TORONTO – With Rogers Communications saying this week it will release Apple’s iPhone into the Canadian market this year some time, just who will those buyers be?
According to research firm Solutions Research Group and its Fast Forward report, the buyers will be richer than average men.
SRG says 61% of the buyers will be male – with an average age of 29 and that 54% of them will live in Ontario. As well, look for some existing cell contracts to be torn up as over 30% of the iPhone’s buyers are said to be existing Bell and Telus…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has elected Isabelle Marcoux to the company’s board of directors.
She is vice-chair of the board, and vice-president, corporate development, of Transcontinental Inc. of Montreal, the company which prints Rogers Media’s magazines. Marcoux has a Bachelor of Economics and a degree in law from McGill University and in 2007, she was honoured as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.
"We are pleased to welcome Isabelle to the Rogers’ Board of Directors," said Alan Horn, Rogers’ board chair. "Isabelle’s background and extensive experience as an executive and as a director will be an asset to…
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TORONTO – Ted Rogers said today the Apple iPhone will be released this year by his company and Apple this year, but he can’t say when.
“We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year,” said Rogers, founder and CEO of Rogers Communications. “We can’t tell you any more about it right now, but stay tuned.”
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications first quarter results met analyst expecations, showing good growth in all units.
RCI’s consolidated revenue climbed 14% to $2.6 billion in the first quarter, ended March 31st while adjusted operating profit rose 21% to $984 million, and net income 102% to $344 million.
Cable subscribers continued to grow, thanks to home phone additions and Rogers Wireless postpaid net subscriber additions were 97,000 in the quarter, with ARPU up 7% and churn down to 1.1%;
"This was a robust start to 2008 both operationally and financially for which I’m thankful to our loyal customers and our thousands…
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KAMLOOPS – RTNDA Canada, The Association of Electronic Journalists has honoured its best in electronic journalism in the B.C. region in 2007.
RTNDA Canada presented the RTNDA Awards at the B.C. Region Pro Dev Seminar & Awards Banquet this weekend in Kamloops, B.C.
"Congratulations to all the winners" said RTNDA President Bob McLaughlin. "This is an incredible accomplishment and it shows that quality journalism is thriving in Canada." The B.C. Regional winners go on to compete for the RTNDA National Awards to be presented at the RTNDA National Conference in Ottawa on June 21, 2008.
The 2007 TELEVISION winners…
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GATINEAU – Of all the submissions we’ve heard over the past three weeks, Channel Zero’s boiled the issues down very well, kicking of its oral remarks on Wednesday.
Cal Millar, vice-president and general manager of the company which owns Silver Screen Classics and Movieola said he believes the hearing is about Canadian programming and the fact that the consumer doesn’t really care about all the machinations going on within the CRTC or any of the broadcast and distribution companies.
“Canadians don’t say to themselves: ‘I want to spend money on cable or satellite’,” explained Millar. “They say ‘I want…
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WHERE IS JIM SHAW? is what CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein wanted to know Wednesday morning when he moseyed into the hearing room in Gatineau and spied the Shaw Communications panel, minus its CEO, facing him.
It’s more than a fair question. The Shaw Communications CEO has lobbed several virtual grenades into Ottawa of late, most notably challenging the existence of the Canadian Television Fund throughout 2007, and then declining to appear at the hearing into the CTF earlier this year – telling a newspaper that since von Finckenstein wasn’t leading that hearing, it amounted to a Commission…
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OF ALL THE CONFLICTING complaints we’ve heard so far about the hearing still ongoing in Gatineau which will decide the future policies to govern specialty channels and BDUs, the question in the headline has been the most often repeated – from all sides of the debates.
The issues are so numerous, so complex, then again so connected to each other, it’s a wonder the five-member CRTC commissioner panel can make sense of everything. And there are just so many unanswered questions.
Last week at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, one couldn’t help but marvel at the utter sense…
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GATINEAU – They compete aggressively for U.S. programs, audience share, and advertisers, but in an exceptional show of unity, executives from CTVglobemedia Inc and CanWest Global Communications sat shoulder-to-shoulder Thursday to persuade the CRTC to open up new sources of funding.
Together, the two networks argued the economic viability of conventional television is “under threat”, because of lack of fair access and fair compensation. They attacked cable and satellite distributors, saying that if their vision were adopted, they and not consumers would control television programming.
“The outcome of this review will decide who will program the remote controls of…
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TORONTO – BMO Financial Group has acquired the title sponsor rights to all 30 Toronto FC Major League Soccer TV broadcasts during the 2008 season, on CBC, Rogers Sportsnet and The Score.
The one-year agreement marks the first broadcast sponsorship for Toronto FC, and a further extension of BMO’s relationship with Canada’s Major League Soccer team. BMO already holds the naming rights to BMO Field, home of Toronto FC, and is the sponsor of the team’s jerseys.
At the same time, BMO has also extended its agreement to be the official bank of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors,…
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