HAMILTON – Wednesday, May 4 marks the launch of yet more deep content from Cartt.ca, the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industry’s trade journal.
Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES is a new weekly series of deep analysis into topics and challenges that matter to our industry. On every Wednesday of each month, beginning tomorrow, Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES will dive into and deconstruct a major issue facing the people who work in cable, radio, television and telecom in Canada.
The first issue? TV Advertising. Is it dead? Of course not. It’s thriving! It’s the lifeblood of the business! But change is afoot. Real, substantive…
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TORONTO – Quebecor’s Sun News was removed from the Bell TV satellite lineup at 10 a.m. this morning (Tuesday, May 3).
While the channel slot itself remains, the feed has been replaced with text telling customers that the channel “has been taken down at the request of the owners of Sun News."
According to Sun News head of development Luc Lavoie, Bell forced Quebecor’s hand and it had to demand signal removal. “They have carried the signal on their satellite without trying to even have an agreement with us,” he told Cartt.ca this morning.
When Sun News launched last month, it…
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TORONTO – Quebecor’s Sun News was removed from the Bell TV satellite line-up at 10 a.m. this morning (Tuesday, May 3) but it turns out that this is but one of multiple disagreements that the companies have with each other.
While the Sun News channel slot itself remains, the feed has been replaced with text telling customers that the channel “has been taken down at the request of the owners of Sun News."
According to Sun News head of development Luc Lavoie, Bell forced Quebecor’s hand and it had to demand signal removal. “They have carried the signal on their satellite…
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TORONTO – The speaker list at the Canadian Telecom Summit gets better and better.
Bell Canada CEO George Cope will give the lunchtime keynote address on Thursday, June 2nd, the organizers, Mark Goldberg and Michael Sone, announced today.
Cope joins the likes of CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein, Videotron president and CEO Robert Dépatie, Rogers Communications’ Rob Bruce, Telus’ CFO Robert McFarlane, Nokia Siemens’ CTO Hossein Moiin, Microsoft Canada president Eric Gales and a host of others (including Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien, who will moderate the Regulatory Blockbuster Panel on Wednesday, June 1).
To learn more or to register, click…
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ALVISO, CA and ENGLEWOOD, CO – Satellite broadcaster Dish Network and set-top box supplier Echostar have settled their long-running legal dispute with TiVo over video-recording technology.
The three companies announced Monday that Dish and Echostar will pay TiVo $500 million over five years, including an initial payment of $300 million, as part of an agreement to dismiss all pending litigation. The settlement gives Dish and EchoStar rights to use certain TiVo patents for video recording.
“The results of TiVo’s formidable intellectual property enforcement program speak for themselves, and consequently, we are pleased to put this litigation behind us and move forward”,…
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THE INCENTIVES FOR THE great, big vertically integrated Canadian cabletelbroadcellcasters to act unfairly towards everybody else has become too great to ignore and new protections against potential perils are needed, say many companies in their submissions to the CRTC ahead of June’s hearing into vertical integration.
(Editor’s note: This preview originally ran on April 29th. We’re re-running it here as a preview of the hearing, which gets under way Monday in Ottawa with Rogers first up. As usual, Cartt.ca will be there. But if you can’t be there, it will be streamed live on cpac.ca – and available for…
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TORONTO – While many in the traditional media industry would like to see the regulations applied to conventional electronic media extended to new media companies, Rogers Communications’ CEO Nadir Mohamed said Wednesday that he doesn’t think that’s the way to go.
With customers increasingly wanting connected experiences, to take their devices and content with them wherever they go and consume content whenever they like, continuing along with policy that was written prior to the massive growth of the Internet and all it enables is the wrong way to go, the CEO told reporters.
He referenced the recent work of Canadian media companies…
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TORONTO – During his speech to shareholders on Wednesday, where he also announced the company’s planned 2011 LTE launch, Rogers Communications CEO Nadir Mohamed pressed whomever will form the new federal government for leadership on the digital front.
A big part of which, for him, means a 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction in 2012 free of any rules favouring new wireless companies, or ones which constrict the established carriers. That spectrum is currently in use by Canadian analog TV broadcasters and is well known as prime low frequency spectrum which is excellent for distance coverage (great for rural) and…
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TORONTO – Rogers confirmed Wednesday that it will launch its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network this year and roll out commercial services in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa. The company then plans to launch in what it described as “the top 25 markets across Canada” by 2012.
"The world is moving to LTE and we’re thrilled to be leading the way by bringing this next generation technology to our consumer and business customers", said Rogers Communications president and CEO Nadir Mohamed, in a statement on Wednesday morning. "LTE is the critical foundation to deliver a world increasingly being defined by connected…
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AS OVER-THE-TOP video services, Internet enabled televisions and broadband speeds all escalate, Canadian broadcasters will come to find the market power that allows them in 2011 to exclusively purchase popular U.S. TV shows and movies for Canada will erode significantly.
A new report recently published by RBC Capital Markets identifies an “OTT inflection period” likely starting in 2017 (not coincidentally, right around the time where the exclusive content contracts Astral Media and Corus Entertainment, for example, have with HBO and numerous studios expire) where the likes of Netflix will have enough penetration in Canada – helped along by more…
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