TORONTO – A story in today’s National Post which said Rogers Communications made a friendly, informal, $9.3 billion all-share offer to purchase Shaw Communications is wrong.
A terse two-sentence release put out by Rogers this morning says: "The purported meeting and offer described in the story did not occur."
Shortly after noon today, Shaw put out its own firm denial. "The Shaw Family has advised the company that it is not in discussions with any party to sell its controlling interest in the company. The purported meeting and offer described in the National Post story did not occur."
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications today filed a lawsuit with the Federal Court of Canada over Bell Mobility’s recent run of TV and print advertising Rogers says “crosses the line” and is damaging to its brand.
“Bell has run a series of ads over the past year, the most recent of which, we felt, were too much,” John Boynton, Rogers Communications senior vice-president and chief marketing officer told www.cartt.ca this afternoon. The most recent ad that he – and the lawsuit – points to is the TV spot about Bell Mobility’s wireless speed capabilities where the Bell cheetah eats the…
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TORONTO – Rogers Wireless customers now have access to more than 1,500 podcasts, covering a range of topics, thanks to a new arrangement announced this week by the wireless company and Melodeo.
The Rogers Podcast Service, North America’s first mobile podcast service, will feature news and sports, comedy and music. The catalogue of podcasts is updated throughout the day as new feeds are received, bringing fresh content to subscribers continually.
Rogers Podcast Service can be accessed on subscribers’ cell phones through the Rogers Wireless navigate mobile Internet portal, within the GET INFO category.
"Rogers Podcast Service allows our customers…
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THIS YEAR’S BANFF WORLD TELEVISION FESTIVAL, June 11-14, 2006 at the Fairmount Banff Springs in Banff, Alberta is about getting plugged into the industry.
From the opening day-long session led by Kit Readman and Micki Rogers on how to pitch an idea, to Rick Mercer’s town hall meeting on the landscape of Canadian television on the last day, the festival is all about getting in the know, getting known and well, getting a deal.
“The Festival provides unique opportunities to connect with the industry, create new business and help define future trends,” says the festival’s Director of Content Jennifer…
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OTTAWA – American radio host Don Imus earned a rebuke from the CRTC on Friday thanks to comments made during his show on MSNBC Canada in the fall of 2004.
MSNBC Canada no longer exists, however MSNBC is on the eligible satellite list and Imus in the Morning is MSNBC’s 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. morning program.
The CRTC says it received over 100 complaints about comments made on the November 12 and November 19, 2004 programs. Shaw, Rogers and MSNBC, which owned Canadian version of the channel, shut it down later that month for economic reasons.
Imus and his co-hosts…
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SINCE WWW.CARTT.CA WAS IN Vancouver a couple of weeks back, we decided to drop in on Paul Fisher, the executive vice-president and cluster market manager for Rogers Radio in the city.
Having moved west two years ago after a very successful stint as general manager of then-Toronto market leader CHFI, we wanted to ask Fisher about the differences in the two big-city markets (why does Jack FM work so well in Vancouver and not Toronto?), the similarities (News 1130 in Vancouver is built off the successful 680 News template from Toronto) and how Rogers’ newest brand, Clear FM is…
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TORONTO – Both TSN and CBC today announced an enormous slate of Winter Olympic programming beginning February 10th at 1 p.m.
Keying this year’s coverage is 39 hours of HD programming out of over 1,000 hours of live and taped coverage. This will be disappointing for those with HD sets, who will likely tune into NBC, which is carrying far more of its Olympic coverage in high definition. NBC’s Olympic programming is being shot and produced in HD and downconverted to SD when required.
New this year, however, is CBC’s deal with Bell Canada, which will see results and…
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TORONTO – Media planning and buying for Rogers Wireless, Rogers Cable, Rogers Telecom and Rogers Media, will continue to be done by MBS, thanks to a new agreement announced Thursday,
The new deal is effective immediately. MBS will work closely with Publicis, Rogers’ Advertising Agency of Record, to plan and execute the company’s media plans.
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TORONTO – Counting donated air time, private Canadian radio stations contributed more than $238 million in the 2005 broadcast year to charitable initiatives.
Efforts ranged from a single station’s campaign in North Bay, Ont., to help raise money for a boy’s life-saving heart transplant, to international disasters such as Southeast Asian tsunami relief, says the press release from Canadian Broadcast Sales (CBS), a national sales firm owned by Rogers Communications and Corus Entertainment, representing approximately 60% of all national Canadian radio revenue.
In response to a request from CBS, 103 of its client stations responded with details of charitable…
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CABLE OPERATORS STILL (privately, mostly) grouse about the 10-cent fee increase the CRTC granted the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network last summer.
As reported by www.cartt.ca, the Commission granted APTN its license renewal on August 31st, and along with that, boosted the fee pass-through from 15 cents to 25 cents per sub per month. That’s a lot of extra money (over $12 million more).
While the distributors soft-pedaled their opposition somewhat and didn’t raise much of a stink when the decision was made public because it’s a bit of a political hot potato, their message was clear: They didn’t think…
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