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Venerable video feeling overlooked within bundle

TORONTO - "We just don't make you the priority we once did," said Rogers Cable vice-president, television David Purdy on Thursday afternoon during a panel discussion sponsored by CTAM Canada on marketing video in a getting-ever-more-crowded marketplace. It was part confession, part explanation by the Rogers executive who was outlining what all of the programmers and cable operators among the 100 or so in the audience (pictured below) already knew: With cable telephony growing so fast, Internet still a large part of the growth story and (for Rogers) massive ongoing wireless customer build out, that the far more mature aspect...