TORONTO – Catholic network Salt + Light is launching in high definition on June 4 after recently moving to its new broadcast centre and studio in Toronto.
Produced and operated by Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation, the channel offers programs, event coverage, documentaries and other hope-filled content of relevance to Catholic viewers in both English and French, as well as select Chinese and Italian language programming.
Telus, Bell and Tbaytel are among the BDUs offering Salt + Light HD.
“We are thrilled to finally have enough support to make this important change and deliver on our viewers’ expectations of quality programming,”…
Continue Reading
Momentum building as company concentrates on connectivity
CALGARY – If you say “Yo, Adrian” to Shaw’s new Blue Sky TV voice-activated remote, every Rocky movie the system can find will be displayed on your TV – along with some suggestions of other titles you might like, alongside their Rotten Tomato scores.
It’s hard not to be impressed with such a neat trick, and it’s one which any Shaw Blue Sky TV customer can do in their homes, right now, thanks to the years and millions of hours of work done by thousands of Comcast Corp. developers. To this eye (or ear),…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL — BCE CEO George Cope described it as a “game-changing” offer in the television industry: a digital pay TV service without a set-top box, but Bell’s Alt TV offer seems to be the regular Fibe TV offer that’s less expensive and with fewer features designed to go after the cord-never market.
Available for now only to Bell Internet subscribers in Quebec and Ontario, Alt TV costs about 10% to 20% less than traditional TV, Cope said, with the basic service starting at $15 a month for 30 channels instead of $25. Additional channel packages are…
Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Register now for CommTech West which this year will take place May 31 – June 1 at the Sheraton Airport Hotel in Vancouver.
Join colleagues and clients at the pre-show golf tournament on May 30 at the Quilchena Golf & Country Club. Information and registration is available here.
CommTech West 2017 will provide a diverse line up of more than 20 technical sessions and workshops plus over 80 exhibiting companies. Attendee registration includes full access to the trade show, all sessions, lunches, beverage breaks, and free parking.
Telus continues to lend their strong support to the West show as a platinum…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Bell Media announced today that its authenticate streaming apps Space GO and Bravo GO now offer more programming to subscribers of its participating distribution partners.
Available on iOS and Android devices, as well as Space.ca and Bravo.ca, the Space GO and Bravo GO apps allows subscribers of Bell TV and Fibe, Bell Aliant, Rogers, Telus, and soon Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct, to watch hundreds of hours of premium content, offering full-season or multiple-stacked episodes, in addition to live streaming.
Non-subscribers can access a sampling of a selection of Space and Bravo programming.
“We are delighted to expand Bravo and…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Bell’s Virgin Mobile ranks highest in wireless customer satisfaction, followed closely by Telus’ Koodo Mobile and Videotron, says an annual study by J.D. Power & Associates released Thursday.
According to the J.D. Power 2017 Canadian Wireless Customer Care Study, customers who are delighted with their wireless carrier experience cite high rates of behaviours that demonstrate courtesy, concern and knowledge. Delighted customers also have much higher levels of loyalty and advocacy.
The study measured wireless customers’ perceptions of their carrier’s performance and is based on an online survey of more than 5,500 wireless customers in September-October 2016 and March 2017. Satisfaction…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – BlackBerry’s new Android smartphone, the BlackBerry KEYone, will be available in Canada next month at Bell, Bell MTS, Rogers, SaskTel and Telus Business.
BlackBerry’s global smartphone licensing partner TCL Communication said Thursday that the new device sports a sleek aluminum frame and soft grip textured back, a Smart Keyboard with customizable shortcuts and touch navigation, extended battery life, and a 12MP rear camera and an 8MP front camera.
The BlackBerry KEYone will start at $199 CAD on a two year term. Ahead of its May 31st official on-sale date, the device will be available for…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL – The acquisition of MTS combined with slowing television and Internet subscribers helped to pull down first quarter profits by 4.4%, BCE said Wednesday.
Net earnings fell to $725 million in Q1 while net earnings attributable to common shareholders dropped 4.0% to $679 million due to higher severance, acquisition and other costs and an increased average number of BCE common shares outstanding, both due to the acquisition of MTS. Excluding severance, acquisition and other costs, net losses or gains on investments, impairment charges and early debt redemption costs, adjusted net earnings increased 3.3% to $758 million.
Operating revenue was up…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Irwin Gotlieb’s company is in charge of a third of the world’s advertising budget and he came to Toronto last week to tell Canada’s broadcasters to get on with addressable advertising, measure better, and work co-operatively, or his company will soon be spending its clients’ money elsewhere.
In an appearance at the Future of TV Ads Conference Thursday at Steam Whistle Brewery and in an interview with Cartt.ca, the global chairman of Group M implored Canadian broadcasters – especially those with TV distribution arms as well – to follow the lead of much of the rest of the…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – While Joe Natale plans to spend Thursday with some of Rogers Cable’s technicians, and then visiting stores and call centres in the days after that “to see what it’s like to be our customer”, the new RCI CEO stressed yesterday that success begins by building the right corporate culture.
Speaking to the board, shareholders and employees during the company’s annual general meeting held in the Velma Rogers Graham Theatre at the company’s Toronto headquarters just hours into the start of his tenure, Natale stressed he has “an overarching belief that everything starts and ends with culture. It’s the…
Continue Reading
