TORONTO – On Wednesday, May 4, 14 Rogers Broadcasting Radio Stations across Canada joined forces to raise awareness and funds for The Canadian Women’s Foundation, an organization that works to stop violence against women and children.
According to the foundation, every minute a woman in Canada is abused
"This was the first time in Canadian history that a national radiothon addressed the issue of ending violence against women," said Julie Adam, general manager and program director, CHFI. "We are thankful to our listeners across the country for donating to such a necessary cause.”
In Toronto, 98.1 CHFI played host…
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WASHINGTON – Stressing he does not know what the CRTC’s voice over IP decision will be, Bell Canada Enterprises CEO Michael Sabia said today that if it reads the way he thinks it will, the company will immediately appeal it to the Federal Cabinet.
Speaking at a media and telecom conference this morning in Washington, Sabia said he believes the Commission will side against the incumbent telephone companies (ILECs) and maintain certain regulatory restrictions on the likes of Bell Canada and Telus when it comes to voice over Internet telephony.
The CRTC’s VOIP decision is due out sometime next…
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HAVING COVERED THE Cable, radio, television and telecom markets for well over seven years now, you could say I was inspired.
I’ve written about so many entrepreneurs who gambled and won (and a few who gambled and lost, too) that I suppose it had to rub off on me.
Warning, blatant self-promotion now follows.
So, on Monday, May 2 at 4:13 p.m., www.cartt.ca went live and on Tuesday, our first-ever newsletter went out filled with original stories you…
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TORONTO – The owner of Pridevision TV and OUTtv says he may be forced to take Shaw Communications to court over what he says is unfair carriage of one of his channels by the large western cable company.
At issue is the way category one digital service OUTtv is being packaged on Shaw Digital Cable.
A little background: At launch and through its first years of existence, Pridevision was the category one (i.e. digital must-carry) gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered channel. It had lifestyle programming in the daytime and prime time hours and adult movies after hours.
At launch,…
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REGINA – Saskatchewan cable co-op Access Communications received a National Community Champion Award from the Canadian Cancer Society this week.
The award is given to corporations who have made a considerable contribution to the fight against cancer in more than one community. Past recipients include Husky Oil and Rogers Cable.
For the past four years the co-operative has been the event sponsor of Regina’s Relay For Life, an annual 12-hour marathon held to raise awareness and funds for the Canadian Cancer Society. Access7, the co-operative’s local community channel has broadcast the event live to it’s centers across the province…
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TORONTO – A nature-obsessed fourteen-year-old girl observes and documents the behaviour of human specimens at her high school in Naturally, Sadie, a new live-action comedy series for tweens making its premiere on Family on Saturday, June 25 at 6 p.m. ET/PT.
An original series with 26 half-hour episodes, Naturally, Sadie is produced by DECODE Entertainment (Radio Free Roscoe) in association with Family Channel.
According to the release: Wanna-be naturalist Sadie Hawthorne (Charlotte Arnold) looks for and finds amazing things to analyze all around her. But at her school, R.B. Bennett High (which makes it a definitely Canadian show), Sadie…
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TORONTO – While the CRTC has only just gathered opinions on how digital migration of specialty services might happen, Rogers Communications and six other programmers have already hammered out their own framework.
The new deal, called “historic” last week by RCI CEO Ted Rogers, outlines how the country’s largest cable company and the six biggest broadcasters will handle the migration of analog specialty services to digital. It was submitted to the CRTC under its call for proposals for a digital migration framework, PN 2005-1.
RCI vice-chairman Phil Lind, along with Rogers, first met with the chief executives of Alliance…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet announced today it has added 15 more Toronto Blue Jays road games to its Sportsnet HD schedule beginning with a trip to Cleveland to face the Indians Saturday, May 14 at 1 p.m. (ET).
That brings the channel’s total HD events between May and the end of August to 107.
The 15 road games added to the Sportsnet HD schedule feature: * Three against the Boston Red Sox (July 1-3) * Three versus the Baltimore Orioles (August 12-14) * Two against the New York Yankees (August 22 and 25)
With the additional 15 games in…
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TORONTO – The whole Rogers Communications campus is rather wrapped up in four little letters these days: VOIP.
Both 333 Bloor St. E and One Mount Pleasant are buzzing as the company gets set to launch its brand new voice over Internet protocol product in July. It’s the latest addition to the Rogers bundles and adds a crucial fourth tentacle to the company’s wireless, video and data offerings.
What’s newest about this product is that, according to company CEO Ted Rogers, one option will combine the wired and wireless phone. Think about it. One handset that acts as your…
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OTTAWA – Serendipitously gathered together on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Rogers WAVE, the first North American high speed Internet on cable service, SCTE-Ontario members heard first hand that if traffic isn’t managed smartly, cable services, VOIP especially, will suffer.
About 100 of the chapter’s 400+ members came together at the Ottawa Travelodge West last Thursday and www.cartt.ca was there.
John Downey, broadband network engineer at Cisco; Tony Faccia, vice-president networks and capacity planning at Rogers Cable; Tom Donnelly, co-founder and v-p sales and marketing at Sandvine; and Lindsay Schroth of research company Yankee Group all made…
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