CALGARY – Shaw Communications announced this morning that it is resigning from the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association ("CCTA") effective today.
“As the telecommunications and broadcasting industries evolve, it is becoming increasingly clear that the member companies of the CCTA have divergent interests and differing strategic objectives making it difficult to build industry-wide consensus on various issues. Shaw believes that it will be better served by pursuing its own strategies and developing its own objectives without the added burden of seeking industry consensus,” says the Shaw release.
It’s not immediately known at this point what the long-term future is for…
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CALGARY – The Shaw family today continued their practice of buying shares of the company JR Shaw founded.
The family announced today it purchased a million class B non-voting shares (judging from the trading price this afternoon of about $24.08, that’s a $24 million spend). CEO Jim Shaw has said in the past the family believes the share price is too low and intends to keep on purchasing shares periodically.
The Shaw family – or entities controlled by them – holds 23,009,624 Shaw Communications class B non-voting shares, or just over 11% of the total outstanding.
The family owns…
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CAMPBELL RIVER and CALGARY – As of Wednesday afternoon, 10,000 Campbell River TV customers were still without most of their TV channels.
As reported by cartt.ca yesterday, Shaw Communications, which owns both networks that CRTV relies on for distant signals, had shut off the microwave system delivering U.S. over-the-air signals and had cut off access to most other Canadian TV signals delivered by Shaw satellite division Cancom.
The problem, says Shaw, is that CRTV is encouraging customers to go to the town of Courtenay – a Shaw Cable region about 45 kms south – purchase digital set top boxes there…
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CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Shaw Communications to restore the TV signals to Campbell River TV.
Due to an acrimonious dispute over digital cable set top boxes, outlined in several stories here on www.cartt.ca throughout this week, Shaw (which owns both the microwave system feeding CRTV its distant U.S. broadcast signals and Cancom, which feeds the cable co-op its U.S. and Canadian specialty services) turned off most of the TV channels of CRTV customers.
CRTV immediately sought a court order and this morning, the court ordered Shaw to “restore to…
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CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – As general manager Jim Forsyth feared, Shaw Communications revealed the depth of its anger Tuesday afternoon and shut down most of the distant TV signals for Campbell River TV.
“We’ve been disconnected by Shaw from just about everything. The microwave system has been turned off and all of our digital services are off and the vast majority of our satellite channels are off,” Forsyth told www.cartt.ca Tuesday evening.
CRTV is preparing a court injunction to force Shaw to turn its Cancom feeds and microwave distribution back on, said Forsyth, who added Shaw executives have yet…
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CALGARY and CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – Jim Forsyth can’t understand why Shaw Communications is so upset.
The Campbell River TV general manager was reacting to a press release sent out late Monday by Shaw Communications where the second-largest MSO in the country, and largest overall Canadian digital TV supplier said it “would pursue all legal remedies against Campbell River TV to stop the fraudulent practice of directly or indirectly acquiring Digital Cable Terminals from designated Shaw retail outlets,” says the press release.
“Shaw has learned that Campbell River TV is once again directing its customers to purchase Digital Cable…
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KELOWNA – Shaw Communications announced today the availability of Shaw High-Speed Xtreme-I in Kelowna, Vernon, Penticton and Kamloops, B.C.
"This turbo-charged service is perfect for customers whose Internet experience includes online gaming and exploring rich multimedia sites. They can now enjoy the ultimate, most vivid online service available for as little as $10 more per month,” said Shaw president Peter Bissonnette.
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CALGARY – Shaw Internet customers now have another way to share their digital photos with the introduction of the company’s latest Internet enhancement, Shaw Photo Share.
"The digital photography revolution continues to be one of the biggest phenomena in personal computing, and we’ve built a service that allows our customers to get the most out of it,” said Peter Bissonnette, president of Shaw Communications, in a release.
Using Shaw Photo Share, customers log in at photoshare.shaw.ca and select digital pictures to be uploaded. Photo Share automatically resizes the selected pictures and then provides the sender with an option to…
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CALGARY – Shaw Communications became the first BDU in Canada to add Turner Classic Movies to its channel lineup, both on Shaw Cable and Star Choice.
TCM has actually been on the eligible satellite list for about eight years but because of movie copyright ownership issues, Canadian cable and satellite companies have been reluctant to carry a channel which would then need to be blacked out often.
However, executive vice-president Tom Karsch told www.cartt.ca in an interview on Tuesday that the channel has been working on new deals to gain the North American rights to its classic movies (primarily…
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CALGARY – To the chagrin (but maybe not the surprise) of Canadian broadcasters, Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw said Thursday that pushing digital cable is not at the top of the company’s priority list.
During its quarterly conference call with financial analysts to discuss its third quarter results, Shaw was asked why its strategy when it comes to marketing digital cable is so different when compared to Rogers. While Rogers carries just about every channel under the sun and strongly markets digital cable, Shaw has been far more reluctant to add many of the new category two channels…
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