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Canadian advertisers buying more mobile, targeted ads

Canada's advertisers are placing more ads on mobile and “advanced TV” than their counterparts in the United States, digital video advertising company Videology Inc. said Monday.

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Canadians spending less time on mobile devices: poll

Canadians spent less time using their smartphones, tablets and e-readers this spring than they did a year earlier, according to a new poll by Ipsos Reid.

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Blue Ant to acquire CBC’s Bold

Blue Ant Media Inc. reached an agreement to acquire CBC/Radio-Canada’s digital specialty channel Bold, the broadcasters said Friday.

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CRTC approves multiplexing request

The CRTC has given independent broadcaster Southshore Broadcasting Inc. permission to multicast four digital signals of its CFTV Leamington over-the-air station, the commission said Friday.

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Multi-platform viewing key to Olympic broadcasting success: Hendren

CBC/Radio-Canada should model its coverage of the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games on the successful multi-platform efforts of this year’s London Summer Olympics, but may still have a hard time turning a profit, Gordon Hendren, president of Charlton Strategic Research Inc., says.

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New specialty channel would cater to Quebec diversity

The CRTC has approved a licence for a French-language, Category B specialty channel that would cater to Quebec’s diverse communities, the commission said Thursday.

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Distributors raise alarm over BCE-Astral interventions

Quebecor Media Inc., Cogeco Cable Inc. and Eastlink, a Bragg Communications Inc. subsidiary, asked Heritage Minister James Moore to throw out CRTC interventions from Telefilm Canada and an RCMP detachment that supported BCE Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Astral Media Inc.

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CRTC clears MLSE deal, orders increased benefits to sports programming

The CRTC has ordered BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. to spend $7.5 million over the next seven years to help finance independent sports-related programming, nearly doubling the value of tangible benefits the two companies proposed in their $1.32 billion acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE).

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CBC, Rogers team up on FIFA World Cup coverage

CBC/Radio-Canada and Rogers Communications Inc.-owned Sportsnet have put their assets together across all platforms to provide coverage for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, CBC said Tuesday.

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Wind boosts subs, ARPU in Q2

Wind Mobile added 41,000 subscribers during the second quarter by targeting high-value, postpaid customers, Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. said in a quarterly report released Wednesday.

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