TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today that Rogers Cable and Rogers Wireless will become one on July 1st.
There is nothing in the release on how the restructuring will affect the people working in each company division.
RCI has sent notices "to the respective trustees of each of their public debt indentures, the agent of Cable’s bank credit facility and each of their various secured swap counterparties stating that, subject to certain conditions, all security provided by bonds issued under the Cable deed of trust and the Wireless deed of trust will be released on or about Thursday, June 28,…
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REGINA – RTNDA, the association of electronic journalists handed out its Prairie region awards for 2006 this weekend at the annual Prairie Regional Professional Development Seminar.
This year RTNDA Canada created five new award categories to recognize outstanding videography, use of sound, new media, information programming and diversity.
The RTNDA "Diversity Tool Kit" which was released across the country in January offers practical solutions to bring diversity to our stories and to our newsrooms. To acknowledge those accomplishments RTNDA created a new Diversity Award this year. Global Calgary and CBC Saskatchewan won the inaugural awards in the Prairie region….
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OTTAWA – Saying the wireless market is not competitive enough in Canada, Quebecor and MTS Allstream have joined forces to lobby both government and Canadians so that the companies are given a break in 2008’s wireless spectrum auction.
“Canada needs to permit new competitors in the wireless sector to ensure consumers are offered lower prices and advanced services which other countries already enjoy,” says a press release from the Coalition for Wireless Competition issued today.
Citing the oft-referenced but little understood Telecom Policy Review Panel report which “identified the need for a more efficient and vibrant wireless industry…
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TORONTO – GEO TV, a 24-hour Pakistani channel broadcast in the Urdu language, has been added to Rogers Cable, the TV distributor announced Friday.
The general entertainment channel is on free preview for digital TV customers in Ontario until June 8.
“Rogers is continually striving to provide its customers with the most in multicultural programming by offering a choice in their preferred language,” said David Purdy, Vice-President and General Manager of Television Services for Rogers Cable. “With the addition of GEO TV, Rogers Personal TV customers can now choose from three channels in the Urdu language, with the other…
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TORONTO – Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. last month launched three new video-on-demand (VOD) services on Rogers Cable.
The VOD channels for the specialty TV broadcaster’s HGTV, Food Network and National Geographic channels contain up to 40 hours of programming.
Shows on HGTV On Demand (channel 92) include Home to Stay, Design Inc., Designer Guys, Holmes on Homes and Neat, on Food Network On Demand (channel 93) include I Do Let’s Eat, Surreal Gourmet, Fixing Dinner, Sugar, Crash My Kitchen, and Thirsty Traveler and on National Geographic Channel On Demand (channel 94) include Deep Jungle, Demolition Dynasty, Seconds From Disaster,…
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AURORA, ON —York Region District School Board has signed a 10-year, $15-million deal with Rogers Business Solutions to provide an Internet network in all of its 179 elementary and secondary schools.
“This high capacity network is a long-term investment by the school board that will ensure that our students benefit from the most modern learning opportunities available today,” said York Region District School Board Chair Bill Crothers. “Rogers Business Solutions demonstrated that they understood our mission and our ‘anytime, anywhere access vision’. This technology will allow the board to continue to ensure that the base requirements for new technology…
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LONDON – Ed Jarmain, the man widely considered to be the first to bring cable television to Canada died yesterday. He was 99.
Born and raised in London, Ont., Jarmain originally ran his father’s dry cleaning business in the city in the 1930s through the ’60s. In the 1950s, however, as one of the first families in London with a TV set, he suffered through spotty reception from U.S. signals (there were no local broadcasters at the time). As an engineer, he thought there must be a better way to get these signals.
After reading about cable and then…
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LAS VEGAS – While there are a lot of new companies with nifty new products and services out there, what will carry the day are two plain old business benchmarks: execution and customer service.
In today’s closing session of the 2007 Cable Show, Cox Communications president Pat Esser said that most of what customers desire now is the same as what they wanted when he began in the cable industry in 1979: “They expect reliability and responsiveness,” he said, along with relevance. The key differentiation nowadays is the level of personalization those customers want.
“That’s the world we’re going…
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WINNIPEG – MTS Allstream recorded double-digit customer and revenue growth in its wireless, high-speed Internet, digital TV and converged IP services in the first quarter ended March 31, according to financial results released May 8.
But the company had 3,000 fewer residential phone lines as continued competitive pressures impacted all lines of business related to MTS Allstream’s traditional legacy services in the quarter with customers migrating to newer IP-based growth services.
Although the number of residential phone lines was down 3,000 lines in the first quarter of 2007, the figure is about half the loss recorded in the same quarter of 2006. The…
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TORONTO – Rogers Wireless on Tuesday launched the Nokia 6682RVI, a cellphone that converts displayed text on the handset into speech so it can be used by people with a visual impairment.
Nuance TALKS(TM) software from Nuance Communications converts the phone’s menus, instructions and content displayed on the screen into audio output through its internal speaker, or an optional wired or Bluetooth headset.
The phone application, available in English and French, allows users to send and receive emails and text messages with audio feedback, to customize phone settings and profiles, to manage call logs and personal phone directory, to…
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