Coordinates | 44°25′57″N26°6′14″N |
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company name | Cogeco Inc. |
company logo | |
company type | Public |
traded as | |
foundation | Trois-Rivières, Quebec (1957) |
location | Montreal, Quebec |
key people | Louis Audet (President and CEO), Jan Peeters (President and CEO, Chairman of the Board), Pierre Comtois (CIO and Vice Chairman of the Board) |
industry | Media and Communications |
products | Cable TV, Internet, Telecommunications, Broadcasting |
revenue | $746.9 million CAD (2006) |
operating income | $253.1 million CAD (2006) |
net income | $23.1 million CAD (2006) |
num employees | 2,415 (2008) |
parent | None |
slogan | Life's just better with cable |
subsid | Cogeco Cable (Ontario & Quebec), Cogeco Radio-Television, Cabovisão (Portugal) |
homepage | www.cogeco.ca |
footnotes | }} |
Cogeco Inc. () is a Canadian media and communications company. The corporation first entered the television business in the mid-1950s with the launch of a Radio-Canada affiliate in Trois-Rivières, CKTM-TV. Later the company expanded with the creation of CKSH-TV in Sherbrooke, a radio network and diversification in the cable television industry. Until 2008, Cogeco co-owned the TQS network (now "V") with CTVglobemedia, as well as eight television stations affiliated with both TQS and Radio-Canada. TQS and its five owned-and-operated stations were sold to Remstar Corporation, and the Radio-Canada affiliates were sold directly to Radio-Canada, in 2008. Cogeco is the largest cable company in Canada not owning any terrestrial TV outlets (Rogers Communications owns Citytv and Omni, and also Quebecor-owned Vidéotron also owns the TVA network with several O&O; stations and an independent station in Toronto).
Through its broadcast holdings, Cogeco Cable () is a major cable television distributor offering analogue and digital television, as well as high-speed Internet services and VoIP telephony. It is the second largest cable system operator in both Ontario and Quebec, (respectively behind Rogers & Vidéotron), and the fourth largest in Canada.
Starting in 2006, Cogeco Cable began the process of overhauling their Ontario & Quebec-based Hybrid fibre-coaxial physical plant networks to expand the total amount of bandwidth available. The ability to offer expanded 2-way bi-directional services such as High Definition digital cable, High-Speed Internet and VoIP Digital Telephony and to improve network reliability is the driving force behind this upgrade.
After upgrades are complete, the Ontario network will have 750 MHz of bandwidth and the Quebec network will have 550 MHz of bandwidth. With this capacity, a total of 110 or 83 analogue channels (depending on the network) can be transmitted. Given that each analogue channel occupies 6 MHz of bandwidth, Cogeco utilizes the latest compression, multiplexing and modulation technologies to be able to transmit up to 13 Standard Definition TV signals or else up to 3 High Definition TV signals on each of these channels.
Cogeco Cable utilizes Motorola and Pace set-top boxes (STB's) for delivery of their digital cable services:
Standard Definition STB's:
High Definition STB's:
Since April 2009, Cogeco has implemented a cost penalty for surpassing the bandwidth limits for each tier, for standard this is $1.50 per 1GB to a maximum of $30 monthly. Cogeco sometimes but frequently fails to e-mail a warning at 85% and 100% of their combined bandwidth limit. A three-month history is available online.
Since January 2010, Cogeco has offered a 50Mb/s download speed in select areas which takes advantage of the new DOCSIS 3.0 platform upgrades. This platform takes advantage of 4 downstream data carriers and a special DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem to provide top speeds in North America with capabilities of over 250Mb/s
In many areas, Cogeco maintains a de-facto regional monopoly on cable internet service.
As of October 16, 2006, 70% of all homes passed by Cogeco Cable plant are able to access this service.
Cogeco also owned the now-defunct CKO radio network after acquiring AGRA subsidiary Cybermedix in 1989; the network and its stations went dark in November of that year.
The sale of the Corus Québec stations to Cogeco has been approved by the CRTC on December 17, 2010, on the condition that Cogeco-owned CJEC-FM and Corus-owned CFEL-FM and CKOY-FM (since re-called CJTS-FM) be sold to another party by December 2011.
The sale did not include CKRS-FM in Saguenay, which is being sold to a local company, Radio Saguenay.
The stations acquired were:
On January 13, 2011, competing broadcaster Astral Media announced that they will seek legal action to stop the sale of these stations to Cogeco, citing the fact that it would own more stations than Astral in the Montreal market, making the competition unfair. Cogeco chief executive Louis Audet said that he expects the transaction to close by February 1, and that the case filed by Astral is "without merit and the company will vigorously challenge them with a view to having them dismissed by the court."
The five TQS O&Os; which were owned by Cogeco were acquired by Remstar as part of the TQS transaction:
Concurrently, Cogeco also sold its three Télévision de Radio-Canada affiliates directly to the CBC:
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