EXTON, PA – Tony Faccia, vice president of wireline access networks at Rogers Cable, has been elected to represent Canada on the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) board of directors for 2010.
Faccia, who takes over from Rogers’ Dermot O’Carroll, will begin his two-year terms on October 19 in conjunction with the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2010 set for October 20 – 22 in New Orleans.
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has extended various Canadian broadcasting licenses in order to carry them through next year’s digital transition deadline.
CBC, Canwest, CTV, and Rogers received license extensions for their respective conventional, over-the-air stations from September 1, 2010 through March 31, 2011 so that they may be considered as trial markets for the upcoming transition.
Many category 1 and 2 specialty stations and radio networks were renewed through August 31, 2011, while others – such as The Score, ATN, Teletoon and some pay TV channels – received an extension through August 31, 2012.
“The Commission intends to administratively renew the…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet has inked a 10-year partnership with Alberta’s two National Hockey League teams which will see the network be the clubs’ official television broadcaster and provider of digital media content through 2020.
Beginning with the upcoming 2010-11 NHL season, Rogers Sportsnet West and Rogers Sportsnet One (scheduled to launch August 14), will combine to televise at least 58 Calgary Flames and 58 Edmonton Oilers games every year for 10 seasons within the Oilers and Flames regional territory, which includes Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
"Sportsnet has been a partner of both the Flames and Oilers since we…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Communications must make its share of payments in to the Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF), the CRTC has ruled.
After sending preliminary invoices to Rogers that excluded its regionally licensed systems with fewer than 20,000 subscribers, the LPIF administrator sent a revised invoice to Rogers on April 1, 2010 that included those systems. Rogers refused to pay the contributions for the regionally licensed systems with fewer than 20,000 subscribers, arguing that it met the exception for contributions, and asked for a Commission decision on the issue.
The CRTC determined that payment exceptions provided applied only at the licensee…
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TORONTO – Sony Canada announced Friday it is adding Rogers wireless, Internet, and cable products and services into its 62 Sony Style retail stores in Canada.
"Sony Style and Rogers are perfectly aligned in terms of fulfilling our customers’ entertainment and communication needs, and we’re so pleased that our customers are now in the position to realize significant benefits from the Sony Style/Rogers partnership," said Robin Powell, VP of the retail division at Sony Canada, in a press release. "Sony Style customers will now have unique access to the combined offerings of Sony hardware and software along with Rogers’…
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WINNIPEG – Craig Wireless has completed the $80 million sale of its Canadian spectrum to Inukshuk Wireless Partnership, a partnership of affiliates of Rogers Communications and Bell Canada.
The sale’s final condition was met late last week when the company received a Tier 3 broadband radio service (BRS) license covering Eastern Manitoba, including the Winnipeg region, from Industry Canada. After filing an application to transfer the license to Inukshuk, Craig said that it received the final $16.8 million of the aggregate sale proceeds.
"We are extremely pleased to announce that the final phase of the Canadian spectrum asset sale has been…
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MONTREAL – Canada’s largest communications company reported a 70% jump in second quarter earnings.
Chief executive George Cope also confirmed reports that Bell’s wireless division will relaunch its discount service Solo Mobile later this month in a move designed to guard share against Rogers’ new Chatr brand. On the TV front, Cope said that Bell will add IPTV as part of its bundle of services in the Montreal and Toronto markets either late this year or in early 2011.
BCE posted net earnings of $590 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, compared with $346 million in the same period…
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TORONTO and KINCARDINE – Rogers Communications has purchased Kincardine Cable, Cartt.ca has learned.
The deal closed on July 31st and employees were informed this week, according to a Rogers spokesperson. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Kincardine Cable is based in Kincardine, a town of about 12,000 on the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Ontario, approximately 225 km northwest of Toronto. The company has approximately 6,000 cable customers across 27 systems, ranging in size from 2,800 subscribers in its largest down to seven subscribers, all spread over an area spanning some 1,500 square kilometres.
The company has been an active, progressive independent cable…
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MANY OF THE SUBMISSIONS to the digital economy consultation offered recommendations on what the federal government should do, or not do, to ensure every Canadian household has access to high-speed Internet services. Rogers suggests that mobile spectrum can efficiently and effectively complete the rural broadband effort.
“We recommend a joint government/industry initiative aimed at extending broadband access to remaining unserved rural and remote communities in Canada as soon as possible. The emphasis here, we suggest, should be on mobile broadband networks which will simultaneously bring both mobile and broadband service to rural communities,” Rogers says in its comments….
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OTTAWA – Telus has filed a complaint with Industry Canada asking for mandated roaming on the wireless networks in Manitoba owned by MTS Allstream after what Telus says has been years of negotiations that never went anywhere.
“Telus has been unable to negotiate reasonable terms for roaming since 2001 and as a result Telus customers in Manitoba, particularly in the 204 area code (Winnipeg) are unable to obtain data roaming in their home Province,” reads the company’s application.
“Additionally all customers of Telus are limited to varying degrees in terms of roaming on the MTS network. This asymmetry is contrary to…
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