TORONTO and MONTREAL – Look Communications and its parent company Unique Broadband Systems said Thursday that the actions of Rogers Communications and Bell Canada Enterprises are interfering with the planned sale of Look.
In a release, Look claimed "the two partners of Inukshuk Wireless Partnership LLP ("Inukshuk Wireless") – Rogers Inukshuk Telecommunications Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc ("Rogers") and NR Communications Limited, a subsidiary of BCE ("Bell") – have continued this week to apply pressure to Look and its parent company UBS," reads the press release.
"On Monday, April 9th, 2007, Look was informed that Rogers’ legal…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet and Rogers Wireless have announced a three-year agreement with the National Hockey League for the distribution of game highlights both on sportsnet.ca and on Rogers Wireless devices.
“Sportsnet is committed to delivering news, information and highlights on multiple platforms – on-air, on-line and wireless,” said Dave Akande, vice-president, content, Rogers Sportsnet. “This partnership with the NHL offers fans, especially those with allegiances to Canadian teams, an additional source to access the latest information.”
Rogers Sportsnet will provide much of the wireless content, including highlights from games involving the three Canadian clubs – Ottawa Senators, Calgary…
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VANCOUVER – John Munro, who retired as Rogers Cable’s chief marketing officer in 2006, died of a heart attack at his home in the Vancouver area on April 4th. He was 59.
In his last position at Rogers, Munro (pictured) was responsible for the day-to-day product management and the national marketing communications function, including advertising of all Rogers Cable products, all support marketing material and customer communications.
He also represented the cable side of the company on several inter-company initiatives including development and execution of the corporate master brand strategy, CRM and sponsorship development.
"John was…
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OVER 100,000 FOLKS from the global broadcast industry (including Cartt.ca) will descend on Las Vegas next week for the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention.
The five-plus-day event will feature what’s new in the electronic media world, including HDTV, IPTV, mobile TV, telco TV, digital radio, broadband video and audio – not to mention the thousands of new hardware and software developments that can be found among the exhibitors. These are the widgets that are the engine of any radio or TV station, of course.
Headliners at NAB 2007 include Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt, Microsoft TV’s Peter…
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TORONTO – Aivy Reinfelds has been promoted to vice-president television development and distribution at Rogers Media, taking over from Julie Osborne, who moved on to become associate publisher of another Rogers property, Maclean’s magazine.
The company altered the job somewhat since Osborne’s title was SVP affiliate sales and marketing, meaning Reinfelds will also be responsible for developing new TV concepts as well as his distribution role.
Reinfelds (pictured) begins his new position May 1st and no one has yet been named to take his place where he had been senior director, programming.
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TORONTO – Former Rogers Communications executive and current leader of Ontario’s Conservative Party John Tory is stepping back into the telecommunications world – at least briefly. He is giving the luncheon keynote speech on Monday, June 11 at the 2007 Canadian Telecom Summit.
The event, which runs until Wednesday, June 13 at the Toronto Congress Center, includes the participation of the telecommunications industry’s biggest names. Virgin Mobile Canada President and CEO Andrew Black, Motorola President and COO Greg Brown, Videotron President and CEO Robert Depatie, CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein, Mitel Chair Terence Matthews, Nortel CTO John Roese, Competition Bureau…
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TORONTO – The CBC has acquired the broadcast rights, including video streaming, to Toronto FC, Canada’s first Major League Soccer (MSL) club, it was announced Wednesday.
CBC Television will broadcast 14 regular season Toronto FC games, including the expansion franchise’s April 28 home opener against the Kansas City Wizards, while cbcsports.ca will video stream all of the CBC broadcasts live and on-demand.
Toronto FC and MLS highlights will be available on-demand over the Internet as well.
CBC Sports acquires the exclusive rights to the MLS Playoffs, MLS Cup and July 19 MLS All-Star Game in 2007 under the deal,…
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SO FAR, SO GOOD for wireless number portability, says Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association president and CEO Peter Barnes.
There have been few issues the association has had to solve since March 14, the day Canadians could take their phone number with them, no matter which telephony carrier they chose to acquire service.
A more contentious, far less decided matter, is the upcoming Industry Canada wireless spectrum auction. The association’s majority want a free, unfettered auction but certain factions want constraints on the existing players so that newcomers may bid for spectrum and win. The CWTA is even holding a…
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TORONTO – It was a an open secret in media circles, as many have reported, including Cartt.ca, but today it was made official: Rogers Communications has signed a deal to purchase the chain of A-Channel stations and other assets put on the block when CTVglobemedia acquired CHUM Ltd.
In officialspeak: "Rogers Broadcasting, a Rogers Media subsidiary, would acquire certain Canadian conventional and specialty television services from CTVglobemedia Inc. These assets are currently under the control of Mr. John D. McKellar, C.M., Q.C., Trustee under a Voting Trust Agreement in respect of CHUM Limited. CHUM Limited and Mr. McKellar…
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GATINEAU – Rogers Cable has asked the CRTC to consider adding College Sports Television to the list of eligible satellite services for digital distribution.
Owned by CBS, CSTV is a 24-hour network devoted exclusively to broadcasting college sports programming. It televises 35 men’s and women’s college sports, including football, basketball, baseball, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, wrestling and volleyball, from every major conference in the United States.
www.cstv.com www.crtc.gc.ca
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