CALGARY – Shaw Cablesystems announced a new video on demand agreement with Paramount Pictures. Shaw is the first Canadian company to come to a VOD deal with the movie and TV company.
Shaw Digital customers across Western Canada will now have access to some of today’s most popular hit titles such as Coach Carter, Alfie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Team America World Police and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
"The addition of Paramount Pictures complements Shaw Video on Demand’s ever-evolving library of movies," said Peter Bissonnette, president, Shaw Communications, in a release. "With over 1,700 titles now…
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BURNABY – While the second quarter press release still intimated Telus may not launch its terrestrial digital television service, CEO Darren Entwistle told financial analysts today in a conference call that Telus TV’s launch is a matter of when, not if.
The when will come once the company’s labour problem is finalized. While the company has imposed its latest contract offer after 4.5 years of going without a contract with its workers, the union called a general strike.
Today, the company said 70% of its unionized workers nationally are still coming in to work and that the two sides will…
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WINNIPEG – Shaw Cablesystems announced three new high definition channels have been added to its system in Winnipeg.
The latest additions are: PBS (Fargo), NBC (Detroit), and ABC (Detroit). They launch immediately.
Current Shaw Digital customers in Winnipeg with an HD digital terminal and an HD-ready TV will receive these channels at no extra cost. HD customers who already subscribe to Movie Central will also receive Movie Central HD at no charge.
The Shaw HD Channel lineup in Winnipeg: – Channel 301 WJBK Fox Detroit – Channel 302 WWJ CBS Detroit – Channel 303 Movie Central HD – Channel…
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I WAS A UNION MEMBER TWICE: For several summers as a labourer installing gas pipeline in Northern Ontario and for a four month stint as a part-time Bookmobile driver and librarian in Guelph, Ont.
I lived for a few years in Sault Ste. Marie and saw what the Steelworkers have had to go through there with Algoma Steel. I lived in Windsor for three years and the Canadian Auto Workers union was always front and centre.
I say all this to illustrate that I think I have a bit of a grasp on what the union/corporation relationship can be….
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OTTAWA – All the regional telcos used to work together to lobby the government like this under the old Stentor Alliance – an working group that was disbanded years ago when they all decided to compete with one another.
Today, the remaining former Stentor members (with one notable exception) held a joint press conference to make official their appeal to Federal Cabinet over the CRTC’s voice over Internet protocol decision.
The decision, as reported on numerous occasions by www.cartt.ca, says that incumbent telcos have to abide by existing telecom regulations in the way of win-back rules, tariff applications, and…
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OTTAWA – There are just under 40 independent telephone companies left in Canada – little telcos that for one reason or another, were never swallowed up by Bell Canada.
All of them, save one, are in Bell’s Ontario or Quebec territory. Of those, there are six which are owned by municipalities: Bruce Municipal Telephone System, Cochrane Public Utilities Commission, Dryden Municipal Telephone System, Kenora Municipal Telephone System, The Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay – Telephone Division, all in Ontario, and Prince Rupert City Telephone, in British Columbia.
This week, the Department of Canadian Heritage closed a comments…
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CALGARY – With provincial telco Manitoba Telecom Services taking away many video subscribers, it’s only natural that Shaw Communications would turn to Winnipeg to launch voice over Internet protocol telephony.
Winnipeg today became the third market where the company has launched Shaw Digital Phone, “a reliable, fully featured and affordable residential telephone service that will offer consumers a real alternative to their current telephone provider,” says Shaw’s press release.
The service includes a local residential line, unlimited anytime long distance calling within Canada and the U.S., and six calling features: Voicemail, call display, call forwarding, three-way calling, call return…
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VANCOUVER – Telecommunications Workers Union president Bruce Bell told CKNW radio host Bill Good yesterday that Telus employees will strike on Friday.
That’s the date Telus said it would unilaterally impose its latest, last, contract offer on its workers, whether their union approves or not.
After four and a half long years without a contract (and without a raise for employees) Telus is fed up, vice-president of corporate affairs Drew McArthur told www.cartt.ca Wednesday.
The union has simply refused to budge, not even putting Telus’ contract offer to a vote among its members. Telus first tabled the offer in…
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TORONTO – While many of their radio brethren have either hopped on board one of the Canadian satellite radio license-holders or appealed to the government to rescind the licenses, Corus Radio and Rogers Radio have stayed on the sidelines.
During a conference call with financial analysts Thursday, Corus Entertainment CEO John Cassaday said that while he envisions some impact from Canadian Satellite Radio and SIRIUS Canada, they’re nothing but new competitors to overcome.
“Our view is that it is possible over time that there will be some impact on in-car tuning to radio but we believe that’s, in all…
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TORONTO – With huge top and bottom line growth in radio, Corus Entertainment today went to some lengths to show that it isn’t just happenstance or an anomaly, but a broad-based resurgence.
The company’s third quarter results, released Thursday, showed the company’s radio profits surged by 21% on a 12% increase in ad revenue. For public companies, this is always challenging. It’s great news now, but then the company is under pressure to grow even more next year.
Company CEO John Cassaday showed financial analysts late Thursday afternoon how broadly-based the spike in ad revenue is, saying 12…
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