Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the CBC/Radio-Canada’s bureau in Moscow in retaliation for the removal of RT, the state-sponsored Russian...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its Online News Act and instead send the “subject matter” to the House of Commons Heritage Committee,...
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has been appointed as executive director and spokesperson, replacing Daniel Bernhard.
Bernhard left the organization shortly after the 2021 election.
“With the imminent arrival of key pieces of legislation, Boltman will serve as a powerful advocate for Canadian voices at a critical time for the country’s cultural media policy,” Friends wrote in its press release.
Boltman will continue to engage Ottawa on...
The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is...
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
With advertising revenues battered by the pandemic -- particularly the second half of the year -- the...
As part of its 2021 budget, the federal government is plowing another $1 billion dollars into its Universal Broadband Fund over the next five years, bringing the total fund up to $2.75 billion. ...
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it should allow internet service providers to unilaterally block certain websites from users in order to protect copyright holders.
In a Wednesday release, Heritage...
The CRTC has released the findings from its first phase in the development of a new Indigenous...
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...
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait doubled down on its request for greater flexibility to spend on...
The Canadian Media Producers Association has called on the CRTC to force CBC/Radio-Canada to ink a so-called terms of trade agreement with the organization, which the CMPA says will allow Canadian content producers to maintain their copyright and make more money off their...
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...
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...
The COVID-19 pandemic dropped CBC/Radio-Canada’s revenues by 11 per cent,...
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...
Impatient with the progress of a month-old Part 1...
In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in...
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...
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...
The branded content initiative launched by CBC/Radio-Canada last month has been put on hiatus while the public broadcaster reviews the project, a CBC spokesperson told The Wire Report.
“We feel there are more insights to be gained on this initiative and to that end, we...
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...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
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...
The CRTC said Wednesday that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is...
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...
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...
OTTAWA — Whether or not CBC/Radio-Canada can move away from advertising revenue is a “political...
Quebecor Inc. wants CBC/Radio-Canada to shut down its subscription streaming service ICI Tou.tv Extra, and has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC. In a Friday morning press release, Quebecor...
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...
When asked who should be most responsible for monitoring the spread of fake...
Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and...
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...
Organizations that represent important stakeholders in the field of Canadian content are staying...
The CRTC Tuesday released the results of its summit on gender parity in the Canadian broadcasting world, featuring “action plans” documents from some of Canada’s largest broadcasters. BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Corus Entertainment Inc., Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group, and CBC/Radio-Canada, among others, have all released policy documents focused on increasing the amount of women they employ. The summit itself was held on December 18, 2018, and in March 2019 the CRTC...
According to a report out this week from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), one out of every seven Canadians has gotten rid of their paid traditional TV subscriptions. According to an MTM spokesperson, the one in seven figure --...
Three weeks after announcing a new CEO with a background in developing family-based entertainment products, DHX Media Ltd. announced Monday -- alongside its 2019 fourth quarter results -- that it would rebrand as WildBrain and reorganize itself around family-entertainment. On August 30, the...
Quebecor Inc. hasn’t established that it actually owns the set-top box data at the centre of a new...
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
BCE Inc. will purchase Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V, Bell said in a press release Wednesday. The deal, which must still be approved by the CRTC, also includes “related digital assets including the ad-supported [video-on-demand] service Noovo.ca,” Bell said. The companies are not disclosing the purchase price. “As it is increasingly difficult to ensure the sustainability of a conventional channel within a non-integrated group, I have made the best decision for the future of V. Bell Media will certainly allow V to continue to evolve and reach out to the...
The CRTC has ruled that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron must continue to participate in an industry-wide working group charged with creating a set-top box (STB) data measurement system. In April, Videotron walked away from the group, saying it didn’t want to provide any of its data to the STB working group. In an April letter to the CRTC, Shaw...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its...
New data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue...
OTTAWA — The spectre of past Conservative government cuts to...
Broadcasters have lobbied the government for years to reimburse them for...
Users of a program that provides free access to conventional TV stations in areas where they’re not available over-the-air are asking the CRTC not to allow Shaw Communications Inc. to shut down the...
An organization representing sound recording rights holders wants to...
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...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the company works on making those guidelines more transparent. “We need to respect the laws of the country, but then beyond that, we have our community standards, which actually have a higher standard,” Kevin Chan said at a communications law conference hosted by the Forum for Research and Policy in Communications. Chan said Facebook doesn’t want and bans hate speech, terrorism, and...
Before a second wireless emergency alert test went out in November, a group...
The number of Canadians who opt for over-the-top services is set to surpass the number of Canadians who subscribe to traditional television providers next year, according to a report released...
A chief Federal Court clerk has rejected Alphabet Inc.’s request to expand to constitutional questions the scope of a legal reference that seeks to determine whether Canada’s private sector...
OTTAWA — If a court determines Google’s search engine falls under the country’s private sector privacy law, then that would effectively make the internet company a media regulator, counsel to...
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be amended to include a number of references to accessibility for Canadians with disabilities, according to...
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...
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when...
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...
The real value of the funding CBC/Radio-Canada receives has slipped significantly due to inflation, the...
OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to...
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...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s former chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will be CBC/Radio-Canada’s new executive vice-president of CBC.
Williams, who retired from Corus last year, will start the Toronto-based job on May 1, CBC said in a press release Wednesday.
Michel Bissonnette,...
Former CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix has joined the business law firm Blake, Cassels &...
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...
Netflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top...
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...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) wants the government to...
Some of Canada’s biggest telecom companies rejected calls to force ISPs...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative system by providing the infrastructure for users to upload and share their content and enabling them to earn revenue from it, the company is telling the federal review of Canada’s communications...
CBC/Radio-Canada wants the federal government to grant the CRTC the ability...
The CRTC has dismissed in part a complaint lodged against BCE Inc.’s Bell Fund earlier this year by a...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s head of sports Greg Stremlaw is leaving the public broadcaster at the end of the...
Canada’s public broadcaster has hired Torstar Corp.’s Claude Galipeau as its executive vice-president of corporate development.
The chief revenue officer of Torstar will join CBC/Radio-Canada on Jan. 7, 2019, the...
OTTAWA -- Two of Canada’s largest telecoms and CBC/Radio-Canada told the Supreme Court on Monday that it’s “absurd” and “illogical” for a court to force them to ensure the safety of an...
Michel Bissonnette, the executive vice-president of Radio-Canada, has been named interim head of CBC,...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Seeking to differentiate itself from other applicants,...
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...
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios to fledgling podcasters as a way of getting involved in the massive growth of podcasts over the years.
That was one of a number of business models proposed by Paul Jacobs, general manager of United...
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/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...
A year away from the next federal election, a majority of Canadians are...
Steve Ladurantaye is leaving CBC/Radio-Canada after two and a half years at...
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 Technology Monitor said in a new report. Only three per cent of anglophone Canadians subscribe to sports streaming services, MTM, a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, said. In comparison, 42 per cent of Canadians reported watching either Rogers’ Sportsnet TV channel or BCE Inc.’s TSN in the past month. The report also noted that the “popularity of sports specialty channels over online...
CBC/Radio-Canada saw a nearly six per cent boost in its total ad revenue...
The Federal Court of Appeal said in a Monday decision that the CRTC lacks the jurisdiction to implement its Wholesale Code -- governing the business relationships between TV service providers and...
Some of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking...
The federal government spent at least $190,600 on late-payment fees and...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
CBC/Radio-Canada has appointed Gave Lindo to lead the public broadcaster’s over-the-top (OTT) content...
The latest report from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project outlined 24 per cent of anglophone Canadians said they have listened to a podcast in the last month. Interest in...
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. are among a number of organizations...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) will join Alberta’s provincial privacy watchdog and launch an investigation into the use of facial recognition technology in shopping malls owned by Cadillac Fairview.
“The investigation was initiated by...