BURLINGTON – Cable technology distributor White Radio announced today that Laura O’Hare has been hired as national product development manager for the company’s communications division.
O’Hare has extensive cable industry experience. Most recently, she was manager of the engineering technology integration lab at Rogers Cable. Her responsibilities there included national lab testing activities as well as integration and verification of technology. The positions that she held at Rogers – manager, engineering technology verification and support and technical specialist, outside plant engineering – “will be of significant value in the understanding of her customers requirements now and in the future,”…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – Rogers Communications and Bell Canada today said they will jointly build and manage a Canada-wide wireless broadband network.
The network is expected to initially reach more than two-thirds of Canadians in less than three years. The companies will pool their wireless broadband spectrum holdings into a joint venture, Inukshuk Internet Inc., which will build and operate the network. Once built, Canada will have one of the most robust and extensive wireless broadband networks in the world.
Normally enemies on many competitive fronts, Bell and Rogers decided to get together on this project to split the…
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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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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 – 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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LET’S SAY YOU’RE AN MP, a cabinet-member even. You’re no dummy, despite the reputation politicians have. You know a lot about a lot of things. As a cabinet member, you’ve probably been elected more than once. You understand the voting public.
You also have a good grasp on what you don’t know and foremost, you probably know a quagmire when you smell it. And the battle which has arisen the past two weeks over June’s CRTC satellite radio decision (and just landed on your desk thanks to much lobbying) has descended into just such a confusing mess.
You can tell by…
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THERE IS SO MUCH on the docket for lawyers working the telecom file in Canada these days, it’s almost hard to keep track.
The CRTC begins its hearings into forbearance from regulating the local phone market on September 26th (same week as Cable Week) while at the same time Industry Canada is deep into its Telecom Policy Review. Then there’s the Federal Court appeal of the CRTC’s telecom win-back rules and the ILECs’ VOIP decision appeal to cabinet, among other things.
So how will a coherent national telecom policy be developed from this muddle of related…
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TORONTO – Standard Broadcasting has hired interactive veteran Rob Bolton to the position of national content director for Standard Interactive, the company announced today.
Bolton has over a decade of experience in the music industry creating unique and exclusive entertainment content for the likes of Sympatico, Yahoo!, Rogers, and others. A pioneer in online radio and webcasting, Bolton was instrumental in the growth of Standard’s Iceberg Radio and Virtue Broadcasting – early adopters of audio and video streaming technologies.
He recently returned from London, U.K., where he acted as a corporate communications and streaming media consultant to BT (British…
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