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Since our May 2nd launch, we’ve delivered original journalism – breaking news, feature stories, interviews and viewpoints – important to the domestic industry. In fact, since launch, www.cartt.ca has published almost 800 stories which have appeared in our twice-weekly newsletters that hit in-boxes promptly at 8 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That’s more than nine per business day, and includes many…
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EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers have announced their 2005-2006 TV schedule, which will see all but four of the 82 regular season hockey games televised.
Fifty of the 78 broadcast games will be on Rogers Sportsnet West, with 12 games on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada, 10 exclusively available on pay-per view, and six on TSN.
The pay-per-view games will be available to customers of Bell ExpressVu, Star Choice, and Shaw digital cable. The first Oilers pay-per-view special will air Nov. 3, when Edmonton visits Detroit. Pricing will be announced later.
The Oilers’ home opener is Oct. 5 against…
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TORONTO – Rogers Cable digital subscribers in Ontario can now watch Sony Entertainment Asia (SET Asia) as part of the multicultural offerings.
Rogers has added SET Asia, a 24-hour Hindi-language channel airing family dramas, game shows, live concerts, talk shows, lifestyle programs, and thrillers. SET Asia is seen in more than 40 million households throughout India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Middle East.
The offering brings to 32 the number of multicultural channels that Rogers offers.
“Rogers continually strives to bring the most multicultural programming to its customers,” says David Purdy, Vice-President and General Manager, Television for Rogers…
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WHILE WE CAN’T SAY for sure that Compton Communications will be the smallest North American video on demand provider when it launches this fall, we figure it’s pretty unlikely that many other 5,000-customer cable companies in Canada or the U.S. are planning on offering it that soon.
It’s a very expensive technology, fraught with difficult to solve issues, especially for a small operator. Think Paramount’s EVP of programming will have Compton’s VOD launch on his priority list, for example?
Compton Cable (which serves the Port Perry, Ont. region, about an hour’s drive northeast of Toronto, on Lake Scugog) has…
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TORONTO – Over the summer, employees of Rogers Cable in Toronto have been collecting school supplies for needy kids. Tomorrow, they’ll donate them to the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Kids heading back to school in just a few days will be able to get new supplies such as calculators, backpacks, notebooks, pens, pencils, and rulers, thanks to the Rogers School Supply Drive.
On hand to deliver the supplies tomorrow will be Carol Ring, Regional President, Rogers Cable GTA, and Rogers Cable employee volunteers.
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TORONTO – With low ratings at SUN TV and newspaper readership sliding at The Toronto Sun, owner Quebecor Media is betting that converging the two – and adding more content and high profile personalities – will revive both brands.
As part of a major corporate release today, which included an announcement on consolidating the company’s Ontario printing division, SUN TV (formerly Toronto 1) The Toronto Sun, Canoe.ca and commuter freebie newspaper 24 hours will converge, “into a cross-pollination of news, entertainment, sports and community will be an exciting meeting of styles and formats,” says…
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TORONTO – Look forward to seeing every grain of sand in the bunkers – not to mention every drop of sweat rolling down John Daly’s thick neck – as TSN and CTV will show every minute of the Bell Canadian Open golf tournament in high definition.
The Bell Globemedia TV channels today announced live coverage of the first two rounds will air September 8 and 9 beginning at 1 p.m. ET on TSN and TSN HD. The third and final rounds on September 10 and 11 will be seen live on TSN and TSN HD from 1 p.m. to…
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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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