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Rogers reconsiders: WPBS staying in Ottawa

July 30, 2009 @ 13:17 By: gordon Category: Current affairs, General, In the news, Seen on the 'net

WPBSlogonew03.jpgFans of WPBS can breath a sigh of relief. According to the WPBS-TV website earlier today, Rogers is not going to be pulling WPBS from its Ottawa lineup afterall.

“We are pleased to be able to share this news with our viewers”, said Tom Hanley, President and General Manager of WPBS-TV.  “Together with Rogers, we have found a solution to continue to deliver programming to our friends in Ottawa through a reliable fibre connection.”

Clearly the backlash was greater than Rogers had anticipated because just a couple of days ago they were saying they were still committed to their plan.

Frankly, this is the best thing Rogers could have done from a public relations point of view because it lets them say “See? You spoke and we listened”, which huge companies like them rarely get to do. I noticed last night that channel 66, which was their Your World This Week promotional channel, is now carrying the Detroit PBS station, which is something I suggested to Rogers when I called them a few days ago. (I don’t know whether this is a permanent change because the cable lineup on the Rogers website still show YWTW as being on 66, but when they’ve promo’d other channels on 66 in the past they didn’t change the tag from YWTW.)

Congratulations to WPBS-TV on remaining part of the Ottawa community! And a tip o’ the hat to Rogers for showing that they still do listen to their customers. And a special tip o’ the hat to everyone who showed their support and complained to Rogers. 🙂

Update: CBC’s coverage of this.

3 Responses to “Rogers reconsiders: WPBS staying in Ottawa”


  1. Ken says:

    Perhaps that was their plan all along. After all, if people don’t say anything, then Rogers can say “Hey, we warned you, and you didn’t say anything”. If they “reverse” their decision, then they can say, as you’ve suggested “Hey, we listened.”

    Either way, Rogers wins.

    • gordon says:

      That thought had crossed my mind. However, they didn’t warn their Ottawa customers that they were thinking of changing the lineup like this.

      It’s a win-win situation, I guess. 🙂

  2. trashmo says:

    *yawn*
    Never heard of Watertown till now… guess this is one of those diffs between we imports and you townies….


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