes, and local TV viewers will see Citytv Toronto commercials when the series bows. The broadcaster wanted to simsub it, but the CRTC said no to the company’s request last month. That’s a challenge for the braintrust at Rogers Media, where Atlantic Canada remains the one Canadian market where Citytv has no simsub privileges, and so depends on distant-signal carriage via BDUs.
To be sure, John…
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