OTTAWA – Veteran journalist and author Esther Bégin is joining Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) as the network's French Anchor.
Starting next fall, Bégin (pictured) will host a daily program during sitting weeks of the House of Commons as well as feature interviews with Canadian political personalities.
"We are very excited to welcome such an experienced and passionate journalist like Esther Bégin to lead our team," said CPAC president and GM Catherine Cano, in Thursday’s announcement. "She has the important task of making the various issues affecting francophones in Quebec and the rest of Canada known and understood. As we know,…
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CALGARY and VANCOUVER – Freedom Mobile customers travelling on Vancouver's SkyTrain transit service now have underground connectivity on the Metro Vancouver SkyTrain.
Shaw said Wednesday that its wireless customers may now access LTE service at the Waterfront, Burrard, Granville and Stadium-Chinatown stations — as well as in the tunnels that connect them — so that they can use their phone in the tunnel exactly as they would above ground.
“Underground wireless connectivity means that Freedom Mobile customers now have more opportunity to text friends and loved ones, post to Instagram or respond to emails in the tunnel between Waterfront and Stadium-Chinatown stations,” said…
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YELLOWKNIFE – The Northwest Territories (NWT) Broadband Infrastructure project wrapped up this week with every NWT community receiving 4G wireless and high-speed Internet service.
The Government of Canada contributed $14.8 million to the NWT Broadband Infrastructure Phase 2 project through the Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund (CSIF), and Falcon Communications contributed $19.4 million, with support from NorthwesTel and the provincial government of the Northwest Territories.
This project, which delivered high-speed Internet connectivity and wireless mobility to all 33 communities in the Territory, addressed gaps in the delivery of enhanced Internet by providing increased usage packages, new satellite-based DSL Internet services, and advanced…
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TORONTO – The winners of the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards (CMBIA) were unveiled Thursday night in Toronto, celebrating the best and brightest in all fields of the Canadian music and broadcast industries.
Paul Anka received the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award, while Robert "TooTall" Wagenaar, Patti-Anne Tarlton, David Farrell and Jeff Craib were also in attendance as 2018 inductees to the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame.
In addition, Régine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire (pictured) were on hand to receive the 2018 Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award in recognition of the band's humanitarian efforts to…
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TORONTO – Just in time for summer, Bell Media’s Gusto is cooking up a free preview with sizzling new programming.
The food and lifestyle channel has assembled a summer schedule that includes new original series Where To I Do?, starring design expert Tommy Smythe (The Marilyn Denis Show); Dog Tales Rescue, a docu-series following King City, Ont.’s Dog Tales Rescue and Horse Sanctuary; and Bonacini’s Italy, featuring world-renowned chef and MasterChef judge Michael Bonacini. Celebrity gourmet Nigella Lawson makes her Gusto debut by whipping up her favourite comfort meals with her latest series,…
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MONTREAL – Bell Canada Enterprises continued the run of good news for Canada’s communications companies, adding thousands of broadband, TV and wireless customers in the first quarter of 2018, ended March 31.
"Network leadership continues to drive Bell's progress in broadband customer additions, service usage and revenue growth as we welcomed approximately 102,000 net new postpaid wireless, Internet and IPTV customers in the first quarter of 2018,” said CEO George Cope in the company’s press release this morning. This was the company’s best first quarter since 2011, he added.
“I fully expect the strong subscriber growth to continue this year,” he…
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CLARINGTON, ON – The Municipality of Clarington (just east of Oshawa) and Bell announced this week that its all-fibre broadband network is now available to all 28,000 homes and businesses in the community.
Bell’s Clarington broadband network expansion is part of the communications company's fibre to the premises (FTTP) network expansion to more than 1.3 million homes and business locations in the GTA/905 region surrounding Toronto.
Delivering symmetrical Internet access speeds up to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) now, Bell FTTP is designed to deliver speeds of 40 Gbps and beyond. It also powers the latest advances in Fibe TV, Alt…
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Wireless growth to remain strong, too
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE far fewer over-the-top video options in Canada as compared to the U.S., if Amazon, DAZN, and Netflix (not to mention the possibility of Apple, Facebook or Google entering the Canadian market in the way they have Stateside) are willing to spend big on programming, we may soon see them outbid the likes of Bell Media, Corus or Rogers for key programming, despite not having a traditional TV platform.
As well, even if Amazon, DAZN, or Netflix can’t win the best content from the Canadian companies, this dynamic can only benefit U.S. (and…
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TORONTO – The second season of hit drama The Handmaid’s Tale will headline Bravo’s nation-wide free preview that will kick off April 24.
The Bell Media-owned service said that other high profile premieres rolling out during the freeview include original Canadian crime drama series Carter, starring Jerry O’Connell, on May 15 at 8:00 PM ET, plus detective crime drama Hard Sun, which will make its exclusive Canadian series premiere on May 6.
Season two of the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning The Handmaid’s Tale will debut with a two-episode premiere event on April 29 at 9:00 PM ET. Viewers wishing to catch…
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EXTON, PA – SCTE•ISBE and cable heavyweights Comcast and Liberty Global are challenging the tech industry to devise new solutions to manage energy across broadband networks.
The Adaptive Power Challenge is focussing on finding solutions in the following three areas deemed integral to the delivery of cable communications services:
Monitoring & Measurement – Monitoring and measuring energy consumption and ambient conditions correlating quality and health of services with energy;
Demand Response – The ability to implement “peak shaving” and functionality that results in load shedding; and
Supply & Control – Using the functionality of adaptive power DOCSIS-enabled devices to control consumption profiles…
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