Those who stand to benefit from the Online Streaming Act want the CRTC to act as quickly as it can while those who may be forced to pay are urging caution. The commission is...
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 whammy to describe the twofold blow we’ve been dealt in fiscal 2023,” Doug Murphy said Friday. “The first blow has been the meaningful decline in advertising revenues. The second has been the significant increase in required spending on Canadian programming.”
The...
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 matter was instigated by a filing from Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group.
The commission is removing the limit of 12 minutes of advertising per hour but is keeping 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...
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 Corus Entertainment Inc. from the Independent Local News Fund (ILNF) until the CRTC issues a broader policy review – a move...
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 undertakings in the new Broadcasting Act should be changed, several organizations have told the CRTC. How...
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...
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 more than 400 episodes of programming to Walt Disney Co.’s American streaming service Hulu.
The series in the deal feature lifestyle, renovation, unscripted and crime content. This is in...
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 Communications Inc. gaining 47 per cent of the English-language broadcast distribution undertaking (BDU) market, according to representatives of BCE Inc., who Thursday asked CRTC commissioners not to approve their...
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...
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 received sharp criticism from opposition parties, while some advocates for Canadian content makers...
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 create a multilingual news channel to help Canadians access health information says it’s too early...
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...
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....
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 of the broadcaster’s lapsed trademark by a radio station that just rebranded this summer.
Power 107 is a pop music station run by Calgary-based Harvard Broadcasting Inc. that launched in...
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 release Thursday that the platform, called Audio360, “enables advertisers to target customized audio messages by grouping consumers according to "Passion Segments" based on shared personas and purchase intention data.” Those segments include categories such as “millennial moms,” “tech...
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...
Two local Quebec radio groups representing around 60 stations in the province are asking the provincial...
Corus Entertainment Inc. registered to lobby the government to promote the eligibility of broadcasters for a new journalism tax initiative announced by the federal government late last year. The...
Just as it allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to do last month, the CRTC has given approval to BCE Inc. to...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau is vowing to oppose BCE Inc.’s acquisition of a French-language...
Executives at Corus Entertainment Inc., historically proud of not being in...
A bill aimed at improving children’s health by limiting the advertising of unhealthy foods to them,...
The CRTC has approved a request from Corus Entertainment Inc. to shutter 44 of its television transmitting towers that serve rural customers. The original application from November said that the...
Corus Entertainment Inc., the only major Canadian broadcaster refusing to make public its submission to the ongoing review of Canada’s communications laws, asked the government to move quickly to loosen restrictions on foreign ownership of broadcast assets.
Corus did...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s OMNI will continue to benefit from the sole...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Shaw Communications Inc. is getting rid of $548 million in shares in Corus Entertainment Inc.
The...
The expected focus by the country’s largest wireless service providers...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter thanks in part to a cohort of 50 traditionally digital advertisers adding linear TV to their investments.
The broadcaster’s CEO Doug Murphy said on a second quarter conference call on Friday...
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting...
A trade association for Canadian-based television and content distribution...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
The CRTC has approved the sale of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s stake in Telelatino Network Inc.,...
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...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has promoted Troy Reeb and Colin Bohm to its executive vice-president ranks,...
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing...
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,...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to the damage done by European colonialism, comments she made at a high-profile industry event Thursday where representatives from every sector of Canadian...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per...
BCE Inc. is rolling out to more services a pre-existing program that asks its subscribers to consider giving the company their personal information to better target relevant ads to them. The program is an expansion of a...
The CRTC plans to soon start measuring the participation of women in television production and how much big TV broadcasters spend on production of Indigenous and official language minority...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is taking issue with a request by Telus Corp. to have Parliament change the rules for storing personal video recorder (PVR) recordings on network servers, warning the server-space-saving proposal could hurt the video-on-demand market.
Telus has...
An industry group has created a code of conduct governing the content and application of beer...
A proposal by Corus Entertainment Inc. to shut down 44 television...
Corus Entertainment Inc. had $2.3 million in Canada Media Fund (CMF) money...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC for permission to shut down 44...
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...
OTTAWA — Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy told an industry...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will retire at the end of this...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s wild ride through the unpredictable TV ad...
The CRTC published its reassessed baseline spending requirements for programs of national interest (PNI) following industry backlash and a government request to revisit the decision that set minimums at five per cent of a broadcaster’s previous year revenues.
The...