TORONTO – Popular radio hosts Tim Micallef and Sid Seixeiro have left The Score after 13 years, taking their show across town to rival Sportsnet 590 The Fan.
Sportsnet said that the Tim and Sid show will take over the sports station's weekday timeslot from 1 to 4 p.m. ET starting Monday where the duo will debate the hot-button issues from the world of sports. In addition to radio, the show may be also heard on-line and on podcasts available on iTunes.
“Tim and Sid are well-known personalities in the sports-talk genre and have a huge following,” said Sportsnet 590 The Fan program director,…
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TORONTO – Rogers’ LTE network is now live in the cities surrounding Toronto and Vancouver, offering more than 8 million Canadians access to the new wireless network service.
Rogers said Monday that its LTE network is up and running in Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, and Markham in Ontario, and in the West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Surrey and Maple Ridge communities in British Columbia.
"Today more Rogers customers from the east and west can experience the future of fast as we continue to expand the gold standard wireless network technology, the Rogers LTE network to more Canadian cities surrounding…
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TORONTO – Perennial rivals Rogers Communications and Bell Canada announced Friday that they are teaming up to buy a majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment for $1.32 billion.
The two communications companies purchased the 75% interest from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Rogers will pay $533 million for a 37.5% stake in the sports empire, while Bell will pay $398 million for a 28% stake in MLSE, and it pension plan will invest $135 million for a 9.5% stake. In a concurrent transaction, Kilmer Sports Inc. (KSI) will increase its current 20.5% ownership interest in MLSE to 25%….
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TORONTO – If CBC felt left out of the new Bell, Rogers and MLSE alliance, it didn’t let it show.
"I would like to congratulate Bell, Rogers and Larry Tanenbaum on their deal announced today. To know the ownership of Canadian teams will be kept in Canadian hands is great news," said Kirstine Stewart, EVP of CBC English Services in a statement Friday. "Increasingly, sports rights deals are dependent on strong partnerships. We are proud of our partnerships with Rogers on the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2014 and with Bell as we prepare our joint Olympic 2014/2016 bid".
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NEW YORK – Seeking to boost its market share of medium- and large-sized companies, Rogers Communications’ business unit is pressing other North American cable operators to interconnect their networks and coordinate their commercial products and services.
Speaking at a Light Reading conference on cable business services here last week, Terry Canning, senior vice-president of Rogers Business Solutions, argued that cable companies have a great opportunity to lure enterprises away from telcos because of cable’s unique hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) architecture, abundance of fibre lines and advanced DOCSIS 3.0 broadband technology. He also contended that cable has an advantage because its fibre…
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OTTAWA – A number of Canada’s independent cable operators have balked at signing a new omnibus carriage agreement for the up-to 30 specialty channels owned by Bell Media and instead are demanding the CRTC step in and decide who’s right.
According to sources with direct knowledge of the agreement and the ongoing battle, both Cogeco Cable and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance have been through a few rounds of official CRTC staff mediation, which hasn’t yielded much in the way of results. It now looks like the disputes are headed towards binding, final offer arbitration in front of a CRTC…
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TORONTO – CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada in Punjabi is returning for its third season starting December 10.
Thanks to sponsorship support from Chevrolet Canada, two games will be available every Saturday night during the regular season, as well as one series per round during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Punjabi play-by-play voice Harnarayan Singh will once again call the action.
“We’re thrilled to bring back our Punjabi broadcasts with Harnarayan Singh for another season as a part of CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada thanks to our new presenting sponsor, Chevrolet,” said Julie Bristow, CBC’s executive director of studio and unscripted programming,…
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TORONTO – SOCAN appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada this week to represent the interests of Canadian music creators and publishers in three copyright cases related to the use of music on the Internet by corporations that include Rogers, Bell, Shaw, Telus, and Apple.
The organization said in a statement that its appearance comes in support of the decision made by the Copyright Board of Canada and confirmed by the Federal Court of Appeal to licence the use of music on-line in the form of downloads and musical previews, as well as the use of music in on-line games.
Composers,…
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TORONTO – Rogers' new on-demand app will be available on the Xbox 360 and newly designed Xbox LIVE dashboard just in time for the holiday season, the company said Monday.
Rogers' announcement was a piece of a global Xbox launch of its new interface, which also included a Disney XD channel from Astral Media and word that Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment will make content available via the gaming platform.
Free for Rogers’ postpaid wireless, home phone and Internet customers, the Rogers app will include over 1,000 hours of video content at launch. Rogers’ cable TV customers will also have access to premium…
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OTTAWA – Government and regulatory bodies need to be mindful of the impact its policies, or a lack thereof, can have on small media and communications companies, said a panel of such CEOs at the International Institute of Communications Canada conference on Tuesday.
Cal Millar, president and CEO of Channel Zero, said his company (which owns CHCH, CJNT, Movieola and Silver Screen Classics) is ready to compete with over the top services, but is at a disadvantage because OTT video providers aren’t regulated. “We are in a world today where content is somewhat ubiquitous. And in that marketplace we’ve now…
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