WHILE WE CAN’T SAY for sure that Compton Communications will be the smallest North American video on demand provider when it launches this fall, we figure it’s pretty unlikely that... Continue Reading
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – As if the voice market wasn’t crowded or confusing enough, Google Inc. yesterday launched Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables its Gmail users to... Continue Reading
CALGARY - Shaw Communications was advised today that the Shaw Family (its controlling shareholder), and entities owned or controlled by them, completed the purchase of an additional 1,000,000 Class B... Continue Reading
CALGARY – Corus Entertainment said today that its controlling shareholder, the Shaw Family and entities owned or controlled by them, completed the purchase of an additional 126,200 class B non-voting... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Technology Cancon will begin airing south of the border this fall on G4techTV. Call for Help, the first Canadian-produced G4techTV Canada television production, will be back into the... Continue Reading
VICTORIA – Shaw Digital Cable customers can now see Fox HD if they have the correct box and television set. The company made the announcement today. The channel will be... Continue Reading
AT LAST COUNT, THERE WERE 103 submissions to the three-person panel in charge of Industry Canada’s Telecom Policy Review. Boy, do they have some summer/fall reading in front of them.... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Videotron is adding telephony customers as fast as it can keep up and the company announced today that it is rolling out its residential cable telephone service in... Continue Reading
EDMONTON – According to the Telecommunication Workers Union (TWU) and the B.C. and Alberta Federations of Labour, four Calgary radio stations refuse to run radio spots in support of locked-out... Continue Reading
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – Municipally-owned telco CityTel acquired the remaining Monarch Cable systems last week from owner Bill Yuill and announced an overhaul of its corporate governance, too. Monarch had... Continue Reading
We've gathered a number of links where Canadian cable, radio, television, telecom and wireless companies have posted their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.