TORONTO – Mark Dailey, the voice of Citytv and anchor of CityNews, died Monday at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto. He was 57.
On September 8, 2010, Dailey (pictured) revealed on-air that he had been diagnosed with kidney cancer. Six years ago, he successfully battled prostate cancer, and his award-winning CityNews series on his own treatment helped to increase awareness of the disease. He was also the spokesperson for Prostate Cancer Canada.
"Mark was quite literally THE VOICE of Citytv and CityNews. He was smart, funny and a brilliant broadcaster….
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TORONTO – Tablet device like the Apple iPad and Blackberry Playbook are the “dashboards of tomorrow” and will change the way that we live, work, and play, according to Rogers.
On Friday at Rogers TabLife TO, an event designed to showcase tablets’ potential, Rogers unveiled its new data sharing plans, the upcoming launch of Rogers On Demand Online for tablets, and its plans to introduce remote PVR capabilities on tablets and smart phones for its digital cable customers.
"The tablet is the command centre – a mobile hub through which our customers will be able to access everything in their world…
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TORONTO – The first ever 3D broadcast of CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada is coming to TV screens across the country.
Viewers with a 3D-ready television, along with the associated pair of glasses, will be able to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs take on the Montreal Canadiens at 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT on December 11. The broadcast will be available free to Bell TV subscribers on channel 1933 (satellite TV) and 1208 (Fibe TV); Shaw Direct subscribers on channel 233/333 (Classic/Advanced); Telus Optik TV subscribers on channel 656 and Telus satellite TV subscribers on channel 1933; and to Vidéotron…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications is poised to make an iconic addition to its sports and media properties, according to a report this morning in the Toronto Star.
According to the story, the wireless, cable and media giant is in talks with the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan to pay $1.3 billion for OTPP’s 66% stake in Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment, owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors, Toronto FC, Leafs TV, NBA TV Canada, the Toronto Marlies and the Air Canada Centre.
Add all this to what Rogers already owns in the Toronto Blue Jays, the Rogers Centre and the…
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OTTAWA – Should there be spectrum caps for incumbents? Set asides for smaller companies? If so, what should they be? Should we align our bandwidth plan with the United States? Should we hold the 2500 MHz auction at the same time as the 700 MHz spectrum auction? How much spectrum should be set aside for public safety agencies? Does there need to be government intervention in rural regions? How will any new foreign investment rules affect the auction?
These are just some of the questions Industry Canada has asked the Canadian wireless industry in the paper it released late Tuesday:…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s top two communications industry regulators lamented the fact that they don’t have the appropriate tools to deal with a rapidly changing marketplace.
CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein and Helen McDonald, assistant deputy minister at Industry Canada, were speaking on a panel of regulators at the International Institute of Communications annual conference in Ottawa earlier this week (where Cartt.ca was the media sponsor).
McDonald said that for the department to more effectively manage scarce spectrum resources, legislative changes are in order. She pointed to secondary market trading for spectrum as an area that would run much more efficiently…
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TORONTO – Rogers has agreed to purchase for cancellation 1,200,000 of its outstanding Class B non-voting shares for an aggregate purchase price of $40,761,720, which it says is at a discount to the current market price of the Class B shares.
The transaction represents approximately 0.26% of the Class B shares outstanding at October 31, 2010. Rogers said last week that it had agreed to buy back an additional 1.3 million Class B shares.
Pursuant to a private agreement between Rogers and an arm’s-length third party seller, the purchase was made under an issuer bid exemption order issued by the…
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TORONTO – A 13.5% increase in self-paying subscribers contributed to XM Canada’s “sound” financial performance for fiscal 2010.
Self-paying subscribers totaled 432,200 as of August 31, 2010, up from 380,900 in the same period last year.
Average monthly subscription revenue per subscriber (ARPU) was $11.28 and $11.74 for the fourth quarters of 2010 and 2009, respectively, and $11.21 and $11.88 for fiscal 2010 and 2009, respectively. The company said that ARPU declined in the fourth quarter of 2010 and in fiscal 2010 due primarily to an increase in automotive self-paying subscribers which have a lower ARPU, an increase in subscribers committing…
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OTTAWA – Perhaps too much was expected of Industry Minister Tony Clement’s speech at the International Institute of Communications Canadian chapter conference on Monday.
Post-speech, we were asked by our tablemates for an initial headline. Our first response? “Meh”.
To be fair, there are a range of complex items on the minister’s plate that reaches into the telecom, content and digital industry, from new copyright bill C-32, to foreign ownership, to spectrum concerns, to rural broadband to the digital economy strategy launched in May that will touch every industry when it is released this spring.
The hope heading into his Monday…
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OTTAWA – Calling the wireless contracts from Rogers, Bell and Telus “anti-consumer”, Mobilicity has launched a national push for new laws that would make some of the contract terms offered by wireless carriers illegal.
Such a law already limiting wireless contracts exists in Quebec (although it’s really a larger consumer protection law that doesn’t target cell phones) and a private members’ bill on the same topic is now before the Ontario legislature.
In letters to Industry Minister Tony Clement as well as to the B.C., Alberta and Ontario provincial governments – the other provinces where Mobilicity has spectrum (consumer…
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