TORONTO – Mobile production and transmission service company Dome Productions recently rolled Trillium out of the garage, its third high definition multi-format mobile production truck.
All three of the company’s HD trucks were designed and integrated in house by Dome Engineering for spring launches in each of the last three years (Majestic in March 2004, Horizon in May 2005 and Trillium in April 2006).
"These successive launches have allowed us to fine-tune and adapt design, equipment and efficiencies based on experiences with preceding trucks and the changing needs of clients and new markets," says Mary Ellen Carlyle, senior vice-president and…
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TORONTO – Rogers Wireless has integrated the technology of another Canadian company, Virtual Reach, into the service package available to its customers.
On Wednesday, the two companies announced the launch of Rogers Newsclip, an application used for accessing Internet based data, content and related media from mobile devices and phones using RSS technology.
With Rogers Newsclip, Rogers Wireless customers, roaming in Canada and in over 80 countries, will now have mobile access to Internet content and media without having to use a mobile browser. It will feature a vast array of topics including business news, stock quotes, technology blogs,…
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SAN ANTONIO – U.S. telco AT&T and wireless video provider MobiTV announced an agreement this week to deliver mobile television content across AT&T’s nationwide Wi-Fi network.
The service will enable AT&T customers to view live television on their laptops or other devices while connected to one of AT&T’s Wi-Fi hot spots.
The MobiTV service on AT&T (formerly SBC) includes 15 channels spanning national news, sports, entertainment and full-length music videos from top artists. The deal helps further enhance one of the nation’s largest Wi-Fi networks by offering differentiated broadband-enabled content that consumers are increasingly demanding, say the two companies….
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OTTAWA – Jason MacDonald was named chief of staff for CBC Television this week. He replaces Ian Alexander, who has moved to the learning and development department at the Corp.
MacDonald has worked at CBC since 2002, most recently as director of public relations and operations for corporate communications in Ottawa. Before that, he had a career as a communications officer and journalist with various organizations in Montreal and Toronto, including Rogers Media.
"I’ve been very impressed by Jason’s strong strategic skills and his ability to perform well under pressure," said CBC TV’s executive vice-president Richard Stursberg, in a…
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WE ALL KNOW SUN TV (formerly Toronto 1) has had a terribly rough go of it since its launch in September of 2003.
Maybe the CRTC shouldn’t have granted a license for this one. Craig Media got it, went deep into debt to launch it – so deep it had to sell the whole company to get out of it. So, CHUM Ltd. bought Craig, keeping the A-Channels and selling off the new Toronto stick to Quebecor Media – owners of the super-popular broadcaster TVA in Quebec – and a company which has been looking for a way into…
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OTTAWA – Wireless growth fed Canadian telecom companies through 2005, especially since mobile users are much better spenders than wired accounts, says a report put out today by Statistics Canada.
Two events stood out in the telecommunications services industry in 2005, says the release, the number of wireless subscribers passed the 16 million mark and the number of conventional residential telephone lines dipped below 12 million.
The wireless industry (with providers like Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility, Telus, MTS, Sasktel, Aliant and Virgin Mobile) recruited more than 650,000 new customers in the last quarter of 2005, bringing the total number…
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TORONTO – With a new collection of MP3 and video phones and exclusive content, Rogers Wireless is pushing its World Cup coverage hard – just in time for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany.
Rogers Wireless has signed a broadcast agreement with Infront Sports & Media, FIFA’s* worldwide electronic media distribution partner for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, to be the exclusive Canadian carrier of Official Mobile Video for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, kicking off on Friday, June 9 in Germany.
Soccer fans will have access to exciting mobile content including near-live video alerts, video highlights of the…
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TORONTO – Media investors will have to watch for new ticker symbols beginning next Monday.
The changes are being made as part of a broader symbol change initiative announced by the TSX under which it is modifying the ticker symbols previously assigned for approximately 150 of its listings.
For example, with Rogers Communications, RCI.B will replace the current ticker symbol RCI.NV.B for the Class B shares and RCI.A will replace the current ticker symbol RCI.MV.A for the Class A shares. It will be understood that the Class B shares are "Non-Voting" while the Class A shares are "Multiple Voting"….
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OTTAWA – Rogers Cable has asked the CRTC for permission to offer satellite radio services Sirius Canada and XM Canada to its digital cable customers.
Rogers requires a license amendment to add the new audio products to its channel lineups in all of its systems in Canada.
"The licensee proposes to amend its licences to authorize these cable systems to distribute one or both of the audio programming services offered by Canada’s two satellite subscription radio undertakings," says the Rogers application.
"Rogers also considered that the addition of one or both of these services to its digital offering would…
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OTTAWA – The new Federal Cabinet wants the CRTC to revisit last year’s voice over Internet protocol decision.
As reported on numerous occasions by www.cartt.ca, the CRTC decided last year to maintain its position that voice, even delivered via IP, is still telephone service. What that meant was that incumbent telcos still faced some regulatory shackles (like having to file for tariffs) while newcomers, such as cable operators or VOIP providers like Vonage would have a freer hand.
Canada’s ILECs – most of them anyway – appealed the decision.
In governmentspeak: "The Governor in Council (GIC) has referred…
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