Monday, April 4, 2011

Bell Mobility announces enhanced Mobile TV service featuring live and on-demand access to the leading names in Canadian media

Bell Mobility announces enhanced Mobile TV service featuring live and on demand access to the leading names in Canadian media Bell Mobility announces enhanced Mobile TV service featuring live and on demand access to the leading names in Canadian media

Bell Mobile TV

Bell today announced an enhanced Mobile TV service from Bell Mobility featuring live and on-demand access to greatly expanded content from CTV, TSN, RDS and other top brands in Canadian news, sports and entertainment media from Bell Media. Available on both smartphones and tablets, this wealth of new high-demand content complements Bell Mobile TV’s already industry-leading content line-up, which includes exclusive major-league hockey, football and soccer sports broadcasts available only on Canada’s best network.

“We’ve combined the unparalleled coverage, quality and reliability of Canada’s best broadband mobile network with top-rated content from the leading names in Canadian sports, entertainment and news media,” said Wade Oosterman, President of Bell Mobility and Bell Residential Services, and Bell’s Chief Brand Officer. “We’re offering Canadians a mobile media package unmatched in this country and we believe worldwide. With Bell, Mobile TV just got better.”

Bell Mobility’s enhanced Mobile TV package is just the latest step in Bell’s multi-screen strategy to deliver the best Canadian and international media and other broadband data services to smartphone, tablet, computer and TV screens.

Bell Mobile TV content and pricing

The new content from Bell Media includes greatly increased live sports content from TSN, TSN2 and RDS, the most-watched English and French language specialty channels in Canada; new live content from CTV News Channel and MTV; and on-demand content from The Comedy Network, including the Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Bell Mobile TV’s sports line-up now includes access to a greatly enhanced roster of major league hockey, Canadian and American football, golf and motorsport. Bell is already the mobile sports leader with unique content from the NHL, Montreal Canadiens, NFL and Whitecaps MLS soccer as well as professional cricket and football leagues. Only Bell Mobile TV customers have enjoyed full mobile access to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Super Bowl XLV, the Cricket World Cup and the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Bell Mobile TV Sports: $5 per month for 10 hours (includes data charges) of expanded TSN, TSN2 and RDS live events, NHL games and other content, including Centre Ice; additional Montreal Canadiens content; NFL games and other content, including NFL Red Zone and NFL Network; and Vancouver Whitecaps.

Bell Mobile TV Variety: $5 per month for 10 hours (includes data charges) of expanded live CTV News Channel and BNN – Business News Network; live MTV; live RDI; on-demand content from The Comedy Network; CBC News Network; Tou.tv; Treehouse; YTV, and bpm.tv.

Bell Tablet TV: $10 per month for 10 hours (which includes all data charges) specifically designed for tablet users, including TSN, RDS, CTV News Channel, BNN, CBC News Network / RDI, Tou.tv, Comedy Time, Bite TV, Aux tv, bpm.tv and NDTV.

Bell Mobile HBO: $5 a month for 10 hours, including data charges, of full-length on-demand content from HBO.