TORONTO – The Ontario Chapter of the Society of Telecommunications Engineers announced Monday that Daniel Sacolle (Cogeco Cable), Bill McMillan (TVC Inc.) and James Myles (Rogers Cable TV) have been elected by the membership to serve on the board of directors for the 2009/10 term. They assumed their roles as of January 1, 2009.
Departing the board are chapter president Laura O’Hare, and vice-president Lawrence Watson (Rogers). The two new board members (McMillan and Sacolle) plus Myles, who was re-elected, join Boris Eventov (Cogeco Cable), Rob McCann (Clearcable Networks) and Bruce Marshall (Mountain Cablevision) to form the six-member 2009…
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TORONTO – While still posting healthy subscriber gains across all products, the rate of growth in 2008 at Rogers Wireless, cable, telecom and Internet slowed in 2008, the company announced with the release of its preliminary year-end subscriber results this morning.
The company’s Apple iPhone rollout continued to proceed well as Rogers added 130,000 customers for the device in the quarter, 40% of which were new customers.
"Rogers ended 2008 with healthy growth in both our wireless and cable subscriber bases reflecting our innovative offerings that have the features, convenience and value that Canadians want," said Alan Horn, chairman…
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THE FINAL PUSH IS on for the inaugural SCTE Canadian Summit, to be held at the Toronto Congress Centre February 3-4.
The conference promises to be a key date in the engineering calendar for Canadian cable telecommunications engineers, technicians and vendors looking to share information and broaden their knowledge on challenges like switched digital, DOCSIS 3.0 and other myriad network issues.
While vendor tables have long been sold out, registration for the conference is still open and can be accessed by clicking here. As well, the deadline for nominations for the first-ever young Canadian Engineering Professional of the…
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TORONTO – The late Ted Rogers has left voting control of Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) to a private trust called the Rogers Control Trust, and members of the Rogers family are the beneficiaries, the company made official in a press release today.
According to the statement, the Rogers family holding companies controlled by the Rogers Control Trust together own approximately 90.9% of the Class A voting shares of RCI and 7.5% of the Class B non voting shares. The trust holds voting control of the Rogers group of companies for “the benefit of successive generations of the Rogers family”.
The…
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DARTMOUTH – Radio is not thought of as a sexy media any more. It’s now called "traditional media" or "old media," or worse.
Despite its easy ubiquity, many mouthy know-it-alls have been predicting its dramatic weakening, or even its demise, in the face of new media or satellite radio or some other bugaboo supposedly about to kill it off. It’s not true, though. Radio in Canada has been steadily holding its own in the face of ubiquitous Internet, devices like iPods and new delivery vehicles like satellite radio or broadband.
Small towns have probably never been described as sexy…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has dismissed complaints against TSN2 from rival sports networks, saying the sports channel does have the authority to time-shift the programming it offers on its authorized split-feed service.
As previously reported by Cartt.ca, CBC and Score Media complained to the Commission in September, just after TSN2’s launch, claiming that The Sports Network (TSN) did not have the regulatory authority to launch the new channel in the way it has been pitched and launched. The two broadcasters alleged that TSN had taken multiple CRTC decisions and interpreted them out of context in order to meet…
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TORONTO – Rogers Wireless has rolled out its 3.5 next generation network across the country.
Calling it “the fastest mobile network in Canada”, the Rogers press release says that it’s the first North American wireless carrier to offer customers peak downloads of 7.2Mbps on a national network. The network allows “customers to communicate in innovative ways with mobile multimedia, download large files ultra-fast and utilize Internet speeds on the go that are similar to a standard broadband connection.”
The 7.2 Mbps High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network is the latest and fastest 3G service available, offering mobile download speeds…
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TORONTO – Independent all-high definition Canadian broadcaster High Fidelity HDTV today announced the new HD Nature & Adventure Package has been launched on Rogers Digital Cable in Ontario.
The four new channels – Oasis HD, Treasure HD, Equator HD and Rush HD – are now available in free preview to Rogers Digital Cable customers with a high definition set-top-box. High Fidelity HDTV now reaches close to 1.5 million households.
“We’re very excited to be part of the Rogers HD line-up,” said Ken Murphy, co-founder of High Fidelity HDTV, in a release. “We believe our suite of HD channels offers…
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TORONTO – The Television Bureau of Canada (TVB) has announced their 2009 board of directors.
Along with TVB president Theresa Treutler, the board’s executive committee is:
Rita Fabian, Chair, CTV sales and marketing;
Errol Da-Ré, Vice-chair, Canwest broadcast sales;
Chris McGinley, Treasurer, Canwest broadcasting;
Mitch Dent, Secretary, Rogers Media television sales.
The other board members are as follows:
Michel Gagnon – RDS
Bill Hanson – CTV Winnipeg
Richard Hiron – Citytv Edmonton
Mike Keller – Newcap
Lori Legault – Canwest
Dave Scapillati – CBC
Don Shafer – Astral Media Radio
The TVB provides research and information about television advertising,…
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TORONTO – Rogers has received CRTC approval to launch a local, 24-hour news channel in the Greater Toronto Area.
Programming for the new channel will consist of local news, traffic, weather, business, sports and entertainment information “devoted exclusively to residents in the Greater Toronto and commuting areas”, the decision read. The channel will also include news items from other Rogers owned media properties including The Fan 590, 680News, Sportsnet, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Rogers publishing division (With titles like Maclean’s, Flare, Chatelaine and Canadian Business).
"We are extremely pleased with the CRTC decision today," says Jamie Haggarty, executive vice-president…
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