OTTAWA – The CRTC has found in favour of Rogers Cable Communications over a complaint from a political candidate regarding an election debate program broadcast on its community channel Rogers TV. The Commission received a complaint from John Turmel on September 24, 2007, who, at that time, was a political candidate in the riding of Brant, ON. Brant is a mostly rural municipality located approximately 100 kilometres southwest of Toronto.
Rogers TV taped a program involving a debate between six candidates in the riding of Brant, one of whom was Turmel, on September 18, 2007. The program was to be broadcast…
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TORONTO – It’s a years-old Commission file that is over a pretty small amount of money when you consider the size of the companies involved, but Rogers Communications intends on going to court to resolve a six-year old battle over punctuation, contract rights, and paying a million dollars more for renting space on about 100,000 hydro poles in New Brunswick.
This week, the CRTC issued what will probably be its last decision on what’s become known as the “comma case”, effectively dismissing Rogers’ complaint yet again.
With the help of RCI’s EVP…
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TORONTO – One of High Fidelity HDTV’s digital specialty channels, the all-nature Oasis HD, said this week it has signed on as a presenting sponsor for the Canadian broadcast of the 2009 Masters Tournament along side of Acura and Rolex.
(The independent broadcaster also owns all-high-def channels Rush HD, Treasure HD and Equator HD.)
While it might be a little unusual for the Canadian broadcasters TSN, RDS and Global Television to be promoting another TV outlet during their broadcasts, Oasis bought the sponsorship from Graham Sanborn Media, the Toronto company which owns the Canadian broadcast rights to The Masters…
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TORONTO – TLN Telelatino Network is making its Italian 24 hour news channel ‘SKY TG 24 Canada’ available for free to Bell TV and Rogers digital subscribers to provide information on Monday’s earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy to the Italian Canadian community.
The network, in collaboration with Sky Italia, is based on SKY Tg24, Italy’s leading news source which gives viewers “a direct link to around-the-clock coverage of European and world affairs”, the press release said. SKY TG 24 Canada will be in free preview throughout April.
TLN Television will also complement SKY TG 24 Canada’s coverage of the earthquake with…
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TORONTO – BBM has released its top-line radio statistics for January 5 through March 1, 2009, including the first report using data from portable people meters (PPM) from the Montreal market.
Highlights from Montreal, which reviewed data from December 1 through March 1, 2009, showed that Astral Media-owned news talk station CJAD dominated the Anglo market with a 25.6% share. They were followed by CJFM FM (Astral’s Virgin station), Corus’ “lite” rock focused CFQR FM and CBC Radio One (CBME FM) at 16%, 14% and 12.4%, respectively.
The leaders in Montreal’s Franco markets were CFGL FM with a 15.5%…
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The 2009 Canadian Telecom Summit is fast approaching.
Held June 15 – 17 in Toronto, the event promises to cover all segments of the Canadian telecommunications and IT industries, and bring together leaders from all constituencies – service providers, manufacturers, applications providers, policy makers and regulators.
This year’s Summit will feature 17 keynote addresses, 70 speakers, three days of programming, plus networking opportunities with hundreds of industry leaders and customers.
Confirmed participants to date are Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO of Research In Motion, and Nadir Mohamed, president and CEO of Rogers Communications. The Chair of the CRTC, Konrad von…
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TORONTO – Channel Zero’s Silver Screen Classics is available on free preview for the month of April for Bell, Cogeco and Rogers customers.
Specializing in classic movies from the 1930s to the 1950s, the network has scheduled a western-themed weekend on April 25 and 26 called ‘Saddle Up’. Back to back western classics, uncut and commercial free, will be available to customers of Access Communications, Bell Aliant, Bell TV, Cogeco, Mountain Cablevision, MTS Allstream, Rogers, Sasktel, Seaside Communications, Source Cable, and Telus, the press release said.
The theme weekend will also feature a consumer contest for a ‘Wild West Extravaganza…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable says that the number of digital cable customers watching its On Demand programming has more than doubled in the last three years, growing from 50 million views in 2005 to over 100 million views in 2008.
"We’ve seen a huge change in the viewing habits of our digital cable customers in the last few years, and this is only the beginning," said David Purdy, vice president of video product management.
Rogers recently overhauled its On Demand interface to make it “more intuitive” and allow for easier navigation. Its On Demand library has 5,000 unique titles and 5,300 hours of…
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WASHINGTON D.C. – When governments talk about reclamation, they generally are talking about land – either dumping vast quantities of earth into an ocean or other body of water in order to expand their land mass where none previously existed, or restoring certain regions to their natural state after they were clogged with pollution or some industry had used it up.
When cable engineers and their bosses talk about reclamation – but it’s about expanding their bandwidth – and how they can find new bandwidth where it was once all used up.
In what was dubbed the CTO session…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet is adding the ‘game-in-the-game’ feature seen in NHL hockey broadcasts to some of its Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts.
The interactive entertainment platform, known as NanoGaming, allows fans to make predictions about the game, chat with other viewers, and create groups in order to establish mini-competitions amongst themselves. Participants can compete for points, prizes, and a position on the leader board.
The feature will be available during 100 of the Blue Jay games aired on Sportsnet during the 2009 MLB season.
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