The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a focus on digital outputs and away from its linear programming.
Wednesday, the regulator released its long awaited decision on the renewal of the CBC's licence.
In...
On the second day of the CRTC's hearings into the CBC/Radio-Canada license renewal, CBC executives detailed the lead up to the broadcaster’s much-criticized decision to cut local news broadcasts across the country in the early days of the pandemic. "I know some Canadians were disappointed in us, and I'm very sorry about that," CBC's executive vice-president of radio and audio Susan Marjetti said about the March 19 decision, but explained that it was made with a view to preserving some level of local coverage early in the pandemic. Marjetti told CRTC vice-chair Caroline Simard that at...
The CRTC is switching to an online format for a radio broadcast licence hearing originally scheduled to be held in Gatineau, Que. last month. The virtual hearing will now take place on June 16 and look at five radio stations that “appear to be in serious non-compliance with their regulatory requirements, certain conditions of licence or mandatory orders issued by the Commission,” the CRTC said in a press release....
Two media groups have filed formal petitions to the Governor in Council, asking the government to...
Better representation at the CRTC of official language minority communities is a concern a number of...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future of the internet has registered to lobby the government for the first time.
The Feb. 20 registration under consultant Kathleen Monk of Earnscliffe Strategy Group is on...
Over six years after it was established, a government-funded non-profit initiative seeking to deliver...
In a Thursday decision, the CRTC denied an effort by a collection of public...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. and Birch Hill Equity Partners ramped up their lobbying in December, with both submitting their first communications reports for the year in the last weeks of 2017....
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
Everything old is new again when it comes to telecom and media issues...
The federal government is searching for a replacement for Peter Menzies, following his early departure from his role as vice-chairman of telecom at the CRTC. A job opening was posted to the government’s appointments...
The CRTC’s incoming vice-chairwoman of broadcasting, Caroline Simard, has...
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted...
