MONTREAL – Some 55 years and 40 acquisitions later, Cogeco’s growth from $20 million to $1.5 billion in projected annual revenues stems from focusing on the future, while providing customers the best services and support each day says the company president and CEO. Louis Audet made the remarks last Wednesday to the Canadian Club of Montréal at the Hôtel Delta Montréal, where he also revealed the company’s ambitious data hosting strategy and explained why its controversial decision to purchase Atlantic Broadband remains a “terrific opportunity.”
Audet calls Cogeco’s video, Internet and telephony services that cover more than 1.6 million…
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TORONTO – Citytv is inviting viewers to share the love with a co-viewing app for The Bachelor Canada where they can watch along with friends and ‘bet’ on the eventual winner. The app also features a live chat, a fantasy pool, and behind-the-scenes blog posts from bachelor Brad Smith and host Tyler Harcott.
“This is the first time a co-viewing app has been available to viewers in the history of The Bachelor franchise,” said Andrea Gagliardi, senior director and general manager of broadcasting at Rogers Digital Media.
The free app is available for…
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OTTAWA – Siri, where can I go to recycle you? The answer is the Recycle My Cell program for mobile devices and accessories, which has officially kicked off its third annual Recycle My Cell Student Challenge.
As the national sponsor of Waste Reduction Week in Canada (October 15-21), Recycle My Cell is challenging all Canadian schools and post-secondary institutions to recycle as many old wireless devices as possible, including cell phones, smartphones, wireless PDAs, pagers, accessories and cell phone batteries.
The Challenge, running from October 15 to November 15, encourages students of all…
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ST. JOHN’S – Cutbacks, concentration of ownership, reimagining public media, and even the cable bill of president and CEO Hubert Lacroix were all up for discussion at CBC’s 4th annual public meeting. Ahead of its CRTC renewal hearing scheduled for November 19, executives also called for a regulatory framework that will enable the public broadcaster to maintain a presence “no matter what degree of industry consolidation may happen, or how fast technology and demographics might evolve.”
But before they got to the CBC’s numbers, Lacroix, whose future at the CBC remains unclear as…
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TORONTO – Tapping into a growing trend of households that are cancelling their home phones, Rogers has announced an updated version of its VoIP solution that extends calling beyond computers to regular home phones and iPads. In addition, the Rogers One Number service will be offered to small businesses across Canada later this fall.
"At Rogers, we're passionate about innovation and creating unique Internet experiences for our customers. The exciting enhancements to the Rogers One Number web-based platform are revolutionizing how our customers are connecting to their devices," said John Boynton, Executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Rogers…
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TORONTO – Beginning today, CityNews begins airing Citytv: 40 and Fab, a retrospective five-part news special told through the eyes of viewers, Citytv alumni, and current on-air personalities in celebration of the station’s 40th anniversary this Friday. Featured interviews include Citytv alumni Monika Deol, Erica Ehm, and Canada’s first female TV sportscaster, Debbie Van Kiekebelt.
To mark the event, viewers are invited to look back at some of the “happiest, wackiest, most remarkable and truly unforgettable moments in the…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Premium Audience Exchange (CPAX), a new online, real-time bidding exchange service is adding two new networks, V and Télé-Québec. The networks join recently announced Corus and founding partners Shaw Media, Rogers Media and CBC/Radio-Canada.
The participation of V and Télé-Québec further expands and strengthens CPAX's premium French-language opportunities for the advertising community, with Canadian digital advertising inventory now reaching across a wide network of top domains in French. CPAX says it now offers an efficient and cost-effective means of reaching targeted audiences with premium inventory across leading Canadian brands in both English and French.
"V is…
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GRANTING BELL THE RIGHT to buy Astral Media will make an already big company that acts badly, enormous, add incentive for it act even worse, which in the end will crush competition and choice in Canada. Therefore, the deal needs to be quashed altogether or tough new rules applied to constrain the biggest player in Canadian media, say final replies to the CRTC’s public proceeding into Bell Canada’s quest to buy Astral Media.
Those last written rejoinders to the Commission’s public proceeding into Bell Canada’s purchase of Astral Media (CRTC 2012-370) from intervenors were due into the Commission on Friday,…
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TORONTO – From the impact of Netflix, to how social media is changing the way people view TV, Joel Woods says he had the experience of a lifetime mixing with top cable, broadcasting and marketing executives at the 15th annual Cable Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School (HBS).
As the recipient of the CTAM Canada Fellowship Award, Woods who is Sr. Product Manager, Cable Platform at Rogers, was the only representative from CTAM Canada that attended the program which ran from June 10 to 15, 2012. Woods joined approximately 70 executive-level attendees representing…
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I DON’T RECALL THIS question being clearly asked last week of the company executives who would block Bell Canada’s purchase of Astral Media: Why do you fear Bell would act the way you say it will?
The subject was broached a few times last week during the CRTC hearing and was sort-of asked, just not in as direct a way as we’ve put it above. The answer was given a number of times. Put simply, the executives of Quebecor, Cogeco, Rogers, EastLink and others say Bell is behaving poorly already and they fear an even bigger Bell would act as…
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