CALGARY – Rogers Cable and Yellow Pages Group are part of a pilot project with Calgary company Call Genie to test a voice-activated, business search feature available through the 411 directory assistance service offered by Rogers Home Phone.
In the test, Rogers’ wireline callers are given the option to find a business listing using the interactive Yellow Pages directory automated process. The majority of 411 callers use directory assistance to search for business listings. Most of those callers have a specific business name in mind, but may also be interested in other business listings within a particular geographic area….
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TORONTO – Rogers Digital will be the first carrier to offer MHD, a dedicated high-definition classics movie channel from Astral Media. MHD will offer select HD simulcasts of programming from The Movie Network’s classics movie channels Mpix and Mescape.
Programming on MHD consists of films five years or older ranging from Mpix’s suspense, thriller and action-packed movies to the quality drama and light-hearted entertainment found on Mescape. MHD is currently available at no additional cost in an uncut and commercial-free environment to Rogers Digital Cable subscribers in eastern Canada.
“As the first high-definition classics movie channel…
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TORONTO – NTV Canada has been added to Rogers Cable’s big list of multicultural programming.
For a limited time, Rogers Digital Cable customers can enjoy a free preview of NTV Canada on channel 634 in Ontario.
NTV Canada is a Russian-language channel which broadcasts original NTV programming from Moscow and Canada. The channel offers seven daily live news broadcasts from Russia, a variety of feature films, TV serials, popular game shows and analyses of Russian/European soccer as well as local Canadian news and programming of interest to Russian Canadians.
With the addition of NTV Canada, Rogers continues to offer…
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CHUM WILL BE SOLD. Shaw, too. Telus will buy Bell. Foreign ownership rules will be abolished. CRTC regs, too.
Now those are some seriously fearless predictions for the new year. They’re all poppycock, too. Made ’em up (although a couple could happen).
The slowdown time during the 14 days or so around Christmas and New Years (and Hanukkah, too), coupled with the fact that a new year is beginning, spawns all sorts of lists and predictions and reviews in the media. I didn’t want to be left out, but I didn’t want to try to add to the M&A…
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WINNIPEG – Rogers Media Television will launch its recently acquired broadcast license, a faith-based service to be named, of course, OMNI TV Manitoba – on Monday, February 6th.
OMNI TV Manitoba is the newly branded, newly licensed television station resulting from Rogers’ 2005 purchase of NOW TV from the Thiessen family and the subsequent approval by the CRTC (Decision Public Notion 2005-207).
It had been scheduled to launch in November but was put off until the new year.
"This is an exciting time for the Rogers OMNI Television family as well as the Canadian broadcasting industry," said Leslie Sole,…
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HALIFAX – Maritime cable company EastLink is joining Cybertip.ca’s national awareness campaign designed to combat online sexual exploitation.
EastLink currently displays information about the initiative on its web site (www.eastlink.ca) and is committed to airing public service announcements (PSA’s) on its local television station, EastLink Television.
Cybertip.ca is Canada’s national tip line for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. It also provides the public with information, referrals and other resources to help Canadians keep their children safe while on the Internet.
EastLink and other members of the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA) are supporting the national…
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OF COURSE, UNLESS I CRAWL into the head of JR Shaw and probe his synapses – or see him in a law firm signing documents with Michael Sabia – neither I nor anyone else can answer the question in the headline.
Same goes with all of the Canadian media and cable companies, actually, all of which are controlled by their founding families. No one can really know what’s going on until it happens. Hostile takeovers are impossible.
But, the rumors surrounding Shaw Communications have reached a fever pitch over the past few months. They’re too loud to ignore. In…
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TORONTO – Many of the folks who do the heavy lifting and tell their companies where to go when it comes to digital broadcasting in Canada are headlining the Canadian Satellite Users Association’s annual summit.
The Canadian Digital Broadcasting Summit is set for January 30 to February 1 at the Holiday Inn on King in Toronto. In past years it’s been a very informative event, where the speakers aren’t really the CEOs, but the ones in charge of digital with their respective companies.
This year, www.cartt.ca is a media sponsor of the event.
Bandwidth, Plant Operations, Tapeless Distribution, Orbital…
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TORONTO – Just days after launching on Bell ExpressVu, Rogers Cable has added New Delhi Television to its digital lineup.
New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV Ltd.) is India’s leading 24 hour news channel with news, views and updates from India and around the world.
It’s owned by ATN in Canada.
With the addition of New Delhi Television, Rogers continues to offer the most multicultural programming in 20 different languages on 41 multicultural channels.
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TORONTO – Nortel announced Tuesday it has selected a Toronto location for its new global headquarters.
The decision confirms the company’s “commitment to remain within the financial capital of Canada and one of the top five most livable cities in the world according to the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit,” says the press release.
Nortel will establish its headquarters at 195 The West Mall, an 11 storey, approximately 160,000 square foot building in the west end of the city.
Nortel recently sold its Brampton HQ to Rogers Communications for $100 million.
"As we head into a new chapter in Nortel’s…
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