Publication: Cartt.ca

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Jim Pattison Group buys western radio stations from Bell, Astral

KAMLOOPS, B.C. – The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group announced today it has acquired three FM radio stations owned by Bell Media and Astral located in Calgary and Winnipeg.Pattison will purchase Bell Media’s Kool FM 101.5 (CKCE-FM) in Calgary, FAB 94.3 (CHIQ-FM) ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 17 2013]

Entities: Jim Pattison, Jim Pattison Group, Radio Station, Winnipeg

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

AllPhones

Newly launched stores helps Glentel's Q1 sales soar, but profits remain flat

BURNABY, B.C. – Strong sales at its existing and more recently acquired retail operations in Canada, the U.S. and Australia fuelled a 106% increase in first quarter sales for wireless retailer company Glentel Inc. compared to the same period last yea ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 17 2013]

Entities: Glentel Inc, Canada, AllPhones

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Discovery 2013 OCE confab features new mobile showcase

TORONTO – Some of Ontario’s best and brightest minds will be showing off their newest ideas, innovations and solutions at the eighth annual Discovery 2013 innovation conference and tradeshow at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre May 27 and 28.Describing ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 17 2013]

Entities: Océ, Invention, Peter Diamandis

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Time to get your Cable-Tec game on with SCTE Ontario; win a trip to Atlanta

MISSISSAUGA, ON – Registration is now open for any eager technicians wishing to compete in SCTE Ontario chapter’s 9th annual Cable-Tec Games to be held on June 6, 2013.The Cable-Tec Games are a round robin format where contestants are marked based on ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 17 2013]

Entities: Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Atlanta, Splicing

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Rogers Communications Inc

Rogers offers $350 million in senior notes

TORONTO – Rogers announced that its subsidiary, Rogers Communications Finance Inc., has rolled out an offering of US$350 million in senior notes due 2013.The notes are priced at US$1,000 per $1,000 principal amount. In addition, holders who sell on or ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 17 2013]

Entities: US 1 Industries Inc, Rogers Communications Inc, Tender Offer

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission

IDNR-TV not giving up on must-carry dream

MONTREAL – IDNR-TV (Natural Resources TV) is hoping a new survey that shows six in ten Canadians would support free access to the channel devoted to the nation’s natural resources industry will provide sufficient proof to the CRTC that it deserves to ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 17 2013]

Entities: Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications ..., Fermont (Canada), Quebec, Gross Domestic Product

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

TELUS Corporation

Telus agrees to buy Mobilicity

VANCOUVER – Telus and Mobilicity announced today that, pending some government and debtholder approvals, Telus will acquire Mobilicity for $380 million.If the deal receives the required approvals, it would ensure continued service to Mobilicity’s 250,000 ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 16 2013]

Entities: TELUS Corporation, Industry Canada, Mobilization, John Bitove, Competition Bureau

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Industry Canada kicks off its TV white space implementation plan

OTTAWA - To a packed room in a downtown Ottawa hotel, Industry Canada and the Radio Advisory Board of Canada (RABC) held a stakeholder meeting to kick off a consultation on the department’s TV White Space implementation plan. Seventy industry and government ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 16 2013]

Entities: Industry Canada, Database, Federal Communications Commission, Canada, Interference

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Bell/Astral II: No safeguards good enough to protect industry from already-too-big Bell, say replies

GATINEAU – In their final written submissions to the CRTC on the proposed purchase of Astral Media by Bell Canada, various interveners say there are no words, no new rules the Commission can write which will sufficiently protect the Canadian TV system ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 16 2013]

Entities: Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications ..., Cogeco, Jean-Pierre Blais, TELUS Corporation

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Rogers boosts connectivity of Toronto colocation centre

TORONTO – Rogers Business Solutions announced it has completed a point-of-presence (PoP) deployment that will boost the connectivity capability of Cologix’s new data centre on King Street West in downtown Toronto.Cologix is a network neutral interconnection ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 16 2013]

Entities: Toronto, data services, Montreal, Vancouver

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Netflix drives a third of peak internet traffic, doubles its share on mobile networks: report

WATERLOO, ON – Streaming video and audio continues to dominate as our “real-time entertainment” source of choice – and we’re also getting more comfortable with watching them from all kinds of devices, especially our smartphones.That’s according to a study ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 16 2013]

Entities: Sandvine, Netflix Inc, iPad, Apple Inc, iPod

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Astral's Harold Greenberg Fund supports 27 English-language projects

TORONTO – Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund announced today it will fund 27 new and ongoing projects through its script development program.“Our latest round of script development support represents a cross-section of genres and filmmaking teams, both emerging ... [Published Cartt.ca - May 16 2013]

Entities: Harold Greenberg, Sarah Polley, Niv Fichman, Patricia Rozema, Hubert Davis

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"While a necessary outcome of our plan to join with Astral, the decision to sell these stations wasn't easy" said Bell Media president of radio and local TV Chris Gordon...

Jim Pattison Group buys western radio stations from Bell, Astral [Published Cartt.ca - May 17 2013]

"So at the end of the day we have to assume that if, while we’re under dual status with the Commission and under contract with the BDU, and they would take us off of basic and we are not in any of the marketing content that they have provided to the public… We think that's an indication of where things may go if we don't have protection,” concluded Greco."

9(1)(h) COMMENTARY: Maybe the CRTC should impose a penetration rate based card on the whole industry [Published Cartt.ca - May 16 2013]

...the flexible packaging scheme that Bell said it offered them to increase consumer choice, its penetration based rate card? Useless, the CCSA said. "Out of 115 companies, only five have adopted any of the penetration-based rate cards" said president and CEO Alyson Townsend...

Bell/Astral II: More new rules won't save us from Bell's might, says CCSA [Published Cartt.ca - May 10 2013]

...which also refused to suggest safeguards to the Regulator because it felt there is no reasonable alternative but to shut the deal down entirely. "It's not sufficient to adopt a less arrogant tone and show a minimum of respect toward regulatory authority so that it will give its approval to a transfer of broadcasting assets whose value exceeds $2 billion and whose impact goes beyond all understanding" Dépatie continued

Bell/Astral II: Quebecor says there's no way to make it work [Published Cartt.ca - May 10 2013]

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