CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Shaw Communications to restore the TV signals to Campbell River TV.
Due to an acrimonious dispute over digital cable set top boxes, outlined in several stories here on www.cartt.ca throughout this week, Shaw (which owns both the microwave system feeding CRTV its distant U.S. broadcast signals and Cancom, which feeds the cable co-op its U.S. and Canadian specialty services) turned off most of the TV channels of CRTV customers.
CRTV immediately sought a court order and this morning, the court ordered Shaw to “restore to…
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TORONTO – Digital TV customers will be able to call on four different seasonal music channels from Max Trax and Galaxie while they roast chestnuts and stuff stockings.
Beginning December 1, four of the combined 40 audio digital music services from Max Trax and Galaxie will offer listeners uninterrupted, commercial-free music across a range of formats.
Max Trax’s Holiday Hits channel features timeless and contemporary songs ranging from Sting’s I Saw Three Ships and Madonna’s Santa Baby to Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas and The Barenaked Ladies’ Green Christmas.
Max Trax’s Instrumental Holiday channel features seasonal standards…
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CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – As general manager Jim Forsyth feared, Shaw Communications revealed the depth of its anger Tuesday afternoon and shut down most of the distant TV signals for Campbell River TV.
“We’ve been disconnected by Shaw from just about everything. The microwave system has been turned off and all of our digital services are off and the vast majority of our satellite channels are off,” Forsyth told www.cartt.ca Tuesday evening.
CRTV is preparing a court injunction to force Shaw to turn its Cancom feeds and microwave distribution back on, said Forsyth, who added Shaw executives have yet…
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DARTMOUTH – Charlie Keating, a giant in the Canadian cable television industry – in all senses of the word – died of cancer Tuesday morning. He was 72.
Now, the term “larger than life” may seem a cliché to some, but there wasn’t one person contacted by www.cartt.ca on the passing of the founder of Dartmouth Cable TV (which later became Nova Scotia’s Access Communications) who didn’t use the term.
“He was a great industry individual and a great man in his own right,” said John Thomas, president of Delta Cable. “He was a remarkable man and a wonderful…
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CALGARY and CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – Jim Forsyth can’t understand why Shaw Communications is so upset.
The Campbell River TV general manager was reacting to a press release sent out late Monday by Shaw Communications where the second-largest MSO in the country, and largest overall Canadian digital TV supplier said it “would pursue all legal remedies against Campbell River TV to stop the fraudulent practice of directly or indirectly acquiring Digital Cable Terminals from designated Shaw retail outlets,” says the press release.
“Shaw has learned that Campbell River TV is once again directing its customers to purchase Digital Cable…
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DID YOU HEAR THE ONE about the telephone company delivering TV over its wireline system that’s now one of the top 10 BDUs in Canada?
No? Well, in less than three years, Manitoba Telecom Services’ MTS TV has become a very meaningful presence in the city of Winnipeg. With 260,000 total households, MTS TV has captured nearly a quarter of the market.
While many on the cable side of the equation often dismiss the telcos’ ability to provide TV over their “limited” or “skinny” pipe, citing bandwidth constraints in comparison to the “fat cable pipe”, it seems consumers like…
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WINNIPEG – On Friday, MTS introduced a new long distance plan that offers long distance calling anywhere in Canada and the U.S., any time of day or night, for a flat rate of $15 a month.
The new plan, a swing back at Shaw Cable’s recent voice over Internet protocol service launch in the Manitoba captial, is available to anyone on an MTS Bundle. With MTS Bundles, MTS customers can create their own bundle of savings — $10 a month if they have any two, or $15 a month if they have all three of the following services: MTS TV,…
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WINNIPEG – The rapid growth of the digital television business at Manitoba Telecom Services is continuing.
Less than two years after launch, DSL-delivered MTS TV has really taken it to incumbent cable operator Shaw Cable and has surpassed the 50,000-customer mark and is now approaching 25% penetration in Winnipeg.
"This week we signed on our 50,000th TV customer, and MTS TV continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with over 87% of Winnipeg homes now eligible for the service," said MTS president Cheryl Barker. "The demand has been outstanding, and we hear from our customers all the time how…
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KELOWNA – Shaw Communications announced today the availability of Shaw High-Speed Xtreme-I in Kelowna, Vernon, Penticton and Kamloops, B.C.
"This turbo-charged service is perfect for customers whose Internet experience includes online gaming and exploring rich multimedia sites. They can now enjoy the ultimate, most vivid online service available for as little as $10 more per month,” said Shaw president Peter Bissonnette.
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OTTAWA – Both Rogers and Shaw Cable have applied to the CRTC again to alter the rules surrounding local ad avail time on U.S. cable channels.
Currently, American channels such as CNN, A&E, The Golf Channel and others make two minutes an hour available for cable companies to sell local availability time. In the U.S., it’s a multi-billion-dollar sales industry.
In Canada, MSOs are not allowed to sell the time by the CRTC. They must give 75% of the time to Canadian specialty channels (who have to also pay MSO costs) and to use the remaining 25% to promote…
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