CALGARY – The NFL season may have kicked off last night (the Patriots beat the Raiders) but Shaw and Star Choice customers got their extra point today.
Shaw Communications launched the NFL Network on both of its digital platforms, at no additional cost. On Star Choice, however, there’s a free preview for two months before the service is placed in its $2.50 monthly sports package, for no additional fee.
League-owned NFL Network is a 24/7 channel dedicated solely to pro football.
Shaw also announced that anyone ordering NFL Sunday Ticket will be entered in a draw for a trip…
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THERE IS SO MUCH on the docket for lawyers working the telecom file in Canada these days, it’s almost hard to keep track.
The CRTC begins its hearings into forbearance from regulating the local phone market on September 26th (same week as Cable Week) while at the same time Industry Canada is deep into its Telecom Policy Review. Then there’s the Federal Court appeal of the CRTC’s telecom win-back rules and the ILECs’ VOIP decision appeal to cabinet, among other things.
So how will a coherent national telecom policy be developed from this muddle of related…
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CALGARY – Longtime Shaw Cable executive Randy Elliot will be retiring on Oct. 31, 2005, company CEO Jim Shaw announced yesterday.
Elliot (right), currently Senior Vice-President of Technical Operations, joined Shaw in 1971, becoming the first person hired to look after the company’s technical aspects.
Colleagues were quick to say how he’s made a huge contribution to the industry.
“He’s been contributing to the rapid expansion of technology in the cable industry: telephones, data, digital, high definition, and fibre,” says Dick Green, president and CEO of Cable Television Laboratories, the research consortium for the cable industry. Elliot has been…
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EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers have announced their 2005-2006 TV schedule, which will see all but four of the 82 regular season hockey games televised.
Fifty of the 78 broadcast games will be on Rogers Sportsnet West, with 12 games on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada, 10 exclusively available on pay-per view, and six on TSN.
The pay-per-view games will be available to customers of Bell ExpressVu, Star Choice, and Shaw digital cable. The first Oilers pay-per-view special will air Nov. 3, when Edmonton visits Detroit. Pricing will be announced later.
The Oilers’ home opener is Oct. 5 against…
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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 many other 5,000-customer cable companies in Canada or the U.S. are planning on offering it that soon.
It’s a very expensive technology, fraught with difficult to solve issues, especially for a small operator. Think Paramount’s EVP of programming will have Compton’s VOD launch on his priority list, for example?
Compton Cable (which serves the Port Perry, Ont. region, about an hour’s drive northeast of Toronto, on Lake Scugog) has…
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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 Non-Voting Shares of the company.
Trading at around the $25.80 mark this morning, the transaction is worth about $25.8 million.
Company CEO Jim Shaw and founder JR Shaw have told the financial community that they believe the share price is undervalued and the family will continue its practice of buying shares when it sees fit.
According to information provided to the company, the Shaw Family, and entities owned or…
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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 quickly and easily talk or IM with their friends for free.
Google Talk is not voice in the way that carriers such as Bell or Rogers or Shaw or Cogeco or Primus offer it. Those carriers offer voice service the way most people use it – on the phone. Google Talk is chatting via computer
"Google Talk further enriches our users’ communications experience, whether they choose to communicate via…
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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 shares of the company during the five day period ending August 23, 2005.
Considering today’s closing share price of $30.75, the value of the buy is about $3.9 million.
“According to information provided to the Company, the Shaw Family, and entities owned or controlled by them, holds 3,023,756 shares of the Company (7.4% of the total outstanding non-voting shares). The Shaw Family also advised the Company it would continue…
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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 homes of American fans in September on G4, the national cable and satellite network available in 53 million homes in the United States.
Call for Help airs at 6 p.m. ET and 9 p.m. PT weeknights on G4techTV Canada (which is owned jointly by Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications and operated by Rogers in Toronto).
This is the second international…
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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 added at no additional charge.
"The inclusion of Fox HD in our lineup adds to the superior entertainment experience that HD customers enjoy," said Colin Patterson, vice-president, operations of Shaw Communications, in the press release. "The HD content on the channel is among the best available and we know it will be an instant favourite with our customers."
Fox HD is the third addition in the last year to…
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