DARTMOUTH, NS – Newcap and Rogers Broadcasting have received CRTC approval to exchange a couple of radio stations, as well as their respective applications to convert the AM radio licences to the FM frequency.
The two companies announced their intended swap earlier this year.
Newcap will exchange its CFDR AM 780 (country) broadcast licence in Halifax, and in turn receive Rogers’ CIGM AM 790 licence (news/sports/country music) in Sudbury plus a cash consideration of $5 million.
Formal closing is expected in the next 60 days while launch of the two FM stations is expected within the next twelve months, according…
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TORONTO – On Tuesday at the NextMedia conference in Toronto, Rogers Communications vice-president and general manager, television, David Purdy, told delegates that the cable, Internet, and wireless giant will launch its own broadband video portal sometime in 2009.
During a panel discussion pondering the pay-per-use model, non-advertising, that is, of monetizing broadband video (which also included Trevor Doerksen of Calgary-based TV download portal Mobovivo and Missy Suicide of Suicide Girls, a multi-faceted social networking portal which features pictures and videos of “hot punk rock girls naked” for $4 a month), Purdy was asked what he thought of…
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TORONTO – There are very few reliable ways to monetize video online – without taking a broader view of what you present to audiences and advertisers, that is.
That seemed to be the message coming out of NextMedia this morning at the Circa nightclub in Toronto. Broadcasters Dominique Sebastien-Forest, general manager of digital media and e-commerce at Quebecor Media, Raja Khanna, GlassBox Television’s co-CEO, and Barbara Williams, Canwest Global’s executive vice-president, content, told delegates this morning – each in their own way – that trying to monetize video online has to be just a single part of an all-encompassing…
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TORONTO – Canadian Women in Communications’ GTA Chapter is holding a webinar on 3G, 4G and VoIP technologies on Tuesday November 18 at 12:00 PM ET.
The session will explore wireless technology – what is out there, what is coming and the impact that it will have on how we work and play – with guest speaker David Robinson, vice-president of new business planning for Rogers Wireless.
To register or for more information, visit www.cwc-afc.com.
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet will stream a UFC event on their website tonight for the first time.
Beginning at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m.PT, Sportsnet will stream the weigh in of fighters Randy Couture and Brock Lesnar prior to their bout as part of UFC 91 taking place this weekend in Las Vegas.
www.sportsnet.ca
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LOUISVILLE, Colo. – CableLabs announced today that it has released a family of specifications that defines a common set of interfaces for converged video and broadband services in a modular cable network headend.
The Modular Headend Architecture (MHA) specifications include the existing DOCSIS Modular CMTS specifications as well as a series of new specifications that define interfaces for narrowcast MPEG digital video services such as video-on-demand (VOD) and switched-digital-video (SDV).
The new digital video specifications result from an effort involving headend equipment manufacturers and cable operators. The specifications provide “a point of harmonization” between the Time Warner Cable-led Interactive Services…
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BOSTON – The four services of the so-called "quad-play" don’t go together quite as easily as some tend to assume, delegates to the 2008 CTAM Summit in Boston were told Monday afternoon.
There are such differences inherent with video, wireline voice, high speed Internet and wireless (especially wireless) that just selling a bundle of four – while it sounds nice and lucrative – certainly takes a lot more thought and creativity to do right.
Here in the States, cable operators haven’t yet made full leaps into wireless like some other companies around the world (“All of us in cable have…
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BOSTON – Turns out cable and technology executives are no different than the folks they serve. They want what they want, when they want it, where they want it when it comes to video.
Executives from Sling Media (Jason Krikorian, EVP business development), MobiTV (Alan Moskowitz, director of strategic alliances); Tivo (David Sanford, VP marketing and product management), Time Warner Cable (Maura Fox, group VP, NYC), and Rogers Cable (David Purdy, VP and GM Television) all expressed that desire in a session called “Your Television is Ringing: The Value of Cross Platform” Sunday afternoon at the CTAM Summit here…
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ON THE SURFACE, the 2008 Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention went off with nary a hitch.
Speeches and panels were mostly interesting, attendance was stable compared to last year and the country’s broadcasters did their usual good job in celebrating their best and brightest while we were all entertained by various musical acts over about a 42-hour span at the Westin Hotel.
Behind the scenes though, it’s a much different story. Now, while no one would go on the record with me about any of this, it became quite clear while talking to many people on the show floor…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications founder Ted Rogers is now being treated at the Toronto General Hospital and his condition has been stabilized, the company announced in a statement this morning.
"I am grateful for the quality of care I am receiving at the Toronto General Hospital, a world-class facility", said Rogers in the release.
“Mr. Rogers is appreciative of the interest in his health and has asked for the privacy of the family to be respected,” it concluded.
www.rogers.com
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