TORONTO – Cisco and Rogers Sportsnet and will take fans courtside to see the world’s best tennis players at the 2011 Rogers Cup with cross-platform coverage on television, radio, online, mobile, print and even virtually through Cisco’s TelePresence systems.
For the first time in the history of Rogers Cup, both the men’s and women’s tournaments will be staged simultaneously. The women’s tournament will take place at the Rexall Centre in Toronto August 6-14, while the men will compete August 5-14 at Montreal’s Uniprix Stadium. Multiple Cisco TelePresence systems will connect both venues through high-definition video, allowing participants in both…
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TORONTO – Beginning today, any Rogers customer can view live streamed Rogers Sportsnet coverage of the remainder of the 2011 Toronto Blue Jays regular season games through Rogers On Demand Online and on their smartphones with Rogers On Demand Mobile.
Rogers says that since the start of the 2011 season, Toronto Blue Jays TV viewership on Rogers Sportsnet is up more than 23% nationally over 2010, with more than half a million people on average tuning in to each and every Jays game.
"Canadians are dedicated Blue Jays fans. Rogers is giving customers a triple play with three ways…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – Canada’s creative community used words like “optimistic” and “pleased” to describe their reaction to the CRTC’s group-based licencing policy released Wednesday.
As Cartt.ca reported, Bell, Corus and Shaw will now be required to spend 30% of their revenues on Canadian programming, while Rogers will have to spend at least 23% of its gross annual revenues on Canadian programming for its conventional television stations. Bell and Shaw must allot 5% of their revenues to programs of national interest, Corus 9% and Rogers 2.5%.
Noting that it had hoped that the CRTC would require the English-language broadcasters to spend…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canada’s largest broadcast companies will inject billions of dollars into original Canadian programming over the next five years after the CRTC renewed the English-language TV licences for Bell Media, Corus Entertainment, Shaw Media and Rogers Media on Wednesday.
The widely anticipated group-based licencing decision saw the broadcasting licences for services owned by Bell Media, Corus Entertainment and Shaw Media renewed until 2016. Citing the smaller number of specialty services owned by Rogers Media, the Commission renewed its licences through 2014.
Over the next five years, Bell Media, Corus Entertainment and Shaw Media must allocate at least…
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TORONTO – Increased competition in the wireless industry helped to weigh down second quarter profits at Rogers Communications.
Rogers said Tuesday that net income for the quarter ended June 30th was $410 million, down 9% from $452 million in the same period last year. Revenue increased by 3% to $3.12 billion.
"Rogers delivered a solid performance in the second quarter both for financial and subscriber results, delivering solid growth in a highly competitive environment," said president and CEO Nadir Mohamed, in a statement. "The strength of our asset mix combined with successful execution on our priorities – wireless data growth, customer…
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TORONTO – Veteran sports and Olympic host Brian Williams will head up coverage of the 2012 Summer Games in London, Canada’s Olympic broadcast media consortium said Tuesday.
In addition to Williams, RDS’ Chantal Machabée, V’s Jean Pagé, TSN’s Darren Dutchyshen, and Rogers Sportsnet’s Brad Fay will host the prime time slots on their respective channels. They’ll be complemented by former Canadian Olympic greats such as Catriona Le May Doan, Nathalie Lambert, Marnie McBean, Kyle Shewfelt, and Alexandre Bilodeau.
Williams, who will be covering his 14th Olympic Games, will anchor the prime-time coverage on CTV. Dave Randorf and Le May Doan will…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC is expected to hand down its decision on group-based licence renewals for English-language television groups this week, Cartt.ca has learned.
After a week-long public hearing in April, it will be interesting to see how the Commission navigates the big broadcasters’ various takes on Canadian programming expenditure (CPE) and programs of national interest (PNI) proposals. Cartt.ca was there every step of the way during presentations made by Bell Media, Rogers Broadcasting, Corus Entertainment, and Shaw Media, as well as the Independent Broadcast Group which called on the CRTC to establish a new, flexible framework for…
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GATINEAU – Tuning into the CRTC’s usage-based billing hearing on Monday morning, you may have thought that the Commission was dealing with urban planning issues around road congestion rather a billing model for wholesale Internet services. Several parties tried, at times convincingly, to rely on streets, side streets, on-ramps and cars on a road to parallel wholesale traffic congestion, where network investments would be required and just how those costs should be recovered.
After a somewhat technical exchange among the Commission, independent ISP group CNOC, and Bell Canada on network topology and what the independent ISPs actually pay for the use…
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GATINEAU – The MTS Allstream proposal to give wholesale ISPs access to bandwidth for a fixed price was given a thorough examination Tuesday on the last day of the usage-based billing hearing.
During its appearance, the Winnipeg-based company insisted that its approach is the most “appropriate” because it allows independent ISPs to package services and speeds with significant flexibility.
“Our tariff allows competitors to fully manage their leased capacity in the transport network, and therefore, allows efficient competitors to build scale and bring choice to Canadians,” said Teresa Griffin-Muir, VP of regulatory affairs at MTS. “It strikes an appropriate…
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SO MANY WORDS, so few facts. So much fear. Is OTT the new “Death Star”?
I simply must stop learning to be so hopeful when it comes to these CRTC proceedings. Almost eight weeks ago, the Commission launched a look into over-the-top video, asking the TV industry, and anyone else who wanted to contribute, for cold, hard, facts on how consumers getting more video content online is affecting their business.
In their submissions to the CRTC on OTT, I was hoping some of the vertically integrated distributors would have some early numbers culled from their customers’ set-top box data showing how…
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