TORONTO – Big Ten Network (in HD and SD) has launched on Rogers Cable, the companies announced Wednesday.
Now available in free preview until January 14, 2010, the Big Ten Network offers coverage of the Big Ten Conference with hundreds of live college sports events – approximately 35 football games; 105 regular season men’s basketball games; and 55 women’s basketball games each year.
The Fox Cable-represented Big Ten Network joins Raptors NBA TV, Leafs TV, CBS College Sports, ESPN Classics Canada and The Golf Channel as some of the channels included in the Sports Theme Pak which also offers HD customers…
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NEW YORK – While the latest CRTC hearing into the regulated video system will be in full swing in Gatineau, Rogers will be unveiling its TV Everywhere portal, senior vice-president David Purdy told a conference panel on Wednesday.
Rogers customers will be able to get content from 15 channels, Purdy told his audience at the Broadcasting & Cable/Multichannel News’ On Screen Summit and eventually, they will be able to go mobile with their TV.
Cartt.ca originally reported on this upcoming launch earlier this year.
Click here for the full story on Multichannel.com.
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TORONTO –
Whether it’s true IPTV or a version of DSL doesn’t really matter and in a Canadian context anyway, that’s a significant number (right around the total number of people living in Windsor, Ont.). And they are building, experimenting and taking customers away from their primary competitors, cable.
This week in Toronto, a number of the traditional telecom companies which are now offering TV are meeting with the various programmers in Canada and from the States to talk about their expansion plans (more regions, more customers, more channels).
Most are adding channels and capabilities. Some are newer and serve a…
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TORONTO – Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium has signed a “significant” multi-platform sponsorship agreement with RBC for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The deal gives RBC execlusivity in the financial instituion products and services category across the Consortium’s suite of English and French television, radio and digital assets, as well as print, leading up to and during the Games and the Olympic Torch Relay.
“This partnership is one of the most integrated and robust media sponsorship agreements ever in Canada for an Olympic Games,” said Keith Pelley, president of the Consortium, in the announcement. “The customized package includes…
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TORONTO – GlassBOX Media Group has raised the bar on advertiser integrated, multi-platform reality programming with a new TV series called West 49 Ambition Skatecamp.
The 8-part series, which kicks off on November 2 on Bite TV, follows eight of Canada’s most highly accomplished young skateboarders participating in an intense competition while mentored by skate industry experts. The winner receives a profile in SBC Skateboard magazine and a chance to compete against the world’s top amateur skaters at the Maloof Money Cup, which boasts the largest purse in the history of pro skateboarding with more than $450,000 in prize money.
Emerging musical…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications launched TV call display Thursday, a product enhancement to its home phone and digital TV service that allows incoming calls to be immediately displayed and managed on a customer’s TV screen.
When a customer’s phone rings, a pop-up banner displaying the details of the call appears at the bottom of the TV screen. Customers can then choose to answer the phone or press ‘exit’ on their Rogers remote to make the banner disappear, or select ‘snooze’ to temporarily turn off the pop-up.
Digital TV customers who subscribe to Rogers’ home phone with call display and voicemail can choose to…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – In what could be a first, Internet service providers, consumer groups and independent producers all agreed that Wednesday’s CRTC framework on Internet traffic management practices got it right.
“I didn’t think that we needed any rules, but, they are reasonable, certainly not draconian”, Rogers’ SVP of regulatory, Ken Engelhart, told Cartt.ca. “They’ve picked a middle ground that we can live with.”
Over at Telus, Michael Hennessy, SVP of regulatory and government affairs, largely concurred, calling the new rules “clear and well thought out”.
“I think it was a good decision”, he said in an interview with Cartt.ca. “The…
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LAS VEGAS – Rogers’ real time web service Thoora marked its official launch at the BlogWorld Expo.
It’s service had previously been in private beta since it was unveiled at TechCrunch50 last month, and by Cartt.ca.
The free service uses filtering, clustering and ranking technology to find the stories generating the biggest reaction within the blogosphere, Twitter and more than 4,500 traditional media sources. Thoora’s news aggregation and story ranking algorithm is completely automated and relies relying on implicit actions rather than human curation to determine the stories attracting the most buzz.
"We have been excited to see such an…
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THIS YEAR’S CTAM Summit is less than a week away – and Cartt.ca will be there.
Looking to stand out in the shifting media and entertainment consumption revolution? Executives from Univision and Quiznos will share tips on how marketers can reach multiple consumer segments during a presentation at the general session of this year’s CTAM Summit.
In related news, Wednesday October 21 is the final deadline to register for CTAM Canada’s annual Summit dinner which will be held at The Cable Center in Denver on October 26, 2009.
The Cable Center chronicles the story of where cable has been, and provides the…
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TORONTO – Is Canada’s broadband infrastructure lagging or leading that of other countries?
According to a recent report by Canadian telecom consultant Mark Goldberg and Giganomics’ Suzanne Blackwell, that question can be difficult to answer. International comparative statistics have been conflicted on Canada’s broadband performance, in large part due to methodological errors in some of the research that in turn biased the resulting rankings.
The authors are particularly critical of the OECD rankings which they describes as “highly dependent on per country sampling data used”, while its penetration metrics are biased in favour of countries with smaller household sizes. Also, the OECD…
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