The Wire Report is the leading news service covering Canada's rapidly converging telecom and media sectors.

Our business news service dedicates its pages to the most important stories affecting these sectors and provides timely, exclusive coverage of business, technology, regulatory and policy developments for decision makers, policy analysts, consultants, regulatory and legal staff, financial analysts, news media and academics across the country.

Since the launch of The Wire Report at the start of 2010, this premium, online news service has quickly become the most authoritative and respected in its niche.

The Wire Report digs into important business, technology and competition issues. With an Ottawa office steps away from Parliament Hill and just across the river from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, we also keep a keen eye on regulatory developments at the CRTC, the Copyright Board, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, Industry Canada’s spectrum management branch, Canadian Heritage, and the House of Commons and Senate.

Our editorial team covers daily news but also conducts original, independent reporting on regulatory documents, data, interviews, and other sources. This leads to news stories that routinely scoop our competitors.

Here are a few examples of stories The Wire Report reported first and exclusively:

• "CBC Music ad revenues a fraction of the service's costs, CBC says" (Oct. 4. 2012)
• "Pandora says it will not enter Canada under proposed 'per play' royalty rate" (Oct. 1, 2012)
• “Bell has lost $2B on satellite TV distribution” (April 4, 2012)
• “Bell turns to CRTC after Montreal's Outremont district rejects fibre rollout” (March 7, 2012)
• “BitTorrent says its new protocol eliminated 80-90% of p2p congestion” (March 29, 2012)
• “Telus tops TV subscriber growth in 2011; Shaw, Rogers, lose subs” (March 9, 2012)
• “Rogers says London 'pick-and-pay' trial drew new customers, revenues” (April 3, 2012)
• “Reproduction, communications royalties for song downloads total $7.5M annually: Estimate” (Jan. 3, 2012)
• “Von Finckenstein would like to stay on in 2012, sources say” (Aug. 25, 2011)
• “Secret 'piracy report' at the centre of Quebecor's piracy lawsuit against Bell” (Nov. 10, 2011)
• “CBC can't meet new 2012 digital deadline, intends to ask for another extension” (Aug. 29, 2011)
• “Copyright Board says it is aware of 'problematic' delays” (Aug. 15, 2011)
• “Federal Court of Appeal justice considers sending matter back to CRTC” (June 1, 2010)
• “EU stepping up pressure to change Canadian copyright: EU Commission document” (Jan. 17, 2010)
• “Provinces criticized for reporting 100 per cent broadband access” (Aug. 25, 2010)
• “Google, Yahoo, concerned about Bill-C-32 'enabler' provision” (Aug. 27, 2010)

The Wire Report's website represents the largest and only dedicated archive of its kind in Canada, with a searchable collection of news reports from 2000 to today.

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Hill Times Publishing Inc.

The Wire Report is owned by Hill Times Publishing Inc., which in late 2009 acquired the news service’s four historic titles, Canadian New Media (digital media), Network Letter (telecom), Canadian Communications Reports (broadcasting), and Report on Wireless (wireless).

Hill Times Publishing is an independent publishing company in Ottawa, Ont., which specializes in niche news services. The company also publishes The Hill Times, Embassy, Parliament Now, and The Lobby Monitor.

The Wire Report Editorial Team

Simon Doyle is the editor of The Wire Report and has worked as a journalist in Ottawa covering politics and policy since 2005. For about three years he was deputy editor of The Hill Times. Simon hails from the Ottawa Valley and holds a B.A. in history from the University of Toronto and an M.J. from Carleton University. He wrote his master’s thesis on the copyright lobby.

sdoyle@thewirereport.ca | @sdoyle333

Nicholas Kyonka is a staff reporter and assistant editor at The Wire Report. He holds a B.A. in political science from Carleton University with a double-concentration in Canadian politics and international relations. He also holds a journalism diploma from Humber College. A Toronto native, Nick has worked for the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun and recently as a legislative assistant on Parliament Hill.

nkyonka@thewirereport.ca | @nkyonka

Danika Grenier is a staff reporter at The Wire Report. She holds a B.A. in English and communications from the University of Ottawa as well as a journalism diploma from Algonquin College. She likes to write about telecommunications, broadcasting, politics, Parliament, arts and entertainment.

dgrenier@thewirereport.ca | @djgrenier