TORONTO – CTAM Canada is once again inviting members to the Rogers Centre in Toronto to see MLB's the Toronto Blue Jays take on the Baltimore Orioles on May 29, 2012.
Prior to the game, join members for a lively panel discussion on the escalating costs of programming with participants from the sports leagues, the programmers and the television distributors. The panel discussion begins at 4:30 pm across the street at the Canadian Broadcast Center, 25 John Street Entrance, 10th floor.
The event is free to CTAM members, and new members may attend for $55.00 which includes a one year subscription to…
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MONTREAL – Stingray Digital has improved the on-screen look of its Galaxie music service, and Rogers’ digital cable customers are among the first to enjoy the enhancements.
Instead of seeing a plain screen displaying only the song information, customers may now watch thematic images when a Galaxie channel is tuned. The images change every 10 seconds throughout the duration of the song, and include the channel and song information in heavy frequency, allowing viewers the opportunity to easily identify the artist or song title.
“Today is a very important day for Galaxie, since Rogers Digital Cable customers will immediately be upgraded to…
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TORONTO – The banking industry and credit union system on Monday released a set of voluntary, secure, open guidelines for the development of mobile payments at point-of-sale in Canada that could help pave the way for partnerships between banks and big telcos.
The voluntary guidelines, available here, are technically known as the Mobile Reference Model. They will serve as a blueprint for how mobile payment capabilities can be offered in the Canadian market, including guiding principles around how information is exchanged among the various parties to a transaction, including telecommunications companies, financial institutions, payment card companies and merchants, according to…
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NEW ORLEANS – Rogers Communications and Axeda Corporation have formed an alliance designed to accelerate the deployment and reduce the complexity around development of machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions in Canada.
Effective immediately, businesses and developers across Canada will have access to the Axeda Platform to build and roll-out enterprise M2M applications for connected products in Canada, according to the announcement made at the 2012 International CTIA Wireless show in New Orleans.
The Axeda Platform is a comprehensive M2M data integration and application development platform with infrastructure delivered as a cloud-based service. By providing a highly secure, scalable and proven platform, the creation…
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TORONTO – After listening to most of the nine applicants who have asked the CRTC for the 88.1 FM slot on the Toronto radio dial (of 17 in total) over the past three days, I can’t imagine how the Commission is any closer to making a decision on who will get the license.
It’s not the best signal, down at 88.1 FM and 8,000 watts, but goodness, lots of people sure want it (except for the big Toronto radio companies – Astral, Bell, Rogers and Corus – who weren’t about to challenge the Regulator’s radio station ownership policy based on…
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TORONTO – SCN was a publicly-owned educational broadcaster which the Saskatchewan provincial government decided to shutter in 2010. After some local complaints, the politicians instead made the decision to try and sell it.
After hearing mostly crickets, the only offer that didn’t include any ongoing government financial support came from Bluepoint Investments, a private company backed by a former advertising executive from Toronto, Bruce Claassen. Bluepoint’s $350,000 offer was accepted by the provincial government mere days before the plug was to be pulled on the broadcaster. Then, in approving the sale months later in early 2011,…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s biggest telecom companies have joined forces in calling for a national set of standards to regulate wireless contracts.
In a shared position statement submitted to the CRTC on Thursday, the regulatory heads of Bell, Rogers, Telus as well as the Public Interest Advocacy Center (PIAC), on behalf of the Consumers’ Association of Canada and Canada without Poverty, said that there is “a clear need” for the Commission to “lead an initiative involving all stakeholders with the ultimate objective of bringing cohesion and uniformity to this area for the benefit of consumers and the industry alike”.
Noting that five…
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OTTAWA – The Competition Bureau confirmed Wednesday that it does not plan to challenge Rogers' acquisition of an ownership position in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE). The Competition Bureau noted that it has one year following completion of such transactions during which it can bring the matter before the Competition Tribunal.
MLSE is Canada's largest sports and entertainment company, and owns and operates the Air Canada Centre, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Toronto Raptors, the Toronto FC, the Toronto Marlies, Leafs TV and RaptorsTV. Rogers announced on December 9, 2011 that it, along with Bell…
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MONTREAL and TORONTO – Citytv is going to Montreal as Rogers Media announced the purchase of Metro 14 (CJNT-TV) from Channel Zero today.
While CJNT is licensed as a multicultural station, Rogers wants to spread the Citytv brand across the country and has chosen not to brand it an OMNI station, which is what its multicultural stations in Ontario, B.C. and Alberta are called.
Terms of the sale of the station were not disclosed (but we bet the sale price is for more than the 12 bucks Channel Zero bought it for from former owner Canwest Global…
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WATERLOO – Bell Media/CTV, Rogers Media and CBC are the latest Canadian broadcasters to sign on with Dejero to help expand their newsgathering capabilities.
The Dejero LIVE+ Platform is a line of centrally-managed products that enables both traditional and online broadcasters to transmit high quality HD or SD live video through cellular networks, using a variety of mobile devices from any location. Since its debut at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the three broadcasters have all integrated various products from the Dejero LIVE+ Platform into their production workflow.
“While all broadcasters are challenged by the immense complexities of live newsgathering,…
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