CALGARY – Just in time for the start of the NHL and NBA seasons, Shaw has added TSN Go and Sportsnet Now to its TV Everywhere offering.
Available on iOS and Android devices, TSN Go will give Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct subscribers on the go access to the TSN feeds they subscribe to, including the ability to view live and on-demand content. The app will also allow for live audio streaming of TSN Radio's all-sports stations in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal.
Shaw customers who subscribe to TSN's suite of feeds in their cable and satellite packages can…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications executive vice-president, corporate development & chief financial officer Steve Wilson is retiring this year to devote more time to his family and pursue other professional and community endeavours.
Wilson will be staying on during a transitional phase, which is expected to last until the end of 2014. Shaw confirmed that a search for a new chief financial officer is underway.
According to the company announcement, Wilson helped shape the overall strategic positioning of the company and was instrumental in the acquisition of Shaw’s media business in 2010, the evolution of its wireless and WiFi strategies, and, more recently, its…
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CALGARY – Shaw Media has promoted Christine Shipton to Senior Vice President, Content.
In this role, Shipton (pictured) will be responsible for the company's content strategy across all platforms, as well as overseeing the creation of Canadian original productions, acquisition deals for U.S. and international series, and scheduling for the company's conventional and specialty channels. A key focus of the position will be to ensure that Shaw is strategically evolving its content platforms and windowing rights amidst the ever-evolving media landscape, as well as forging key strategic partnerships to support the company's growing roster of large, international co-productions.
Prior to this…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media is asking the CRTC to licence an innovative new English-language specialty news channel called Global News 1 that promises to deliver local news on a national scale.
The company said Monday that the national, all-Canadian channel would incorporate local feeds in all 12 markets where Global currently operates conventional television stations, plus add local newsrooms to Fort McMurray and Red Deer, AB; Sault Ste. Marie, Niagara, Mississauga and Ottawa, ON; Quebec City, QC and Charlottetown, PE, where it says there is either no local television news or limited competition.
Unlike any other service, Global News 1 will feature a…
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CALGARY – Barbara Williams has been promoted to executive vice president, broadcasting and president for Shaw Media, Shaw Communications announced Tuesday.
In this role, Williams (pictured) will continue to reinforce Shaw Media’s position as one of Canada’s leading broadcasters while evolving to meeting the future audience and advertiser needs, reads the company’s announcement. A key focus will be to continue to strengthen the core business while at the same time transforming to meet the ever changing media environment.
Williams brings more than 25 years of experience in the media industry to the oversight of Global Television and Shaw Media’s 19 specialty…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications has finalized its acquisition of Denver-based call centre company ViaWest from Oak Hill Capital Partners and other shareholders.
The deal, announced in July, has an enterprise value of US$1.2 billion. Led by co-founder, president and CEO Nancy Phillips, ViaWest will continue to operate from its Denver headquarters as a stand-alone wholly owned subsidiary of Shaw.
"The ViaWest acquisition provides Shaw a growth platform in the attractive North American data centre sector and is another significant step in expanding our technology offerings for mid-market enterprises in Western Canada," said Shaw's CEO Brad Shaw, in the announcement. “We are…
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TORONTO – Finally putting an end to months of speculation over plans to launch a Canadian subscription video-on-demand service, Rogers Media and joint-venture partner Shaw Media announced the highly anticipated SVoD service, dubbed shomi, in Toronto on Tuesday.
Cartt.ca broke the story in January that Rogers was working on an over-the-top video portal, but despite being continually pressed on the subject, until today, Rogers execs wouldn’t comment publically on the service other than Rogers CEO Guy Laurence’s recent cryptic allusion to the “Loch Ness Monster”.
And Cartt.ca doesn’t want to take it personally that Rogers and Shaw decided to officially…
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TORONTO and CALGARY – Canada’s new subscription video-on-demand service showmi is coming to tablets, mobile, online, and Xbox 360 in early November for $8.99 per month.
The joint venture, owned equally by Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications, will launch in beta first to Rogers and Shaw Internet or TV customers. The service is being officially unveiled Tuesday in Toronto, and Cartt.ca will be there.
Featuring more than 11,000 hours of prior seasons of TV series like Modern Family, Sons of Anarchy, Sleepy Hollow, Shameless, 2 Broke Girls, Vikings, New Girl, 24: Live Another Day, Chicago Fire, The Strain, and American Horror Story, the service will…
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TORONTO – Rogers and Shaw are set to reveal their new over-the-top video portal, known as Showmi, at an event Tuesday morning in Toronto. According to our sources, the service could be ready to launch as early as November (but announcing it officially now, just prior to the CRTC television policy hearing, is no mistake).
As Cartt.ca was first report early this year, the service was conceived as the Canadian answer to Netflix or Hulu, a one-stop online space where TV and film content whose Canadian rights – owned by Rogers Media, Shaw Media, Bell Media and Cineplex – would…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications said Monday that it is expanding access to its Shaw Go WiFi guest network in Sault Ste. Marie, ON for the next few weeks.
Beginning immediately and continuing until September 14, all residents will be able to access Shaw's WiFi network at the almost 460 hotspots across the city for free, regardless of whether they are Shaw customers or not.
Residents who are not Shaw customers can connect to the network by selecting "ShawGuest" on the list of available WiFi hot spots at participating city facilities and following the steps to register their devices. Registration for the…
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