TORONTO – Rogers Broadcasting has kissed 92.5 Jack FM goodbye, and replaced it with KISS92.5 FM, “the only ‘all hits’ radio station in the city of Toronto”.
"We did an incredible amount of research and it came back loud and clear”, said Sandy Sanderson, EVP of Toronto Radio, in the announcement. “It told us there was a huge unfulfilled demand for a station that would play All Hits and nothing but today’s Hits. We are encouraged by our findings that indicate there are a large number of people who are seeking out this kind of programming…more than we ever…
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TORONTO – Rogers’ “mobile revolution” arrived in Canada in dramatic fashion on Tuesday.
The HTC Dream and Magic smart phones, ensconced in a silver briefcase carefully carried and unlocked by Canadian actor Joshua Jackson, made their debut amidst theatrical lighting, music, and camera flashes from the media types in attendance at the Rogers campus in downtown Toronto.
"The revolution is here – with Rogers being the first and only wireless carrier to bring the Android experience to Canada," said Rogers Wireless SVP and CMO John Boyton, after being handed the phones by Jackson on stage.
Both Android powered smart phones,…
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TORONTO – Canadian actor Joshua Jackson was spotted around Toronto on Monday, handing out Rogers prize packs and talking up the wireless company’s two Google smart phones which he will unveil officially on Tuesday (and Cartt.ca will be there too).
Rogers Wireless will be the first Canadian carrier to launch the HTC Dream and HTC Magic smart phones, the first cell phones powered by Google Inc’s Android platform. They allow for access to a range of Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, and Gmail, and the Android Market app store.
www.rogers.com/revolution
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TORONTO – CBC Radio One ranked first in Toronto and Vancouver between March 2 and April 26, 2009, according to BBM’s S2 2009 top-line results.
Its share of listening increased from 8.9% in S1 to 10% in the competitive Toronto market, and CBLA’s Metro Morning with Andy Barrie remains the city’s top morning show with a record 14.2% share of listening. In Vancouver, CBU captured a 12.4% share for the March through April period, up from 11.0% in S1, and its morning show, The Early Edition with Rick Cluff, also ranked first with an18.2% share.
When coupled with Radio 2’s…
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TORONTO – In recognition of National Access Awareness Week running May 31 through June 6, The Accessible Channel (TACtv) is promoting media access for the more than 6.6 million Canadians who are blind, vision-impaired, deaf or hard of hearing.
The Accessible Channel, which has been on the air for almost six months, is a must carry for all BDUs as part of their basic digital service. Viewers who cannot see the television screen do not require additional equipment in order to access TACtv.
In partnership with content distributors such as CBS International, CBC, CTS, Rogers-Citytv, CTV, Canwest, Movieola, and…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable has boosted the download speed of two of its Internet services, in order to maintain its claim of being “the fastest”.
Effective immediately, its ‘Hi-Speed Express’ increased from 7 Mbps to 10 Mbps and its ‘Hi-Speed Lite’ packages increased from 1 Mbps to 3 Mbps, at no extra charge to residential customers.
"Our customers tell us that speed is one of the most important attributes of their Internet service and it is due to this that we are committed to delivering a service that is faster than the competition." said Steven Wagner, SVP and CMO, in…
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TORONTO – While there have been a number of suits spotted roaming through Canwest Global’s E! stations over the past few months, kicking the figurative tires at the local OTA outlets with the “For Sale” sign on them, some actual names have now been attached to potential suitors.
According to a number of sources on Wednesday, executives from Channel Zero (owners of specialty channels Movieola and Silver Screen Classics and film distributor Ouat Media) spent part of Wednesday afternoon at CHCH Hamilton closely inspecting the facility.
All bidders in such transactions are normally bound by non-disclosure agreements – and…
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SO I SET MY PVR to record about two and a half Saturday afternoon hours of CTV Newsnet (CTV News Channel, as of this morning) this past weekend in order to watch the charade I expected to see.
Heading into the weekend, viewers of CTVglobemedia properties were fed a steady dose of some very one-sided ads promoting the company’s cross-country open houses meant to help “save local TV”, along with a web site of which the best one can say tells a very incomplete story.
While it wasn’t the travesty I had assumed was coming (far from it, actually),…
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TORONTO – Huge cuts in expenses and employees and the adding of a new retail division were just a couple of major moves undertaken by Bell Canada over the past 10 months, CEO George Cope said late last week.
Speaking to a group of investors at the TD Newcrest Telecom and Media Day, Cope said that since last July, when he was hired, the company has moved as quickly as it can to restructure itself.
He made no mention at all of the failed deal to take the company private.
Said Cope on Thursday:
• The company now has…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has taken the unusual step of offering to step in to help resolve a carriage dispute between Rogers Sportsnet and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA).
The CCSA asked for the Commission’s assistance on February 26, 2009 to help resolve the year-old commercial dispute through either final offer arbitration or an expedited hearing.
At issue is the distribution of Rogers Sportsnet (RSI), the national, English-language specialty channel focused on regional sports programming, by the CCSA’s 98 small- and medium-sized independent cable companies. The network is packaged and distributed across Canada on four distinct regional feeds, as well as…
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