FIRST DISNEY BUYS FOX’S MEDIA LIBRARY, so then maybe Corus buys Bell Media – or the other way around? If so, is this a good idea or a bad one for our system?
A Scotiabank report from December 2017 entitled “Converging Networks” and reported by Cartt.ca has suggested that Corus and Bell Media should merge in order to “make them more competitive.” It’s hard to know if this report is a trial balloon or just mere speculation, but we’ve seen support in other quarters for this point of view.
The research also says Facebook and Google now…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications today announced a new company-wide initiative which it says is “designed to reinvent its operating model to better meet the changing tastes and expectations of consumers and businesses.”
As part of the overhaul, which is expected to take a number of years, the company is looking to trim its 14,000 person payroll by about 650 and so has offered 6,500 of its employees to opportunity to take a voluntary buyout package.
“Customers want their services from Shaw to be just like everything else in their life – delivered quickly, reliably, and on their terms,” said Jay Mehr,…
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BELLEVUE, WA – Shaw Communications has been elected to join the board of governors of 5G Americas, an industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas region.
Shaw joins wireless industry operators and manufacturers América Móvil, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Cisco, CommScope, Entel, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Kathrein, Mavenir, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile US, and Telefónica in their mission to advocate for and foster the advancement and full capabilities of LTE wireless technology and its evolution to 5G.
“We are committed to powering connections for our customers,” said Shaw’s EVP and CTO Zoran Stakic,…
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OTTAWA – The CMPA’s Prime Time In Ottawa conference is opening up more slots for both its 'Breakfast With' and noon hour topic tables due to popular demand.
Sign-ups will open at 12:00 PM ET on Friday, January 26 on this page and will be reserved for registered PTiO delegates only.
‘Breakfast With’ allows seven delegates to meet for an extended conversation with a featured industry guest over breakfast before the first session of the day, starting at 8 am. It’s a great way to pick up some information, and to start a relationship with the speaker and…
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VANCOUVER – Shaw Communications is helping the City of Vancouver to grow its free public Wi-Fi network to over 600 locations throughout the city.
About 550 free public Wi-Fi locations are currently active, with the remaining locations becoming active over the coming months. Bandwidth speed will generally be 10 Mbps and there is no limit or cap on data usage. No personal information is required to access the VanWiFi network.
“Like our partners at the City of Vancouver, we understand how important it is to have access to a broadly available Wi-Fi network in the places we frequent the most,” said…
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TORONTO – Discovery Velocity has opened up for a month-long national free preview, on now through February 8.
Billed as Canada’s only home for factual turbo programming, Discovery Velocity will serve up live coverage of the most spectacular classic car auction event of the year, Barrett-Jackson Live (pictured, from January 16 – 21), alongside new series Texas Metal (January 12), and the return of Wheeler Dealers on January 22.
The freeview is available through television service providers including Bell, Bell Aliant, Cogeco Connexion, Eastlink, BellMTS, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw, Shaw Direct, Telus, Videotron, and several CCSA partners including Access…
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CALGARY – A surge in wireless customers helped to lift first quarter results at Shaw Communications, the Calgary-based company said Thursday.
For the three month period ended November 30, 2017, net income jumped 28% to $114 million from $89 million in the same period last year. The increase reflects a prior period non-operating loss partially offset by lower operating income from continuing operations and higher income taxes in the current quarter.
Consolidated revenue from continuing operations for the quarter of $1.25 billion increased by 2.7% year-over-year, while operating income before restructuring costs and amortization of $481 million was down 4.6% over…
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TORONTO – A weak TV advertising market weighed down first quarter results at Corus Entertainment.
The company said Wednesday that net income attributable to shareholders for the quarter ended November 30, 2017 was $77.7 million, up from $71.1 million in the same period last year, which includes business acquisition, integration and restructuring costs of $1.6 million. Adjusting for the impact of this item resulted in an adjusted net income attributable to shareholders of $78.9 million this quarter.
Consolidated revenues for the quarter were $457.4 million, down 2% from $468.0 million last year, and consolidated segment profit was $177.9 million, down 7%…
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I WAS NOT SURPRISED to learn that one of Jim Shaw’s role models was former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
In his time, Churchill was considered a political outsider, a brash maverick, seemingly unwavering in his convictions, fiercely loyal to his homeland and someone who inspired similar loyalty in so many others. Along the way of course, Churchill was exactly what his country needed at the time and he found enormous successes – but his sometimes irascible nature also antagonized more than a few.
For those of us who have been in the cable industry for a while, there are many…
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A hard-nosed businessman, he made a brilliant cable territory swap, competed ferociously with Telus and pulled Global television from the Canwest inferno
FEW OCCASIONS BETTER illustrated the cultural divide between the world of the western bottom-up entrepreneur and that of Ottawa’s top-down public service bureaucracy than when Jim Shaw and Konrad von Finckenstein crossed swords in a hearing room.
There, front and centre of the raised platform bearing commissioners, would be the multilingual von Finckenstein, a six-foot-something-awesome lawyer who was chief legal adviser on the original North American Free Trade negotiations, served as head of the Competition Bureau, became a Federal…
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