TORONTO – Rogers Cable added Phoenix North America Chinese Channel to its big list of multicultural programming today. The Commission approved the channel for addition to the eligible satellite list yesterday.
From now until January 1, 2006, Rogers Digital Cable customers can enjoy a free preview on channel 599 in Ontario.
Phoenix North America Chinese channel provides the latest news and entertainment television from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, 24-hours-a-day. Broadcast primarily in Mandarin, this Chinese-language channel delivers a complete variety of television entertainment, including movies, dramas, talk shows, game shows, family…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable announced this morning that it has added its 100,000th high definition television customer, doubling the amount it had in January of 2005.
As the holiday season moves into full swing, expectations of the number of HDTV sets to be sold are high. According to Eric Stockner, senior merchandise manager, televisions, for Future Shop, "HDTVs are the hot ticket item for the holidays this year and sales are expected to more than double from previous years."
Beginning today, Rogers now offers Raptors NBA TV HD on channel 506 which is Canada’s all-basketball, all-the-time channel. Each week…
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TORONTO – Digital TV customers will be able to call on four different seasonal music channels from Max Trax and Galaxie while they roast chestnuts and stuff stockings.
Beginning December 1, four of the combined 40 audio digital music services from Max Trax and Galaxie will offer listeners uninterrupted, commercial-free music across a range of formats.
Max Trax’s Holiday Hits channel features timeless and contemporary songs ranging from Sting’s I Saw Three Ships and Madonna’s Santa Baby to Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas and The Barenaked Ladies’ Green Christmas.
Max Trax’s Instrumental Holiday channel features seasonal standards…
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DARTMOUTH – Charlie Keating, a giant in the Canadian cable television industry – in all senses of the word – died of cancer Tuesday morning. He was 72.
Now, the term “larger than life” may seem a cliché to some, but there wasn’t one person contacted by www.cartt.ca on the passing of the founder of Dartmouth Cable TV (which later became Nova Scotia’s Access Communications) who didn’t use the term.
“He was a great industry individual and a great man in his own right,” said John Thomas, president of Delta Cable. “He was a remarkable man and a wonderful…
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ALVISO, Calif. – Independent PVR-maker TiVo Inc. announced Monday that customers will soon be able transfer recorded TV shows from their TiVo box to a PSP or Apple iPod portable digital video device.
The enhancement to the TiVoToGo feature will include exclusive capabilities such as TiVo auto-sync that will allow subscribers to choose if they want new recordings of their favorite programs easily transferred to their portable devices via their PC. Every morning the devices can be loaded with new programs recorded the night before.
"The increasing popularity of mobile devices for viewing video such as Apple’s iPod and…
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TORONTO – The Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing of Canada has announced its 2006 officers and board members following an election held in September 2005. The tabulation was completed by CTAM National in Alexandria, Virginia and approved by CTAM Canada members.
They are: Officers: President: Domenic Vivolo, SVP Marketing and Sales, Astral Television Networks Vice-President: Shelley Blaine-Goodman, VP Canada, A&E Television Networks Secretary: Jean-Pierre Caveen, Director Affiliate Relations, Cogeco Cable Treasurer: Chris Fuoco, VP Affiliate Marketing, Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting
Board Members: Harris Boyd, Industry Relations, Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association Hawley Chester, Director – Canadian Sales & Marketing, Speed Channel…
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TORONTO – When Maclean’s magazine was able to buy the supposedly confidential phone records of Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, and publish a cover story last week on what looks like a potentially scary security loophole, the big three wireless carriers – all of whom were mentioned in the article – sprang into action.
And, with each company counting on huge wireless growth in the Christmas season and throughout 2006 and 2007 (all companies saw record levels of subscriber growth in 2005) all moved quickly to try and repair the damage.
First out of the gate was Bell Canada….
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SAN JOSE, Calif., and LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – Saying this deal will completes Cisco’s end-to-end triple play solution for networks and the home, telecommunications manufacturer Cisco Systems has agreed to purchase cable equipment maker Scientific-Atlanta for US$6.9 billion.
The combined entity creates an enormous end-to-end triple play solution for carrier networks and the digital home.
It also increases certain MSOs exposure to Cisco because many also operate Cisco CMTS’s to run their VOIP and Internet backend. In Canada, Videotron and Rogers Cable are the only two widely-deployed users of Scientific Atlanta technology. The rest of the Canadian industry is Motorola-based….
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REDMOND, Wash., and LOUISVILLE, Colo. – An agreement announced Wednesday between Microsoft and CableLabs means Microsoft’s dream of easily delivering high-quality TV signals to PCs is right around the corner.
The world’s biggest software company and the North American cable industry’s research and development organization today announced they have reached an agreement that will allow Microsoft and PC manufacturers to bring to market digital-cable-ready Windows Media Center-based PCs in the holiday 2006 time frame.
These Media Center PCs, capable of supporting a CableCARD module, will allow consumers to enjoy one-way cable programming, including premium high-definition cable content, on their…
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OTTAWA – Both Rogers and Shaw Cable have applied to the CRTC again to alter the rules surrounding local ad avail time on U.S. cable channels.
Currently, American channels such as CNN, A&E, The Golf Channel and others make two minutes an hour available for cable companies to sell local availability time. In the U.S., it’s a multi-billion-dollar sales industry.
In Canada, MSOs are not allowed to sell the time by the CRTC. They must give 75% of the time to Canadian specialty channels (who have to also pay MSO costs) and to use the remaining 25% to promote…
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