CALGARY and OTTAWA – Shaw Communications’ DTH company Star Choice announced today it will offer a Star Choice Mastercard through MBNA Canada Bank.
MBNA Canada is a leading provider of co-branded and affinity credit card programs in Canada.
Star Choice customers can now choose between the Star Choice Platinum MasterCard and the Star Choice Preferred MasterCard. As an exclusive promotional offer, for those customers who choose to use their Star Choice MasterCard on a pre-authorized basis to pay for their Star Choice service, they will receive $50 in programming credits.
The Star Choice MasterCard provides existing customers with another…
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QUEBEC CITY – Manitoba Telecom Services’ digital television division will see its 2005 revenue increase by a factor of two, says company CEO Bill Fraser.
The outgoing chief executive told the CIBC World Markets investors conference on Friday that MTS TV will bring in $22 million in revenue in 2005, twice what the service earned in 2004.
“We’re extremely pleased with the results,” he said. Looking back at its launch in 2003, Fraser pointed out – when asked if MTS can make a profit on its TV service – that the company took its fair share of lumps from…
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VANCOUVER – The B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU) is stepping up its support for locked-out members of the Telecommunications Workers’ Union (TWU) by urging its members who are Telus customers to switch internet providers.
“This is a warning to Telus that this lockout is more than just an attack on TWU members. It’s an attack on all working people,” said George Heyman, BCGEU president, in a release. “We are mobilizing our 57,000 members to send a strong message to Telus: get back to the bargaining table and negotiate fairly with your employees or you will risk your…
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THE CABLE INDUSTRY MIGHT not like reading this, heading into the local forbearance hearings next week, but residential phone choice seems pretty real to me.
If there was any doubt about it, my local newspaper, The Hamilton Spectator, delivered ample evidence last Wednesday. In the mess of inserts I curse about that usually flutter out of the thing, three glossy direct marketing pieces caught my eye: One from Primus; another from Rogers; and the third from Direct Energy.
Primus was a pure low-cost sell. “Get TalkBroadband and save big on your home phone service,” it said, beside a garish…
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CALGARY – As one of the more popular shows this summer draws to its conclusion, Shaw Communications and CanWest MediaWorks announced today that every episode of Rock Star: INXS is now available on Shaw Video On Demand.
Three new episodes of the reality show (where the remaining members of Aussie rockers INXS are choosing a new lead singer to replace the late Michael Hutchence) air each week on the CH network as aspiring singers show their stuff to the band and all of North America.
Shaw Digital customers can order any past episodes through Shaw VOD using their Digital…
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LETHBRIDGE – Shaw Communications launched its fastest Internet service, Shaw High-Speed Xtreme-I, in southern Alberta today.
"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 Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications, in a release.
The service is immediately available in Lethbridge, Coaldale, Cardston, Claresholm, Coalhurst, Picture Butte, Shaughnessy, Diamond City and Granum. Xtreme-I is already available in Shaw’s major centres such as Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Winnipeg….
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TORONTO – Manitoba Telecom Services president Cheryl Barker said Tuesday that the company recently added its 45,000th digital television customer, meaning the Manitoba telco now serves over 20% of all TV customers in Winnipeg.
During a panel session at the BMO Nesbitt Burns Media and Telecom conference Tuesday in Toronto Barker said that the company hit the mark on September 5th (leaving unsaid the sizable dent the figure put in Shaw Cable’s customer rolls in the city).
MTS TV is a digital subscriber line delivered digital TV service which offers three streams of digital TV and high speed Internet to…
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TORONTO – Sonic hit the shelves this week, a new music magazine developed by Max Trax, Galaxie and Toronto-based ad agency ZiG. It’s a free bilingual consumer publication “for music lovers with a thirst for knowledge and a desire to constantly expand their music collection,” says the press release. Sonic (Volume I, Issue I, at right) will be distributed to all Canadian cable and satellite providers beginning the week of September 12.
The 20-page premiere issue features rock icons U2 on the cover, as well as articles looking at seven genres of music found throughout the…
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THIS IS A BIG JOB. No wonder Rogers Communications Group’s president and COO Nadir Mohamed doesn’t want to talk about succession. He’s got lots on his plate to worry about now, rather than what his next job might be.
Besides, last week’s National Post Business article beat that story to death (and then some) last week.
What we wanted to know is where the company’s priorities lay. What’s job one for him rightnow? How is he going to bring together two disparate groups (cable and wireless, together a $5 billion business), two completely different technological platforms, into a cohesive,…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications today announced the company and its employees will assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The company is making an initial donation of $250,000 to support the efforts of the Red Cross as they help families through this tragedy. In addition, Shaw will match all employee donations to the Red Cross dollar-for-dollar for a total contribution of up to $500,000 by the company, in addition to the contribution of individual employees.
"Like all our customers, everyone at Shaw has been shocked and saddened by the impact of Hurricane Katrina and we’re rallying our team to do…
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