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...
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after spending a total of 65 hours in clause-by-clause review and passing 25 amendments.
The Senate Committee of Transport and Communications spent Wednesday and Thursday in...
The House of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage finished...
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...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
MISSISSAUGA – CRTC chair Ian Scott said he does not know what the state of the CRTC’s finances will look like in future but the commission is “fine” for the moment as it prepares to take on a...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around the world who are seeking to protect legacy media from the overwhelming power of Google Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. This was part of the testimony at the House of Commons Committee on Canadian...
Quebecor Inc. released its third quarter figures...
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a...
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
Editor's note: for clarity, this story makes...
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
Public interest advocacy groups and the union representing CBC/Radio-Canada workers are sounding the alarm about the level of programming discretion afforded to the public broadcaster under the five year licence renewal released by the CRTC Wednesday.
The licence, which allows the broadcaster to spread its expenditure requirements out across its digital and linear platforms and contains no minimum expenditure requirements on linear television, could have a...
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
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 told the CRTC that in addition to Russia Today and Russia Today France (collectively, RT) it should remove all state-owned...
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has...
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 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...
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...
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 Broadcasting Act carries on, BCE Inc. told the committee in a Monday meeting that while it supports the bill, it needs a carve-out of funding for local news broadcasters.
Even...
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...
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 website, was signed by former anchor Peter Mansbridge, former CBC host and governor general Adrienne Clarkson, and former CBC president Robert Rabinovitch, among others. The group said in an accompanying press release that the Tandem program — which the public broadcaster put on “pause” in October — “blurs the lines between advertising and news, and marks a clear departure from the...
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...
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 communications lawyers conference Thursday. The current 10-point system is “essentially an employment system that ensures that creative talent that works on shows is Canadian. It is not a culturally-based points system,” he said at the International Institute of Communications (IIC) conference,...
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...
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 OECD Wednesday ahead of the planned consultations outlines skeletal plans for a new approach to tax in the digital economy that would have a significant impact on the web giants, often referred to by the acronym FAANG: Facebook Inc, Apple Inc., Amazon Inc., Netflix Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The proposal, which flows out of a series of meetings amongst G20...
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...
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 court case filed by the telecom appealing a CRTC decision, a group of broadcasters has told the Federal Court of Appeal.
In late June the CRTC ordered Quebecor’s...
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...
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 more-than double the royalties it bills CBC/Radio-Canada to play music on traditional radio -- to the tune of $3 million per year.
Re:Sound is proposing to increase the tariff on music played by CBC...
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...
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 privacy law applies to its search engine. In a decision on Tuesday, court prothonotary Mireille Tabib said neither the court nor a party to a reference question -- Google in this case -- has the authority to “approve, rephrase or expand the scope” of the reference, which was made by the office of the privacy commissioner (OPC) to get a judicial opinion on whether it could order the search engine...
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...
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, who has been in the role on an interim basis since Heather Conway left the public broadcaster in December, will continue as interim VP until May, CBC president Catherine Tait said in an internal message to staff Wednesday.
“A visionary leader, Barbara brings with her a wealth of experience with respect to developing future revenue streams and overall content strategies that have consistently resulted in audience growth,”...
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...
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 immediately launch a review of the CRTC’s enforcement powers when it comes to regulating over-the-top (OTT) streaming services like Netflix Inc., according to its submission to a government-appointed...
Some of Canada’s biggest telecom companies rejected calls to force ISPs...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google already contributes to the Canadian creative...
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, BCE Inc. said it would not outsource, and commit to limit dubbing over, ethnic and third-language...