TORONTO – While the digital transition is not coming to Canada until 2011, we have the benefit of learning from how the U.S. cable operators and programmers will manage and are managing this consumer impacting event.
“Join this teleseminar to learn the strategies and the tactics being planned by our friends to the South,” says CTAM Canada.
What does the digital transition mean for cable companies, content providers and consumers? Find out by coming to one of five locations across Canada which will show the CTAM Teleconference.
The speakers are: Sam Howe, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer,…
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TORONTO – Sarah Tirkalas of London, Ont. is Rogers Cable’s millionth Home Phone customer, the company announced this morning.
"Rogers Home Phone has seen record-breaking growth in just over two-and-a-half years since launching the service," said Phil Hartling, vice-president of consumer services for Rogers Cable, in a release.
As a token of appreciation for her business, Tirkalas will receive a pair of court side tickets to a Raptors game and during the game, she will have a chance to shoot for prizes. She will also receive Rogers Home Phone service at no charge for one year.
"I already had…
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DARTMOUTH – Supplier Arcom has announced Lotha James is now territory manager of sales – central and western Canada
James “brings a wealth of knowledge in the wireless and CATV markets and will nicely complement our depth in the telecom and enterprise networks markets. He will work closely with our regional managers, located in Ottawa and Vancouver to expand our service and product offerings in his territory,” says the Arcom release.
James began his career in the telecommunications industry in 1979 with Rogers Cable. After ten years as primarily a headend technician he ventured into the supplier distribution side…
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GATINEAU – “The CTF is gratified that the great majority of interveners strongly support the Canadian Television Fund and emphasize that one of the Fund’s greatest strengths is its adaptability to new challenges faced by the industry,” said Douglas Barrett, chairman of the board of the Canadian Television Fund, in closing the week-long hearing on the future of the fund today.
“When considering changes to the industry’s funding system, the most critical objective is ensuring that, given that the competing demands of stakeholders in the production, broadcast, and distribution system, the interests of the Canadian public, including both taxpayers…
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – AT&T will cast a wider net for mobile customers this year by building out its network to make catching a high speed wireless web connection easier coast-to-coast.
The big telco today announced highlights of the company’s 2008 wireless network expansion plans, including the deployment of third-generation (3G) wireless broadband service to more than 80 additional cities in the United States through the course of the year.
The planned expansion is expected to deliver GSM provider AT&T 3G services to nearly 350 leading U.S. markets by the end of 2008, including all of the top 100…
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WINNIPEG – MTS announced Tuesday that it had achieved its 2007 revenue guidance, hit the high end of predicted EBITDA and free cash flow guidance, and exceeded its earnings per share guidance for the fiscal year 2007, ended December 31.
In 2007, growth services (wireless, Internet, TV, unified communications) revenues increased by 12.6%, and EPS from continuing operations increased by 15.6%.
"These results underline how 2007 marked a turning point for MTS. With the successful execution of the strategy we developed in 2006, we have proven that we can meet the competitive challenges of our industry and we are…
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GATINEAU – The Canadian Television Fund should be split in two: one with public money to meet government policy objectives, and the other with private money to support hit shows, Rogers Communications told the CRTC on Tuesday morning.
During day two of the week-long hearing into the CTF’s revenue and governance models, executives told commissioners that increasingly the CTF—originally the Cable Production Fund supported entirely by the cable industry—“is viewed as a public policy instrument for the Canadian government” instead of a way to encourage broadcasters to air popular shows, said Rogers’ Vice Chairman Phil Lind.
To qualify for…
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TORONTO – Beginning today, The Score will provide sports updates to broadcaster Global News Ontario.
The Score’s daily sports coverage will be seen during Global’s 6 a.m. Morning News, Noon News, 6 p.m. News Hour, and 11 p.m. News Final.
The sports channel’s updates replace those of Rogers Sportsnet, which supplied sports updates for Global previously. But with Rogers now owning Global Television competitor Citytv, that supply deal couldn’t continue.
Global outsourced its sports coverage to Sportsnet after firing nearly all of its sports staff in 2006.
“The Score’s sports coverage will bring the Global News Ontario…
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TORONTO – Bell Canada today announced a new agreement with CBC/Radio-Canada to deliver the broadcaster’s coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Summer Games to Bell mobile phone, digital satellite television and high-speed Internet customers across Canada.
Bell and CBC had a similar deal during the Torino Olympics of 2006.
As the official Canadian broadcaster of the Beijing Games, CBC/Radio-Canada will offer extensive and in-depth Olympic coverage, which will be made available to Bell customers across Canada in forms ranging from video streaming on mobile phones to full high definition television feeds of specific sports during the Games.
"This agreement…
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TORONTO – Barbara Williams, Canwest Broadcasting’s executive vice-president, content, made official her new direct reports last week, pulling together the assets of both Global Television and the newly acquired Alliance Atlantis assets.
“What results from the combination of these two teams is that Canwest Broadcasting now has the top talent in every genre and on every platform – lifestyle, comedy, hard news, drama, documentary, magazine, and all the hybrids in between,” said Williams, in a release today. “I am so impressed with the expertise and the experience of each and every person, and am truly excited about the potential…
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