Major international streaming companies are asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review the CRTC’s decision to publicly disclose financial information that they argue is...
Children’s and family entertainment company DHX Television Ltd. (WildBrain) is shutting down its television broadcast operations, the company announced Monday, Aug. 25.
The move follows disputes with Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. in which WildBrain...
Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton has ordered jail time for two...
Jerrell Jimerson is the new senior vice president and head of product and...
Toronto-based DHX Television Ltd.’s WildBrain has not been disadvantaged...
Prime Minister Mark Carney emphasized Canadian economic interests on the...
TORONTO–Several streaming companies kicked off a hearing at the Federal Court of Appeal on Monday, June 9 as they attempt to overturn the requirement that they make...
The government of Quebec has introduced a bill that would allow for the...
GATINEAU, Que.—In addition to implementing...
The CRTC decided on Friday that BCE Inc. did not...
Toronto-based DHX Television Ltd., which operates WildBrain Television, is...
Amazon.com, Inc. is set to become the seventh member of the Motion Picture...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to dismiss allegations of...
Telus Corp. wants to see an unredacted version of Corus Entertainment...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a successful second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year. Although the...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) denounced a wave of recent legal challenges filed by Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
Online streaming services generating over $25 million in annual Canadian...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
Streaming platforms are saying it is too early to be discussing...
Quebecor 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...
Whether or not enough content is produced in...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
Alphabet 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...
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Corus Studios announced Thursday it has sold...
For the second time in the span of a year, the...
Top brass from Shaw Communications Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc....
A 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...
The production company creating a remake of 1940s noir film Nightmare Alley...
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the...
Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal is lobbying both the Alberta and Ontario...
Walt Disney Co. announced Monday that it would be launching its Disney+ streaming service in Canada on...
The number of Canadians who opt for over-the-top services is set to surpass the number of Canadians who subscribe to traditional television providers next year, according to a report released yesterday by Convergence Research Group. The Victoria, B.C.-based research group also estimates that OTT subscription revenue grew by 33 per cent in 2018 to $1.12 billion, and forecasts that it will grow to $1.51 billion in 2019. The 2018 OTT access revenue superseded Convergence’s growth expectations from two years ago, when the 2017 version of the report predicted access revenues of $972...
A new analysis published by the consumer website Comparitech this week...
Viewership of children’s TV channels in the United States declined by another 20 per cent in the past year, according to Bernstein Research analyst Todd Juenger. That decline means viewing of...
Nearly a dozen content producers have obtained a court order banning set-top box software developed by an individual in Canada that allows users to watch their content for free, according to court...
As cultural protection emerges as a last-stretch NAFTA sticking point,...
Canadians’ awareness of the National Film Board (NFB) as an organization that produces documentary or...
A proliferation of new streaming TV competition in Canada is set to benefit...
Walt Disney Co. will end its partnership with Netflix Inc. and launch two of its own separate...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported increases in both revenues and profit Tuesday, numbers that reflected its purchase of Shaw Communications Inc.’s media division last year. For the three months ended May 31, the...
The initial pinch of the CRTC’s decisions on two important issues in 2016 — wholesale rates and pick-and-pay — will be felt in the new year, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Aravinda Galappatthige. In a Thursday note forecasting the year ahead, Galappatthige said wireline competition, which he noted previously will pressure telecoms in 2017, will be exacerbated by the CRTC’s October decision on wholesale rates. ...
Multi-channel networks (MCNs) have carved out a space in the online video ecosystem in recent years, leading traditional broadcasters to move into MCNs as a relatively low-risk way to reach younger...
Canadian producer-distributor Nelvana, which is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., has inked a deal with a Walt Disney Co. subsidiary licensing international broadcast and on-demand rights for a new animated series...
Subscription video-on-demand service (SVOD) revenues will double by 2021, as broadcasters and TV network providers look to enter the market amid a trend in cord cutting and shaving, according to a new report. Juniper Research...
Millions of people tuned into live broadcasts of the electronic entertainment expo (E3) this week on Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube and Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch.tv. It’s an event whose...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Monday that its version of kids' specialty channel Disney XD will start broadcasting in Canada in December. It will join its other Disney-branded stations, such as Disney Channel and Disney Junior, which it operates as a result of a deal announced in April with Walt Disney Co. that gave Corus exclusive rights to Disney content in Canada. Disney-branded content, including a Disney XD channel targeted at kids between the ages of 6 and 11, was formerly broadcast in Canada by DHX Media Ltd., which has rebranded its Disney channels under its Family banner. Corus...
Canadian Netflix Inc. subscribers will be the only ones able to stream Walt Disney Co.'s Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2016. A Netflix representative confirmed in a phone call that the seventh installment, and latest...
Following Corus Entertainment Inc.’s announcement at MIPCOM, the global entertainment content conference, it said in a press release Monday that it has signed deals to distribute its original...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Thursday in two press releases it has launched the Disney Channel and expanded the distribution of its Cartoon Network. Disney Channel is now available in 10 million...
Netflix Inc. will not renew its licencing agreement with Epix — a joint venture by Paramount Pictures Corp., Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. — because it...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Tuesday that its new Disney Channel will debut in Canada on Sept. 1. This follows news Corus announced in April that it had struck a deal with Walt Disney Co. for the rights to the U.S. company's content in Canada. Corus said in a press release Tuesday that the Disney Channel will feature shows such as K.C....
Netflix Inc.'s audience is already on par with two out of the three major U.S. television networks and will be bigger than all three in about a year, U.S. investment analysts said last week. Chase White and Barton Crockett of FBR Capital Markets & Co. said in a note issued June 24 that Nielson Co. does not issue...
DHX Media Ltd. said Thursday that revenue for its third quarter ended March 31 almost tripled from a year earlier to $85.6 million from $29 million, thanks to a major acquisition and gains in its distribution and production...
While many broadcasters and TV providers expressed support for the CRTC’s proposed changes to its wholesale code, which governs carriage agreements for TV channels, they took differing positions...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Thursday it has signed a long-term licensing agreement with Walt Disney Co. giving it the rights to distribute Disney content across Canada in both official languages. Disney had a previous agreement with DHX Media Ltd., which purchased the English- and French-language versions of Disney Junior, Disney XD and Family Channel from BCE Inc. in a deal that was part of that company’s 2013 buyout of Astral Media Inc. According to a research note from RBC analyst Haran Posner, DHX Media failed to renew its agreement with Disney before the expiry of the deal on Wednesday. Now, Corus said in a press release it plans to launch its own Disney Channel TV Network in Canada on Sept. 1, which will include simultaneous streaming and video-on-demand rights for some programs, with the rollout of “select Disney...
Sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup and the Wimbledon tennis championship helped push mobile video in the third quarter of 2014, with mobile and tablets views making up 30 per cent of all worldwide online video, according...
Shomi, the new streaming service from Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc., announced Wednesday that it had signed a content deal with the Walt Disney Co. Under the terms of the deal, Shomi will offer a selection of Disney’s film library, as well as current and past TV...
Amazon.com Inc. said Monday it is introducing a new over-the-top streaming device called the Fire TV Stick. The device is just a few inches long, plugs directly into a television’s HDMI port and picks up a home's WiFi...
GATINEAU, Que. —Walt Disney Co. on Monday warned the CRTC against a move toward pick-and-pay television. Susan Fox, Disney’s vice-president of government relations, told the commission that having broad distribution...
A deal between Netflix Inc. and Walt Disney Co. that will see Walt Disney Studios’ movies appear on Netflix’s Canadian streaming service as soon as eight months after they hit the theatres will affect premium movie channels most directly, though it will also have a “trickle-down” effect on the whole TV system, said broadcasting analyst Mario Mota. Netflix said in a release Thursday that it has reached a “multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive Canadian subscription television service for first-run Disney live-action and...
Telus Corp. is branching out into management consulting. On Wednesday, the company announced the launch of Telus Transformation Office, an operation in which the company said it will apply lessons...
Dish Network Corp. announced a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will bring content from some of the most popular channels in United States, including worldwide sports leader ESPN, to over-the-top streaming services for the first...
Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday announced the launch of a cloud-based movie service called Disney Movies Everywhere to consumers in the United States. It’s available as an free application for Apple Inc.’s iPhones, iPads...
BCE Inc.’s TSN said Monday it has secured the Canadian rights for national coverage of Major League Baseball games for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights in a deal that will last until 2021. The specialty sports broadcaster...
BCE Inc. said Tuesday it has renewed a multi-year agreement to get exclusive Canadian rights to content from U.S. sports broadcaster ESPN for its sports channels, TSN and RDS. The companies said in a release that the content...
