TORONTO – Rogers’ OMNI Television has funded three public service announcements designed to combat racism.
Commissioned by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, the spots will be versioned into Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu in order to span a range of Canada’s ethnic communities.
“The impact of making key anti-racism messages available to multilingual audiences is an important step towards building an inclusive and accepting Canadian society,” said Madeline Ziniak, OMNI’s national vice president, in the announcement. “OMNI is privileged to contribute, participate and make a difference in these aspirations.”
The spots will be unveiled at a presentation in…
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OTTAWA – Comments filed on the CRTC’s reconsideration of speed matching strike a familiar refrain: Would-be competitors say Canadians will suffer if the CRTC doesn’t mandate speed matching and access to higher-speed local access facilities for them, while incumbent telcos tell the Commission that doing so will threaten future network investments.
Telcos were already required under CRTC regulations to provide speed matching (also referred to as service parity) to competitors over both legacy copper facilities as well as their faster fibre, or next-generation networks (NGNs). But the implementation of the rule was put on hold following appeals to the…
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VANCOUVER and WHISTLER – There are about 1,400 people working on the TV and radio broadcast and digital media production of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
It has been, and continues to be, an awesome undertaking by this group of Canadian broadcasters. We were privileged enough to be able to take a look behind the scenes of the International Broadcast Centre.
TSN and Rogers Sportsnet assignment editors who are normally competitors sit across from each other on the assignment desk, sharing stories.
There are five sets in the IBC in Vancouver, where the consortium is using 40,000 square feet and…
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TORONTO – A 45% increase in wireless data revenue helped power Rogers to a “very solid quarter of results”, the company announced Wednesday.
Data revenue now accounts for 24% of total wireless revenue, compared to 18% in the corresponding period of 2008. Rogers said that it activated an additional 400,000 smart phones during its fourth quarter, predominately Blackberry, iPhone and Android devices, of which approximately 40% were for subscribers new to Wireless.
Subscribers with smart phones now represent 31% of the overall postpaid subscriber base, up from 19% from the same quarter last year, and generate ARPU nearly twice that…
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TORONTO – Rogers says that it is looking forward to proving that its Internet service is the “fastest and most reliable” in Atlantic Canada, just like its advertising claims.
“We stand behind our advertising, which is based on rigorous, independent testing throughout Rogers’ Atlantic footprint, and not just one area or location” said Rogers spokesperson Odette Coleman in an email to Cartt.ca.
The comments came after Bell Aliant asked a court in New Brunswick to stop Rogers from using the claims, which it called "false and misleading”.
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VANCOUVER – Canadians can’t seem to get enough of the Olympics.
7.3 million viewers watched the first gold medal won on Canadian soil as Alexandre Bilodeau triumphed in the Men’s Moguls, making it one of the most-watched sporting events in Canadian history. Coverage of the event peaked at 9.7 million viewers, with 37% of the population (12.3 million) watching some part of the historic event, while an average audience of 6.3 million viewers, including 1.4 million Francophones, watched the Victory Ceremony in which Bilodeau was presented with the medal.
5 million viewers watched Kristina Groves win bronze in the Ladies’ 3000m…
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VANCOUVER – Canadians are tuning in to the 2010 Olympic Games in record numbers.
Live coverage of the Opening Ceremony on Friday night made history as the most-watched television event ever in Canadian history. On average, 13.3 million Canadians watched every minute of the 3.5 hour ceremony. The figure eclipses the previous record-holder, the Gold Medal hockey game at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 (10.3 million), by 29%.
Airing live across 11 television networks in 11 languages, 23 million viewers, or two in every three Canadians (69%), tuned in to some part of the ceremony.
A total of 27.7 million Canadians, representing 83%…
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FREDERICTON – Here comes another lawsuit between Canadian Internet service providers.
Bell Aliant has brought legal action against Rogers over its claims of having the “fastest and most reliable" high speed Internet product, the company announced Monday.
In a legal claim filed in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Bell Aliant said that current advertising by Rogers is “false and misleading”, and said that it’s own FibreOP service provides speeds that are superior to those advertised by Rogers. With respect to network reliability, Bell Aliant said that it has one of the most reliable networks in North America,…
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RALEIGH – The world’s smallest M2M wireless communications module has been certified for launch on the Rogers Wireless Network.
Telit Wireless’ GE865-QUAD, the smallest globally available GSM/GPRS module, is the seventh Telit M2M module to be certified by Rogers. All of the modules support a range of applications such as consumer electronics, security and surveillance, smart grid, fleet management, asset tracking, and remote device management and maintenance.
With its small form factor and optimized power consumption, Telit says the GE865-QUAD is ideal for consumer electronics or body-worn tracking and tracing or telemedicine applications.
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MONTREAL – Perhaps due in part to some public pressure, Cogeco Cable has signed on to offer the video-on-demand coverage of the Olympics offered by the Games’ Broadcast Media Consortium.
Cogeco joins Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, EastLink and its subsidiary Delta Cable and Source Cable in offering the 700 hours of VOD content free of charge beginning February 13 with the Opening Ceremony.
All coverage will be available within 24 hours after its original airing to Cogeco’s digital cable customers in Québec and Ontario that have access to VOD on channel 600.
A Cogeco spokesperson wrote in an email to Cartt.ca that…
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