TORONTO — Mediapro Canada announced today OneSoccer, its dedicated soccer streaming service, will undertake its largest-ever production of a live sports event in Canada tomorrow for the Canadian men’s national soccer team’s FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Mexico at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.
OneSoccer is producing coverage of the match, part of the Concacaf Final Round of FIFA World Cup Qatar Qualifiers, for broadcasters in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, as well as multiple rights-holders worldwide.
According to a press release, nearly 100 technical and production crew members, working across three outside broadcast trucks at the stadium, will produce live…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC has officially denied the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and National Pensioners Federation’s (PIAC-NPF) procedural request to delay the hearing into the broadcast side of the deal between Rogers and Shaw.
PIAC-NPF had requested the hearing be delayed because of uncertainty around who was on the company’s board of directors, which arose when Edward Rogers, as chair of the Rogers Control Trust, decided to change five directors by written resolution – a move the company said was not valid. The matter ended up in front of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
In letters sent…
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TORONTO – Organizers of the Canadian Telecom Summit announced yesterday the moderator and panelists for the conference’s panel on what is next in spectrum policy.
The panel will be moderated by Rita Trichur (above), senior editor of The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business.
Panelists include Jacob Glick, vice-president of public policy at Telus, Ian Fogg, vice-president of analysis at Opensignal and Rupert Wood, research director at Analysys Mason.
The panel will take place Nov. 16 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET.
The Canadian Telecom Summit is happening as a hybrid event this year with the in-person portion being held at the…
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Focus now on Shaw as company tells CRTC hearing must proceed as planned
TORONTO – Rogers Communications Inc. announced Sunday evening it will not seek an appeal of Friday’s British Columbia Supreme Court ruling, which settled the matter of who is actually on RCI’s board of directors. This would seem to put an end weeks of drama over who controls the company.
On Friday, Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick ruled in favour of Edward Rogers, chair of the Rogers Control Trust, who was seeking orders related to the board changes he made by written resolution in late October, which were…
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BURLINGTON, Ont. — Cogeco Connexion, the Canadian cable subsidiary of Cogeco Communications, announced today it has hired Chris Burke as the company’s new vice-president of digital and analytics.
His appointment was effective Nov. 1.
Most recently, Burke served as vice-president of digital technology at Manulife’s Global Wealth and Asset Management business, “where he was in charge of the evolution of the technology that powers Manulife’s Global Digital ambitions,” reads a Cogeco Connexion press release.
“I am thrilled to welcome Chris into the Cogeco family,” said Frédéric Perron, president of Cogeco Connexion, in the release. “His over 25 years of expertise in…
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By Denis Carmel
When Vidéotron entered the wireless market, around 2010, it sought a deal with Rogers over the sharing of infrastructure and spectrum in Québec and Eastern Ontario. Rogers agreed.
So, discussions started, and a Network Operating Agreement (NOA) was signed in 2013 for 20 years. Yes, 20 years.
The purpose was to simply reduce costs on both sides and compete with Bell, which was the main operator in Québec at the time.
Bell and Telus reached a similar Canada-wide agreement in 2008.
But as Vidéotron gained market shares at the expense of Bell but also Rogers, and with the changes in the…
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You can’t fight public interest, he warns
By Amanda OYE
MONTREAL – Pierre Karl Péladeau (above) wants everyone to know Videotron is ready to expand outside Quebec.
“We’re not a Monday morning quarterback – we’ve been there, we’ve done that and we’re ready to go,” said Péladeau in an interview with Cartt.ca.
Péladeau is president and CEO of Quebecor, Videotron’s parent company, and has also been president and CEO of Videotron since June.
Videotron got into mobile back in 2006 when it “started as an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) on Rogers’s network,” he said.
“We, at that time, thought that we would need…
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VANCOUVER – In his capacity as chair of the Rogers Control Trust, Edward Rogers filed documents in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Tuesday in a move towards establishing the validity of his version of the board of Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI).
In his petition, Mr. Rogers asks the court to declare “the written consent resolution dated October 22, 2021, signed by the shareholders holding at least two-thirds of the Class A Voting Shares of RCI is valid and effective.” This would resolve the issue of there currently being two boards claiming to be the one and only RCI…
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TORONTO — Mediapro Canada announced today its dedicated soccer streaming service OneSoccer will broadcast exclusive live coverage of the Canadian Championship semi-finals, featuring two matchups between Canadian Premier League (CPL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) teams battling for spots in the final and a chance to win the coveted Voyageurs Cup (above).
The first semi-final between reigning CPL champion Forge FC of Hamilton, Ont., and current Canadian Champion CF Montréal of the MLS will take place Oct. 27 at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton. Mediapro Canada will be onsite to produce live coverage for broadcast on OneSoccer and on Fox…
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TORONTO — Organizers of the Canadian Telecom Summit today announced the moderator and participants for a panel discussion on 5G, cloud and edge innovation that will take place during the upcoming event being held from Nov. 15-17.
Globe and Mail reporter Alexandra Posadzki (above) will moderate the session titled “5G, Cloud and Edge Innovation to advance the Digital Economy across Multiple Industries”. Panellists include: Zouheir Mansourati, senior vice-president and chief technology officer of Cogeco; Ibrahim Gedeon, chief technology officer of Telus; Robin Kaushik, vice-president of digital services at Ericsson Canada; and Vanessa Little, global chief of technology at Interdynamix.
The panel…
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