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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TORONTO – Following its September re-organization and shuffling of its most senior people, Rogers Communications is now beginning to move people below them around – and cutting a number of those executives loose, too.
In this morning’s conference call with financial analysts discussing the company’s third quarter results, CEO Nadir Mohamed said the company is eliminating duplication in the upper floors at 333 Bloor St. E. since both wireless and cable are now under one Communications roof.
“We are taking the opportunity to streamline management and our operations,” said Mohamed. “As a result of the integration and flattening of the…
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TORONTO – The strength of the iPhone combined with growth in its wireless division plus helped power Rogers to a solid third quarter.
Operating revenue for the quarter ended September 30 was up 2% to $3.03 billion from $2.98 billion a year ago, while overall operating profit was $1.15 billion, a 6% increase from $1.08-billion in 2008. Net income dipped from $495 million last year to $485 million.
"Our third quarter results represent a healthy balance of growth, cost control and margin expansion, and double-digit increases in cash flow generation and cash returns to shareholders" said president and CEO Nadir Mohamed,…
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PORTLAND – Multi-screen media measurement and research company Rentrak today announced a multi-year agreement with Montreal-based Stingray Digital for the content provider’s new music video-on-demand (VOD) service launching on Rogers Cable.
Stingray recently launched its "Galaxie Music Videos on Demand" service on Rogers Cable and Rentrak will provide Stingray with detailed data and insights “to help the content provider define and grow their business model,” says the press release.
Additionally, Rentrak sees the expansion of the video-on-demand platform in Canada as a strong revenue growth opportunity.
"Video-on-demand is expanding in Canada as operators and content providers are working in concert…
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DENVER – A growing number of people, as they arise each morning, are not reaching for the TV or radio to find out what’s going on in their world.
Instead, “the first thing they reach for is some personal device that won’t be plugged into the wall,” said Time Warner Cable chief technology officer Mike LaJoie during the opening general session of the CTAM Summit this morning. And since “we own this great big plug,” he added, “that affects us all.”
“The world is going to look very different five years from now.”
Look at what’s happened in the last five,…
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