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CAB calls for streamers to fund news production at CRTC hearing; Streamers reschedule appearance

| 05/14/2025 9:41 pm EDT

CAB calls for streamers to fund news production at CRTC hearing; Streamers reschedule appearanceGATINEAU, Que.—In addition to implementing flexible Canadian content regulations for both traditional broadcasters and online streaming companies, broadcasters want to see...

‘Outdated’ regulatory tools unsuitable for online environment, streamers tell CRTC

| 03/19/2025 6:52 pm EDT

‘Outdated’ regulatory tools unsuitable for online environment, streamers tell CRTCOnline streamers continue to argue against the CRTC applying traditional broadcasting regulations on their operations, asserting that their business models and the nature of...

CRTC dismisses WildBrain undue preference complaint against Bell; Rogers facing new complaint

| 03/14/2025 5:13 pm EDT

CRTC logo graphic The Wire ReportThe CRTC decided on Friday that BCE Inc. did not...

Audio streamers’ group, Canadian advocacy org disagree on Streaming Act ‘tax’

| 10/03/2024 5:52 pm EDT

Audio streamers’ group, Canadian advocacy org disagree on Streaming Act ‘tax’An audio streamers’ advocacy group is looking to the public for support...

Netflix pulling funding from Canadian arts programs due to Online Streaming Act 

Media | 09/25/2024 4:21 pm EDT

CRTC logo graphic The Wire ReportNetflix Inc. is pulling its financial support of programs in the Canadian...

Amazon joins streamers’ advocacy group amid streaming act court challenges

Media | 09/19/2024 4:03 pm EDT

Motion Pictures Association (MPA) logo on the big screen of a movie theatre.Amazon.com, Inc. is set to become the seventh member of the Motion Picture...

Streamers tell CRTC closed captioning on all programming not feasible

Internet and Governance | 08/26/2024 4:50 pm EDT

Streamers tell CRTC closed captioning on all programming not feasibleWhile providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard of hearing is a laudable goal, it is not achievable, several streaming companies have told the CRTC....

CBC CEO Catherine Tait not worried for broadcaster’s longevity

Internet and Governance | 08/06/2024 4:25 pm EDT

The Wire Report’s most popular stories of 2024Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...

Streamers take CRTC to court over Online Streaming Act payment requirements

Media | 07/04/2024 6:30 pm EDT

Stingray, Rogers bolstering FAST channel optionsApple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...

Streamers ‘disappointed’ in five per cent base contribution requirement 

Internet and Governance | 06/04/2024 10:15 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statisticsOnline streaming services generating over $25 million in annual Canadian...

Champagne second-most lobbied minister, Hill Times finds

telecom | 03/12/2024 3:33 pm EDT

Federal government launches consultation on AI and copyrightMinister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne...

Producers say French streaming regulations could serve as an example for Canada

Media | 10/26/2023 6:33 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statisticsAs the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...

Money allocation main issue as Streaming Act replies filed to CRTC

Internet and Governance | 08/02/2023 5:11 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statisticsBattles over money and how to allocate it are at the forefront as the CRTC receives replies on the implementation of the Online Streaming Act, which was known as Bill C-11 in...

Social media platforms want total exclusion from new broadcasting regime

Internet and Governance | 06/16/2023 4:17 pm EDT

TikTok's logo on an iPhone.Social media companies are asking the CRTC to be added to the list of...

Champagne most lobbied minister in Canadian government, survey finds

Internet and Governance | 03/22/2023 12:56 pm EDT

BREAKING: Feds ban Huawei from 5G networksInnovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne was the most-lobbied...

CRTC releases pair of broadcasting reports that paint dire picture

Media | 03/03/2023 6:04 pm EST

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: reportThe CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...

Bell and Telus being “difficult” in MVNO negotiation: PKP

Media | 02/23/2023 4:58 pm EST

On Rogers-Shaw, Champagne faces policy choiceQuebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements with BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. has proved to be difficult according to the company’s president and CEO. Pierre Karl Péladeau made the comment Thursday on a fourth quarter conference call with...

Conservatives seek Quebec consultation on Online Streaming Act

Media | 02/15/2023 4:59 pm EST

Conservatives seek Quebec consultation on Online Streaming ActDuring Tuesday’s Question Period, two Conservative MPs from Quebec took...

Senate won’t define discoverability in Online Streaming Act definitions

Media | 11/24/2022 5:11 pm EST

CRTC releases described video statisticsSupporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...

Streamers should be obliged to sell cable integration apps to small BDUs: CCSA

Media | 10/27/2022 11:35 am EDT

CRTC releases described video statisticsThe organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and...

Netflix and MPA-Canada want C-11 to be flexible for global undertakings

Media | 10/04/2022 5:14 pm EDT

CRTC releases described video statisticsNetflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...

Broadcasters want policy direction on C-11; streamers want their algorithms left alone

Media | 09/15/2022 7:51 pm EDT

44.5% of under-30 households don’t have TV: reportCanadian broadcasting executives, from companies...

Foreign streamers wary of CRTC power under Online Streaming Act, CHPC told

Media | 06/02/2022 4:53 pm EDT

Foreign streamers wary of CRTC power under Online Streaming Act, CHPC toldAlphabet Inc.'s YouTube believes the provisions of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, give too much power to the CRTC to regulate content, the company’s head of government affairs and public policy told MPs on Tuesday. “Some believe we want to avoid all regulation,” YouTube's head of Canada government affairs and public policy Jeanette Patell told the House of...

Tories denounce Bill C-11 while Bloc defends it

Media | 05/06/2022 4:08 pm EDT

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rulesDebate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....

Scott says CRTC will never regulate user-generated content under current Bill C-11 

Media | 04/05/2022 3:30 pm EDT

Scott says CRTC will never regulate user-generated content under current Bill C-11 The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...

Bill C-11 a new bill with no new ideas, and a ‘legal pretzel’ for censorship: CPC

Media | 03/01/2022 5:05 pm EST

ARIN asks Parliament to require ISPs to maintain Whois infoFor the second time in the span of a year, the Liberal government has introduced a new bill to update Canada’s broadcasting act but “what it doesn't bring is new ideas,”...

CRTC approves annual digital media survey, elects to keep data secret 

Media | 02/23/2022 4:59 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsAfter long consultation, the CRTC on Wednesday approved the establishment of an annual digital media survey. Under the regulations, all digital media broadcast undertakings (DMBUs) operating in whole...

Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemption

Media | 02/02/2022 7:32 pm EST

Gov. reintroduces Broadcasting Act update, with social media exemptionOTTAWA -- Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodríguez called previous...

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services 

Media | 11/22/2021 8:35 pm EST

Rogers needs Shaw to sell CanCon alongside OTT services Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc....

Broadcasting regulation debate at electoral standstill as advocates, industry react

Media | 09/14/2021 7:16 pm EDT

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPAAccording to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...

The Wire Report’s guide to the 2021 federal election 

Media | 08/17/2021 2:35 pm EDT

The Wire Report's guide to the 2021 federal election After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...

Motion Picture Association Canada agrees digital media survey should wait for C-10

Media | 08/10/2021 5:28 pm EDT

The CRTC’s efforts to implement a digital media survey are premature, according to the Canadian affiliate of the Motion Picture Association, who argued that the commission should wait until the...

Consensus on CRTC data collection for foreign outlets; disagreement on how

Media | 08/09/2021 5:32 pm EDT

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPACivil groups and Canadian telecoms companies agree that the CRTC should...

Senate begins C-10 analysis with broad debate 

Media | 06/24/2021 10:41 am EDT

Throne speech reiterates rural broadband, web giant promisesSenators are looking beyond the free speech issues raised by critics of the revised Broadcasting Act and instead are focusing on what some senators say are other problems arising from the bill, as C-10 crawls its way to the finish line. “Despite what you may have read...

Heritage committee moves to table 2017 “Netflix deal”

Media | 06/14/2021 6:07 pm EDT

The Heritage Committee will be making the 2017 “Netflix deal” public after the NDP brought a motion to the committee compelling its disclosure. At Monday’s committee meeting -- the first...

We’re ‘used to’ broadcaster interpretations of CRTC content regs: Scott

Media | 03/26/2021 4:38 pm EDT

Asked whether or not the CRTC is up to the task of dealing with broadcasters who may try to circumvent Canadian content regulations if Bill C-10 is passed and brings streaming...

Local news funding needed in C-10: Bell

Media | 03/22/2021 6:07 pm EDT

Local news funding needed in C-10: BellAs the House of Commons Heritage committee hearings on the government's proposed update to the...

C-10 policy direction draft will be subject to public scrutiny before being issued

Media | 03/08/2021 6:15 pm EST

Stakeholders from across the broadcasting sector will have a chance to comment on a draft of the policy direction that will shape how the CRTC applies the forthcoming update to the Broadcast Act,...

Cogeco accuses Wildbrain of “glaring abuse” of CRTC process over Part 1

Media | 03/03/2021 5:26 pm EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsCogeco Inc. has responded to a Part 1 from television company Wildbrain, calling the company’s attempts to invoke the CRTC’s standstill rule “a glaring abuse of the...

Official language minority groups ask to be included in Broadcasting Act overhaul

Media | 02/01/2021 5:44 pm EST

The government’s draft legislation to reform Canada’s Broadcasting Act must be amended to explicitly include official language minority communities, stakeholders told the House of Commons heritage committee Monday, during its first hearing into Bill C-10. Representatives of the Fédération culturelle...

Sales tax for foreign digital services coming July 1

Media | 11/30/2020 6:07 pm EST

Sales tax for foreign digital services coming July 1The federal government plans to begin imposing sales taxes on foreign digital services on July 1, 2021...

CanCon relief will help commercial radio compete with Spotify: Bell Media 

Media | 11/19/2020 5:40 pm EST

CanCon relief will help commercial radio compete with Spotify: Bell Media Canadian content programming relief from the CRTC would allow BCE Inc.'s...

Digital platforms won’t fight or flee new regulations, Guilbeault says

Media | 11/04/2020 5:46 pm EST

Digital platforms won’t fight or flee new regulations, Guilbeault saysHeritage Minister Steven Guilbeault isn’t concerned about potential...

Broadcast Act updates not comprehensive enough: NDP, Conservatives

Media | 11/03/2020 6:44 pm EST

Broadcaster pushes for new multilingual channel as COVID lobbying continuesThe Liberal government’s proposed updates to the Broadcasting Act have...

COVID has accelerated media ‘crisis’: report

Media | 08/26/2020 5:17 pm EDT

Canadian traditional media sources are in "crisis" as COVID-19 has exacerbated existing downward trends in advertising revenues, with shortfalls for local private broadcasters in the next two years...

Broadcasting sector reacts to O’Toole victory

Media | 08/24/2020 6:19 pm EDT

Broadcasting sector reacts to O'Toole victoryThe election of Erin O'Toole as federal opposition leader late Sunday night makes "the threat of CBC...

Working from home binge: OTT viewing up during the pandemic

Media | 07/28/2020 6:08 pm EDT

Working from home binge: OTT viewing up during the pandemicA quarter of anglophone Canadian over-the-top (OTT) service subscribers opted in to a new platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, while a majority of subscribers increased their usage, according to a new survey from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of...

Netflix lowers Canadian bit rate for next 30 days

telecom | 03/27/2020 12:44 pm EDT

Netflix Inc. has announced it will lower its bit rate in Canada by 25 per cent for the next 30 days, just days after three telecommunications associations publicly urged the streaming giant to lower rates to lessen network...

Networks coping, but future traffic impossible to predict

Media | 03/25/2020 5:48 pm EDT

Networks coping, but future traffic impossible to predictExperts say Canada’s telecommunications networks are currently handling a...

‘Task force’ assembled for Canadian screen industry

Media | 03/20/2020 4:48 pm EDT

The COVID-19 global pandemic represents "an unprecedented challenge for all involved in the screen-based industry across Canada," according to the Canadian Media Fund.  As such, the CMF has joined...

There was never a Netflix deal: federal government

Media | 02/25/2020 5:27 pm EST

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada releaseFormer Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s much-touted 2017 deal with Netflix Inc. to spend $500 million in Canada should never have been referred to as an agreement, the federal government is arguing as part of its reasoning for why it shouldn’t have to publicly disclose...

Confusion over Guilbeault remarks on BTLR online news recs

Media | 02/03/2020 1:27 pm EST

Confusion over Guilbeault remarks on BTLR online news recsOTTAWA — On Monday Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, with some help...

BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov’t implementation

Media | 01/29/2020 5:32 pm EST

BTLR reaction mixed, no clarity on gov't implementationOTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report...

CRTC should regulate foreign digital services, news sites: BTLR

Media | 01/29/2020 12:00 pm EST

Few surprises in BTLR ‘what we heard’ reportThe blue-ribbon panel tasked with modernizing Canada’s communications...

‘Clock ticking’ on new content rules for web giants, Guilbeault says

Media | 01/13/2020 2:30 pm EST

‘Clock ticking’ on new content rules for web giants, Guilbeault saysThe Liberal government's minority mandate means it will have to move fast...

Netflix disclosure ‘nothing to do with regulation,’ company says

Media | 12/18/2019 5:51 pm EST

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPAFollowing the federal parties’ shared pursuit to further regulate foreign...

Telecom in the spotlight in new Bains mandate letter

Media | 12/13/2019 9:25 pm EST

Telecom in the spotlight in new Bains mandate letterPrime Minister Justin Trudeau has delivered a greatly expanded set of telecom and internet-related...

Facebook to lobby feds on digital services tax after election promises

Media | 11/21/2019 5:34 pm EST

Facebook to lobby feds on digital services tax after election promisesFacebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...

Blair says ‘no timeline’ on Huawei ban; Bains promises ‘more’ on prices

Media | 11/20/2019 1:51 pm EST

Blair says ‘no timeline’ on Huawei ban; Bains promises ‘more’ on pricesOTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...

BDUs appeal new distant signal tariffs

Media | 11/12/2019 12:00 pm EST

A cell tower with a blue sky in the background.The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal retransmission tariff imposed by the Copyright Board in December, in part because they argue the decision doesn’t take into consideration the new realities of modern...

Allarco’s Super Channel asked to justify its license renewal before the CRTC

Media | 11/06/2019 11:28 am EST

CRTC proposes code of conduct for ISPsGATINEAU — Either Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. is an essential part of...

New public safety minister, wireless prices on agenda in Liberal minority

Media | 10/22/2019 6:35 pm EDT

New public safety minister, wireless prices on agenda in Liberal minorityWith the Liberal Party’s victory in the federal election Monday, its...

CPC plans for Netflix, rural broadband still unclear days ahead of vote

Media | 10/17/2019 12:54 pm EDT

CPC plans for Netflix, rural broadband still unclear days ahead of voteDespite Conservative leader Andrew Scheer indicating throughout this...

Consensus on ‘digital giants,’ data breaches in French debate

Media | 10/10/2019 11:57 pm EDT

Consensus on ‘digital giants,’ data breaches in French debateFederal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the...

OECD seeks unified tax regime for web giants

telecom | 10/10/2019 5:49 pm EDT

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will host a public consultation next month on its proposed “unified approach” to the taxation of the world’s biggest tech companies. A document released by the OECD Wednesday ahead of the planned consultations outlines skeletal plans for a new approach to tax in the digital economy that would have a significant impact on the web giants, often referred to by the acronym FAANG: Facebook Inc, Apple Inc., Amazon Inc., Netflix Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.  The proposal, which flows out of a series of meetings amongst G20...

CanCon producers silent on CBC-Netflix rift

Media | 10/09/2019 7:14 pm EDT

Fast-track OTT review, clock ticking on CMF ‘top-up’: CMPAOrganizations that represent important stakeholders in the field of Canadian content are staying...

Leaders talk Netflix taxes, privacy in TVA election debate

Media | 10/02/2019 10:51 pm EDT

Leaders talk Netflix taxes, privacy in TVA election debateDuring the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei ban

Media | 09/10/2019 12:03 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banEven before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom...

Creative groups lobbying for tax credits on content development

Media | 09/03/2019 5:44 pm EDT

Creative groups lobbying for tax credits on content developmentComcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal is lobbying both the Alberta and Ontario...

Helix will keep cord-cutters in Videotron ‘ecosystem,’ CEO says

Media | 08/27/2019 5:52 pm EDT

Helix will keep cord-cutters in Videotron ‘ecosystem,’ CEO saysMONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unveiled its new Helix platform...

Feds putting $14.6 million toward French-language network

Media | 08/12/2019 4:41 pm EDT

Future reviews to determine much of DigiCanCon strategy: expertsThe federal government last week announced that it would pour $14.6 million...

CRTC commissioning report about market impact of online BDUs

Media | 08/09/2019 6:40 pm EDT

CRTC commissioning report about market impact of online BDUsThe CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...

CRTC asks wireless providers to justify post-data cap throttling

telecom | 07/04/2019 4:52 pm EDT

The CRTC has asked several telecoms to explain how their throttling of wireless speeds once customers exceed their data allotments doesn’t violate the commission’s regulatory policy on internet...

Rodriguez promises CanCon rules for ‘web giants’

Media | 06/26/2019 5:53 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banHeritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans to force large online services to make and promote Canadian content on their platforms. “Everyone has to contribute to our culture. That’s why we’ll require web...

Broadcast, TV service revenues down again: CRTC

Media | 06/20/2019 8:26 pm EDT

Canadians split between traditional, online viewing: MTMNew data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue...

Heritage committee calls for end of ISP safe harbour copyright rules

Media | 05/16/2019 1:10 pm EDT

Big telecoms fight calls for an ‘ISP tax’, pitch new OTT rulesThe House heritage committee says the government should do more to fight...

Canadians want more money for CBC, don’t trust OTTs to support CanCon: Poll

Media | 05/13/2019 5:18 pm EDT

Almost 60 per cent of Canadians have “low trust and confidence” in Netflix Inc. to “protect Canadian culture and identity on television”; half of Canadians don't trust cable companies to do...

NDP calls for OTT sales tax, end of ad tax exemption

Media | 05/13/2019 2:25 pm EDT

NDP calls for OTT sales tax, end of ad tax exemptionMONTREAL — The NDP’s platform for this year’s federal election will include requiring foreign...

Péladeau willing to pull TVA Sports signal in fight with Bell

Media | 04/08/2019 6:03 pm EDT

Péladeau willing to pull TVA Sports signal in fight with BellOTTAWA — Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said Monday that he would yank TVA Sports from BCE Inc.’s TV service over carriage fees — and denied that doing so would violate CRTC rules. Péladeau was in Ottawa to give a lunchtime speech at the...

New 2030 speed target too far away for rural Canada: NDP critic

telecom | 03/22/2019 11:25 am EDT

New 2030 speed target too far away for rural Canada: NDP criticOTTAWA — NDP industry critic Brian Masse says the new broadband strategy...

Distributors ask for Canadian film exhibition quotas on broadcast, OTT

Media | 03/01/2019 12:11 pm EST

Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel...

OTT video revenues comparable to conventional TV in 2017: CMR

telecom | 02/27/2019 7:23 pm EST

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...

Netflix setting up production hub in Toronto

Media | 02/19/2019 1:09 pm EST

Netflix setting up production hub in TorontoNetflix Inc. will expand its production presence in Canada by leasing space at two Toronto production...

YouTube top source of mobile traffic: Sandvine

Media | 02/18/2019 10:12 am EST

YouTube top source of mobile traffic: SandvineAlphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...

Don’t exclude online services from Broadcasting Act: Private radio

Media | 02/04/2019 12:00 pm EST

Don’t exclude online services from Broadcasting Act: Private radioCanada’s private radio broadcasters are fighting against a push to keep...

CBC president likens Netflix to colonialism

Media | 01/31/2019 4:27 pm EST

CBC president likens Netflix to colonialismOTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...

MPs demand removal of Lac Mégantic images from Netflix

Media | 01/30/2019 3:14 pm EST

MPs demand removal of Lac Mégantic images from NetflixThe House of Commons unanimously passed a motion Tuesday condemning Netflix...

New Broadcast Act should ‘unambiguously exclude’ OTT: Netflix

Media | 01/25/2019 4:51 pm EST

New Broadcast Act should ‘unambiguously exclude’ OTT: NetflixNetflix Inc. is defending against calls to rope foreign over-the-top players into Canada’s broadcasting framework — which could require the company to abide by CanCon...