COGECO CABLE LAUNCHES ANIME NETWORK ON DEMAND ON DIGITAL CABLE
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For immediate release
Cogeco Cable Launches Anime Network On Demand on Digital Cable
Montreal, November 7, 2006 – Cogeco Cable announced today the launch of Anime Network On
Demand, a new Subscription Video On Demand service. Anime Net work On Demand is available to
Cogeco Cable Ontario Digital Cable customers starting today and will be offered to Québec Digital
Cable customers soon.
"Anime Network on Demand is exclusive to Dig ital Cable and we’re delighted to include it as part of
our exciting Cogeco On Demand line-up," said Ron Perrotta, Vice President, Marketing at Cogeco
Cable. "We are committed to offering our customers the TV experience they are looking for. With
Cogeco On Demand, they can play, pause, stop or fast forward their favourite programs. Video On
Demand services prove once more how Digital Cable is the most advanced, interactive, and
convenient technology available today for Canadian television subscribers."
Launched in North America in late 2002, Anime Network On Demand is America’s #1 Anime
Channel, reaching more than 40 million households with thousands of hours of exciting, eye-
catching serialized programming. It’s an entire anime library at your fingertips, everything from brand
new shows to old school classics, giant robots to magical girls and even dubbed and subtitled
programming! You can see the original series Gatchaman! It’s the show that started some of your
childhood favourites like Battle of the Planets and G-Force.
Anime Network On Demand can be found on channel 246 and is available for $6.99 per month,
starting today for Ontario Digital Cable customers, and in the weeks to come for Québec customers.
ABOUT COGECO CABLE
Cogeco Cable (www.cogeco.ca), a telecommunications company offering a diverse range of
services to its customers in Canada and in Portugal, is the second largest cable operator in
Ontario, Québec and Portugal in terms of the number of basic service customers served. The
Corporation invests in state-of-the-art broadband network facilities, delivers a wide range of
services over these facilities with great speed and reliability at attractive prices, and strives to
provide both superior customer care and growing profitability to satisfy its customers’ varied
electronic communication needs. Through its two-way broadband cable infrastructures, Cogeco
Cable provides its residential and commercial customers with analog and Digital Television and
audio services, High Speed Internet access as well as Telephony services. The Corporation
provides about 1,556,000 revenue-generating units (RGU) to approximately 1,477,000 homes
passed in its Canadian service territory and 629,000 RGUs to approximately 826,000 homes
passed in its Portuguese service territory. Cogeco Cable’s subordinate voting shares are listed
on the Toronto Stock Exchange (CCA).
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Information: Marie Carrier
Director, Corporate Communications
Tel.: (514) 874-2600