TORONTO – Shaw Media has tapped digital media measurement and research company Rentrak to provide on-demand audience measurement services for its Global Television Network and Food Network Canada.
"With on-demand advertising now part of Shaw Media’s broadcast sales offering, the granular data available through OnDemand Essentials will be invaluable as we seek to best understand the performance of our networks on the platform," said Errol Da-Re, Shaw Media’s SVP of sales, in the announcement.
Rentrak will provide daily, census-level on-demand data via its OnDemand Essentials service.
“We are proud to be working with Shaw Media as they utilize Rentrak’s third party reporting to…
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TORONTO – After unveiling the schedule of new shows for its Global TV network, Shaw Media patted itself on the back for what it described as its “continuing commitment to the Canadian television production industry”.
The company said Tuesday that it has 15 new scripted dramas planned for the next year, which it describes as more than any other Canadian broadcaster. Global TV plans to air Combat Hospital, a second season of Rookie Blue, The Firm, Bomb Girls and Titanic, while Showcase will air second seasons of Lost Girl, King and Haven, as well as World Without End, based on…
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CALGARY – This will shake things up among broadband providers and their customers.
On Wednesday evening, Shaw Communications met with customers in four cities – Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg – to show that the company has heard their complaints about usage-based billing and data caps by unveiling an expansive overhaul of its broadband plans.
Bit caps are up huge across the board for Shaw customers, including two unlimited broadband plans, others with 250 to 750 GB limits and another coming soon with a Terabyte limit.
The new broadband plans were created after the company listened to hundreds of its customers during…
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CALGARY – Shaw has unveiled a new home entertainment and networking service that offers customers a shared home PVR and the ability to share pictures and content from their computer onto their television.
Called Shaw Gateway, the service includes a PVR that supports the recording of up to six programs at once, while playing back up to three previously recorded HD programs, a new program guide with enhanced search and content filter capabilities, access to video-on-demand titles through a TV storefront, live events with Shaw Pay Per View and on-screen video games. In the coming months, the technology platform will also…
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TORONTO – Shaw Media announced last week that Andrew Eddy has joined Shaw Media as vice-president of content and distribution. He will be a member of the Shaw Media Management Team and will report to president Paul Robertson.
“Andrew brings over 20 years of media experience, most recently as vice president of content distribution and strategy for Corus Entertainment, where he was responsible for distribution strategy and sales for both linear and non-linear programming for specialty and premium television,” noted Robertson’s introductory e-mail to staff.
Eddy reported to Robertson when the latter was president of Corus Entertainment’s TV division before he…
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TORONTO – The Shaw Family continued their buying spree, after entities owned or controlled by them snapped up an additional 250,000 Class B non-voting shares of Corus Entertainment last week.
According to information provided to the company, the Shaw Family, and entities owned or controlled by them, holds 7,715,667 Class A voting shares and Class B non-voting shares combined of Corus.
Founded by JR Shaw, the Toronto-based media and entertainment company was built from the media assets originally owned by Shaw Communications, and spun off as a separate, publicly-traded company in 1999.
www.corusent.com
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CALGARY – Shaw has bumped up speeds on its base Internet package in what it describes as the first step in its new Internet packaging that will be announced in early summer.
The company said Wednesday that starting immediately, its Shaw Extreme package will be upgraded from 15 to 25 Mbps download, and from 1 to 2.5 Mbps upload at no extra cost to consumers.
"It’s an exciting time at Shaw as we begin to create a world-class Internet product, giving our customers the ultimate experience in connectivity and entertainment," said president Peter Bissonnette, in the announcement. "The Shaw Extreme speed…
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CALGARY- Shaw Communications announced Wednesday the Shaw Family, and entities owned or controlled by them, completed the purchase of an additional 1,000,325 class B non-voting shares of the company.
According to information provided to the company, the Shaw Family, and entities owned or controlled by them, holds 51,586,354 class A and class B shares of the company. The Shaw Family also advised the company that it would continue its practice of purchasing shares on a regular basis.
The company’s class B shares closed at $19.65 on Wednesday.
www.shaw.ca
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OTTAWA – Shaw Communications has asked the CRTC to drop the requirement that Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct be kept structurally separate.
In an application filed with the Commission, Shaw calls the 14-year old regulations “unnecessary in view of Canada’s competitive market for broadcasting distribution.” The rules were first introduced in 1997 when Shaw acquired DTH service Homestar, later christened Star Choice, and now known as Shaw Direct. At that time, they were designed to ensure that no undue preference or advantage passed between the company’s DTH service and Shaw’s cable business.
Shaw says those rules now “discriminate" against Shaw Direct,…
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CALGARY – Facing serious competitive attacks on the TV front as well as rapidly developing global wireless technologies, Shaw Communications said today it is putting the brakes on its wireless network build.
"The competitive environment has moderated revenue growth this year in our core business and presented an increased level of risk to our forecast,” said company CEO Brad Shaw in the company’s press release announcing its quarterly financial results on Wednesday morning.
"With the rapid development of wireless technology, including long-term evolution ("LTE") options, and the dynamics within the wireless industry evolving at a swift pace, we are currently…
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