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...
Rogers Communications Inc. has come to an agreement with the National Hockey League on another 12-year, multi-billion-dollar deal for broadcasting games.
Rogers, which owns the Sportsnet brands the games are broadcast on, will hold the national media rights to NHL games...
Telus Corp. is planning to sell a minority stake in wireless tower...
Corus Entertainment Inc. released its fourth quarter and end-of-year statements on Friday Oct. 25. Both...
Rogers Communications Inc. has announced a $7-billion-deal to sell a...
While some companies praised the CRTC’s long-awaited decision to mandate...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Monday that it had signed deals to bring programming from Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal to Canadian screens. Corus Entertainment Inc. issued a news release late Friday stating it had lost the contract with...
The presidents of the Big Three telecoms told the House of Commons Industry...
Telus Corp. announced Thursday it is purchasing digital health company...
The Tuesday night announcement of the departure of Rogers Communications...
In a Wednesday afternoon press release, the board of directors for Cogeco Inc. accused the CEOs of both...
Lawyers representing BCE Inc. have asked a Federal Court of Appeal judge to...
Telus Corp.’s outsourcing and call centre operation Telus International...
Telus Corp.’s announcement that it is buying ADT Security Services Canada, the Canadian arm of the U.S. home security services company, for $700 million is a wise move that will position Telus for...
Investors are overly preoccupied with the wireless divisions of telecom companies, and as such have been overly punitive toward Rogers Communications Inc. this summer, according to a look in on the...
DHX Media Ltd. announced Thursday night that Michael Donovan would step down as CEO of the Halifax-based media company, and Eric Ellenbogen will take over the role. Donovan will continue on as founding chair on the company’s board.
“Michael has played a significant role in building the Company into the global entertainment force it is today. We are pleased that he will remain on the Board,” DHX said in a statement.
Ellenbogen comes to DHX after some 30 years in the entertainment sector, according to the...
BCE Inc. will purchase Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V, Bell said in a press release Wednesday. The deal, which must still be approved by the CRTC, also includes “related digital assets including the...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s reasons for launching a no-overage-fee...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale emphasized the $1.7 billion the...
BCE Inc. walking away from the 600 MHz spectrum auction with no licences,...
Cogeco Communications Inc. says it’s inked a deal to sell its Cogeco Peer 1 cloud services business for $720 million. The data centre business is being sold to affiliates of the Los Angeles-based investment firm Digital Colony, according to a press release Cogeco issued Wednesday. Cogeco CEO Philippe Jetté said the data centre market had changed and consolidated “significantly” since the company initially bought Peer 1 Hosting back in 2013, which came with a pricatag of $526 million at the time. “In this context, we made the decision to focus Cogeco Communications’...
The likelihood Canada will ban Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. equipment from...
Stingray Group Inc. said it is aborting its previously announced...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is selling its data centre business, 4Degrees Colocation, for $259 million, with the proceeds likely going to fund future spectrum purchases, analysts say. The telecom announced Tuesday that it...
Corus Entertainment Inc. had $2.3 million in Canada Media Fund (CMF) money...
The federal government’s recently-tabled tax strategy allowing telecoms...
Manon Brouillette, who has been at the helm of Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron for the past five years, is leaving the company in what National Bank...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. is turning from fighting Pennsylvania-based Music Choice to offering to buy...
The Competition Bureau has blocked the $200 million sale of the Historia and Series+ channels from Corus...
Increasing prices for BCE Inc.’s CraveTV will help improve the performance of Bell’s media division, National Bank analyst Adam Shine said in a Friday note.
The cost of...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said it won’t force the migration of its...
DHX Media Inc. has appointed a new president, chief operating officer (COO) and created the new position...
Having facilities-based carriers offer low-cost data-only plans is a better way to fulfill the government’s goals of more affordable wireless options for consumers than mandating roaming access by...
Both Dana Landry, DHX Media Ltd.’s CEO, and CFO Keith Abriel are leaving the company, DHX said in a...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Tuesday it is selling two French-language specialty channels, Historia and Séries+, to BCE Inc.’s Bell Media in a deal valued at...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will launch its IPTV service using the X1 platform from Comcast Corp., the...
Joe Natale, president and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., reiterated...
The sale last week of Videotron’s AWS-1 spectrum by Quebecor Inc. to Rogers Communications Inc. isn’t likely to have implications for the company’s 700MHz spectrum, according to Canaccord...
The CRTC’s decision Thursday to ban most forms of zero-rating means telecoms will have to rely on service in order to stand out from the competition, analysts said. The...
Shaw Communications Inc. said Wednesday that its Freedom Mobile division will have a new chief operating officer, as Paul McAleese takes over from Alek Krstajic. CEO Brad Shaw...
The man who led Quebecor Inc. for 14 years but left to join provincial politics will return as head of the company Thursday, though despite the change in leadership, analysts expect...
Rogers Communications Inc. has abandoned the development of its own IPTV platform and will instead launch an IPTV service using a platform from Comcast Corp., a plan analysts...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Wind Mobile will be rebranded as Freedom Mobile and its LTE roll-out will come sooner than expected in two cities, the company’s CEO said Monday. The move comes despite some analyst...
BCE Inc. announced Monday morning that it will purchase Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. in a $3.9 billion transaction that, if approved, will see the number of players in Manitoba’s telecom market fall from four to three. Some experts said the deal is likely to be approved, especially given a pre-emptive move to shift some subscribers to Telus Corp. The deal is subject to approval from shareholders, the CRTC, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada and the Competition Bureau. Bell CEO George Cope said in a Monday conference call with analysts that he expects the regulatory...
BCE Inc. has “pretty much done all it could do to appease” CRTC concerns about the company’s proposed $3.38-billion purchase of Astral Media Inc. and should receive regulatory approval this week, National Bank Financial analyst Adam Shine said. In a research note released Tuesday, Shine said the CRTC could require further...
