TAGGED AS CBC/RADIO-CANADA
Budget finds money for CBC, public interest broadcasters
Media | 04/16/2024 11:05 pm EDT
A group of public interest broadcasters is getting more money from the federal treasury, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced in the 2024 budget on Tuesday.
CBC/Radio-Canada is receiving an extra $42 million above the more than one billion dollars it was...
Cardozo calls on government to renew digital tax credit for media
Media | 04/10/2024 5:08 pm EDT
A member of the Progressive Senators Group is calling on the federal government to renew the digital tax credit.
Andrew Cardozo was one of four Senators who hosted a round...
Bell confirms appearance at heritage committee; responds to criticisms over job cuts
Media | 04/04/2024 6:16 pm EDT
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
CRTC issues Indigenous broadcasting policy consult; asks about quotas
Media | 03/22/2024 6:16 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the...
TVA reaches agreement with CUPE local in Quebec
Media | 03/04/2024 12:37 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Groupe TVA has reached an agreement with CUPE local 687, which represents...
St-Onge appoints committee to look for new CBC president
Media | 03/01/2024 3:50 pm EST
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced Friday an...
CBC and Canadian Media Guild reach tentative agreement
Media | 03/01/2024 3:25 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild have inked a tentative labour agreement that will cover employees of the public broadcaster for the next three years.
The deal, which must be voted on by union members, sees an immediate pay increase of 6.1 per cent, including...
Witnesses at Heritage committee support media forum, disagree on who should pay for it
Media | 02/28/2024 4:15 pm EST
Witnesses before the House of Commons committee on Canadian Heritage all agreed Tuesday that a forum on the future of the media is required. Whether government has a role was...
Trudeau says Bell decision to cut jobs is “garbage”; CNOC not surprised
telecom | 02/09/2024 5:07 pm EST
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
CRTC, St-Onge highlight Bell’s profitability in response to 4.8K job cut, CTV and radio closures
Media | 02/08/2024 3:57 pm EST
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Foreign streamers a problem for all Canadian broadcasters, CMPA hears
Media | 02/05/2024 4:39 pm EST
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
Bloc continues fight to counteract CBC job cuts
Media | 02/02/2024 4:25 pm EST
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For...
Canadians won’t get consulted on new CBC mandate, St-Onge tells Prime Time conference
Media | 02/01/2024 2:50 pm EST
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said...
Attacks on CBC are concerning, says CMPA president at Prime Time conference
Media | 02/01/2024 12:35 pm EST
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
BQ calls for support of CBC/Radio Canada and other media outlets
Media | 02/01/2024 12:29 pm EST
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
Tait won’t rule out bonus pay for CBC’s top brass despite job cuts
Media | 01/30/2024 6:42 pm EST
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public broadcaster’s top brass, will be getting their yearly bonuses at the end of March despite recently...
Supreme Court dismisses leaves to appeal in CBC, Samsung cases
Media | 01/11/2024 4:36 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada will not be permitted to appeal a lower court’s ruling...
Government unveils final provisions of Online News Act
Internet and Governance | 12/15/2023 5:30 pm EST
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the...
Tait attacked for taking trip to Australia as CBC cutbacks loom
Media | 12/13/2023 5:30 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with...
Ministers reluctant to endorse Catherine Tait’s leadership at CBC
Internet and Governance | 12/12/2023 3:04 pm EST
The current and past Minister of Canadian Heritage were loath to endorse...
St-Onge refuses to say if she will fire CBC president Catherine Tait
Media | 12/11/2023 1:19 pm EST
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge would not take the bait when the Bloc Québécois attacked Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada Thursday....
St-Onge faces questioning on portfolio during Senate appearance
Media | 12/07/2023 5:03 pm EST
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
Blanchet says CBC cuts at worst possible time
Internet and Governance | 12/06/2023 1:48 pm EST
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
Job cuts reason enough for access to online platform contributions: CBC tells CRTC
Internet and Governance | 12/06/2023 9:18 am EST
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
CBC announces 600 jobs cut, decrease in programming
Media | 12/04/2023 6:48 pm EST
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal...
Stéphanie Paquette appointed as CRTC Quebec commissioner
Media | 11/14/2023 12:36 pm EST
Stéphanie Paquette has been named as a regional commissioner for Quebec on the CRTC, it was announced Tuesday. She begins her five-year term on Nov. 23.
She comes to the commission from Quebecor...
Tories continue attack on CBC over terrorism terminology
Media | 10/18/2023 5:06 pm EDT
The Conservative Party continued its attack on CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday...
CRTC directs CBC to hold Indigenous consultation by March
Media | 09/20/2023 4:36 pm EDT
The CRTC denied an application by CBC/Radio-Canada to delay consultations...
Money allocation main issue as Streaming Act replies filed to CRTC
Internet and Governance | 08/02/2023 5:11 pm EDT
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
CBC request to alter CPE, PNI, expenditures is result of licence renewal flaw: Friends
Media | 08/01/2023 6:35 pm EDT
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group Friends says CBC/Radio-Canada’s request that the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL) to exclude Olympic and Paralympic...
Support grows for Meta boycott following News Act blackout
Media | 07/10/2023 2:46 pm EDT
Other governments and private sector companies are joining in the boycott of Meta Platforms Inc. after it announced plans to block Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s move came in...
All sides continue fight in Streaming Act regulation proceeding
Internet and Governance | 06/30/2023 5:13 pm EDT
The CRTC has now received reply comments in its ongoing proceeding into how to implement the Online Streaming Act. As with the original interventions, proposals vary depending on the group submitting...
Olympics programming costs need to be excluded from CPE and PNI requirements: CBC
Media | 06/30/2023 5:09 pm EDT
The CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL),...
Quebecor and CRTC clash over “regulatory straitjacket”
Media | 06/19/2023 5:36 pm EDT
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
Court of Appeal directs CRTC to reconsider Radio-Canada N-word decision
Media | 06/09/2023 1:47 pm EDT
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with Société Radio-Canada (SRC) and ordered the CRTC to reconsider a decision chastising the public broadcaster for...
Catherine Tait reappointed as president of CBC/Radio-Canada
Media | 06/01/2023 5:04 pm EDT
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
Newspaper men call for C-18 amendments; advocate passage of the bill
Internet and Governance | 05/30/2023 1:49 pm EDT
The editors and executives of Canada's largest newspapers were on...
CBC gets support on consult delay request
Media | 05/24/2023 5:33 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada has received several letters of support in its attempt to delay a mandated consultation...
CBC asked to prove claim of Indigenous ‘consultation fatigue’ by May 29
Media | 05/23/2023 12:23 pm EDT
In a back-and-forth between CBC/Radio-Canada on when the broadcaster should...
CRTC must implement a reasonable test for FTTP rates: Péladeau
telecom | 05/11/2023 5:44 pm EDT
The CRTC “must implement a reasonable test” for fibre-to-the-premise...
CBC asks for more time for Indigenous consultation
Media | 04/20/2023 2:25 pm EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the CRTC to give it more time before holding a required consultation with...
CBC funding absent in budget 2023; gov. cracking down on telecom fees
Internet and Governance | 03/28/2023 6:44 pm EDT
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
Supreme Court to hear appeal by CBC and other media
Media | 03/16/2023 2:14 pm EDT
Thursday the Supreme Court announced it was allowing an appeal by a group of media into the unsealing of...
Senators call for CBC to keep traditional broadcasting model
Media | 03/09/2023 2:22 pm EST
Members of the Senate are calling on the CBC/Radio-Canada to maintain its current broadcasting regime, saying it is necessary for those in areas with limited internet access.
On Feb. 7 CBC president and CEO Catherine Tait said in an interview with the Globe and Mail...
Rodriguez rejects Senate C-11 amendment limiting CRTC power over social media
Internet and Governance | 03/08/2023 8:38 am EST
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is rejecting a Senate amendment...
CRTC releases pair of broadcasting reports that paint dire picture
Media | 03/03/2023 6:04 pm EST
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
CBC and CTV lose leave to appeal BC case to Supreme Court
Media | 03/02/2023 11:06 am EST
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...
Bell and Telus being “difficult” in MVNO negotiation: PKP
Media | 02/23/2023 4:58 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
UPDATED: Senate passes C-11; Rodriguez expects C-11 to become law next week
Media | 02/02/2023 7:17 pm EST
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...
Senate committee completes work on Bill C-11
Media | 12/09/2022 5:15 pm EST
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after...
Heritage committee finishes clause-by-clause study of C-18
Media | 12/09/2022 5:03 pm EST
The House of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage finished...
CBC to stay in Bill C-18
Media | 12/06/2022 6:29 pm EST
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...
Tories slow down C-18 clause-by-clause consideration with amendments
Media | 11/22/2022 3:23 pm EST
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
CRTC’s finances are ‘fine’ for new responsibilities: Scott
Media | 11/22/2022 2:20 pm EST
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...
Heritage Committee hears final witnesses on Online News Act
Media | 11/04/2022 5:50 pm EDT
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
PKP still hopeful over Freedom acquisition despite unfruitful mediation with Competition Bureau
Media | 11/03/2022 4:29 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. released its third quarter figures...
Senator wants to amend Online Streaming Act to deal with CBC
Media | 09/28/2022 11:31 am EDT
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a...
In petitions to GiC, broadcasting stakeholders upset of lack of local news requirements for CBC
telecom | 08/12/2022 5:06 pm EDT
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are arguing to the Governor-in-Council (GIC) that the CRTC’s treatment of local news in the CBC/Radio-Canada’s licence renewal...
AG won’t fight CMPA’s application for leave to appeal CBC license
Media | 08/11/2022 3:22 pm EDT
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...
CMPA files petition to cabinet on CBC license
Media | 08/08/2022 6:57 pm EDT
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
PIAC, pensioners want cabinet to overturn CRTC’s CBC licence renewal
Media | 08/05/2022 3:45 pm EDT
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
CBC says CRTC decision on French N-word threat to journalistic independence; issues apology to complainant
Media | 07/13/2022 4:28 pm EDT
Editor's note: for clarity, this story makes...
Radio-Canada personalities say mandated apology for using French N-word is censorship
Media | 07/04/2022 5:29 pm EDT
More than 50 personalities for CBC/ Radio-Canada’s French-language service are asking its senior management to “vigorously challenge” a CRTC decision in which the...
Advocates concerned about CBC licence renewal
Media | 06/23/2022 6:59 pm EDT
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...
Canadian politicians condemn Russian shuttering of CBC Moscow bureau
Media | 05/19/2022 4:13 pm EDT
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the...
Tories put forward motion to kill Bill C-18, send “subject matter” to committee
Media | 05/13/2022 5:12 pm EDT
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Scott says CRTC will never regulate user-generated content under current Bill C-11
Media | 04/05/2022 3:30 pm EDT
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
CBC license administratively renewed, full decision to come by late June
Media | 03/29/2022 3:56 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...
Rogers, civil groups, say CRTC should remove Russian state-owned channels from airwaves
Media | 03/09/2022 4:27 pm EST
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...
Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemption
Media | 02/02/2022 7:32 pm EST
OTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...
Marla Boltman to head up Friends
Media | 02/02/2022 12:19 pm EST
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has...
CRTC approves migration of Atlantic stations from AM to FM
Media | 01/26/2022 3:33 pm EST
The CRTC Wednesday approved the transfer of two English-language AM radio stations in the Atlantic provinces to the FM band.
In Campbellton, New Brunswick, CKNB will shift to the 100.7 frequency. Operated by Maritime Broadcasting System Ltd., the station follows an Adult...
Rodriguez told to introduce news compensation by early 2022, Champagne to focus on spectrum “use it or lose it”
Media | 12/16/2021 4:45 pm EST
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez is...
Broadcasting regulation debate at electoral standstill as advocates, industry react
Media | 09/14/2021 7:16 pm EDT
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
Singh says he’ll oppose Rogers-Shaw merger
Media | 09/10/2021 2:46 pm EDT
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
TekSavvy takes GoldTV site-blocking fight to Supreme Court
Media | 08/26/2021 6:11 pm EDT
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
CRTC dismisses Quebecor complaint of CBC undue preference
Media | 08/03/2021 5:22 pm EDT
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an undue preference with its paid subscription, online, video-on-demand service, and that it has not contravened any exclusivity rules by allowing Telus Corp. customers free access.
Tuesday, the...
CRTC reports drop in broadcast revenue for 2020
Media | 07/16/2021 5:38 pm EDT
With advertising revenues battered by the pandemic -- particularly the second half of the year -- the...
Feds boost Universal Broadband Fund by another $1B, propose Digital Services Tax
telecom | 04/19/2021 4:06 pm EDT
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. ...
Feds considering site-blocking proposal
Media | 04/14/2021 6:20 pm EDT
The federal government has launched a consultation document to solicit feedback on whether or not it...
CRTC report floats idea of Indigenous content quotas
Media | 03/25/2021 7:43 pm EDT
The CRTC has released the findings from its first phase in the development of a new Indigenous...
CBC seeks local content exemptions for Olympics
Media | 03/25/2021 5:09 pm EDT
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...
Local news funding needed in C-10: Bell
Media | 03/22/2021 6:07 pm EDT
As the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...
Tait again calls for digital flexibility
Media | 02/09/2021 4:30 pm EST
CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait doubled down on its request for greater flexibility to spend on...
CMPA wants CRTC to stand firm on terms of trade with CBC
Media | 01/27/2021 6:13 pm EST
The Canadian Media Producers Association has called on the CRTC to force...
PIAC, CMG criticize CBC’s request for digital flexibility
Media | 01/26/2021 6:13 pm EST
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 mandate as a public service that fosters the development of Canadian programming, according to Public Interest Advocacy Centre general counsel John Lawford. Speaking to CRTC commissioners Tuesday as part of the regulator's public hearings into the renewal of the CBC's license, Lawford said that exhibition requirements for Canadian content and programs of national interest should first be met on...
Directors, writers demand CBC transparency on digital spending
Media | 01/25/2021 6:18 pm EST
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...
COVID impact on CBC not as significant as expected, Tait says
Media | 01/11/2021 6:20 pm EST
The COVID-19 pandemic dropped CBC/Radio-Canada’s revenues by 11 per cent,...
CBC refuses to provide CRTC information about diversity of production staff
Media | 12/18/2020 2:59 pm EST
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...
CBC employees pen open letter, petition gov. seeking CRTC investigation of branded content
Media | 12/09/2020 5:38 pm EST
Impatient with the progress of a month-old Part 1...
Journalistic exemption under PIPEDA should apply to Google: CBC
Media | 11/26/2020 6:16 pm EST
In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in Canada — and whether search engine results on Alphabet Inc.'s Google would be considered journalistic and thus exempt from de-indexing requests — CBC/Radio-Canada has told Federal Court that...
Former CBC employees ask CRTC to investigate branded content
Media | 11/13/2020 5:44 pm EST
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...
CRTC asks CBC to provide info about diversity of its production staff
Media | 11/11/2020 4:39 pm EST
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...
CBC putting branded content initiative on ‘pause’
Media | 10/07/2020 11:08 am EDT
The branded content initiative launched by CBC/Radio-Canada last month has been put on hiatus while the...
Broadcasters sign up to BIPOC hiring directory
telecom | 10/05/2020 6:41 pm EDT
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...
Back to Parliament: your (pandemic) preview
Media | 09/22/2020 12:43 pm EDT
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
Change CAVCO system to highlight Canadian culture, former CBC VP says
Media | 05/28/2020 5:22 pm EDT
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...
CRTC postpones CBC licence renewal, sets new deadlines in other proceedings
telecom | 04/08/2020 2:50 pm EDT
The CRTC said Wednesday that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is...
CBC suspends local newscasts during COVID-19 pandemic
Media | 03/19/2020 4:28 pm EDT
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...
O’Toole calls for deep CBC cuts
Media | 02/14/2020 5:54 pm EST
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 past”. In a video posted to his Twitter page, O’Toole says he wants to completely end funding for CBC Digital and cut funding for CBC English-language television by 50 per cent, CBC Radio and Radio-Canada funding untouched, including French-language television. The goal, O’Toole says in the video, is to “fully privatize” CBC funding by the end of his first mandate as Prime Minister. In the video, which features O’Toole standing outside CBC Ottawa’s Queen Street headquarters, the Conservative MP says the funding boost given to the CBC by the government of Justin Trudeau has “hurt local newspapers...