SAN FRANCISCO and CALGARY – Shaw Communications has signed a marketing, content and promotion partnership with digital music service Rdio to boost the San Francisco-based company’s presence in Canada.
As part of the arrangement, Shaw Ventures has made a financial investment in Rdio's holding company, Pulser Media, Inc. Financial terms were not disclosed.
"As Canada's leading network and content experience company, we believe our customers should have access to the best content available," said Shaw CEO Brad Shaw, in the announcement. "Rdio is the best available digital streaming music experience and a great complement to our leading broadband and Shaw Go…
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VICTORIA – Shaw Communications has teamed up with Victoria Highlanders FC to give its home stadium, Royal Athletic Park, a technological upgrade in time for the upcoming 2014 Premier Development League season.
Shaw will provide Internet services to the press box and ticket box offices, as well as in-stadium WiFi services to fans through access to the Shaw Go WiFi network. A complementary service available to all Shaw Internet customers, Shaw Go WiFi will provide visitors to the stadium with instant Internet access by entering their credentials. Once logged in, Shaw customers will remain continuously connected to Shaw Go WiFi while…
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TORONTO – Rogers president and CEO Guy Laurence, Shaw EVP and COO Jay Mehr, and MTS Allstream CEO Pierre Blouin are just three of the high level keynote speakers confirmed for the 2014 Canadian Telecom Summit which will take place June 16 – 18 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto.
Now in its 13th year, the Canadian Telecom Summit has grown to become Canada's most important annual telecommunications and IT event, attracting hundreds of attendees from around the world. This year’s event will feature over a dozen keynote addresses and more than 50 panelists.
In addition to the popular Regulatory…
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TORONTO – Rogers Communications executive vice-president, regulatory and vice-chairman Phil Lind has let it be known inside Rogers that this will be his last year in an operations role at the company for which he has worked for 45 years.
Lind has had a storied career with Rogers, working together with founder Ted Rogers until the latter’s death in 2008 (Lind is pictured here with Shaw Communications president Peter Bissonnette, left and Astral Media co-founder Ian Greenberg, right, upon his induction into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2012). He was seen as the man who…
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TORONTO – Telus really wants to buy Mobilicity and has made another bid for the company, despite the knowledge the federal government really doesn’t want to see this deal happen.
Late Thursday, Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Holdings and its affiliates (collectively, Mobilicity) announced Telus would acquire it for $350 million. The proposed transaction will move forward under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act rules. Mobilicity has been under creditor protection since September.
"The transaction is a good outcome from Mobilicity's restructuring efforts and extensive sales process," said William Aziz, Mobilicity's chief restructuring officer, in the press release. "I am confident the transaction…
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ANOTHER ROUND OF LAYOFFS has led inexorably to another spasm of handwringing, navel gazing and a week of “what are we going to do about the CBC?” The reactions have largely been predictable, eye-rolling and boring – generally a waste of everyone’s time.
It was shocking when last Thursday’s big town hall meeting called by CBC leadership turned out to be, for the most part, just about cutting the public broadcaster’s head count yet again – with a vague promise about a new vision for the pubcaster to come sometime before the summer. Many honestly believed…
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TORONTO and CALGARY – An internal memo circulated to staff at Shaw Media this week told employees exactly what was to be cut and altered as its portion of the corporate restructuring announced late Monday.
The majority of cuts at the station level involve three areas: the consolidation of graphics production at Global Toronto, which will “eliminate overlap and duplication,” reads the memo. The company is creating a single centre for both broadcast and online graphics in Toronto which will have the capacity to produce more graphics than its current production centres allow, and regularly “create…
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CALGARY and MONTREAL – Last week the two biggest Canadian cable companies without traditional wireless assets told their shareholders and other investors they see their wireless future in Wi-Fi – and they plan to lobby the federal government hard for more spectrum.
On March 31st, the Federal Communications Commission altered some of its rules on unlicensed wireless spectrum, making more of it available to network providers in the 5 GHz band. “The new rules will make 100 MHz of spectrum more accessible for use in homes and congested spaces like convention centers, parks, and airports and increase the potential for…
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CALGARY – Late Monday afternoon, Shaw Communications announced structural changes to its operating units “that will improve overall efficiency while enhancing its ability to grow as the leading content and network experience company,” according to the press release.
Operation of the company’s residential cable, satellite, Internet and home phone services will be consolidated into a new Consumer business unit. Shaw's enterprise services – including cable, telephony, satellite and tracking – will be integrated into a new Business unit. Shaw's Media business will continue to be managed as a stand alone unit.
The company has also combined its engineering and IT functions…
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OTTAWA – Shaw Media and Catalyst Canada are teaming up with Women in Communications and Technology (WCT) on a new initiative designed to expand opportunities for women in Canada’s ICT sector.
Scheduled to roll out this fall, The Protégé Project will help to prepare senior, qualified women for positions of power and leadership in Canada’s largest communications, media and technology companies.
To date, 11 senior executives in leading communications, media and technology organizations have signed on to personally support the project. An equivalent number of up-and-coming female corporate executives and entrepreneurs will be selected and matched to these leaders, based on…
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