REGINA – NFL Network, the 24/7 all National Football League channel, was launched this week by Access Communications.
Access customers in Regina with a digital cable package will automatically receive NFL Network on channel 98 at no additional cost.
This is in addition to the three Rogers Sportsnet regional channels and 40 commercial-free music channels the co-operative’s digital customers already enjoy at no charge, says the company’s release.
"Sports fans are a passionate group – especially football fans. When NFL Network launched in the U.S. in 2003, we immediately heard from our customers that this was a channel they…
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MONTREAL – On Saturday, in the streets and on television and the Internet, Rogers Wireless and MusiquePlus will be asking one question: Where is Roger? and giving away 1,000 new phones.
The two companies have organized Québec’s largest scavenger hunt: Où est Roger!?. To launch the new Pay As You Go Motorola V186P MusiquePlus Edition phone, Rogers will have young people from across Québec searching for Roger.
On Saturday September 17th, the Où est Roger!? scavenger hunt will be held simultaneously in 54 cities for 12 hours, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Participate live online at www.ouestroger.com….
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TORONTO – The Ontario Hockey League, along with Rogers Cable and Cogeco Cable today announced the 2005-06 broadcast schedule of games for the OHL Action Pak.
The schedule includes an unprecedented 439 game broadcasts through the 2005-06 regular season schedule. Additional broadcasts will be announced during the 2006 OHL Playoffs.
The OHL Action Pak on Rogers and Cogeco was introduced last November and offers Digital Cable subscribers throughout Ontario and New Brunswick with more Ontario Hockey League game coverage than ever before.
In addition to the OHL Action Pak, live OHL broadcasts of local games can be seen live…
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TORONTO – 680News reporter Scott Simpson is moving to Halifax as a key on-air host for Rogers Media’s newest radio stations.
He’ll be a drive-time guy in Halifax, according to some on-air 680 banter this morning, where it was announced he’s leaving. Rogers is opening three new radio stations this fall in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Known for his often off-beat stories on the station, Simpson joined Rogers’ 680News in early 1994 while a student at Ryerson University’s Radio & Television Arts program, says his bio on the station’s web site.
“He eschews sesquipedalian verbiage with a…
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TORONTO – While the service has been quietly in the market for some weeks now, Rogers Communications yesterday launched its channel line up on the Rogers Mobile Television platform in Canada.
Effective immediately, customers who purchase Rogers Mobile Television will have real-time access to live television programming, including exclusive access to international news and information channel BBC World, MSNBC, CNBC, Indie Music Videos 24/7, and live Toronto Blue Jays coverage from Rogers Sportsnet right on the display screen of their Rogers Wireless device.
The full line up of channels available are: CBC Newsworld, RDI, The Weather Network, MétéoMédia, MSNBC,…
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TORONTO – After 30 years of corporate, organizational, monetary and media support of the Toronto International Flim Festival, Rogers Communications has been basically bumped from future sponsorship participation.
Bell Canada signed a $35 million deal last week for naming rights on the new theatre which will be built for the festival, sources told www.cartt.ca. The 12-year deal stipulates that Bell be the lone telecom sponsor at the festival, so Rogers is out.
As well, Jan Innes (RCI’s vice-president of communications) will lose her spots on the board of directors, where she has sat for nine years.
Bell has also…
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TORONTO – Sonic hit the shelves this week, a new music magazine developed by Max Trax, Galaxie and Toronto-based ad agency ZiG. It’s a free bilingual consumer publication “for music lovers with a thirst for knowledge and a desire to constantly expand their music collection,” says the press release. Sonic (Volume I, Issue I, at right) will be distributed to all Canadian cable and satellite providers beginning the week of September 12.
The 20-page premiere issue features rock icons U2 on the cover, as well as articles looking at seven genres of music found throughout the…
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TORONTO – While saying that Rogers Home Phone has had a good first two months in the market (but declining to provide numbers), Rogers Cable president Edward Rogers is still hopeful the company can work with other Canadian MSOs.
During the opening morning of the BMO Nesbitt Burns Media and Telecom conference on Tuesday, Rogers said, “we’re pleased with the results that we’re seeing,” from its telephony launch. Rogers hit the ground running though, with 600,000 or so existing Sprint Canada customers thanks to its purchase of Call Net in June.
“We’re seeing a very healthy response from customers,”…
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THIS IS A BIG JOB. No wonder Rogers Communications Group’s president and COO Nadir Mohamed doesn’t want to talk about succession. He’s got lots on his plate to worry about now, rather than what his next job might be.
Besides, last week’s National Post Business article beat that story to death (and then some) last week.
What we wanted to know is where the company’s priorities lay. What’s job one for him rightnow? How is he going to bring together two disparate groups (cable and wireless, together a $5 billion business), two completely different technological platforms, into a cohesive,…
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TORONTO – Jim Hamm has been appointed general manager for Rogers Media’s three new Atlantic Canada radio stations.
Hamm will head up the new FM stations CKNI-FM 91.9 in Moncton, CHNI-FM 88.9 in Saint John and CJNI-FM 95.7 in Halifax. Rogers was awarded the licences for the three new FM stations by the CRTC last November.
Most recently Hamm was the general manager for the Rogers Sudbury Radio Group, where he oversaw the day-to-day management and strategic planning for CJRQ-FM, CJMX-FM and CIGM-AM. In addition, he held the position of product and programming manager for the Rogers Ontario North…
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