Rogers Cable customers upset about new Quickstart menu
Rogers Cable last week began the roll-out of its Quickstart menu to Digital Cable customers in Ontario.
The new menu, which Digital Home first told our readers about in November, is now spooling to select Rogers digital cables north and east of Toronto.
Revenues continue to climb at Cogeco
Cogeco, the nation’s fourth largest cable provider, today announced its financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year which ended November 30, 2009.
Despite the severe recession Canadians find themselves in, Cogeco said overall revenue for the quarter increased by 6.4% from the same period a year earlier to $328 million while operating income grew 6.2% to $63.6 million.
Rogers adds History TV HD and MovieTime to its lineup
Canwest Broadcasting announced today that History Television HD and MovieTime in standard definition are now available on Rogers Digital Cable.
MovieTime SD is available on channel 86 while History Television HD airs on channel 561.
Revenues at Canadian Cable companies continue to soar
Statscan released figures this week show that operating revenue for Canadian cable and direct-to-home satellite television companies totalled $10.3 billion in 2008, up a whopping 14.4% from 2007.
Despite the fact that Canada was in a recession in 2008, the industry still managed to rack up it’s third consecutive year of revenue growth in excess of 10%.
Platinum Starlight HDMI cable costs $1,000
If you are trying to put together the best and perhaps the most expensive home theatre system money can buy, you might want to consider the new BeoVision 7-55 LCD flat panel priced at $18,700and then you could hook it up to your Blu-ray player with Wireworld’s new Platinum Starlight HDMI cable.
The new one metre long Platinum Starlight HDMI V1.4 cable features molded carbon fiber connectors, the company’s 24-conductor DNA Helix design with solid silver conductors and a $1,000 U.S. price tag.
Rogers buying millions of shares in Cogeco
Rogers Communications Inc. announced today that it has entered into agreements to purchase 3,200,000 subordinate voting shares of Cogeco Cable Inc. and 1,623,500 subordinate voting shares of Cogeco Inc.
Rogers is Canada’s largest cable provider in Canada with just under 2.3 million basic cable customers while Cogeco is the country’s fourth largest cable provider with 865,000 basic cable cusomers.
Canada’s Largest Digital Service Providers
Digital Home routinely receives updates from Canada’s largest Video, Voice, data and wireless providers informing us how successful they have been in signing up new customers and pronouncing themselves the industry leader.
Every quarter, we bring this information together and find out which companies are Canada’s biggest video, voice, data and wireless service providers.
Now over 3 million cable phone subscribers in Canada
It has now been over four years since cable telephony first launched in this country and the number of Canadians receiving cable telephone service from Canada’s big four cable companies – Rogers, Shaw, Vidéotron and Cogeco – is quickly closing in on three million subscribers.
Using numbers published in the respective company’s most recent financial results, Digital Home has calculated that the big four cable providers now have 2,999,425 cable telephone customers up 23.5% from the same time in 2008.
