Source Cable (formerly known as Southmount Cable Limited) is one of three main
cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with bro ...
service providers for the city of
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a Canada 2016 Census, population of 569,353, and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington, ...
. The other two are
Rogers Cable (in the former
Mountain Cablevision /
Shaw territory) and
Cogeco. Each company has a
monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a speci ...
on traditional cable service in a specific part of the city of Hamilton (but all three compete with
Bell Fibe TV and the two national satellite providers); Source Cable's service area is south of Limeridge Road to the end of the original Hamilton city limits (south, east and west), and the newer urbanized areas in the south of Rymal Road into the former Glancaster.
On October 23, 2014, it was announced that the Source Cable had agreed to be acquired by
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media ass ...
for $160 million. The transaction was completed at the end of the year and Source Cable Limited was merged into another Rogers subsidiary on January 1, 2015, ceasing to be a separate corporate entity.
However, Rogers has continued to use the "Source Cable" brand in that company's former service area as Rogers begins the integration process.
Rogers announced on April 15, 2021 that they would phase out the Source Cable name in order to migrate former subscribers to the Rogers Ignite TV service. The transition is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.
See also
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Cable 14
References
External links
Source Cable
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Cable and DBS companies of Canada
Internet service providers of Canada
Companies based in Hamilton, Ontario