DENVER – As cable guys filled hotels and the enormous Colorado Convention Center became cluttered with cable gadgets; it only seems fitting that the never-ending snowfall has caused some TV screens connected to satellite dishes to go black…
(I’d like to thank Greg O’Brien and Cartt.ca, together with the Ontario Chapter of SCTE, for providing me with this great opportunity. It has already been an incredible learning experience and it has only just begun.)
Third-party trainingA common theme during the presentations this morning was the need for collaboration. SCTE wants to work globally as successfully as it has in North…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications will offer $1 billion worth of debt securities which it says will be used for general corporate purposes, including funding shareholder returns.
The senior unsecured multi-maturity notes issue, (comprised of $500 million of 10-year notes and $500 million of 30 year notes), will generate approximately $993 million. The offer is expected to close by November 4, 2009.
Moody’s Investors Service assigned a Baa2 rating to Rogers in response to the announcement, the same rating level as the company’s existing senior unsecured indebtedness. The company’s ratings outlook remained stable.
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications and Bragg Communications are in discussions on potential system swaps, Cartt.ca has learned.
A source with direct knowledge of the talks said late Wednesday on condition of anonymity that the two companies are negotiating a deal in which the primary assets exchanged would be Bragg’s Delta Cable and Coast Cable systems in southern B.C. (and potentially some of EastLink’s other operations in Western Canada, too) in exchange for Rogers’ systems in St. John’s, Corner Brook and Gander, Nfld.
The deal would certainly make sense for Bragg’s EastLink cableco since it owns many small systems throughout Newfoundland &…
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TORONTO – The Ontario Association of Broadcasters annual general meeting and awards luncheon honoured former Global Television and Rogers Radio, president and CEO, Jim Sward.
The Ontario Association of Broadcasters’ Community Service Awards are presented annually to member stations for their outstanding contributions of airtime and staffing to worthwhile organizations in their respective communities, says the OAB release.
The gathering Wednesday at Toronto’s Boulevard Club featured a longer networking reception and a new feature, a panel discussion, where industry leaders discussed the impact of new technology on radio revenue, according to the OAB press release.
Laura Gaggi, president of Gaggi Media moderated…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media has named Paul Beeston as president and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club and Rogers Centre for a three year term.
Beeston was appointed interim CEO in October 2008 when the company began the search process for a permanent candidate.
“While we interviewed a number of highly qualified individuals for the position, Paul’s unique set of qualities made him our clear first choice," said Tony Viner, president and CEO of Rogers Media, in the announcement. "While Paul was initially appointed on an interim basis, he approached the role with his usual high energy and conviction…
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DENVER – Rogers Cable was the only Canadian BDU to win a Mark Award at this year’s CTAM Summit. The company picked up four, to be exact.
Rogers was named a silver winner in the Acquisition and Upgrade Marketing Campaign category for its ‘Rogers Cable Q4 TV Superiority: HD’ campaign. It was also a silver winner in the competitive marketing category for its ‘Rogers Hi-Speed Internet Superiority’ campaign.
In the multicultural marketing category, Rogers was named the gold winner for its campaign entitled ‘The Whole World Plan – New International Long Distance Launch’. Rogers Communications was named the gold winner in the Traditional Direct…
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HAMILTON and LONDON Ont. – The winner of the 2009 Cartt.ca Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Ontario Chapter Cable-Tec Expo editorial internship is Dan Chelchowski of Rogers Cable.
Cartt.ca, the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industry’s leading news source, each year offers one member of the Ontario Chapter of the SCTE the chance to attend the annual Cable-Tec Expo, the premier cable telecommunications technical trade show.
It is being held this week in Denver, Colo.
This is an annual opportunity aimed at those technicians or young engineers whose company might not normally send them to this conference. We began in…
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DENVER – The growing demand by consumers to have their video content everywhere poses an ongoing conundrum for cable’s engineers.
They acknowledge that one day everything now delivered to TVs on RF will transition to IP delivery so that it can go anywhere. But, they are bound to today, making that RF world stay relevant, efficient and consumer friendly as IP video delivery further develops. However, there are myriad challenges (like just explaining how IP delivery is different than delivery over the public Internet, for example, let alone making it all work), according to the leading engineers at the opening…
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TORONTO – Corporate heavyweights from Rogers and Bell will take to the airwaves Wednesday night to present their side of the fee-for-carriage issue.
Rogers’ vice chair Phil Lind, VP of Rogers TV Colette Watson, and Mirko Bibic, SVP of regulatory and government affairs for Bell, will all appear on the Rogers community channel program Goldhawk LIVE at 7 p.m. The show will repeat on Thursday at 9 a.m.
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TORONTO – A portion of Jarvis Avenue, near Rogers Communications headquarters in Toronto will be named for company founder Ted Rogers, reports 680 News.
Rogers, who died 11 months ago of heart failure, was one of the country’s greatest entrepreneurs, building a company from a single radio station to one of the largest media and entertainment enterprises in Canada.
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