TORONTO – Canadian Music Week announced this week that radio broadcaster Chuck McCoy will be inducted to the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame during Rogers Canadian Music Week held in March 2009.
Now the executive vice-president of programming and marketing for Rogers Radio, the industry veteran has been part of the broadcast industry for over 40 years.
The release said that McCoy will be honoured for his “stellar contributions to the Canadian broadcasting industry” with the Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at the annual Canadian Music Industry Awards gala reception at the Fairmont Royal York…
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TORONTO – Facing a "moderate recession" in Canada, our cable and media companies seem well positioned to weather a deteriorating economy, says a recent analyst’s research report.
BMO Capital Markets financial analyst Tim Casey – who covers cable and media in Canada – admitted that while he was lowering his overall earnings forecasts “for the second time in three weeks” based on an “underlying thesis” of a “moderate recession in Canada” like the one we endured in the early 1990s, most companies seem well positioned to ride it out.
On the radio side, which is of course tied to…
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TORONTO – Sales of the Apple iPhone helped push third quarter net income to $495 million at Rogers Communications, up 84% over the same period last year.
The company’s third quarter results, for the period ended September 30th, also reported that consolidated revenue for the company grew 14% to $3 billion, and adjusted operating profit increased 4% to $1 billion.
“The double-digit revenue growth and continued healthy level of subscriber additions that Rogers generated in the third quarter reflect the quality and utility of our service offerings in the face of an increasingly challenging economic backdrop which we are…
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MONTREAL – Over a dozen more rural communities in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario can now access high speed wireless service through the Inukshuk Wireless network.
The company announced today that Balzac, Coalhurst, Sterling, Lundbreck and Peigan 147 in Alberta, plus BC’s Oyama, Duck Lake 7, Dewdney, Deroche, Harrison Mills, and the three Ontario communities of Mnjikaning First Nation 32, Sarnia 45 and Six Nations 40, have been added to their national broadband high-speed wireless network which reaches approximately 30 million Canadians.
"The commitment by the Learning Plan Fund and its Advisory Committee members to bring high speed broadband…
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OTTAWA – Robert Charlebois and David Clayton-Thomas will be inducted into CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame next month in the music star category at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters annual convention.
“In a career spanning more than 30 years, writer/composer/musician/performer Robert Charlebois has become a central figure in song both in Québec and around the French-speaking world. Charlebois has received numerous prizes and distinctions testifying to the recognition of his peers and the quality of his thousands of shows and more than twenty albums: Prix de l’Académie Charles-Cros, Médaille d’or des Olympiades de la chanson, Prix de la Ville…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC said Tuesday it will publicly disclose the aggregate financial data of large broadcast distribution undertakings (cable and satellite companies) and large conventional television and radio broadcasters.
“Although it was set out in Broadcasting Public Notice 2008-6 as its preliminary view, the Commission is now convinced, based on the comments received at the proceedings on the Diversity of Voices and the BDU regulatory frameworks, that the public disclosure of the aggregate financial data of both large BDUs and/or MSOs and large OTA television and radio broadcasters by ownership group would serve the public interest and would…
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MONTREAL – Claiming “abusive, arbitrary” tactics by parent company Bell Canada that have caused a “decline in customer service and will force layoffs in stores,” Bell Canada’s independent retailers have launched new lawsuits against the big telco.
The dealers – members of the Independent Communications Dealer Association of Canada (ICDAC), and representing over 80% of Bell’s independent dealer stores – say that Bell has broken its contract with the dealers in several ways, according to a press release the group issued yesterday.
“This is the result of a downward spiral in our relationship that has escalated under Bell’s current…
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TORONTO – With the announcement Wednesday of TSN’s 2008-09 National Basketball Association package (including 48 Toronto Raptor games), the sports network likely hopes to apply additional pressure on Hogtown’s largest BDU, Rogers Cable, by placing 24 of those games on TSN2. Basketball fans will be calling the Rogers CSRs wondering why they can’t see Chris Bosh and his ‘mates.
Rogers is the final holdout among English Canadian distributors when it comes to carrying the second TSN, which was once just the TSN Alternate feed. That feed was free and only active every once in a while when the main network…
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ROGERS SPORTSNET’S TENTH anniversary has hockey analyst Nick Kypreos thinking about where it all started.
For a decade, Sportsnet, through its various incarnations, first as CTV Sportsnet, then just Sportsnet, and now Rogers Sportsnet, has made a name for itself on the Canadian sports broadcasting landscape. In 1998, it landed a national broadcast rights deal with the National Hockey League, an agreement that would eventually secure carriage across the country.
This year for the 2008-09 season, Sportsnet will broadcast more of what it calls "hockey that matters", 206 Canadian regional NHL games. And while live events are what drive…
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EXTON, Pa. – Organization for the inaugural SCTE Canadian Summit is well under way and registration is now open for the event which will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 3-4, 2009, at the Toronto Congress Centre.
SCTE Canadian Summit 2009 is designed to facilitate an exchange of technical information for Canadian engineering professionals to help them maximize opportunities and overcome challenges specific to the cable telecommunications industry in Canada both now and in the near future.
The program committee organizing it are senior technical executives from the big five multiple system operators in Canada. SCTE board of directors…
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