CBC/Radio Canada kicked off the final week of the CRTC’s hearing on broadcast market dynamics by suggesting more should be done to get Canadian content proper placement on...
It seemed like a pipe dream when the idea was first broached, but determination, government support and a dedicated leadership brought the notion of an Indigenous television network into existence. It celebrated its 25th anniversary last September.
The Aboriginal Peoples...
Regulation of the radio industry must adapt to...
CBC/Radio-Canada made a series of suggestions to the CRTC about updating the rules for determining what...
CBC/Radio-Canada has decided to terminate the program whereby senior executives at the Crown corporation...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau wants to see CBC/Radio-Canada...
With the federal campaign over, effort is shifting from predicting the election’s outcome to what a Liberal government under Mark Carney might actually do. Communications...
BCE Inc. is joining the roster of companies which have filed undue...
Multiple federal parties have released their 2025 election platforms ahead...
Advocacy group OpenMedia has put together a roster...
If ever there was a time for Canada to restore Radio Canada International,...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he plans to increase CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
Two and a half million Canadians have virtually no access to local news, a...
A member of the Progressive Senators Group in the...
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge has laid out her...
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Although a recently released document says that Canada’s public broadcaster pitched a “reimagining” of its...
With a federal election looming, a former...
OTTAWA–The head of the Canadian Media Producers...
Political intrigue on both sides of the Canada/United States border could...
Canada’s broadcasters have responded to the CRTC’s call for comments on...
The House of Commons Canadian Heritage committee has made a half dozen recommendations on the future of CBC/Radio-Canada in a new report, including one dealing with a controversial bonus package for senior management.
CBC has been adamant in the past that the...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri was met with scrutiny during...
A coalition of five Canadian media companies are...
The incoming president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada...
CBC/Radio-Canada announced Tuesday, Nov. 12 that it is increasing its local...
TV5 CEO Marie-Philippe Bouchard has officially been named the next...
Outgoing CBC/Radio-Canada CEO Catherine Tait has once again been grilled by...
Public broadcasters from around the world are pledging to fight...
GATINEAU, Que.–Canada needs to incubate more Indigenous content creators...
CBC/Radio-Canada could have a renewed mandate and a new president/CEO announced in October or early November, CBC News reports. Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge is expected to make the announcement before she is expected to go on parental leave in mid-November....
The final replies to the CRTC’s review of the independent local news fund (ILNF) offer a wide range of...
As the CRTC reviews Google’s application for...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
The CRTC has agreed with CBC/Radio-Canada that it may exclude its spending on coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from its record of programming expenditures. The amount the...
Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from...
An Ontario senator is wondering why the Department of Canadian Heritage is looking at the future of...
A senator from New Brunswick is upset with the advisory committee on...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced Monday the appointment of the advisory committee...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Thursday. The...
The Conservative Party launched attacks on CBC/Radio-Canada Wednesday after several days of the Bloc...
CBC/Radio-Canada has significantly reduced its financial shortfall and will...
Sylvain Lafrance has been appointed the new chair of Telefilm Canada, effective Thursday. His term will...
Monday the Bloc Québécois continued its assault on plans for CBC/Radio-Canada to merge some of its operations.
Last week, Montreal newspaper La Presse reported that a transformation plan is in the works that would see fewer executives in the company administer files...
The Bloc Québécois has sounded the alarm after a report in La Presse that...
Canada’s oldest public broadcaster is in a funding crunch but listeners...
A group of public interest broadcasters is getting more money from the...
A member of the Progressive Senators Group is calling on the federal...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring measures, the telecommunications giant has released a statement with its side of the story and...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Groupe TVA has reached an agreement with CUPE local 687, which represents...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced Friday an...
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild have inked a tentative labour...
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...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For the second day in a row, heritage critic Martin Champoux called on the government to reverse those layoffs.
“A number of analysts believe that the cuts planned by CEO...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
CBC/Radio-Canada will not be permitted to appeal a lower court’s ruling on the disclosure of a confidential source, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. It also declined to hear an appeal involving Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
The CBC had written a story about a...
The federal government released the details of the implementation of the...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with...
The current and past Minister of Canadian Heritage were loath to endorse...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge would not take the bait when the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal...
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 Inc.’s Videotron, where she led the group responsible for acquisition and distribution of programming. Before that, she spent 11 years at CBC/Radio-Canada as legal counsel. She graduated from the Université de Montréal in law and has nearly 30 years experience in the...
The Conservative Party continued its attack on CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday...
The CRTC denied an application by CBC/Radio-Canada to delay consultations...
Battles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
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 response to the passage of the Online News Act.
Last week, the federal government announced it was halting all advertising on the platforms. Quebecor Inc. and Cogeco Inc. made similar announcements at the same time.
Since then, the government of Quebec and several cities...
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...
The CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL),...
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with Société...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
The editors and executives of Canada's largest newspapers were on...
CBC/Radio-Canada has received several letters of support in its attempt to delay a mandated consultation...
In a back-and-forth between CBC/Radio-Canada on when the broadcaster should...
The CRTC “must implement a reasonable test” for fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) rates to prevent situations where providers offer prices significantly below approved wholesale rates, according to Quebecor Inc.’s CEO.
Pierre Karl Péladeau made the comments Thursday...
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the CRTC to give it more time before holding a required consultation with...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
Thursday the Supreme Court announced it was allowing an appeal by a group of media into the unsealing of...
Members of the Senate are calling on the CBC/Radio-Canada to maintain its...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is rejecting a Senate amendment on Bill C-11 that would, according to the senators, clarify that only professional music will be...
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after...
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 massive new workload with the introduction of the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11, and the Online News Act, known as Bill C-18.
“I think the condition right now...