CALGARY – Shaw Communications announced this morning that it intends to purchase control of CanWest Global Communications.
The Calgary-based cable company has entered into agreements with Canwest and certain 8% senior subordinated noteholders to acquire a minimum 20% equity interest and 80% voting interest in the broadcaster, which includes effective control of a restructured Canwest. Shaw’s initial equity interest will exceed 20% depending on the number of Canwest creditors that elect cash rather than shares in restructured Canwest, says the press release.
Full financial terms were not disclosed.
"We are excited about the Investment and gaining effective control of one of the…
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CALGARY – Shaw is continuing to tweak its cable channel lineup in advance of the Olympics.
Effective immediately, Shaw Cable has moved TSN down from channel 30 to 23, making the network available to customers as part of their basic programming package.
The channel change is effective in Greater Vancouver, Whistler, Squamish and Bowen Island.
www.shaw.ca
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MONTREAL – Perhaps due in part to some public pressure, Cogeco Cable has signed on to offer the video-on-demand coverage of the Olympics offered by the Games’ Broadcast Media Consortium.
Cogeco joins Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, EastLink and its subsidiary Delta Cable and Source Cable in offering the 700 hours of VOD content free of charge beginning February 13 with the Opening Ceremony.
All coverage will be available within 24 hours after its original airing to Cogeco’s digital cable customers in Québec and Ontario that have access to VOD on channel 600.
A Cogeco spokesperson wrote in an email to Cartt.ca that…
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CALGARY – Shaw is making it easier for its Francophone customers to watch the Olympics.
Beginning this Friday, Shaw Cable customers in the Vancouver area will be able to watch French coverage of the Olympics on the V network on channel 40, which will temporarily take the place normally held by Bravo.
Bravo will move to digital channel 56 on February 12, and then back to its usual spot on March 1, 2010. This change is effective for the Vancouver area, including Whistler and Squamish.
The V network will provide Francophone viewers with CTV’s coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Shaw is…
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DENVER, CO – J.R. Shaw, executive chair of Shaw Communications, has been named as one of six honourees to be inducted in to the Cable Hall of Fame Class of 2010.
The other new inductees are: – Yolanda Barco, former Vice President and Executive Officer, Meadville Master Antenna Inc. (deceased); – Allen Ecker, Executive Vice President of Scientific Atlanta, now retired;– Terence F. McGuirk, Chairman and CEO, Atlanta Braves;– Marc B. Nathanson, Chairman, Mapleton Investments; and– Abbe Raven, President and CEO, A&E Television Networks.
The honorees were chosen based on their dedication to and impact on the…
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MONTREAL – Shaw Direct has added the V network in high definition to its lineup of French programming.
All V channels in standard and high definition will be offered on free preview throughout February, offering customers more French coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games which begin on February 12.
www.shawdirect.ca
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TORONTO – Cable viewers can watch many of their favourite Olympic moments over and over again, on demand thanks to a video on demand agreement signed with four cable operators.
More than 700 hours of video on demand coverage in English and French of the 2010 Winter Games will be available via Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, EastLink and its subsidiary Delta Cable and Source Cable, free of charge. This represents more than triple the amount of on demand coverage of Turin 2006 (221 hours).
(Ed note: As a Cogeco Cable customer and Olympics fan, we here at Cartt.ca are very hopeful…
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HAMILTON MEDIA OUTLETS aired a city-wide telethon yesterday to raise money for two hospitals in Haiti which have long-standing working relationships with Hamilton’s St. Joseph’s Health System.
According to the most up-to-date reports, Hopital Universitaire la Paix – a 150 bed hospital – is standing, but is overwhelmed with patients and is suffering a critical lack of supplies. Approximately 50% of University Hospital – a 750 bed hospital in downtown Port-Au-Prince – has been destroyed and it too is experiencing the same demands from those affected by the earthquake.
Channel Zero’s CHCH, The Hamilton Spectator, Corus-owned 900 CHML and cable community…
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TORONTO – The primary headline will be the $40 million raised by Canada’s broadcasters via a pair of telethons on Friday (one in Toronto and another in French in Montreal), but there are a lot of other stories out there of companies from our industry rallying their employees or their customers to the cause.
Canada For Haiti, Friday’s one-hour, commercial-free special produced collaboratively between CBC Television, CTV and Global Television and also aired on Citytv, has raised more than $13.5 million to date for relief efforts in Haiti, it was confirmed today. (Citytv also aired its own “Help for Haiti”…
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TORONTO – Cogeco Cable’s Chris Macfarlane, Telonix’s Eric Goulden and Jason Lowe of Clearcable are the three newest additions to the board of directors of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Ontario chapter.
They were the top three candidates after chapter members’ recent vote.
They join TVC Canada’s Bill McMillan, Rogers Cable’s James Myles, and Cogeco’s Daniel Sacolle on the board of directors and will assume their roles starting February 1,2010.
Boris Eventov (Cogeco), Rob McCann (Clearcable) and Bruce Marshall (Mountain Cablevision/Shaw) will be retiring from the board, after having served their term.
www.scte-ontario.com
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