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Super Bowl attracted 8 million viewers: BCE

This year’s Super Bowl attracted an average audience of eight million people in Canada, making it the second-most watched Super Bowl ever in the country, BCE Inc. said Monday.

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TSN gains additional Major League Baseball rights

BCE Inc.’s TSN said Monday it has secured the Canadian rights for national coverage of Major League Baseball games for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights in a deal that will last until 2021.

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Big ISPs warn against mandatory wholesale for all-fibre networks

Canada’s largest Internet providers are launching an early offensive against potential new rules that could require them to give their smaller competitors access to their fibre-to-the-home network infrastructure, regulatory documents show.

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Christian music radio station in New Brunswick approved

The CRTC on Monday said it has approved the sale of a Saint John, N.B., radio station that will result in its format changing to Christian music.

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Bell says small-business client info hacked

BCE Inc. on Sunday said a breach resulted in 22,421 user names and passwords belonging to its small-business customers being posted online during the weekend, along with five valid credit card numbers. 

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CRTC writes to distributors about simultaneous substitution

The CRTC has written letters in recent weeks to four television distribution companies, urging them not to blame the commission for simultaneous substitution and telling them it’s the responsibility of distributors and broadcasters to ensure substitutions are “done correctly.”

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