TORONTO — After 30 years at Rogers Communications, Colette Watson (above) is stepping down as senior vice-president of television and broadcast operations for Rogers Sports and Media. Her last day at Rogers will be June 15, the company announced today.
“Colette has been an invaluable member of the Rogers team and a driving force behind industry change. Over her 30-year career, whether it was in cable, regulatory, or media, she consistently delivered under pressure, championed what’s right, and put the company first,” said Jordan Banks, president of Rogers Sports and Media, in the news release. “Faced with industry challenges,…
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TORONTO — For the next two weeks, Sportsnet will revisit some of the biggest moments from the Rogers Cup tournament, featuring Canadian tennis stars Bianca Andreescu and Denis Shapovalov, the broadcaster announced Monday.
This week, Rogers Cup Rewind will relive Andreescu’s 2019 championship run. Starting Monday night at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, Sportsnet will rebroadcast Andreescu’s first round matchup with Eugenie Bouchard on Sportsnet One and Sportsnet Now. On the following four nights, Sportsnet will continue with round-by-round coverage of the 2019 tournament, culminating Friday in Andreescu’s semifinal against American Sofia Kenin and her championship final victory over Serena…
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MONTREAL — Music service provider and broadcaster Stingray announced today its music TV channels Stingray Karaoke and Qello Concerts are now available on Rogers Ignite TV.
The two services will be available in free preview for Rogers Ignite TV customers until July 2 and after that, each costs $7.99 per month. Ignite TV customers can access the channels by saying “Stingray Karaoke” and “Stingray Qello” into their voice remote.
“We are excited to grow our partnership with Stingray and give Ignite TV customers access to even more curated music content across multiple channels,” said Eric Bruno, senior vice-president, 5G, content and…
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KELOWNA, B.C. — With this summer’s planned opening of Rogers’s new call centre in Kelowna delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the company has begun the virtual hiring of 350 new employees, who will work from home until the new complex can be opened safely.
As reported in September 2019, the new customer solution centre (pictured) will occupy 32,000 square feet on Dickson Avenue in Kelowna’s Landmark District.
Employees at the new centre are expected to handle approximately one million Rogers and Fido customer interactions each year, according to the news release. New employee roles for both Rogers and…
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GATINEAU — The CRTC now says it will expedite an application made by Rogers to review and vary the Commission’s decision in April which gave Bell more time to deploy one-way toll-free (TF) trunks between the two companies’ networks, as part of an ongoing dispute over toll-free call routing.
When the Commission posted the R&V application filed by Rogers to its website on May 27, it set June 26, 2020 as the deadline for interventions. The following day on May 28 in a procedural letter, the Commission revised the deadline to June 8 for interested parties to respond…
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TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays’ home stadium, the Rogers Centre, is being turned into a temporary food hamper sorting centre in support of Food Banks Canada’s Covid-19 response, Rogers Communications and the Jays Care Foundation announced Monday.
As part of the new Step Up to the Plate initiative, Rogers Centre will house 6,000 pallets containing 10 million pounds of food which will be sorted into food hampers on the field and delivered across the country to families in need. Each hamper will be filled with a variety of non-perishable food items, providing one individual with a week’s worth of…
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KELOWNA, B.C. – Canada’s first real-world 5G smart city solution is launching in Kelowna next week in a partnership between the city, Rogers Communications and University of British Columbia (UBC), the municipality announced Thursday.
Over the weekend of March 27, nearly 50 UBC students got together as part of a virtual hackathon to explore how new technologies and improved wireless connectivity could help Kelowna find ways to improve how people move around downtown and increase pedestrian and cyclist safety through design. One of the winning ideas from the hackathon is being implemented as a pilot project in downtown Kelowna, says…
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GATINEAU — Rogers has asked the CRTC to reverse its decision made in an April procedural letter that allowed Bell to delay deployment of one-way toll-free (TF) trunks between Bell’s network and Rogers’ network to carry TF traffic destined for Bell TF numbers until August 17, 2020.
In a review and vary application filed May 20, Rogers says it was given no notice the Commission intended to give Bell a deadline extension for deploying the TF trunks, which originally were to be installed by April 30, 2020. In an abridged copy of the application, Rogers says it will now…
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COWICHAN VALLEY, B.C. — Rogers Communications is working with Apple to provide iPads with free Rogers wireless data plans to students in Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Valley School District to support their educational needs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Along with three months of free LTE wireless data from Rogers, the iPads come pre-equipped with a suite of high-quality educational apps, the news release says. The initiative is designed to ensure equity in access to educational opportunities for students while in-class learning is suspended, while also allowing teachers to plan a more fulsome online educational experience, says the company. In addition, Apple…
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OTTAWA — Rogers announced Monday its personalized mobile retail experience, Rogers Pro On-the-Go, is now available in the nation’s capital.
The service has begun rolling out to Ottawa neighbourhoods and will expand throughout the nation’s capital in the coming weeks, says the news release (please see the Ottawa coverage map).
While Covid-19-related restrictions are starting to ease for businesses in Ontario and Canada’s telecom companies are slowly reopening some stores, the Rogers Pro On-the-Go service will continue to offer contactless phone delivery and remote set-up support, which the company introduced in March.
Customers choose the time and date most convenient for…
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