TORONTO – Four CHUM Ltd. channels which are thought to be tailor made for wireless viewing (i.e. – their content is already in small chunks of entertainment and information) have been added to the MobiTV Canada lineup.
Customers of Rogers Wireless, Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility will now have access to MuchMusic, MuchLoud, MuchMoreRetro and Star!
MobiTV Inc. is a leader in television and digital radio services for cellular, WiFi and broadband enabled devices, however, it has reported only 500,000 customers world wide so far. The CHUM channels offer music videos and music news (the "Muches") and entertainment…
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TORONTO – The move won’t help Canadian subscriptions to the NFL Network for the next few years, but TSN’s latest programming addition will make more NFL games widely available in Canada.
Today, TSN and the National Football League announced the network has secured exclusive Canadian rights to the NFL’s Thursday/Saturday eight-game regular season broadcast package, beginning this season and continuing through 2008 (which means the games on the NFL Network will be blacked out in Canada).
Stateside, the league has kept these games for itself, and will be airing them on its own NFL Network, which is available in…
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MISSISSAUGA – The SCTE Ontario chapter is looking for speakers for its fall meeting, to be held Thursday, October 12, 2006 in Mississauga. The theme of the meeting will be: Testing and Troubleshooting Advanced Cable Networks.
The chapter is inviting anyone with unique skills or procedures for testing and troubleshooting some aspect of HFC plant and services to share that unique knowledge gained during a career in broadband cable telecommunications with your fellow members.
Potential participants are invited to provide a one paragraph description of what they would like to talk about in a 15 to 30 minute presentation…
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THE CREATORS OF ICRAVETV.COM (remember that?) predicted, just by launching their web streaming service in 1999, that the momentum pushing TV programming off the tube and onto the net – and beyond – was unstoppable.
Although they hadn’t sorted out licensing and rights issues before making online streaming a tantalizing, if forbidden, fruit, the service was too far ahead of their time.
That time is now.
Content producers of all kinds are on the cusp of a frenzied push to move digital video beyond TV, to make greater use than ever of Internet-based broadband channels, and to go further,…
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MISSISSAUGA – Tuesday morning’s topic was plant powering. About what works best and most efficiently – and how to work safely.
The afternoon was concentrated on trying to put a little white ball into a slightly larger white hole – otherwise known as golf.
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Ontario chapter’s annual golf tournament is growing in popularity and this year 148 members came to Mississauga’s Lionhead Golf Course for the event on July 25th.
Rogers Cable’s Vasile Jerca was first to speak on HFC outside plant powering. Thomas Humphrey of APC’s topic was about essential power requirements for…
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ALVISO, Calif. – Digital video recorder pioneer TiVo said this week it has created TiVo Audience Research and Measurement (ARM), a division of the company which will offer advertisers and advertising agencies, for the first time, second-by-second data and analysis on DVR viewing of advertising content.
"TiVo’s commercial viewership reports provide advertisers an unrivaled, comprehensive and detailed look at how commercial content is viewed and consumed on a second-by-second basis," said Tom Rogers, president and CEO, TiVo. "Through our unique technology, in households serving 4.4 million subscribers, and our close co-operation with advertisers and advertising agencies, we have developed…
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THE TECHNOLOGY IS the easy part. Everything else is maybe just a bit frustrating.
The regulatory landscape for voice over Internet protocol, Vonage Canada’s raison d’etre, may be changing underfoot and the company has had its share of scrapes with incumbent telcos and cable companies. A particularly bitter one with Shaw Communications is still active in the courts and in front of the Commission, as we’ve reported.
Through it all, Vonage’s chief Canadian executive, president Bill Rainey, seems pretty upbeat. The former Group Telecom and Telus executive and manager is convinced he can beat the bundle being…
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TORONTO – Mobisodes from TVOntario and its French language counterpart TFO are now available to Bell Mobility, Telus, Rogers Wireless, Aliant, Sasktel and MTS cellular customers.
Thanks to a partnership with Toronto’s QuickPlay Media, a company which is quickly ascending to the leadership spot among Canadian broadcasters wanting to go wireless, kids and parents will be able to stream or download an array of kids content from TVO/TFO anytime, anywhere on their mobile phones.
The partnership provides French-speaking teens, traditionally underserved in the mobile market, the opportunity to view mobisodes of TFO’s award-winning youth magazine show, Volt, the first…
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BOSTON – The future weighed heavily on the minds of marketers at this week’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing Summit held in Boston Monday to Wednesday. ********** At first glance, having the vice-president of product marketing from Neustar – a third party provider of local telephone number portability for network operators – seemed a bit of a stretch. But, said John Ticer, he’s in a unique position, having to deal with wireless, wired, VOIP and cable telephony providers and make their systems talk to one another.
Each of those networks and their companies were developed "in stovepipes" aimed at…
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TORONTO – BBM released its latest round of radio ratings Monday afternoon, and the pecking order was shuffled a little in Toronto and Vancouver.
The A12+ top line results show Q107 in Toronto moving up into third place with a 7.0 share (up from last year’s S2 survey result of 6.4), behind Rogers’ CHFI (8.6) and CHUM FM’s 8.8. EZ Rock dropped to fourth at 6.9, down from 7.3 in the S2 2005 book.
In Vancouver, perennial ratings leader CKNW (Corus) is showing some serious weakness. It still rates as the top station in the market at a 10.3 share,…
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