CALGARY – Setanta Sports’ professional soccer and rugby from the English Premier League, the Rugby World Cup and the Aussie Football League will be available beginning this weekend to Shaw Digital Cable and Star Choice customers.
The Setanta International Sports Pak includes over 600 professional and international soccer games and over 450 international rugby matches not available on other Canadian sports channels, according to the company. Viewers can follow some of the world’s most popular soccer teams with Setanta including Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea.
"With soccer participation and interest in North America at an all time high,…
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CALGARY – Some of its customers will probably say "finally" as Shaw Communications announced today it will add the NHL Centre Ice package to its viewing options on Shaw Digital Cable and Star Choice DTH.
The NHL Centre Ice package consists of at least 1,000 regular season and selected play-off games from the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Centre Ice customers will have access to over 40 games per week drawn from a variety of regional and national networks in Canada and the U.S. In addition, over 200 games in the Centre Ice package will be…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Shaw Cable has received partial approval from the CRTC to air some kinds of commercials on its video on demand service.
The commission has approved Shaw’s application to show programs containing commercial messages when the program has already aired in Canada on a Canadian channel. It’s also allowed to charge a fee to subscribers to watch those programs containing commercials.
But the regulator denied Shaw’s request to show programs with commercials that had already aired in Canada but on a non-Canadian channel that’s on the list of eligible foreign satellite services.
The decision applies to Shaw’s wholly…
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TORONTO – Rumours in the media that Rogers Communications Inc. is considering merging with Shaw Cable are just that, says RCI president Ted Rogers.
Reporting on the idea is “just plain irresponsible” and “completely theoretical diatribe,” Rogers told analysts today during a company conference call on second quarter earnings.
“We have a lot on our plate,” Rogers said. “We are in as good a shape as we’ve ever been” and the company is focusing on smaller acquisitions and has “no appetite for dilutive transactions.”
“We do not have any active file on Shaw,” Rogers said. “I would be hard-pressed to call…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications’ basic cable subscribers increased by 3,289, digital and Internet customers grew by 20,875 and 27,873, respectively, digital phone lines were up by 51,128, and Star Choice customers increased by 5,337 in the third quarter of fiscal 2007, ended May 31st.
That means the company, as of May 31, has 2,228,898 basic subs, 747,431 digital cable customers, 1,421,899 high speed Internet customers, 877,899 DTH subscribers and 343,753 VOIP customers.
Consolidated service revenue improved 12.1% and 12.7%, for the three and nine month periods over the comparable periods last year to $702.2 million and $2.06 billion, respectively….
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications shareholders approved the company’s proposed two-for-one stock split of its outstanding class A participating shares and class B non-voting participating shares late yesterday.
The split will be effective as of the close of business on July 30, 2007.
Shareholders of record on the 30th will keep their current share certificates and will be provided with additional share certificates representing the class A participating shares and class B non-voting participating shares to which they are entitled as a result of the stock split.
The shares will begin trading on a divided basis on those exchanges, respectively,…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – With the Commission’s report on what ails the Canadian Television Fund due out tomorrow afternoon (the CRTC under the new chair sure is speedy these days!) Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw sent a letter to CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein making it quite clear his feelings on the whole matter.
Shaw, and then Videotron, both suspended their payments to the fund this past winter thanks to a number of long-standing complaints. Mr. Shaw said then and since that because the money was coming from Canadians through their cable and satellite companies they should have better…
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CALGARY – In the face of a chipper AGM report from the Canadian Television Fund, Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw remains displeased over how the CTF is run.
Thanks to a serious amount of pressure put on the Minister for Canadian Heritage, Bev Oda, and the CRTC by Shaw – and then Videotron – when the two companies pulled their funding from the CTF early this year, the Commission created a special panel headed by broadcasting vice-chairman Michel Arpin.
The panel is examining everything about the CTF, top to bottom, front to back and will file its…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Citing the "questionable business practices" of independent cable co-op Campbell River TV Association, Shaw Communications declined earlier this year to renew the contract of its Shaw Pay-Per-View service with the small cable company.
When Shaw made it known to CRTV that the contract would not be renewed, the co-op filed a complaint with the CRTC under section 6.1(1) of the Pay Television Regulations, 1990, which prohibits a licensee from giving an undue preference to any person, including itself, or subjecting any person to an undue disadvantage.
While CRTV said the PPV or VOD options available to it…
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CALGARY – Proposed changes to bylaws coming at next week’s annual general meeting of the Canadian Television Fund "seems to fly in the face of common sense," says a tersely-worded letter sent Friday by Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw to the fund’s chair Douglas Barrett.
Shaw noted that while Star Choice received notice of the meeting, Shaw Communications did not and that after looking at what the organization has planned for the June 12 meeting during the Banff World Television Festival, "(w)e were surprised that you and the board of the CTF have decided to pursue an aggressive and…
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