WE DRILL DOWN into the analytics of our content quite a lot at Cartt.ca, studying what resonates with our valued readers and what doesn’t. We learn a lot and try adjust our coverage accordingly. So, to give you a peek at what the folks in the cable, radio, television and telecom business have been paying the most attention to for the past year, we publish the top 25 stories of the past 12 months on the day after Labour Day.
As those in the TV business will tell you, September is really the beginning of the year – and September…
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TORONTO – Sportsnet confirmed Thursday that it bought the Grand Slam of Curling from sports media and entertainment company Insight Sports, as Cartt.ca reported on Wednesday.
Part of the World Curling Tour, the elite series of men's and women's curling events will feature teams from across Canada and from around the world. Sportsnet will own and operate the series through a newly created in-house events division, and will share broadcasting duties of the tour with CBC via a sub-licensing agreement. The tour itself has been around in one form or another since 2001 and Rogers has…
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CALGARY – Intriga Mobility has finalized a new partnership with Rogers dealer Imagine Wireless that will allow it to offer Rogers products to its customers across Canada.
With offices in Calgary and Edmonton, Intriga Mobility is a corporate mobility provider that boasts 100 customers and 20,000 end users. It also has partnerships with authorized SaskTel, Telus and Bell dealers.
"This partnership ultimately allows us to improve hardware delivery to end users”, said president Jeff Hayter, in the announcement. “We are excited to be partnered with this impressive organization. Together we will be able to improve customer service and build a…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet has invited journalists to the Real Sports Bar & Grill at Maple Leaf Square Thursday morning at 11 a.m. for a “major announcement.”
While company officials were tight-lipped on what that might be, a Twitter search revealed a couple of blogs which seem to have spilled the beans – that the sports channel will team up with the CBC to televise curling’s Grand Slam event series.
However, a well-placed source with direct knowledge of the negotiations has confirmed to Cartt.ca that Sportsnet has acquired the Grand Slam of Curling…
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TORONTO – There is a growing awareness among Canadians that they can use their smartphones to pay for products and services at the point of purchase, says a new report from Solutions Research Group.
In fact, among those who are already reaching for their phones to do their banking – current users of mobile banking apps, who represent 36% of all Canadian smartphone users, accounting for nearly 4 million people – awareness has reached critical mass.
Of those users, 56% of them are aware of an upcoming service that would allow them to swipe their phone to pay for goods and…
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TORONTO – Technology not only plays a key role in keeping students connected with their parents, it also helps to eliminate the generation gap, according to a new research report commissioned by Rogers Communications.
The survey, conducted by Vision Critical for the latest Rogers Innovation Report, focuses on how Canadian youth and parents of youth use mobile technology. From July 13-16, an online survey was conducted with 509 Angus Reid Forum panelists aged 18 to 24, and 511 parents of 18 to 24 year olds. All respondents either subscribe to the Internet at home or have a data plan with their…
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TORONTO – Score Media will be a digital/new media company only going forward as the company has decided to sell its television business to Rogers Communications for $167 million. The two companies announced the deal early Saturday morning.
Score Media’s television business is comprised of theScore Television Network, closed captioning service provider Voice2Visual, and theScore Fighting Series (SFS). Score Media’s digital business includes theScore.com and its mobile applications ScoreMobile, ScoreMobileFC and Sportstap. John Levy, founder, chairman and CEO of Score Media will lead the digital media business following the spin-out.
Score Media’s digital properties are well-known and well received by sports…
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TORONTO – AMC president and CEO Josh Sapan will lead a discussion next month on the value of original programming and how to create entertainment brands of distinction in an increasingly competitive world.
Presented by CTAM Canada, the event will take place on September 5 from 5:30 to 8 pm at the Velma Rogers Theatre, located within Rogers Communications, at 333 Bloor Street East in downtown Toronto. It will be followed by a reception on the 10th floor patio.
One of entertainment's premier innovators and a pioneer in the cable industry, Sapan leads AMC Networks Inc., which owns and operates AMC,…
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MONTREAL and TORONTO – Bell and Rogers have officially completed their $1.32 billion purchase of an ownership position in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE).
The two companies said Wednesday that following all regulatory and sports league approvals, they have jointly acquired 75% equity ownership in MLSE, and have formed a holding company to govern their combined ownership position. The remaining 25% is held by Kilmer Sports Inc., owned by Larry Tanenbaum, who will continue to serve as chair of MLSE and as a governor of the National Hockey League, the National Basketball Association and Major League Soccer.
"Investing in MLSE…
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TORONTO – Rogers has launched its LTE network in Moncton, its first market in New Brunswick.
The company said Tuesday that it plans to cover approximately 60% of Canada’s population by the end of the year with its new wireless network, with planned launches in Trois Rivières, Sherbrooke, Quebec City, Kingston, Ajax, Pickering, Oshawa, Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Niagara, Windsor, Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, London, Barrie, Sudbury, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Kelowna, Whistler, Abbotsford and Victoria. More cities will be launched in 2013.
"Rogers is proud to be the first to launch LTE in Moncton," said Ken Marshall, Rogers’ regional…
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