CBC/Radio-Canada has paused its deal with Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Video Service, as the broadcaster promises to offer French-language news content on its Tou TV site....
OTTAWA–The Bloc Québécois is denouncing CBC/Radio-Canada for allowing French-language news content to run on an American streaming service without airing the programming...
As the North American cultural sector awaits a...
Canadian Identity Minister Marc Miller said the...
Hundreds of film and television producers, union leaders, and other...
On Dec. 17, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson...
Groups representing music labels and artists told a federal committee studying the effects of artificial intelligence on creative industries that it needs to consider how to...
OTTAWA—Some might think Dan Goldberg has his head in the clouds, but it’s actually thousands of...
Even though the Ontario government has cancelled its contract with Space...
If Canada wants to sincerely and seriously attempt...
Prime Minister Mark Carney emphasized Canadian economic interests on the...
Canada’s decision to scrap its digital services...
Amazon.com, Inc. is looking to draw a clear line between how it does...
TORONTO–Several streaming companies kicked off a hearing at the Federal...
GATINEAU, Que.—In addition to implementing...
As the CRTC works on revising how it defines Canadian and Indigenous audio content, online streaming services argue that no existing methods, nor any adaptation of them, are...
Groups representing music labels and creators have...
The CRTC has received a joint application from the Foundation Assisting...
Rogers Communications Inc. has come to an agreement with the National...
The CRTC decided on Friday that BCE Inc. did not...
An audio streamers’ advocacy group is looking to the public for support in convincing members of Parliament to drop the requirements of the Online Streaming Act.
The...
Netflix Inc. is pulling its financial support of programs in the Canadian...
Amazon.com, Inc. is set to become the seventh member of the Motion Picture...
The Competition Bureau has brought on an expert in economics for a...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB)...
Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
TORONTO – It is a tough picture for companies looking to grow in the...
The Competition Bureau has been granted a court order compelling Amazon.com...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday that it is entering into an...
Representatives from major tech companies warned that the government bill aimed at regulating AI is too broad and risks hindering its development and use in Canada....
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. announced Monday that it was providing state of the art WiFi across the prairie province. SaskTel is joining forces with Eero, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to deliver...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
Sentiment among speakers at the 2023 Canada...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain Ltd. is “flooding” the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market with its programming and “diluting” the value of its...
Stingray Group Inc. reported revenue and subscriber growth for the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year...
Streaming platforms are saying it is too early to be discussing...
A quarter of anglophone Canadian over-the-top (OTT) service subscribers...
An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to...
Experts say Canada’s telecommunications networks are currently handling a...
In a phone interview with Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel chair Janet Yale,...
GATINEAU — Either Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. is an essential part of...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will host a public consultation next month on its proposed “unified approach” to the taxation of the world’s biggest tech companies. A document released by the...
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is seeking assistance in moving certain data on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud services, just as the e-commerce giant comes under scrutiny after a hack of its servers leaked millions of personal data records at an American bank.
Late...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner considers personal data of Canadians...
In the lead-up to a meeting with Amazon.com Inc., the government was...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
Internet-based video services generated enough revenue in Canada in 2017 to rival the total revenues of private and CBC conventional television stations combined, according to the CRTC’s Communications Monitoring Report. Against the $6.9 billion in revenues the traditional broadcast television sector made in 2017, the $2.4 billion generated that year by over-the-top (OTT) video services represented approximately 35 per cent, the report said, close to the $2.6 billion generated by private and CBC conventional TV stations. Including audio services, the entire OTT segment brought in...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty...
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is now offering IPTV in Chatham, Ont., and the service will become available in...
Some of Canada’s biggest telecom companies rejected calls to force ISPs...
CBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...
Andre Leduc recalls introducing Microsoft Inc. Canada president Kevin...
The number of English-speaking adults in Canada subscribing to over-the-top streaming services continues...
A new report from the Angus Reid Institute indicates that the cost of services is the main driver behind...
Canada has been “pushing hard” to speed up development of a plan for...
Nearly a dozen content producers have obtained a court order banning set-top box software developed by an individual in Canada that allows users to watch their content for free, according to court documents. The Sept. 24 decision by the Federal Court ordered Samuel Horkoff, a developer of Kodi add-on software, to stop developing, maintaining, updating, hosting, distributing or promoting applications that allowed users to access unlicensed content. The decision also forbids Horkoff from operating websites or making the plaintiffs’ works available on the internet, effectively banning his...
The new trade pact forged by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to replace the...
Amazon.com Inc. is launching a DVR that will work with a digital antenna to...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook Inc. announced the global launch of...
Despite the impact over-the-top (OTT) streaming services have had on the television market for sometime in Canada, a new report by Think TV suggests that linear is still dominating those services. The report said that,...
Eight per cent of Canadians own a smart speaker, which is about in line with adoption of other early technology, according to a Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report published on Thursday.
The CBC/Radio-Canada project said that Alphabet Inc.’s Google Home product, as it...
There is no legal or regulatory obligation on telecoms to offer paper bills, BCE Inc. said in a filing to the CRTC, responding to an application asking the regulator to ensure companies must provide a paper bill to customers who...
Domestic and international content producers and over-the-top (OTT) services are continuing to partner...
U.S.-based video services like Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV and Amazon.com...
OTTAWA — The House of Commons ethics committee spoke to a British MP on...
Amazon.com Inc. will add 3,000 new employees in Vancouver, B.C., the company said in a press release on...
CBS Corp.’s All Access streaming service is now available in Canada, the company said in a press...
Virtual assistants are beginning to take hold in Canada, with almost 40 per...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is “accelerating” its transformation into a more data-centric company, its...
A proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn opposition from academics and advocacy groups in Canada, as well as input from international players and unusually high engagement from the public.
Nearly 10,000 total comments, the vast majority...
As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information...
The federal government said Friday it is “experimenting” with blockchain technology to create a...
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said in a press release Monday that projects funded as part of its Community Investment Program will now have access to Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon...
Amazon.com Inc. announced multiple pieces of Amazon Web Service-based (AWS) video publishing software,...
On Wednesday, Amazon.com Inc. made a move to introduce its intelligent personal assistant Alexa into this year’s holiday shopping season, with the release of the Amazon Echo line of smart speakers in Canada.
Even though it’s taken over two years — the original Echo...
Amazon.com Inc. is making available its Fire TV Stick Basic Edition plug-in streaming device available...
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...
OTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...
Amazon.com Inc. is making its voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant Alexa available on its...
Streaming service MHz Choice, which exclusively features international productions, is now available in...
The provincial governments should get cities together and collaborate on...
Amazon.com Inc. issued a request for proposals Thursday for North American cities interested in...
Nearly three million viewers around the world watched the much-anticipated boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor Saturday through 239 illegally redistributed streams, shows new data from digital platform security company Irdeto.
“Piracy is still a...
July lobbying activity was affected by the expected summer slowdown that comes with Parliament not...
Walt Disney Co. will end its partnership with Netflix Inc. and launch two of its own separate...
On Wednesday, major internet and tech companies teamed up to rally against...
The acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) could contribute to the discovery and growth of Canadian content, according to a mid-year trend report by the Canada Media Fund (CMF). “The progress of AI could support this...
Major internet-based companies and organizations are preparing to participate in a Wednesday campaign advocating for the preservation of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order, also known as Title II.
Billed Battle for the Net, the...
TMN Go, the TV-everywhere service from BCE Inc.’s media division, will begin allowing viewers to download content for offline viewing.
The service will be available to...
American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural...
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
Amazon.com Inc. is poised to expand its Canadian workforce by 200 positions, the Ontario government...
More anglophone Canadians are watching movies online, as the popularity of over-the-top (OTT) services continues, according to the latest Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report. The Thursday report by MTM, a project...
BCE Inc.’s properties have scored the broadcast rights to the National Football League’s Thursday Night Football games, Bell Media announced Wednesday. The regular-season games will air on TSN, CTV Two and RDS as of the...
The parliamentary secretary to the innovation minister was a popular target for lobbyists last month, as...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s president and CEO Hubert Lacroix said the Crown corporation’s competition comes...
Facebook Inc. will live stream 20 Major League Baseball (MLB) games this season on its social media platform after finalizing a partnership with the league.
The games will air Friday nights, beginning May 19 with a game pitting the Cincinnati Reds against the Colorado...
