TORONTO – The catch phrase ‘he shoots, he scores’, will once again become ‘Goooool’ this Saturday as TLN airs Hockey Night in Canada simultaneously in Italian and Spanish.
As part of its annual partnership with the CBC, TLN will broadcast the matchup beginning at 7:00 pm ET on February 11 between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens on its Italian specialty service Mediaset Italia, and in Spanish on TLN en Español.
Italian language commentary will be provided by TLN host Antonio Giorgi and renowned soccer expert Alf De Blasis. Mediaset Italia TV channel can be seen in Ontario by…
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TORONTO – Rogers has added more devices and plan options to its Long Term Evolution (LTE) offering.
In an announcement on Monday, Rogers said that it will soon launch the Sierra Wireless AirCard 330U model of the LTE Rocket stick as well as the Sierra Wireless AirCard 763S LTE Rocket mobile hotspot, the first devices to support connectivity on both the 1700/2100 MHz and the 2600 MHz spectrum on its LTE network.
Rogers will also extend its range of 4G HSPA+ mobile internet plans to LTE models including ‘Flex Rate’ plans for Rocket stick and mobile hotspot starting from $22.93 per month,…
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OTTAWA – Rogers will follow the lead of rival Bell Canada and abandon its Internet traffic management practices (ITMP) starting next month.
The communications giant made the announcement on Friday in a letter to the CRTC’s Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer Andrea Rosen. That letter was filed in response to one from her dated January 23 that asked Rogers to respond to evidence that its Internet throttling practices breached the net neutrality rules within the Telecommunications Act, as Cartt.ca reported.
Signed by SVP of Regulatory Ken Engelhart, the letter said that Rogers has been reviewing its traffic shaping policy…
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WHEN IT COMES TO the introduction of local competition in areas served by Canada’s independent phone companies, the CRTC is doing it all wrong and needs to be stopped, say those companies.
In fact, those telcos are so sure the Commission’s recent moves to introduce competition for local phone and broadband customers are so far off base that they will file an appeal with federal cabinet tomorrow (Friday) over it as well as seek a stay of the CRTC’s recent rulings on the matter.
“We’ve known for a long time that the Commission is keen on getting…
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MISSISSAUGA – To celebrate its 25th birthday, The Shopping Channel is throwing itself a month-long bash that includes a contest to win a Caribbean cruise.
For the month of February, customers are asked to spot the Travelocity.ca Roaming Gnome throughout the on-air broadcast or online to qualify to enter to win the chance for a four night, five day cruise throughout the Caribbean. The party will culminate in “a very special day” on February 25 in what could be the channel’s biggest-selling ‘Today’s Showstopper’.
“We’re excited to celebrate this milestone in Canadian retailing,” said EVP and GM Ted Starkman, in the…
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TORONTO – Astral's The Movie Network is offering audiences the chance to sample some of its popular series for free via the on demand and on-line platforms of Rogers, Videotron, Cogeco and EastLink.
The offer, which will run from February 11 through February 26, will include HBO series like Luck, the new horseracing drama starring Dustin Hoffman; Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire; Showtime programming such as Dexter, Nurse Jackie, Californication, and House of Lies; Spartacus: Vengeance from Starz; and original series Call Me Fitz, Less Than Kind, Good Dog and Funny As Hell.
"We are thrilled to be working with…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Communications is fighting back against product performance claims contained in the country’s Competition Act, questioning whether the law violates its freedom of expression.
According to a report in the Montreal Gazette, Rogers has asked an Ontario court to strike down the law requiring a company to have "adequate and proper" tests of a product's performance before advertising claims about the product. It also is preparing to argue before the Ontario Superior Court that the weighty financial penalties that can be imposed on a company for making a false or misleading claim are unconstitutional.
The action stems from November…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has given Bell Media the green light to add a pair of new transmitters to its CTV Two station in Barrie, a move that was opposed by two of its own commissioners in addition to a host of competing broadcasters.
Bell Media asked to add two new digital transmitters to CKVR-DT Barrie to serve the areas of Burlington, Fonthill, Fort Erie, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Oakville and Welland, Ontario. Opposing interveners, which included Channel Zero, Rogers Broadcasting, CBC, and Shaw Communications, argued that approval of the applications would have a negative impact on other Canadian…
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TORONTO – Rogers’ Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network is now available in more cities surrounding Montréal, including Laval, Terrebonne, Brossard, Longueuil and Vaudreuil, and will expand to more than 25 additional cities this year.
Rogers also said that it will add the Samsung Galaxy Note to its LTE devices in February. The all-in-one LTE tablet and smartphone hybrid has a 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED touchscreen display, runs on Android OS 2.3, is made of tough Gorilla Glass, has an "S Pen" stylus pen to take notes, and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. It also offers an eight megapixel camera that allows…
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TORONTO – Wind Mobile has taken issue with the wireless spectrum auction caps proposal put forward by Telus, saying there is nothing fair about it. “Caps are no different than an open auction,” Simon Lockie, chief regulatory officer at Wind, told Cartt.ca in an interview.
The fact that Telus is advocating for caps should speak volumes to their true position, Lockie says. Since the Big Three (Rogers, Bell and Telus) don’t really compete with each other and stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in enterprise value (based on analysis from the investment banking community) as a result of…
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