Corus Entertainment Inc. announced after market close on March 24 that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice had allowed its recapitalization plan to go ahead. The beleaguered company still has to jump through more hoops before final approval is granted.
The firm needs...
The Federal Court of Appeal has thrown out a challenge by Rogers Communications Inc. against the CRTC’s use of the standstill rule in its fight with Corus Entertainment Inc....
Canadian Identity Minister Marc Miller said the...
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Corus Entertainment Inc. announced a recapitalization transaction on...
Corus Entertainment Inc. released its fourth quarter and fiscal year...
Children’s programming in this country faces an uncertain future with the shuttering of a series of kids’ channels and a major producer suspending new productions.
DHX...
Children’s and family entertainment company DHX Television Ltd. (WildBrain) is shutting down its...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is dropping from its lineup several of its...
Amazon.com, Inc. is looking to draw a clear line between how it does...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported losses in revenue and profit for the...
As the first week of the CRTC’s hearing on...
The CRTC issued a new framework for the Independent Local News Fund (ILNF)...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is reverting back to a single-CEO leadership structure, with now-former co-CEO...
Rogers Communications Inc. is urging the CRTC to...
BCE Inc. is joining the roster of companies which have filed undue preference claims against Rogers Communications Inc. in recent weeks.
Bell’s application, dated Feb. 14...
Heather Shaw is stepping down as executive chair...
Corus Entertainment Inc. continued to see drops in television and radio...
Two and a half million Canadians have virtually no access to local news, a...
Rogers Communications Inc. and its fellow broadcasters in the Canadian...
The CRTC decided on Friday that BCE Inc. did not prejudice kids’ TV programming from DHX Television Ltd. by giving undue preference to similar children’s services. ...
Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal will hear...
Rogers Communications Inc. is laying off a number...
The Independent Broadcast Group has filed an...
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...
Toronto-based DHX Television Ltd., which operates WildBrain Television, is...
Corus Entertainment Inc. experienced a challenging first quarter of fiscal...
Corus Entertainment Inc. released its fourth quarter and end-of-year statements on Friday Oct. 25. Both...
The final replies to the CRTC’s review of the independent local news fund (ILNF) offer a wide range of views on how the fund should be administered and who should be eligible for money.
The replies follow the original interventions filed at the beginning of the month....
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to dismiss allegations of...
Telus Corp. wants to see an unredacted version of Corus Entertainment...
The CRTC needs to make sure money provided to...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding a mainstay in his talking points this year. But CBC CEO Catherine Tait says she is not worried about the broadcaster's survival if his party gains power in the next election.
“The...
Despite legislation introduced by the federal government meant to boost...
A federal MP and a member of the Ontario legislature from Kingston, Ont. have sent a joint letter to...
The CRTC said Tuesday it is “prepared” to reconsider the eligibility...
Blue Ant Media Inc. is calling on the CRTC to lighten its CanCon spending obligations, blaming its...
Corus Entertainment Inc. expects to have cut a quarter of its full-time...
BCE Inc. has filed for an injunction to stop the launch of Discovery...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) is asking the Federal Court...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Monday that it had signed deals to bring programming from Warner...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Thursday it would offer content from Corus Entertainment Inc. effective immediately. Corus operates 33 channels, including Global TV, Showcase, and the History Channel.
“Customers who enjoy Corus channel content have been...
The CRTC approved amendments to Corus Entertainment Inc.'s broadcasting...
As it reported further declines in revenue for the...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and Pattison Media Ltd. filed a joint intervention with the CRTC opposing an application by Durham Radio Inc. to expand its...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday its plans to restructure its original content leadership team...
The lingering effects of the pandemic and the labour disputes in Hollywood...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
A host of problems led Corus Entertainment Inc. to post a difficult fourth quarter and year end results, the firm’s president and CEO told an analysts’ call.
“I would use the term double...
The CRTC is proposing to loosen some of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s Eastlink, Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp., and Cogeco Inc. to increase the price of...
The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...
The CRTC has denied a request from Rogers Communications Inc. to delete the...
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change...
The public broadcasting advocacy group Friends says several applications put forward by BCE Inc., Corus Entertainment Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc.’s...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is adding itself to the list of industry players who are suspending advertising on Meta Platform Inc. after the tech giant announced it will block Canadian news content on Facebook and its other platforms...
The Forum for Research and Policy in...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several...
As the advertising recession maintains its grip on Corus Entertainment Inc.’s revenue stream, the company said it will continue leaning into its Canadian and unscripted...
Local independent news stations want to exclude...
BCE Inc. says in order for it to be competitive the CRTC must amend its...
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media...
Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of exempt services under the updated Broadcasting Act despite the government expliciting directing the...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has written to the CRTC asking whether or not that the company will be allowed...
Fiscal 2023 will be an "especially challenging" year for Corus...
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne was the most-lobbied...
Corus Entertainment Inc. president and CEO Doug Murphy said an “advertising recession” is the cause for a decline in revenues seen this quarter.
“This is clearly visible in our revenue results for the quarter and evident across the entire media sector as reported by...
Corus Entertainment Inc. revealed a $367.1 million...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5...
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Corus Studios announced Thursday it has sold...
Community-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that...
Not-for-profit community news associations are sounding the alarm over the Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. merger, with one stakeholder saying "democracy dies in the dark...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...
Rogers Communications Inc. executives told the CRTC that there is no evidence to suggest that its merger with Shaw Communications Inc. would result in content exclusivity with...
No amount of proposed remedies will undo the damage of Rogers...
Corus Entertainment Inc. expects to see a...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp., considered to be two of...
After Canada's first-ever site-blocking court order survived an appeal from...
Revenues across Corus Entertainment Inc.'s radio and television divisions were up significantly as the company reported its third quarter earnings results Tuesday.
RBC Capital Markets analyst Drew McReynolds said in a Tuesday evening note that the positive numbers were potentially due to "pent-up demand from advertisers post-re-opening to get brands in front of consumers."
For the three months ending on May 31, overall revenues were up 15 per cent to $403 million from $348.9 million this time last year, for a profit...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported Friday that it had begun to recover some of the losses of the earlier stages of the pandemic, with bleeding stopped in its television segment. The company posted second quarter television revenues of $338.5 million, a mere three per cent drop from the $347.8...
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau told MPs at a Friday meeting of the House of Commons Heritage committee that the government initiative to overhaul the Broadcasting Act, known as Bill C-10, should focus more on deregulating existing traditional Canadian media. "For traditional broadcasters -- those that showcase...
MPs on the House of Commons Heritage Committee...
The Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...
Corus Entertainment Inc. continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the rate of decline...
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...
The production slowdown stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns has created a crisis for Corus Entertainment Inc. in terms of meeting its CRTC-mandated Canadian programming expenditures (CPE),...
In its first quarterly report to include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cogeco Inc.’s radio revenues fell by one-third, though its overall revenue beat analyst expectations. In the results released Thursday, revenues were up to $626 million, a 1.4 per cent increase on the same quarter a year before. RBC analyst Drew McReynolds and Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige both said the revenue figure beat expectations, with Galappatthige noting the quarter’s results were “particularly impressive given the uncertainties around COVID-19.” The quarter, which ended May 31,...
