TORONTO – Rogers and Bell may have had the press releases out first this year, but Telus Mobility is the first to market with mobile TV – video to cell phones.
Telus Mobility today launched Telus mobile TV, offering clients across Canada real-time access to live television programming including news, weather and shopping channels on their wireless phones.
Both Rogers and Bell made announcements earlier this year that the service was coming soon (those releases anticipated the service would be in the market by now from both companies), powered by MobiTV, but both companies say technical issues has…
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TORONTO – Martine Gaillard, whom sports fans got to know from her years on The Score and with CBC, has joined Rogers Sportsnet, it was announced today.
Gaillard (right) will be one of the hosts of sportsnetnews, replacing the recently departed Jody Vance, who recently quit to pursue other things.
“The addition of Martine to sportsnetnews bolsters an already strong line-up of on-air personalities,” said Rick Briggs-Jude, vice-president, production, Rogers Sportsnet. “Her experience and on-air presence are definite assets to the Sportsnet team.”
Gaillard’s resume includes work as…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Telecom and CANARIE, Canada’s research and education network organization today announced a multi-million dollar contract whereby Rogers Telecom will provide a wide range of network services to support the CA*net 4 network.
The network services will enable CANARIE to continue to expand CA*net 4 connections beyond virtually all of the country’s universities and colleges now served, to federal and provincial research labs, schools, hospitals and private sector research facilities.
CANARIE is a not-for-profit advanced Internet organization funded by Industry Canada to facilitate the development and use of next-generation research networks and the applications and services that…
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TORONTO – Erin Paul, winner of a 2000 Gemini Award for her work on CBC’s the fifth estate, is now part of the sportsnetnews team, Rogers Sportsnet announced today.
“Adding Erin to our Sportsnet family makes our already strong news team even better,” said Rick Briggs-Jude, vice-president, production, in a news release. “Her proven journalistic track record and versatility will provide sportsnetnews with a dynamic new dimension.”
Paul joins the sports channel after spending nine years at CBC. Most recently, she has as a reporter and producer on Sports Saturday. Paul also co-hosted the opening ceremonies for CBC at…
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – As if the voice market wasn’t crowded or confusing enough, Google Inc. yesterday launched Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables its Gmail users to quickly and easily talk or IM with their friends for free.
Google Talk is not voice in the way that carriers such as Bell or Rogers or Shaw or Cogeco or Primus offer it. Those carriers offer voice service the way most people use it – on the phone. Google Talk is chatting via computer
"Google Talk further enriches our users’ communications experience, whether they choose to communicate via…
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TORONTO – Geoff Poulton was introduced today as vice-president and general manager of Rogers OMNI TV Manitoba effective immediately.
OMNI TV Manitoba is the newly branded, newly licensed, yet-to-be-launched television station resulting from Rogers’ purchase of NOW TV and the subsequent approval by the CRTC (Public Notion 2005-207), as reported by www.cartt.ca. OMNI TV Manitoba is scheduled to launch Monday November 14th, 2005.
"We are pleased to have Geoff Poulton (right) leading the newest addition to the OMNI Television family," said Rogers Media Television’s CEO Leslie Sole, in…
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BURNABY, B.C. – Glentel Inc. has announced that WirelessWave, its retail division, will open five more stores within the next 60 days in Ontario
That will bring the chain’s total to 95 mall-based stores.
The new WirelessWaves will open in Jackson Square, Hamilton; Bayshore Shopping Centre, Ottawa; St. Laurent Mall, Ottawa; New Fairview Centre, St. Catherine’s; and Station Mall, Sault St. Marie.
With its recently acquired 49 Telephone Booth/La Cabine Téléphonique mall-based stores in Québec, Ontario and Alberta, Glentel now operates 144 mall stores in five provinces, featuring the wireless products and services of Bell Mobility, Fido, and Rogers…
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TORONTO – Corus Radio Toronto today announced the appointment of Gord Harris as program director at AM 640 Toronto.
Harris was most recently PD at Corus stations AM 980 and The Hawk in London. A veteran in the industry, he operated a private radio consulting business in the early 1990s and has worked with Broadcast News, WIC, Rogers, Standard and CHUM (including 680News and CFRB).
His educational background spans the fields of economics, political science, law and film, and he currently teaches journalism courses at Fanshawe College and the University of Western Ontario.
Harris replaces Scott Armstrong who was…
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TORONTO – With a company-wide push to emerge from its distant second-place spot in the TV ratings, Canadians will see Global Television get creative when marketing its fall programming this month and through the fall.
“We’re trying to kick things up a notch,” Walter Levitt, senior vice-president, marketing for CanWest MediaWorks, told www.cartt.ca on Monday. “We’re looking for new and inventive ways to make sure we’re in the minds and hearts of people.”
Viewers will have already seen the push behind new Fox program Prison Break, which Global is simulcasting – and which launches August 29th. It’s followed in…
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TORONTO – Technology Cancon will begin airing south of the border this fall on G4techTV. Call for Help, the first Canadian-produced G4techTV Canada television production, will be back into the homes of American fans in September on G4, the national cable and satellite network available in 53 million homes in the United States.
Call for Help airs at 6 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. PT weeknights on G4techTV Canada (which is owned jointly by Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications and operated by Rogers in Toronto).
This is the second international…
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