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TORONTO, November 30, 2006 –Bell
Canada and Transcontinental Media today announced the availability
of TV Guide television listings, programming updates
and other new online television content at Sympatico.MSN.ca,
Canada’s most popular online destination.
Montreal-based TV Guide publisher Transcontinental
Media recently announced its plans to transform the venerable
TV Guide magazine into a free web-based publication
at www.tvguide.ca.
Available across Canada at Sympatico.MSN.ca, the new TV Guide
online publication offers timely and detailed television listings,
region-specific programming lineups and updates, and the same
highly-consulted and original editorial content, entertainment
news and commentary readers have come to rely on from Canada’s
most recognized and trusted brand for TV information.
“Daily users of Sympatico.MSN.ca will find TV Guide’s
detailed TV listings, news and entertainment features a perfect
match to the current menu of in-depth and timely editorial
coverage of celebrities, music, sports, entertainment and
TV news available on Sympatico.MSN.ca,” said Gary Anderson,
Vice President, Consumer Internet Service at Bell.
“TV Guide has served Canadians as the leading
source of TV listings and entertainment news for the last
30 years, and will continue to do so as it evolves with the
online landscape,” said Natalie Larivière, President
of Transcontinental Media. “Aligning Canada’s
most respected source for TV listings and information with
the country’s number-one Internet portal is a win-win
partnership. We’re thrilled to work with Bell to make
our unique www.tvguide.ca
offering part of the wealth of information services available
to Canadians at Sympatico.MSN.ca.”
Visitors to www.tvguide.ca
will discover unique editorial content– print and video
– which includes an ‘Ask The Expert’ section
for everything you want to know about TV, from theme songs
to who played a second-string recurring character, as well
as TV trivia, DVD reviews and TV ratings where Canadians can
compare their viewing habits to what Americans are watching.
www.tvguide.ca
also includes unique editorial and video content:
- News: Updates on television watching and television
shows including schedule changes, castings and new shows,
as well as interviews with TV stars and video interviews;
- Soaps: News and video interviews with soap stars
as well as daily snapshots of soap storylines;
- Reality: Video exit interviews with contestants
who’ve been booted off a show as well as weekly updates
on the major reality shows;
- Comments: Twice a week, senior TV Guide
writer and critic Greg David will post a column to spark
a dialogue with readers, and invite them to share comments;
- Daily Watercooler: A look at last night’s
most talked about shows: what was great, what was terrible,
did the show just jump the shark?
About Sympatico / MSN
Sympatico.MSN.ca is Canada's most popular online destination
with 19 million unique visitors experiencing its entertainment,
information and communication services a month. The portal
brings together Bell Sympatico's Web content and broadband
services with MSN's popular Hotmail, Messenger and Search
services. Bell Sympatico is Canada's leading ISP, while MSN
and Windows Live Messenger are used by more Canadians than
any other instant messaging service and MSN Hotmail is the
leading Web-based email service. Sympatico.MSN.ca also delivers
exclusive content to Sympatico High Speed Internet service
subscribers, as well as value-added services such as MSN Premium.
About Transcontinental Media
The fourth-largest print media group in Canada, with more
than 3000 employees and annual revenues of $555 million
in 2005, Transcontinental Media is the country’s leading
publisher of consumer magazines and of French-language educational
resources as well as being the largest publisher of community
newspapers in Eastern Canada. It publishes the weekday daily
Métro in Montreal, owns a number of digital
business units, and is also, through Publi-Sac, Quebec’s
leading door-to-door distributor of advertising material.
Transcontinental Media is a subsidiary of Transcontinental
Inc. (TSX: TCL.A, TCL.B), which has more than 14,000 employees
in Canada, the United States and Mexico and reported revenues
of C$2.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) in 2005.
About Bell Canada
Bell Canada is Canada’s national leader in communications
with 28 million customer connections across the country.
The company provides consumers with simple solutions to all
their communications needs, including telephone services,
wireless communications, high-speed Internet, digital television
and voice over IP. Bell also offers integrated information
and communications technology (ICT) services to businesses
and governments, and is the Virtual Chief Information Officer
(VCIO) to small and medium businesses (SMBs). Bell is proud
to be a Premier National Partner and the exclusive Communications
Partner to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter
Games. Bell is wholly-owned by BCE Inc. For information on
Bell’s products and services, please visit www.bell.ca,
and for corporate information on BCE, please visit www.bce.ca.
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For media inquiries, please contact:
Paolo Pasquini
Bell Canada Media Relations
416 581-3311
1 888 482-0809
paolo.pasquini@bell.ca
Jake Brennan
Transcontinental Inc.
Media Relations Coordinator
Telephone: (514) 954-4000
jake.brennan@transcontinental.ca
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