TORONTO – Rogers Communications announced today Xumo, a free, ad-supported streaming TV provider owned by Comcast, is now available on Rogers Ignite TV and Ignite SmartStream.
The service offers “more than 100 channels for customers to enjoy,” a press release explains, adding that it gives “customers more choice and unparalleled access to the most integrated free content of any other major provider in Canada.”
Ignite TV and Ignite SmartStream users can say “free to me” into their voice remotes to discover free content and can access Xumo channels through the main app menu. Users can also say Xumo into the remote…
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TORONTO – toober, a Toronto-based live television app*, announced today it has launched 13 new channels, all of which are available immediately to all subscribers.
The channels, launched in May, include: Afriwood Blockbuster, Agrotendencia (Costa Rica), Azteca Clic (Mexico) Azteca Cinema (Mexico), Dancehall Channel (Jamaica), INTI (Ecuador), Kiddiwinks (South Africa), M&E TV (Trinidad), MTM (Mercy and Truth Ministries TV, Jamaica), Sports Connect (South Africa), True African TV (South Africa), TTT (Trinidad) and UCL (Paraguay, Un Canal Latinamericano).
“toober aims to fill a gap in the live streaming market by providing subscribers access to all of their favourite channels from around the…
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TORONTO – Rogers Sports and Media today announced partnerships with eight Canadian charities and small businesses as part of its inclusion and diversity initiative All In.
This includes partnerships with Breakfast Club of Canada, Dollar A Day Foundation, Egale Canada, POV, Raven Reads, Révolutionnaire, UnitedWeCurl and Women’s Para Hockey of Canada.
The All In program launched last year with the intention of providing free advertising and creative services to Canadian charities and small businesses.
Over the next two years, Rogers Sports and Media will provide the eight organizations announced today “with creative services and advertising to showcase their invaluable work,” a…
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By Etan Vlessing
TORONTO – For the CBC, original Canadian scripted and unscripted series are not new revenue streams – they are a core business.
That is what emerged earlier today as the pubcaster held its virtual 2022-23 upfront presentation and looked, as in past years, to stand out in a hyper-competitive TV landscape where foot-loose viewers and marketers are pivoting to the streaming space.
The CBC is betting two words stood out from its pitch to domestic advertisers and will be heard far less often from its market competitors during this year’s upfront presentations: Canadian and diverse.
Barb Williams, executive vice-president of…
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OTTAWA – Last week, the CRTC posted a part one application from several service providers who came together to ask the Commission to review the wholesale roaming tariff rates of the country’s national wireless carriers (Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications and Telus Communications), calling them “manifestly unjust and unreasonable”.
“This application deals with the flagrant overcharging for wholesale roaming – an essential service that stands as one of the central pillars of the Commission’s policy framework for ensuring sustainable competition in the provision of mobile wireless services in Canada,” reads the application, which was filed by regional competitors Bragg Communications Inc….
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU, TORONTO and ALBERTA – At the end of the day today, the Competition Bureau announced it had come to an agreement with Rogers and Shaw.
The companies have agreed not to close on their proposed merger until the Competition Tribunal has ruled on the bureau’s application to the tribunal seeking to block their merger.
“Rogers has also agreed not to enforce any condition in its agreement with Shaw… that limits Shaw’s ability to operate, maintain, enhance or expand its wireless business,” the bureau’s news release reads.
The companies and the bureau have also agreed to request an expedited…
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By Howard Law
HERITAGE MINISTER PABLO RODRIGUEZ has promised a policy directive to the CRTC with cabinet instructions on implementing Bill C-11.
Point number one in the new directive should be making the certification of Canadian content more relevant to the Canadian experience by including qualitative judgments of national subject matter in the video content. I posted about this recently, as have others. The signal from the minister is that he has an open mind to it.
Point number two is to direct the CRTC to reappraise the existing regulatory supports for the money-losing local news industry.
Point number three is what to do…
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Also disappointed wholesale rates will not be reversed
By Ahmad Hathout
INDEPENDENT INTERNET SERVICE providers said they are “encouraged” by the direction the federal government is taking in its proposal Thursday for a new policy direction to the telecom regulator, despite the government also denying a request to overturn the Internet access costs on which the direction focuses.
“They’re going to have a very clear roadmap for how the government expects them to regulate this industry,” Matt Stein, CEO of Distributel and the Competitive Network Operators of Canada, a trade group for independent ISPs, said in an interview, adding he…
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Bell was not consulted on Globalive/Telus network sharing agreement, CFO said
By Ken Kelley
TORONTO – Executives from each of Canada’s major telecoms, along with their counterparts from some of the country’s smaller players, gathered in Toronto on Wednesday for the first in-person edition of the TD Securities Telecom and Media Conference since the Covid pandemic began.
BCE executive vice-president and chief financial officer Glen LeBlanc kicked off the day’s proceedings, with discussion around the company’s recent financial performance as well as the implications of the sale of Shaw’s wireless assets, Freedom Mobile, in order to settle anti-competitive concerns brought on…
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TORONTO – CTAM Canada announced it is holding its annual Toronto Blue Jays Game event on June 16, 2022 when the Blue Jays play the Baltimore Orioles.
The event, which is CTAM Canada’s first in person event in two years, is taking place at Rogers Centre in the Summit Suite. Doors will open at 1:30 and the game will start at 3:07.
Tickets are $125 plus tax and are for current members only. A game ticket, two drink tickets, food and an opportunity to win prizes are included.
Vaccinations and face coverings are not required but are strongly encouraged by CTAM Canada.
For…
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