OTTAWA – In a submission which generally backs a cable company’s request to use the local avail ad time to market its telephony and high speed Internet products along with programming services, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters has also asked the CRTC for more cost clarity.
An intervention filed with the Commission last week mostly supports an application made by Halifax-based MSO EastLink to expand what the broadcast distribution regulations say can be promoted during the so-called "local availability" time on American cable channels. Those channels (like CNN, A&E and The Golf Channel) make two minutes per hour of…
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TORONTO – Garfield Emerson, the chair of the Rogers Communications Inc. board of directors, is resigning as chairman after 13 years in the position, the company announced today.
Emerson, who is also stepping down as a director, is being replaced by Alan Horn, currently RCI’s chief financial officer, as a director and the chair of the board. Horn will be replaced as CFO by Bill Linton, who is currently Rogers’ executive vice president.
RCI also announced that current board member Peter Godsoe will become the board’s lead director.
Ted Rogers paid tribute to Emerson. “Gar has been an excellent…
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TORONTO – Citytv will air its flagship shows, including BreakfastTelevision, in high definition starting this September.
The station will show BreakfastTelevision, Toronto’s top-rated morning show, along with CityLine, CityNews at Noon, CityNews at Six, and CityNews at 11 in HD, becoming what it says is the first daily newscast in Canada to be in high def.
Citytv is available in HD on Rogers (channel 134) and Bell ExpressVu (channel 803).
Parent company CHUM says it’s committed to increasing its HD content, through initiatives such as the MuchMusicVideoAwards, shown in HD in 2004 and 2005, and the 2005 Genie Awards….
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable has added CHUM Television’s MuchMusic VJ Search to its on demand stable of titles.
Rogers Digital Cable customers in Ontario are now able to watch all episodes of VJ Search from the beginning – when they want and anytime of the day – with new episodes added weekly to Rogers On Demand, channel 100.
The new platform adds another way to see the show. Last month, CHUM made VJ Search available to download for free on www.muchmusic.com and became one of the first broadcasters in Canada to offer a downloadable version of one of its programs…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications has signed a contract to provide a fully managed high-speed Internet protocol virtual private network with the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
The IP VPN will enable point-of-sale processing at all of its 600 retail stores across Ontario. Rogers will also provide wireless GPRS network access to augment the IP VPN cable-based network facilities to ensure a high degree of reliability and redundancy as part of this three-year, multi-million dollar contract.
“The Rogers high-speed network was installed in several of our busiest stores just in time to handle a record volume of sales in December…
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FORMER ROGERS EXECUTIVE Len Katz has been overseeing the restructuring and re-organization of the administrative functions of the CRTC.
As reported by www.cartt.ca, the Commission’s processes have been streamlined and the structure from which it works, remodeled. A new "centre pod" of oversight that will examine new technologies, help navigate the paths upon which those technologies lead us, and help bring together the telecom and broadcast portions of this converged industry, has been created. Some in the industry will say it’s long overdue. Others will chafe at the changes because one of those alterations means that…
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TORONTO – Download speeds for Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet Express service will soon go from 3 to 5 megabits per second (Mbps), giving customers 60% more speed when downloading content, for no extra cost.
This increase in speed will allow Rogers customers to do more of what they want even faster than before such as downloading games and viewing movie trailers, says the press release.
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BURNABY, B,C. – Wireless Wave/The Telephone Booth retail owner Glentel Inc. announced Friday will soon launch a new retail wireless presence – a store-in-store concept for large national retailers who want to sell wireless products and services in their stories.
Since November of 2005, Glentel’s retail group, working with a national big-box retailer it didn’t name, has successfully opened three store-in-store kiosks trading as "Wireless Etc…" in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia.
In the next 45 days, under this new retail banner Glentel plans to open an additional four stores in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario….
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AS AN UNABASHED OLYMPICS FAN and a Winter Olympic nut (two-man luge, anyone?) I knew what I wanted during Torino 2006: The Samsung a920.
That was the little navy blue handset that Bell Canada’s beavers, Frank and Gordon talked soooo much about during their many, many, many appearances during the Olympics last month. So, I begg, er, asked the nice folks at Bell if I could test one during the Olympics. Happily, they obliged.
In a deal with the CBC, Bell was offering the Corp.’s live feed of the Olympics on the handset, as well as numerous pre-packaged features…
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OTTAWA – On International Woman’s Day, the Canadian Women in Communications honored their award winners and took the wrapper off a brand new look (right) at its annual gala here in Ottawa Wednesday evening.
The evening was the first industry engagement and speaking appearance for new Heritage Minister Bev Oda and new Industry Minister Maxime Bernier and the event drew its usual who’s who of the communications industry.
A former CWC board chair, Minister Oda, before presenting the Trailblazer Award to Sasktel’s Sandy Larson, lauded the CWC’s efforts in promoting leadership among women in…
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