TORONTO – At least one Canadian broadcaster is opposing Rogers’ request to carry the digital multicast signals of a U.S. broadcaster.
In a letter to the CRTC, the S-VOX Group of Companies recommended that the Commission use a process similar to the one used when it considers adding non-Canadian linear services to the eligible satellite lists. Specifically, applications should be required to include at least as much information, S-VOX said.
“In S-VOX’s opinion, there should be no difference in regulatory treatment between digital multicast services being proposed by Canadian BDUs and non-Canadian services being sponsored for entry into this country”, S-VOX’s letter…
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A MILLION FEET of broadcast cable. 100 or so cameras. 1,350 people. No tape. All for 17 days of sliding, gliding, jumping and skating.
The broadcast (or, more accurately, broadcasts) of the 21st Winter Olympic Games from Vancouver and Whistler will be groundbreaking. With every single second of competition to be shown somewhere (12 TV stations or online), it’s been a monumental undertaking for the broadcast consortium led by CTVglobemedia.
Nineteen tractor-trailer loads of gear travelled before Christmas from Toronto, where the broadcast team went through full rehearsals in a warehouse in October, to Vancouver. And now a crack team of…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications and the Rogers family today announced they will donate $250,000 to relief efforts in Haiti and enable customers to support relief efforts through a text-to-donate campaign
Rogers Wireless and Fido customers are encouraged to help those in Haiti by donating to Partners In Health: Haiti and other Haitian relief organizations. By sending the text message "HELP" to shortcode 1291, customers can donate $5 to the Haitian relief efforts. Rogers is working with the ONE X ONE Foundation to facilitate 100% of donations in funds and goods to Partners In Health: Haiti and other Haitian relief organizations.
In…
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TORONTO – With just one month to go until the official start of the 2010 Olympic Games, Canada’s Olympic broadcast media consortium unveiled more details of their coverage plans, dubbed “the most ambitious media initiative in Canadian history”.
“Throw away any pre-conceived notions you may have about an Olympic Games broadcast,” said Ivan Fecan, president and CEO of CTVglobemedia and CEO of CTV, in the announcement. “We are giving consumers complete control of their Olympic Games experience, tailored for our digital age.”
In order to allow Canadians to experience the Games on their own terms, the broadcast team has developed three…
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TIVERTON, Ont. – While wireless newcomers like Wind and Public and DAVE get all the press as they launch in the big Canadian cities this year, the people in places like Collingwood, Owen Sound, Kincardine and Tiverton, Ont., will also have a new mobile competitor in 2010.
Their nearly 100-year-old ILEC, Bruce Telecom, plans to add wireless this year – to go along with the next generation service it launched in 2009, digital television.
“We have a fairly wide product offering,” new CEO Eric Dobson told Cartt.ca in an interview Wednesday (his third day on the job), “and in the second…
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TORONTO – The online news service for Toronto’s Citytv, Citynews.ca, and The Mark, have inked a content partnership that will provide citynews.ca users with a new stream of local features and opinion pieces.
The agreement will include a weekly editorial opinion series from a number of The Mark contributors on topics impacting Torontonians, such as poverty, the TTC, changing neighbourhoods, HST, and the mayoral race.
"Citynews.ca is pleased to be able to offer our users more in-depth, hyper-local and opinion based news features from a long list of notable Torontonians," said Claude Galipeau, SVP and GM digital, Rogers Media, in a…
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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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