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 creation of quotas for French content on streaming services’ platforms. But the question arises if it...
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 undue preference raised against it by Corus Entertainment Inc. related to the promotion of Disney+...
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)...
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...
Whether or not enough content is produced in Canada by the likes of Netflix Inc., Walt Disney Co., or Amazon.com Inc. is a less important question than whether that content --...
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 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...
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...
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...
A new analysis published by the consumer website Comparitech this week claims that Canadian Netflix Inc. subscribers have enjoyed the best value-for-money, based on...
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 content producers even as it causes problems for the country’s broadcasters and TV service providers through fragmented audiences and higher content costs — though it doesn’t yet signal an...
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...
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...
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 release, in the movie franchise is slated to be available on Netflix eight months after the movie is out of movie theatres in Canada, the only jursdiction where it will be available on the streaming service. In the U.S., premium cable and satellite TV network Starz Inc. will have rights to the movie broadcast the movie, the representative confirmed....
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 ratings for Netflix. However, based on what Netflix has disclosed for subscriber numbers and streaming times, the analysts said the 10 billion hours of Netflix content streamed in the first quarter of this year would equate to an average of almost two hours a day per subscriber, or the equivalent of a 24-hour Nielsen rating of 2.6, about the same as Comcast Corp.'s NBC and Walt Disney Co.'s ABC. With Netflix's ratings growing about 40 per cent a year and those...
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...
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...
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 learned from a seven-year corporate makeover to helping other organizations with employee engagement and overall performance. Daniel Pontefract, who holds the title of “chief envisioner” at Telus, and was previously its head of learning and collaboration, said in a phone interview on Wednesday the company wants to share what it has learned. “We’ve seen, from an...
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...
