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CBC gets support on consult delay request
Media | 05/24/2023 5:33 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada has received several letters of support in its attempt to delay a mandated consultation with Indigenous peoples from the 2022-2023 broadcast year until the 2023-2024 broadcast year.
In an intervention from the National Campus and Community Radio...
CBC asked to prove claim of Indigenous ‘consultation fatigue’ by May 29
Media | 05/23/2023 12:23 pm EDT
In a back-and-forth between CBC/Radio-Canada on when the broadcaster should have to launch a consultative process with Indigenous peoples as part of the CBC’s conditions of...
CBC asks for more time for Indigenous consultation
Media | 04/20/2023 2:25 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the CRTC to give it more time before holding a required consultation with...
CBC funding absent in budget 2023; gov. cracking down on telecom fees
Internet and Governance | 03/28/2023 6:44 pm EDT
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
Supreme Court to hear appeal by CBC and other media
Media | 03/16/2023 2:14 pm EDT
Thursday the Supreme Court announced it was allowing an appeal by a group of media into the unsealing of...
Bell and Telus being “difficult” in MVNO negotiation: PKP
Media | 02/23/2023 4:58 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
UPDATED: Senate passes C-11; Rodriguez expects C-11 to become law next week
Media | 02/02/2023 7:17 pm EST
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year to the day since it was first introduced in the House of Commons.
The vote passed Thursday...
Senate committee completes work on Bill C-11
Media | 12/09/2022 5:15 pm EST
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after...
Heritage committee finishes clause-by-clause study of C-18
Media | 12/09/2022 5:03 pm EST
The House of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage finished...
CBC to stay in Bill C-18
Media | 12/06/2022 6:29 pm EST
Despite concerns about CBC/Radio-Canada muscling private media out of competition for advertising dollars in the news sector, the House of Commons Heritage committee defeated...
Facebook threatens to leave Canada, MP wants it to testify on C-18
Media | 10/25/2022 4:08 pm EDT
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that...
Senator wants to amend Online Streaming Act to deal with CBC
Media | 09/28/2022 11:31 am EDT
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a...
CBC licence renewal sent back to CRTC for not meeting objective of Broadcasting Act
Media | 09/22/2022 5:28 pm EDT
The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...
Tories take aim at future of CBC in leadership race
Media | 08/29/2022 3:37 pm EDT
The CBC/ Radio-Canada’s English services may have a target on its back, depending on who wins the...
In petitions to GiC, broadcasting stakeholders upset of lack of local news requirements for CBC
telecom | 08/12/2022 5:06 pm EDT
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
AG won’t fight CMPA’s application for leave to appeal CBC license
Media | 08/11/2022 3:22 pm EDT
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself in an application for judicial review to which it is a party over the CRTC's renewal of the...
CMPA files petition to cabinet on CBC license
Media | 08/08/2022 6:57 pm EDT
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
PIAC, pensioners want cabinet to overturn CRTC’s CBC licence renewal
Media | 08/05/2022 3:45 pm EDT
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
CRTC grants CBC flexibility for push to digital
Media | 06/22/2022 6:45 pm EDT
The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...
Canadian politicians condemn Russian shuttering of CBC Moscow bureau
Media | 05/19/2022 4:13 pm EDT
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the...
CBC license administratively renewed, full decision to come by late June
Media | 03/29/2022 3:56 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's broadcasting license through Aug. 30 of this year, over a year after the regulator held hearings into the...
Marla Boltman to head up Friends
Media | 02/02/2022 12:19 pm EST
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has...
Broadcasting Accessibility Fund award $371k to four projects
Media | 12/03/2021 4:57 pm EST
The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund is awarding some $371,000 to four new...
CRTC issues consultation for several broadcasting applications
Media | 10/05/2021 4:06 pm EDT
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
Broadcasting regulation debate at electoral standstill as advocates, industry react
Media | 09/14/2021 7:16 pm EDT
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
Singh says he’ll oppose Rogers-Shaw merger
Media | 09/10/2021 2:46 pm EDT
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
The Wire Report’s guide to the 2021 federal election
Media | 08/17/2021 2:35 pm EDT
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
Heritage launches consultation on digital platform revenue sharing for news sector
Media | 08/03/2021 6:03 pm EDT
Canadian Heritage is seeking input on how best to compensate the news...
CRTC dismisses Quebecor complaint of CBC undue preference
Media | 08/03/2021 5:22 pm EDT
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
CRTC reports drop in broadcast revenue for 2020
Media | 07/16/2021 5:38 pm EDT
With advertising revenues battered by the pandemic -- particularly the second half of the year -- the CRTC Friday reported widespread drops in broadcast revenues for the 2019-2020 year, with total revenues coming in at over $15.7 billion.
The commission’s report...
CRTC approves station’s local content exemptions for Olympics and license revocation
Media | 06/18/2021 4:38 pm EDT
The CRTC has approved an application from CBC...
CRTC report floats idea of Indigenous content quotas
Media | 03/25/2021 7:43 pm EDT
The CRTC has released the findings from its first phase in the development of a new Indigenous...
CBC seeks local content exemptions for Olympics
Media | 03/25/2021 5:09 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada is once again asking the CRTC to temporarily relieve it of its local programming and described video obligations for the period of this year’s Tokyo Olympics. In its part 1 application to the CRTC, posted...
Tait again calls for digital flexibility
Media | 02/09/2021 4:30 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait doubled down on its request for greater flexibility to spend on...
CBC defends its digital switch, terms of trade reluctance
Media | 01/28/2021 6:01 pm EST
On the final day of three weeks of CRTC hearings into CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal, the public broadcaster Thursday tried to push back against some of the criticism levelled at it by intervenors.
CBC's digital spending does not degrade its news coverage, and the...
CMPA wants CRTC to stand firm on terms of trade with CBC
Media | 01/27/2021 6:13 pm EST
The Canadian Media Producers Association has called on the CRTC to force...
PIAC, CMG criticize CBC’s request for digital flexibility
Media | 01/26/2021 6:13 pm EST
The new digital initiatives from CBC/Radio-Canada like the English-language Gem and its French counterpart ICI Tou.tv have not yet shown themselves to be good enough to fulfill the broadcaster's...
Directors, writers demand CBC transparency on digital spending
Media | 01/25/2021 6:18 pm EST
To begin the third and final week of the CRTC's hearings on CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal, organizations representing the directors and writers for Canada's film and television industry have...
Péladeau calls for CBC to be banned from advertising, charging for content
telecom | 01/19/2021 5:31 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau has called on the CRTC to recentre...
Advocates call for end to digital media exemptions for CBC
Media | 01/18/2021 5:40 pm EST
The advocacy group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has called on the CRTC...
Tait defends Tandem initiative at CRTC hearing
telecom | 01/18/2021 11:20 am EST
On the final day of the first week of CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal hearing before the CRTC, CBC...
CBC explains decision to cut local broadcasts
telecom | 01/12/2021 7:16 pm EST
On the second day of the CRTC's hearings into the CBC/Radio-Canada license renewal, CBC executives detailed the lead up to the broadcaster’s much-criticized decision to cut local news broadcasts across the country in the early...
COVID impact on CBC not as significant as expected, Tait says
Media | 01/11/2021 6:20 pm EST
The COVID-19 pandemic dropped CBC/Radio-Canada’s revenues by 11 per cent,...
CBC refuses to provide CRTC information about diversity of production staff
Media | 12/18/2020 2:59 pm EST
In the lead up to its license renewal hearings in January, CBC/Radio-Canada has declined to provide the CRTC with statistics about the diversity of its in-house production staff. Following a procedural request from the non-profit Community Media Advocacy Centre in November, the regulator requested details about the numbers of women, Indigenous people, people from racialized groups, LGBTQ2 people, and people with disabilities working on CBC/Radio-Canada productions in key roles, including...
Senator proposes Broadcasting Act amendment banning branded content on CBC
Media | 12/14/2020 5:39 pm EST
Prince Edward Island senator Percy Downe has announced that he will introduce an amendment that will prevent CBC/Radio-Canada from publishing or broadcasting sponsored content. Following on from...
CRTC says Tandem can be discussed at CBC licence renewal hearing
Media | 12/11/2020 4:49 pm EST
The CRTC will not open a new Part 1 or consultation in response to a letter from a number of ex-CBC/Radio-Canada employees criticizing the public broadcaster’s new branded content scheme, Tandem. ...
CBC employees pen open letter, petition gov. seeking CRTC investigation of branded content
Media | 12/09/2020 5:38 pm EST
Impatient with the progress of a month-old Part 1...
Former CBC employees ask CRTC to investigate branded content
Media | 11/13/2020 5:44 pm EST
A group of former CBC employees have asked the CRTC to look into CBC/Radio-Canada sponsored content program Tandem. The Friday Part 1 application, which is not yet available on the regulator’s...
CRTC asks CBC to provide info about diversity of its production staff
Media | 11/11/2020 4:39 pm EST
In anticipation of CBC/Radio-Canada’s January license renewal hearings, the CRTC has requested that the broadcaster collect file information about staff diversity on its productions. In a letter to CBC executive director of corporate and regulatory affairs Bev Kirshenblatt, the commission asked the broadcaster to provide statistics about the number of individuals from marginalized groups who held key roles (such as producers, editors, directors, writers, and lead performers) on all CBC...
CBC putting branded content initiative on ‘pause’
Media | 10/07/2020 11:08 am EDT
The branded content initiative launched by CBC/Radio-Canada last month has been put on hiatus while the...
Broadcasters sign up to BIPOC hiring directory
telecom | 10/05/2020 6:41 pm EDT
Canada’s largest broadcasters have committed to making the use of a Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) hiring database a prerequisite to giving original productions the green light. The broadcasters are...
Back to Parliament: your (pandemic) preview
Media | 09/22/2020 12:43 pm EDT
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
Broadcasting sector reacts to O’Toole victory
Media | 08/24/2020 6:19 pm EDT
The election of Erin O'Toole as federal opposition leader late Sunday night makes "the threat of CBC...
New date set for CBC licence renewal hearing
Media | 06/23/2020 11:45 am EDT
The CRTC has renewed CBC/Radio-Canada’s license for a year until September 2021, and delayed the...
CBC board gets two new directors
Media | 06/05/2020 4:58 pm EDT
The federal government has appointed two individuals to the board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada. Sandra Mason and Bill Tam will join the board for five-year terms, according to a Thursday press release from Canadian...
Change CAVCO system to highlight Canadian culture, former CBC VP says
Media | 05/28/2020 5:22 pm EDT
Canada should follow Britain’s lead and change the system it uses to classify productions as Canadian content, Richard Stursberg, former head of CBC/Radio-Canada’s English services, said at a...
Watchdog Friends calls for emergency media fund
Media | 04/06/2020 2:43 pm EDT
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has urged the federal government to help prominent media outlets facing...
CBC suspends local newscasts during COVID-19 pandemic
Media | 03/19/2020 4:28 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada has temporarily suspended its English-language local TV newscasts in all locations bar the North, as it opts to consolidate programming into one national news program during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement on Wednesday, the CBC’s general manager of news Susan Marjetti said the consolidated newscasts at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. would integrate journalism and coverage from its specialty news channels, local CBC stations and its The National program. In the statement, Marjetti said “extraordinary times require extraordinary measures.” “We are needed now more...
O’Toole calls for deep CBC cuts
Media | 02/14/2020 5:54 pm EST
Conservative Party leadership hopeful Erin O’Toole has called for CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding for its digital and english-language television department to be slashed, declaring the national broadcaster is “stuck in the...
BTLR panelist ‘optimistic’ about CBC funding
Media | 01/30/2020 6:12 pm EST
OTTAWA — Whether or not CBC/Radio-Canada can move away from advertising revenue is a “political...
Guilbeault promises BTLR legislation in ‘months’
Media | 01/30/2020 12:53 pm EST
OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says his government will introduce legislation to...
BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov’t implementation
Media | 01/29/2020 5:32 pm EST
OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report...
Broadcasters opposed to STB measurement system proposal
Media | 12/18/2019 6:12 pm EST
Several independent broadcasters have written to the CRTC to say the regulator shouldn’t grant a request by TV providers to change a rule forcing cable and IPTV services to hand over viewership data. Currently, TV service providers are working on a set-top box viewership measurement system, the implementation date of which has been delayed due to factors including an attempt by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to withdraw from the group. There is currently both an active and a suspended condition of licence on the implementation of the system. The active COL requires the system -- which...
Donald Lizotte moves to CBC from Quebecor
Media | 11/04/2019 12:25 pm EST
Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and...
Creative groups lobbying for tax credits on content development
Media | 09/03/2019 5:44 pm EDT
Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal is lobbying both the Alberta and Ontario...
CRTC commissioning research on global public broadcasters
Media | 07/29/2019 12:54 pm EDT
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
Without independence, CBC would be ‘state broadcaster’: Tait
Media | 05/31/2019 2:36 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The spectre of past Conservative government cuts to...
Re:Sound seeks to double CBC radio royalties to $3M a year
Media | 05/14/2019 5:54 pm EDT
An organization representing sound recording rights holders wants to...
Canadians want more money for CBC, don’t trust OTTs to support CanCon: Poll
Media | 05/13/2019 5:18 pm EDT
Almost 60 per cent of Canadians have “low trust and confidence” in Netflix Inc. to “protect Canadian culture and identity on television”; half of Canadians don't trust cable companies to do...
Accessibility groups ask BTLR for legislative changes, new advisory office
Media | 03/07/2019 4:31 pm EST
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be...
Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC to broaden children’s programming
Media | 03/01/2019 4:54 pm EST
The Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC/Radio-Canada to expand its focus on children’s content to reflect a broader age range and is asking for new communications legislation to ensure it has the funding...
Distributors ask for Canadian film exhibition quotas on broadcast, OTT
Media | 03/01/2019 12:11 pm EST
Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel reviewing Canada’s communications legislation. “Non-Canadian broadcast undertakings like the foreign-owned OTTs need to be required to commit to buying and streaming Canadian content, and in particular, Canadian feature films as well as contribute to the Canadian cultural eco-system,” CAFDE...
Monique Marcotte retiring from CBC
Media | 02/28/2019 2:25 pm EST
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when...
Double CBC funding, CMG tells communications review
Media | 02/22/2019 3:59 pm EST
The real value of the funding CBC/Radio-Canada receives has slipped significantly due to inflation, the...
Trish Williams joins CBC
Media | 02/11/2019 3:21 pm EST
Trish Williams is moving from Temple Street Productions to CBC/Radio-Canada, where she will be CBC’s new executive director of scripted content.
Starting this week, she...
Former CBC president Lacroix joins law firm
Media | 02/04/2019 12:59 pm EST
Former CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix has joined the business law firm Blake, Cassels &...
CBC president likens Netflix to colonialism
Media | 01/31/2019 4:27 pm EST
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to the damage done by European colonialism, comments she made at a high-profile industry event Thursday where representatives from every sector of Canadian...
Daniel Boudreau moves from TVA to CBC
Media | 01/21/2019 2:54 pm EST
Daniel Boudreau, previously vice-president of TVA productions, operations and technology, is leaving the Quebecor Inc. broadcasting division to become executive vice-president of media technology and infrastructure services at...
Platforms could pull out of Canadian market if regulated: Google
Media | 01/16/2019 2:17 pm EST
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...
CBC calls for site-blocking provisions for ‘manipulated content’
Media | 01/11/2019 4:09 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...
CBC’s head of sports Greg Stremlaw to leave
telecom | 01/08/2019 12:37 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada’s head of sports Greg Stremlaw is leaving the public broadcaster at the end of the...
Michel Bissonnette to be interim CBC vice-president
Media | 11/28/2018 5:02 pm EST
Michel Bissonnette, the executive vice-president of Radio-Canada, has been named interim head of CBC,...
Most content pirates have TV subscriptions: MTM
Media | 11/15/2018 5:19 pm EST
More than half, or 59 per cent, of Canadians who pirate TV and movie content also have a TV subscription, according to a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM). “This likely indicates that pirating content has to do...
Broadcasters ‘perfectly positioned’ to leverage podcast boom
Media | 11/08/2018 6:43 pm EST
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...
Heather Conway leaving CBC
Media | 11/05/2018 1:18 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada’s executive vice-president of English-language services, Heather Conway, is leaving the public broadcaster next month, the Crown corporation announced...
CBC names new ombudsman
Media | 11/02/2018 5:22 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada has named Jack Nagler its new English services ombudsman.
Nagler, who is currently CBC’s senior director of journalism, replaces Esther Enkin in the role.
“Our ombudsperson helps demonstrate the importance that we place on ensuring accuracy, integrity, balance, impartiality and fairness in our journalism,” CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait said in a press release Thursday.
“Jack’s experience and deep commitment to journalistic ethics make him the perfect person to uphold our commitment...
Steve Ladurantaye leaving CBC for Scottish broadcaster STV
Media | 10/15/2018 12:52 pm EDT
Steve Ladurantaye is leaving CBC/Radio-Canada after two and a half years at...
Only 3% of anglophones subscribe to sports streaming: MTM
Media | 10/11/2018 5:42 pm EDT
While services like Perform Group’s Dazn and Rogers Communications Inc.’s Sportsnet Now have been emerging in recent years, they “haven’t yet caught on in the Anglophone market,” Media...
Ad sales up 6%, but CBC still wants out of ‘softening’ ad market
Media | 10/11/2018 4:14 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada saw a nearly six per cent boost in its total ad revenue...
Broadcast, telecom acts review panel kicks off consultation
telecom | 09/25/2018 5:31 pm EDT
OTTAWA — The expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
Feds paid $190,000 in late-fees to telecoms: documents
telecom | 09/21/2018 6:31 pm EDT
The federal government spent at least $190,600 on late-payment fees and interest charges to telecom companies since September 2016, according to documents tabled recently in Parliament.
The bulk of the payments went to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc., who made at...
CBC appoints new OTT content director
Media | 08/24/2018 4:08 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada has appointed Gave Lindo to lead the public broadcaster’s over-the-top (OTT) content...
Telecoms ask to intervene in SCC workplace safety case
telecom | 08/10/2018 4:56 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. are among a number of organizations...
Canadians using multiple devices, but adoption leveling off: MTM
Media | 06/08/2018 6:29 pm EDT
According to the latest data from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitoring (MTM) project, 35 per cent of English-speaking internet users in Canada continue to own four types of electronic...
Nantel accuses Joly of holding cultural sector ‘hostage’
Media | 06/07/2018 1:23 pm EDT
NDP Heritage critic Pierre Nantel took Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to...
Luce Julien named executive director of Radio-Canada news
Media | 05/25/2018 3:24 pm EDT
Luce Julien, a 23-year veteran of CBC/Radio-Canada, will become...
Radio listening drops, very slightly: MTM
Media | 05/25/2018 2:45 pm EDT
A new Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report says 87 per cent of anglophone Canadians reported listening...
NFB, Bell Media, V Media content coming to Tou.tv OTT service
Media | 05/08/2018 1:49 pm EDT
Three French-language broadcasters will make their content available on the...
New CEO’s content background indicates shift at CBC: experts
Media | 04/03/2018 5:19 pm EDT
OTTAWA — Catherine Tait’s appointment as head of CBC/Radio-Canada is...
Radio-Canada asks broadcasters ‘to pool our strengths’ on OTT, content
Media | 03/16/2018 10:02 am EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada is in negotiations over opening up its French-language Tou.tv over-the-top (OTT) service “to other broadcasters, producers and creators,” said Michel...