MONTREAL and BARRIE, ON – National consumer electronics retailer The Source has bumped Rogers products from its shelves to make room for Bell Mobility and Virgin Mobile wireless products.
The Source was acquired by Bell last March following the bankruptcy of the retailer’s U.S. parent Circuit City Stores, Inc. Now operating independently as The Source and as La Source in Québec, the Barrie, ON-based retailer also offers Bell TV and high-speed Bell Internet services.
The Source began offering the Bell products at selected stores this past weekend, and most of its 750 locations will be fully equipped by the end…
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MONTREAL – A B.C. court Wednesday told Bell Mobility that it can’t claim to be Canada’s “most reliable” network.
Mr. Justice Cullen of the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled Bell cannot claim its new wireless network, launched in November, is Canada’s "most reliable" basically because it’s too new. Bell had defined "most reliable" as meaning fewest dropped calls and clearest voice quality – and those claims were backed up by the evidence presented, says a Bell press release.
Rogers had brought the claim against Bell.
"The court didn’t argue with Bell Mobility’s testing that found the new network offered the clearest reception…
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WHEN IT COMES to the billions of dollars Canadians pay for television every year, the main numbers which are poured into everyone’s spreadsheets for regulatory analysis are basically the same.
Thanks to the public documents available through the CRTC or via the companies which are publicly traded, the folks in the TV biz have a pretty good sense of how much money consumers willingly fork over (or which is pried from our bank accounts, depending on your point of view) for television, our primary form of video entertainment, and how it is divided.
But once dumped into those spread sheets, those…
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TORONTO – Globalive’s Wind Mobile officially launched to the public Wednesday, becoming the newest national wireless provider in Canada in over a decade.
CEO Ken Campbell and Globalive chair Anthony Lacavera christened the company’s flagship retail outlet, located on the ground floor of its corporate headquarters on Toronto’s waterfront, and detailed the upstart wireless company’s plans to take a bite out of the incumbents’ market share.
“The big three (wireless incumbents) have set the bar low, and we’re going to do everything possible to raise your expectations and give you what you deserve”, Lacavera said to a cheering mass of Wind…
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TORONTO – Former Blue Jay Buck Martinez is back in Toronto to call play-by-play on Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts for Rogers Sportsnet.
Martinez, a catcher who played six seasons with the Toronto squad, is the new voice on Jays on Rogers Sportsnet, replacing Jamie Campbell.
His prior work includes analysis on Jays television broadcasts (1987-2000) and national broadcasts for Telemedia Radio Network in Canada (1984-1987). He also covered the All-Star Game, playoffs and World Series for Telemedia. Most recently, he was a member of the Baltimore Orioles TV broadcast team.
www.sportsnet.ca
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TORONTO – The Radio Marketing Bureau has announced their 2010 board of directors:
-Gary Belgrave, president, Radio Marketing Bureau;– Derek Berghuis, second vice chair, Rogers Media Radio;– Glenn Chalmers, Astral Media Radio;– Lesley Conway-Kelley, Chair, Astral Media Radio Sales;– Chris Gordon, CHUM Radio/CTVglobemedia;– Patrick Grierson, Past Chair, Canadian Broadcast Sales;– Elmer Hildebrand, Treasurer, Golden West Broadcasting; – Breydon MacDonald, CHUM Radio Sales/CTVglobemedia;– Jacques Parisien, Astral Media Radio; – Sandee Reed, First Vice Chair, Rawlco Radio;– Gerry Siemens, Jim Pattison Broadcast Group;– Stephen Sienko, Target Broadcast Sales;– Paul Ski,…
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TORONTO – Canwest will launch its MovieTime and History Television HD channels on Rogers Cable.
MovieTime, formerly known as Lonestar, will join the cable company’s Digital VIP programming package. History TV HD will be available to all Rogers customers that subscribe to the SD channel. It will also contribute video-on-demand content to the Rogers platform in the coming weeks.
"This offering marks another successful partnership between Rogers and Canwest and we are thrilled to be making these two highly successful brands accessible to more consumers," said Brian Cuff, Canwest’s VP of distribution strategy, in the announcement.
www.canwest.comwww.rogers.com
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TORONTO – The Television Bureau of Canada has announced its 2010 board of directors.
Along with TVB president Theresa Treutler, the board’s executive committee is:
– Rita Fabian, Chair, EVP of sales and marketing, CTVglobemedia;– Errol Da-Ré, Vice Chair, EVP sales, Canwest;– Chris McGinley, Treasurer, SVP operations, Canwest;– Mitch Dent, Secretary, EVP Rogers Media Television Sales.
Completing the Board of Directors are:
– Sally Basmajian, CTVglobemedia, Discovery Networks;– Bill Hanson, CTVglobemedia;– Richard Hiron, Rogers Television;– Lori Legault, Canwest;– Cal Millar, Channel Zero;– Scott Moore, CBC Television;– Jim Nelles, Sun TV;– Don Shafer, Astral…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – Globalive could launch its Wind-branded mobile service as early as next week, chairman Anthony Lacavera said Friday after learning that Industry Canada had overturned the CRTC’s decision barring his company from entering the Canadian wireless market.
Amid cheers from staff, Lacavera thanked the government for its decision which he called “testament that this country needs (wireless) competition.”
Industry Canada declared Globalive a Canadian company that meets the Canadian ownership and control requirements under the Telecommunications Act early on Friday morning, contrary to the CRTC’s decision in the Fall which determined that the company was not sufficiently Canadian-owned…
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EXTON, PA – Rogers Cable’s Dermot O’Carroll has been named to the standing committees of the SCTE board of directors.
He will assume the position of chair of the planning committee for the 2009–2010 term.
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