TORONTO – Rogers has applied to become a bank, focused primarily on credit, payment and charge card services, Cartt.ca has learned.
A Rogers’ spokesperson confirmed that the company has applied to the Minister of Finance to become a bank under the Bank Act, but has no plans to become a full-service deposit-taking financial institution.
“We routinely explore opportunities to strengthen our position as a leader and innovator in the communications industry”, wrote the spokesperson in an emailed response to Cartt.ca on Tuesday. “While our core strengths remain in communications and media, we are always looking for more ways to deliver value…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media has firmed up plans for its new Toronto–focused news station called CityNews Channel which will launch October 3.
CityNews Channel will offer a news ‘wheel’ format with traffic and weather together on the :1s, sports at :15 and :45, and business at :26 and :56 past the hour, all in a multi-zone TV screen. Anchored by rotating hosts on an hourly basis, the channel will include tie ins via live cameras with other Rogers Media newsrooms such as CityNews, 680News, Sportsnet, Maclean’s, MoneySense, Today’s Parent and HELLO! Canada, plus simulcast Citytv shows such as Breakfast Television, CityNews at…
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SINCE SEPTEMBER IS OFTEN viewed as the “new year” for those in the television business, we’ve used Labour Day week each year since Cartt.ca’s launch in 2005 to look back at the top stories of the past 12 months.
It’s good fun and very instructive for us at Cartt.ca to pause, study and see what resonated with readers among the approximately 2,000 stories we have published since September 1, 2010 (that’s almost eight per working day).
In examining our analytics to see just what stories were most-viewed between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011,, it’s not surprising to see the…
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KITCHENER, ON – CTV Southwestern Ontario is now available to more viewers after being added to the Shaw Direct lineup and to Rogers Cable’s high definition offering.
CTV Southwestern Ontario serves a huge portion of the south west part of the province from Hamilton to Windsor, and Lake Erie to Georgian Bay, including the Bruce Peninsula. In addition to three daily newscasts, the channel produces original local programs including entertainment and culture show The Beat and current affairs program Provincewide.
“CTV Southwestern Ontario strives to bring the best news, and entertainment programming to the community,” said station VP and GM, Dennis Watson,…
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WITH CEO BRAD SHAW telling us a few weeks ago that Shaw Communications will have an announcement on its wireless intentions before Labour Day weekend, the speculation is that the company will finally reveal what it plans to do on the wireless front sometime today (Sept. 1).
Besides, who wants to bury such news the Friday (tomorrow) before the last long weekend of the summer.
Back in the winter, Shaw Communications decided to stop its traditional wireless build and reassess its options. Some thought a partnership with Rogers was in the works, others were speculating on the purchase by Shaw…
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TORONTO – The Association of Canadian Advertisers is demanding that proposed changes to the Internet domain program be scrapped, warning it “could become a minefield for criminal activity, aimed at consumers especially, if it remains possible for others to hijack trusted brand names”.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proposed a new program that would permit applicants to claim virtually any word – generic or branded – as domain suffixes (for example .shaw, .rogers., .bell, .beer, .toys), supplementing the 22 generic top-level domains (TLDs) now in use, such as .com, .edu, .net, .gov, and .org. The…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Broadcasting and Astral Media Radio were among a handful of radio broadcasters that received only short term licence renewals after the CRTC questioned their adherence to regulatory obligations.
The Commission renewed the broadcasting licence for Rogers’ CFUN-FM Chilliwack and its transmitters CFUN-FM-1 Abbotsford and CFUN-FM-2 Vancouver for only one year – from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2012 – to allow for an earlier review of its compliance with the radio regulations and its conditions of licence. It also issued a mandatory order requiring the station to comply with its conditions of licence relating to local…
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GATINEAU – As more Wind Mobile customers endure dropped calls when they get beyond the reaches of the company’s wireless network and roam onto the Rogers Wireless net, the wireless newcomer has told the CRTC it has had enough – again – and that the Commission must act and set aside its recent decision.
Wind Mobile has asked the CRTC to review and vary a decision rendered on June 3 (TD CRTC 2011-360) which dismissed the Wind’s undue preference complaint against Rogers over the hard handoffs from network to network when Wind customers roam, mid-call, onto the Rogers’…
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TORONTO – Veteran business journalist Craig Leddy and technology writer Leslie Ellis have been confirmed as the instructors for CTAM Canada’s next day-long course called ‘How Cable Goes to Market’.
Scheduled for October 18 at Rogers Cable at 333 Bloor Street East in downtown Toronto, the course is open to and applicable to cable and programming marketing professionals. It will provide participants with a better understanding of:
– The latest cable technologies and new products;
– Complex technologies and terms in a non-technical language;
– Emerging technologies’ effect on cable business and marketing;
– The opportunities and challenges of deploying new products;
– Requirements to meet…
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TORONTO – Rogers will launch its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Toronto on September 28, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Rogers customers in both Toronto and Ottawa (where Rogers launched LTE in July), may now reserve a selection of LTE wireless devices through its new reservation system available here. To date, Rogers’ LTE product line includes a smart phone from HTC and the Samsung Galaxy S II; the LTE Rocket mobile hotspot (Sierra Wireless AirCard 754S); the Rogers LTE Rocket stick, and an LTE tablet.
Rogers said that its LTE devices are capable of maximum theoretical download speeds of…
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