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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TORONTO – It was an overflow house of hundreds of family, friends, politicians and Canadian business glitterati who gathered in Toronto’s St. James Cathedral on a grey, rainy Tuesday morning to pay their final respects to Ted Rogers, the founder of Rogers Communications and one of the leading lights of Canadian business.
Rogers died December 2nd of heart disease at the age of 75.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, former PM Brian Mulroney, Shaw Communications founder JR Shaw and his son, CEO Jim Shaw, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle, Bell Canada CEO George Cope, Astral chairman Andre…
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TORONTO and VANCOUVER – Shaw Cable customers who watch Rogers Sportsnet HD on channel 211 will now receive Sportsnet West HD or Sportsnet Pacific HD on the same channel.
Effective immediately, Shaw Cable viewers will receive regular regional HD programming when scheduled, along with HD editions of sports highlight show Sportsnet Connected on weeknights.
www.sportsnet.ca
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TORONTO – Television drama 24 is returning to the airwaves for its seventh season, but not just with new adventures for star Kiefer Sutherland. Global Television has developed complementary show content and will offer it on-line, through video-on-demand (VOD) and via mobile downloads.
Full-length episodes of the show will be available a day after the network broadcast at www.globaltv.com, and Rogers Cable customers will be watch the latest episodes free-of-charge through their VOD platform Rogers-On-Demand.
Viewers on the go can download up to 120 mobisodes housed at www.watch24now.com through any web-enabled mobile device. The mobisodes are 2-minute reels summarizing…
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TORONTO – Nominations close Wednesday, December 10th for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) brand new Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award.
The SCTE, along with Aurora Networks as the primary sponsor and Cartt.ca as the publishing partner, last month announced the development and launch of a new award that annually will recognize a young cable telecommunications engineering professional in Canada who is already making his or her mark on the industry.
The Young Canadian Engineering Professional of the Year Award will debut as part of the inaugural SCTE Canadian Summit, which is set for Tuesday…
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TORONTO – The funeral for Rogers Communications founder Ted Rogers will be held Tuesday, December 9 at 11 a.m. at St. James Cathedral, 65 Church Street, Toronto.
Visitation will take place Monday, December 8 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Grace Church on the Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to The Loretta Anne Rogers Critical Care Centre at the Toronto Western Hospital www.tgwhf-uhn.ca. (416) 340-4430 or (416) 340-3088.
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TORONTO – The tributes to Ted Rogers continue to roll in.
Today, Shan Chandrasekar, president and CEO of Asian Television Network International (ATN), released a statement paying tribute to the late cable giant who will be laid to rest in Toronto Tuesday.
"Mr. Rogers was a visionary, a trail blazer and was one among the first entrepreneurs to understand the importance of Canadian multiculturalism," he said. "Long before CFMT was launched, Ted Rogers was the first cable operator to offer community programming in numerous languages. He has been a pioneer and a role model. Because of (his) vision of consumer…
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TORONTO – The Radio Marketing Bureau has announced their 2009 board of directors:
Gary Belgrave, President, Radio Marketing Bureau Derek Berghuis, Second Vice Chair, Rogers Radio Glenn Chalmers, Astral Media Radio Lesley Conway-Kelley, Chair, Astral Media Radio Sales Victor Giacomelli, Corus Radio Chris Gordon, CHUM Radio/CTVglobemedia Patrick Grierson, Past Chair, Canadian Broadcast Sales Elmer Hildebrand, Treasurer, Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. Mike Keller, Newcap Broadcasting Breydon MacDonald, CHUM Radio Sales/CTVglobemedia Chris Pandoff, Corus Radio Jacques Parisien, Astral Media Radio Sandee Reed, First Vice Chair Rawlco Radio Gerry Siemens, Pattison Radio Stephen Sienko, Target Broadcast Sales Paul Ski, Rogers Radio
The…
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