Heather Shaw is stepping down as executive chair of Corus Entertainment Inc. on May 31.
Shaw will continue on as non-executive chair of the broadcast giant. She has led...
Corus Entertainment Inc. continued to see drops in television and radio revenue as it released its second quarter numbers for 2025. Radio did, however, show an increased profit.
Revenues were $270 million, a decline of 10 per cent from Q2 2024’s $299 million. Television...
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...
Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal will hear...
Rogers Communications Inc. is laying off a number of its customer service workers.
Company spokesperson Zac Carreiro told The Wire Report in an emailed statement that the...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to dismiss allegations of...
Telus Corp. wants to see an unredacted version of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s allegations to the CRTC that Rogers Communications Inc. is giving itself undue preference. ...
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...
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 Corus Entertainment Inc. decrying its recent string of layoffs. Because of the cutbacks, Corus no longer has local voices on Kingston radio and several positions were slashed...
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...
The CRTC approved amendments to Corus Entertainment Inc.'s broadcasting...
As it reported further declines in revenue for the second quarter of 2024, Corus Entertainment Inc. called on the CRTC to finally grant it the regulatory relief that has been...
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...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday its plans to restructure its original content leadership team which includes two new appointments.
Rachel Nelson, who oversaw the development and production of both scripted and unscripted programming for Corus, was appointed...
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...
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 CanCon condition of license (COL) for Kitchener’s Country 106.7 radio station, CIKZ-FM.
In a...
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change...
The public broadcasting advocacy group Friends...
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 Communications (FRPC) and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) are not happy with how the CRTC is handling their request to hold one...
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...
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 to avail of the Independent Local News Fund in the wake of Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw Communications.
Corus was founded as Shaw Radio in the...
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...
Corus Entertainment Inc. revealed a $367.1 million...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies both big and small, told Senators studying the government’s efforts to update the Broadcasting Act that they would like to...
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...
No amount of proposed remedies will undo the damage of Rogers...
Corus Entertainment Inc. expects to see a “pretty significant increase in programming costs” this coming quarter, which executive vice-president and CFO John Gossling said...
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...
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 major broadcasters in response to the CRTC’s review on its commercial radio policy framework. ...
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...
An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to...
The CRTC has allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to reduce its mandated Canadian programming expenditures (CPE) in a single year, but declared any shortfall must be made up in the following year. In a Friday decision the regulator approved Corus’ application for its maximum CPE under-expenditure in a single year to be increased from five per cent to ten per cent, but ruled those under-expenditures must be paid during the next year, denying a Corus request to be able to push it back to the end...
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
The Scarborough radio market can’t support another commercial radio...
Canada’s television advertising market has moved to a stage of “modest recovery” after chapters of...
Telecom and media companies, including Quebecor Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc., have begun adding COVID-19-related registrations to their lobby files in recent weeks. On April 15, Corus added “discussions of...
Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday.
Shaw founded Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd in 1966, which eventually as Shaw Communications grew into Canada’s largest TV service provider. The company also included a broadcasting division that was spun off into Corus Entertainment Inc., while Shaw entered the wireless market in 2016.
“I spoke to JR every day about the business. He was engaged and interested in everything the company was doing – from the...
The next period of time — no one knows just how long — will be "riddled with both demand and supply shocks," and the country's biggest media companies are in for a much bumpier financial ride...
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...
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use...
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have all told the CRTC that if the regulator allows Corus Entertainment Inc. to shift some of its CanCon requirements from one broadcast year...
High demand among advertisers for premium content to be siloed in ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD)...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC if the broadcaster can spend...
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...
BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...
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 Halifax-based company announced that it was putting Eric Ellenbogen in charge of the company after stints at Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal and DreamWorks Animation. “Rebranding as WildBrain embraces our commitment to creativity, imagination and innovation, and our 360 [degree] approach to brand management. For many years, our WildBrain group has been at the leading edge of the digital media business,” Ellenbogen said in a release Monday. The company also announced a revenue increase of 12 per cent to $108.8 million in its fourth quarterly...
