TORONTO – Rogers Radio will showcase some of its top morning shows as they broadcast to their respective markets from Canadian Music Week.
The lineup of shows include Larry and Willy – 96.9 JACK FM Vancouver, Matt and Eric – 96.9 JACK FM Calgary, Garner Andrews – SONiC 102.9 Edmonton, Carter and Sandra – 105.3 KISS Ottawa, and Roz and Mocha from KiSS 92.5 Toronto. Canadian Music Week runs March 9 -13, 2011 in Toronto.
“We’re excited to give listeners from across the country the unique opportunity to be part of CMW, as our morning show personalities broadcast live and highlight the…
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THE CRTC MUST ENSURE that independent broadcasters have sufficient access to distribution in the wake of the BCE Inc. proposed acquisition of CTVglobemedia, say those ‘casters.
As well, the Commission has to force BCE to pay the full benefits to producers in the form of 10% of the transaction’s entire $3.2-billion value, say some of those producers. These are two of the critical issues that the CRTC will have to stickhandle once it begins hearing arguments on the proposed transaction on February 1st.
Generally, Bell’s fellow distributors are in favour of the transaction. But they say that safeguards need to…
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OTTAWA – The complexity – some might say silliness – of Canada’s telecommunications foreign ownership rules were on full display last week as the Federal Court heard arguments on a petition to overturn Cabinet’s decision to approve Globalive Wireless’ ownership structure.
According to people at the hearing, Globalive Wireless’ lawyers argued that because the Telecommunications Act says Canadian telecom firms can’t be controlled by non-Canadians doesn’t mean they must be controlled by Canadians. Therefore, a telecom company can find itself in the situation of being controlled by neither Canadians or non-Canadians.
Globalive, of course, is in business under the Wind…
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“COME WITH ME. I’LL show you why I wanted to be president of the CBC.”
Those were CBC president and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix’s first words to me last week as we sat down in the meeting room overlooking the Montreal skyline and St. Lawrence River at Radio-Canada’s headquarters. I jumped to my feet and followed him into his office.
Just inside his door is a headless mannequin dressed in a whimsical suit, topped with a bowler cap. “It might be a bit before your time but do you know who this is?” he asked me, excitedly. I wrack my brain…
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MONTREAL – Videotron has named Serge Legris to the position of VP of engineering – wireless access.
Legris will be responsible for continuing the roll-out of Videotron’s wireless access network, as well as oversee strategies designed to further develop the company’s mobile access technologies, the announcement detailed.
A veteran manager with more than 20 years of technology-related experience, Legris has previously worked at SR Telecom, InCode Telecom, Rogers and Bell.
www.videotron.com
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TORONTO – Cogeco Cable has become the latest BDU to add Rogers Sportsnet One to its programming lineup.
Cogeco launched the five month old national sports channel on Wednesday in standard definition on channel 426 and in HD on channel 736. It also launched a “companion channel” called Sportsnet Sens which accommodates the regional broadcast restrictions of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.
www.sportsnet.ca www.cogeco.ca
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GATINEAU and TORONTO – “Let me repeat that. We do not traffic shape downstream traffic,” said Rogers Communications senior vice-president, regulatory, Ken Englehart, told Cartt.ca on Monday.
Englehart was responding to a complaint letter sent to Rogers from the CRTC over the company’s network traffic management practices. The Commission cited a few complaint filed by Rogers customers over recent changes made by the company to its traffic management practices that affect the downstream flow – and that the company was not complying with the Commission’s disclosure requirements when it comes to ITMP (Internet traffic management policies).
The complainant said Rogers did…
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TORONTO – Rogers has attached its Sportsnet television brand to its sports radio stations in Toronto and Calgary. Effective immediately, the former FAN stations will be known as Sportsnet Radio FAN 590 and Sportsnet Radio FAN 960, respectively.
“We’re excited to bring the strength of these two brands together,” said newly minted Rogers Broadcasting president Scott Moore, in a statement on Wednesday. “Both the FAN and Sportsnet resonate with passionate local fans. Our fans want to talk about and interact with their local teams. We offer the best place to do that.”
TORONTO – The Canadian broadcast and telecom industries appear to have plenty to say about the proposed merger of Bell and CTV. With comments and interventions due on Tuesday, three weeks in advance of the CRTC hearing, most stakeholders offered their conditional support, but only with safeguards in place to preserve industry competition.
Rogers tied its support of the deal to Bell’s continued opposition to the issue of value-for-signal (a.k.a. fee-for-carriage). Bell, Rogers, Cogeco, Shaw and Telus at one point banded together to challenge the CRTC before the Federal Court of Appeal arguing that the Commission lacks the power…
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OTTAWA – It was good to be a TV distributor in 2010.
That’s the message we see in the CRTC’s aggregate financial data recently posted on the Commission’s web site. Expenses are up (in some cases, way up), but then again, so was revenue, and profits.
• According to the data submitted to the Commission by the big cable and satellite companies for the 2010 broadcast year (ended August 31, 2010), the largest six companies (Shaw, Bell, Rogers, Videotron, Cogeco and Bragg) together earned $12.15 billion in revenue from their video, high speed internet and VOIP telephone services (the data does…
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