Vancouver-based Magnify Digital on Wednesday announced New Zealand’s national Māori screen content funder, Te Māngai Pāho, has signed an agreement to deploy Magnify Digital’s audience intelligence platform, ScreenMiner, across funded Māori productions.
The agreement will make ScreenMiner available to 150 projects annually, giving producers access to consolidated quantitative metrics and structured qualitative audience feedback to inform strategy and strengthen audience growth, Magnify Digital said in a press release. Te Māngai Pāho will receive standardized reporting and portfolio-level insight across participating titles, it added.
“We invest in stories that promote Māori language and culture, but we…
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Bell said Thursday that its 5G+ Advanced network is live across parts of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
The network is powered by Bell’s 5G standalone core and delivers greater capacity, lower latency and theoretical peak download speeds of 4.3 Gbps, its fastest yet, the telco said in a press release.
The service is currently live in Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Markham, Vaughan, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Burlington, Oshawa, Whitby, St. Catherines, Milton, Ajax, Pickering, Grimsby, Thorold and Niagara Falls.
Bell said it is expanding the service into the Niagara region, “bringing next-generation mobile performance to more communities across Ontario’s fastest-growing areas.”
The…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Quebecor’s mobile wireless segment reported positive monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) growth on a year-over-year basis for the first time since the Freedom Mobile acquisition in April 2023.
ARPU was $35.23 in the fourth quarter, up 1.4 per cent or 48 cents, against the same quarter the year prior. Since the acquisition of Freedom from Shaw, mobile ARPU was consistently down against their comparable quarters, despite sequential improvements in the metric for every quarter in 2025 leading up to the final three months.
The company attributed the improvement this time around to lower promotional discounts and customers moving…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers is warning Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) that if the department forces direct-to-home satellite broadcasting services (DTH) off the extended Ku (xKu) band, then its ability to provide broadcasting services to rural and remote communities will be negatively impacted.
Rogers, through its Shaw Direct brand, uses a direct-to-home satellite broadcasting service (DTH) that is powered by Telesat’s Anik G1 satellite using the xKu band in the 11 Ghz frequency, which also allows the cable giant to deliver services to third-party broadcasters, who also service these remote areas.
But there’s a problem: as a condition of Telesat’s licence…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers wants the CRTC to revisit an October decision approving a tariff that would force the cable giant to go through Telus to get compensated for moving its transmission lines at the behest of government entities, claiming that this would drastically reduce the amount third parties get for relocation.
Being forced to go through Telus to get compensated for moving its transmission lines – as opposed to directly negotiating with the government – will mean being undercompensated because Telus can only negotiate with the government the cost of moving its own transmission lines and not those of third-party…
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Toronto-based Cantina Media, a Serial Maven Studios production company, and Brighton, U.K.-based Big Wave Entertainment announced Monday a new premium wildlife series, Baby Elephant School, has been co-commissioned by Channel 4 and CBC as a U.K./Canada treaty co-production.
Filming is now underway in Sri Lanka at the world’s largest baby elephant sanctuary, Udawalawe Elephant Orphanage, a joint press release said.
Baby Elephant School is being produced in distinct versions for international broadcasters. The U.K. version (four episodes x 60 minutes) for Channel 4 is hosted by Welsh wildlife biologist and elephant researcher Lizzie Daly, while the one-hour…
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The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) received a record number of complaints from telecom and TV customers this past fiscal year, with billing problems continuing to be the leading complaint issue, according to the CCTS’s annual report published early Wednesday.
Between Aug. 1, 2024 and July 31, 2025, the CCTS accepted 23,647 complaints from customers across Canada. This represents a 17 per cent increase from the previous year and is the highest number of complaints accepted in the CCTS’s history.
The top 10 issues raised across all service types were: incorrect charge for…
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By Connie Thiessen
Corus has announced a major plan to reorganize its finances that could save the media company up to $40 million in annual cash interest payments.
If the plan is approved by the courts and shareholders, Corus says it will cut its third-party debt and other liabilities by over $500 million.
The proposed “recapitalization transaction” is a complex debt-for-equity swap designed to stabilize the company’s financial foundation. It comes on the heels of last week’s fourth-quarter earnings release, which saw revenue decrease 14 per cent for the quarter and 11 per cent for the year, primarily due…
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Northwestel announced Tuesday it is now offering up to 700 Mbps download and upload speeds to home internet users in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, and businesses in the community can now access speeds of up to 750 Mbps.
With the upgrade, the community also now has access to Northwestel TV Plus, the northern telecom provider’s live and on-demand TV service.
Northwestel first launched fibre internet in Tuktoyaktuk in October 2023, offering speeds up to 50 Mbps. The speed boost to 700 Mbps is made possible after Northwestel recently connected its fibre…
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Cogeco Communications announced Wednesday a significant expansion of its mobile service, which uses the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access framework to operate.
Cogeco Mobile is now available to the majority of Cogeco Internet customers across Ontario and Quebec in municipalities such as Windsor, Niagara, Hamilton, Burlington, Kingston, Drummondville and Shawinigan, a Cogeco press release said. The rapid expansion adds more than 350 municipalities to the list of locations covered by Cogeco’s mobile service, on top of the 13 markets where Cogeco Mobile had its initial launch in July, according…
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