TORONTO – Just in time for the start of hockey season, Rogers Sportsnet One has added two new major BDUs to its roster.
The sports network said Friday that it was available on Bell TV, effective immediately, and then on Saturday, the deal with EastLink was announced. It is available in both in HD and SD.
Sportsnet One has also launched a number of “companion channels” to accommodate the regional broadcast restrictions of the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and Ottawa Senators.
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TORONTO – Bell Canada has been every bit as active on the LTE front as any wireless carrier, the company said today.
Responding to a few reports yesterday which touted LTE testing by Rogers and Barrett Xplore, a Bell spokesperson told Cartt.ca this afternoon that the company has been testing the technology all summer long.
“Trials are well under way in Hamilton and Montreal,” she said. “We made our first data call this summer.”
LTE (long term evolution) is considered “4G” wireless technology. It will enable features like fast HD video streaming, gaming, communications, transactions and other connected experiences through…
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OTTAWA – Quebecor Media Inc. surprisingly revealed yesterday that the company was no longer going to seek “must carry” status for its Category 2 English language all news specialty channel Sun TV News.
The revelation marks a stunning reversal from previous statements that the channel required must carry status to be able to compete with the other specialty news stations, CTV Newsnet and CBC Newsworld (the company’s last application to the CRTC said without must-carry, the business case couldn’t work). Now the company says it will work within current CRTC rules, which will require Quebecor to negotiate carriage…
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BRAMPTON, ON – Canadians who shop at Loblaw stores can now pick up a mobile phone along with their groceries.
The food distributor said Wednesday that it will add The Mobile Shop (La Boutique Mobile in French Canada) in over 500 of its grocery stores across the country, as part of its push to become one of Canada’s major retailers of mobile phones. As part of its growth strategy, Loblaw has also expanded its product offering beyond its own PC Mobile and Bell and Solo, to include brands like Virgin Mobile, Rogers, Fido and Telus, as well as new market entrants…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications today announced the launch of a comprehensive Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network technical trial with Ericsson Canada in the Ottawa area.
LTE is considered a 4G wireless technology that enables features like fast HD video streaming, gaming, communications, transactions and other connected experiences through mobile Internet. LTE allows significantly more data to pass through a network at speeds of up to 150 Mbps and may become the de-facto network technology in a few years (until the next one…).
"Our customers increasingly want anywhere, anytime access to information, communications, entertainment and transactional experiences on their device of…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications is buying Atria Networks LP, owner and operator of one of Ontario’s largest fibre-optic networks. The deal, announced Tuesday, is for a cash consideration of $425 million.
Atria Networks is privately owned by Birch Hill Equity Partners and based in Kitchener, ON. Rogers said in the announcement that the acquisition will augment its business solutions offering by enhancing its ability to deliver on-net data centric services within and adjacent to the company’s cable footprint.
"The business-to-business market represents a significant opportunity for Rogers. The acquisition of Atria strategically fits with our enterprise strategy to offer on-net, high growth…
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TORONTO – Add Wind Mobile to the list of new wireless providers rankled by Rogers’ new low cost-brand Chatr.
After Mobilicty filed a lawsuit against Rogers over Chatr earlier this month, Wind chairman Anthony Lacavera said Thursday that his company has also filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau. Wind’s grievance is about Rogers’ advertising campaign for its Chatr’s network which it claims is "more reliable” and has “fewer dropped calls than all the new entrants”.
“There is absolutely no solid or objective technical basis for Chatr’s claim to have more network reliability and fewer dropped calls than Wind”, Lacavera said in a…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has asked CTV, Corus, Rogers and Canwest to explain how MTV Canada, Viva, G4 and TVTropolis do not violate their nature of service conditions of license.
Letters sent to the broadcasters in July (except in the case of Viva, which has been in a regulatory back-and-forth with the Commission on this issue dating back to its 2008 rebrand from Canadian Learning Television) by the CRTC’s executive director of broadcasting, Scott Hutton, ask each of them basically the same question.
To paraphrase, the CRTC wants to know how – given the programming on the channels and the way…
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TORONTO – Astral’s children’s channel Playhouse Disney launched Thursday on Rogers as part of its ‘Digital VIP’ cable package.
Playhouse Disney programming will also be available to Rogers’ subscribers as part of Family On Demand, which launches October 12, and on Rogers On Demand Online. The move is part of a larger content deal between Astral and Rogers announced earlier this month.
“We are thrilled to bring Playhouse Disney to Rogers subscribers on all platforms and to expand our Family Channel linear offering to the on demand and on-line environment,” said Joe Tedesco, VP and GM of Family Channel and…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced plans to purchase for cancellation 2,880,000 of its outstanding Class B non-voting shares for an aggregate purchase price of $103,165,344 which is at a discount to their current market price.
The company said Wednesday that the transaction represents approximately 0.62% of the Class B shares outstanding at August 31, 2010.
The private purchase was made under an issuer bid exemption order issued by the Ontario Securities Commission.
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