- Bell surpasses 2.7 million total TV customers in the third
quarter of 2015: Next generation Fibe TV has made Bell the #1
television choice of Canadian consumers
- Canada's best TV service keeps getting better: Enhanced Restart
goes back in time, Trending shows you what Canada is watching and
lets you join right in
MONTRÉAL, Nov. 4, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ - Bell today announced
that fast-growing popularity of Fibe TV has made Bell TV the
largest provider of television services in Canada for the first time, with more than 2.7
million TV customers across the country.
"Bell has transformed into a broadband communications growth
company in recent years, and becoming Canada's favourite TV
provider is proof of our ongoing progress. The best TV service
available, Fibe TV is next generation technology that enables the
innovative new features that are bringing more and more consumers
to Bell TV," said George Cope,
President and CEO of BCE Inc. and Bell
Canada. "As Bell celebrates our 135th year of
providing the world's best communications to Canadians, the new
broadband networks we're building today are sparking innovation,
transforming our company and ensuring Canada's leadership in
advanced communications."
Coupled with Bell's longstanding leadership in communications
research & development, the broadband Fibe and Atlantic Canada
FibreOP networks are delivering both cool TV features to consumers
that are unavailable from any other provider, and all-new ways of
watching TV across multiple platforms with both Bell TV and Bell
Media.
Even more Fibe TV innovation
In its most recent
Customer Interaction Metric study released in October, Nielsen
Consumer Insights found that Bell's Fibe TV and FibreOP TV in
Atlantic Canada were the top 2 TV
services most recommended by customers in Canada1.
Product innovation has been the key to Fibe TV's popularity, and
Bell recently announced the exclusive new Restart feature on Fibe
TV, which for the first time enabled Canadian TV viewers to start
live TV shows already in progress from the beginning. Now, Restart
has been enhanced to let viewers go back in time to watch and
Restart shows that aired in the previous 30 hours.
Also new is Resume, which lets you change channels while
replaying a show, change back to the original channel, and pick up
where you left off, and Suggestions, which offers customized
viewing recommendations for video on demand.
Trending is a unique new Fibe TV service that will immediately
list the 5 most-watched shows in Canada in both English and French at any given
time. Viewers can easily switch to them to watch live or Restart
from the beginning.
"Canadian television is a competitive and fast-changing sector
and Bell is embracing the challenge and the opportunity with the
best viewing options across every platform and a dedication to
being first with the new TV features that consumers want," said
Rizwan Jamal, President of Bell
Residential and Small Business. "We're dedicated to delivering
Canada's best TV experience with unmatched flexibility and
convenience for consumers."
TV innovation in the home and on the go
The Fibe TV
app launched earlier this year revolutionized the viewing
experience by bringing the full power of Fibe TV to mobile devices.
Available at no extra charge to Fibe TV customers, the Fibe TV app
provides the most robust mobile TV experience available anywhere –
300+ live channels at home, more than 170 live channels on the go,
and over 13,000 hours of on-demand programming anytime,
anywhere.
To enhance the moveable TV experience in the home, the Fibe TV
app is also pre-loaded on the new Samsung Galaxy View, a highly
portable 18.4" (46.7 cm) Full HD touchscreen that is WiFi enabled
for video streaming and web browsing, offering consumers the
opportunity to turn every room in the house into a TV room. The
Samsung View is available in Canada exclusively from Bell starting
November 19.
Innovations from Bell Media
With more than 50 viewing
apps now available, Bell Media is at the forefront of delivering
premium live and on-demand content to users through set top boxes,
online, on mobile devices and emerging platforms.
The company's innovative GO video streaming services, including
TMN GO, TSN GO, Super Écran GO and the recently announced Discovery
GO, bring content to platforms such as iOS, Android, Apple TV,
Samsung Smart TVs, Windows 8, and Blackberry 10. Earlier this year,
CTV GO became the first Canadian TV Everywhere service to support
Google Chromecast while Discovery GO service will include 4K
content.
Bell Media has also announced that the CraveTV on-demand video
streaming service will be available direct to all Canadian
consumers with Internet access in January
2016.
Ongoing leadership in Canadian communications
R&D
In its annual ranking of Canadian Research &
Development released this week, Research Infosource Inc. confirmed
Bell as the R&D leader among communications providers,
investing $546 million to develop new
broadband products and services in Canada in 2014 alone.
For more information, please visit Bell.ca/FibeTV.
About Bell
Bell is Canada's largest communications
company, providing consumers and business customers with wireless,
TV, Internet, home phone and business communications services.
Bell Media is Canada's premier multimedia company with leading
assets in television, radio, out of home and digital media. Bell is
wholly owned by Montréal's BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE). For more
information, please visit Bell.ca.
The Bell Let's Talk initiative promotes Canadian mental health
with national awareness and anti-stigma campaigns, like Clara's Big
Ride for Bell Let's Talk and Bell Let's Talk Day, and significant
Bell funding of community care and access, research, and workplace
initiatives. For more information, please visit
Bell.ca/LetsTalk.
Media inquiries:
Jason Laszlo
Bell Media Relations
905 614-6602
jason.laszlo@bell.ca
@Bell_News
1 Findings based on data collected by
Nielsen through Bell Customer Interaction Metric research
between September 10 and 30, 2015 for
the Canadian residential market using custom online panel
research.
SOURCE Bell Canada