OTTAWA – While businesses can make mistakes by altering course too quickly, industry regulators make most of their mistakes by moving not quickly enough, Rogers Communications vice-chairman Phil Lind said Monday evening at a conference in Ottawa.
He was the keynote speaker – pinch-hitting for company founder Ted Rogers, who is still in a Toronto hospital – at opening dinner of the International Institute of Communications Canadian conference in Ottawa. (While Cartt.ca will be there tomorrow, we were sent a copy of Lind’s speech, which is represented in this story).
With CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein doing the intro…
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TORONTO – Three members of the Canadian telecommunications industry and one broadcaster were named to the 2008 Women’s Executive Network list of the 100 Most Powerful Women.
Lauren Flaherty, CMO Nortel Networks; Marrika Paul, senior vice-president Bell Canada, and Carol Ring, vice-president of strategic initiatives at Rogers Cable, and Michele Fortin, president and CEO of Quebec public broadcaster Tele-Quebec all received recognition at a luncheon held today in Toronto.
The Women’s Executive Network (WXN) has been dedicated to the advancement and recognition of executive-minded women in the Canadian workplace since 1997.
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TORONTO – Despite the wild, scary ride the global economy has been taking us all on this year, wireless newcomer Globalive is well-financed and going full speed ahead, said its CEO, Anthony Lacavera, an investors conference in Toronto last week.
Recognizing that “the market would not allow external financing right now,” Lacavera told the Scotia Capital Markets Telecom and Technology investors day that Globalive’s wireless venture is well-funded by co-owner Orascom – a global wireless player based in Egypt with over 77 million wireless subscribers.
Globalive can count on up to $700 million from its corporate partner, said Lacavera,…
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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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