Jay Thomson will be stepping down as CEO of the Canadian Communications Systems Alliance (CCSA) following the group’s annual conference in September. Thomson, who has led the CCSA since 2017, is a lawyer with past experience at the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), Telus Corp., the Canadian Cable Television Association (CCTA) and the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP). Thomson tells Wire Report he plans to spend more time on his hobbies in retirement and looks forward to a life of less pressure after a long career. He remains proud of the work he has done at the CCSA. “I think I’ve solidified the organization and put it on a good...
Players in the low-earth orbit satellite (LEOs) space are casting doubt on Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) ability to perform in the Canadian market three days after the government announced that it would spend more than $1 million from the Universal...
The Canadian Communication Systems Alliance has endorsed a complaint from Quebecor Inc.'s Videotron to the Competition Bureau over delays to accessing BCE Inc. infrastructure in Quebec, writing in a...
GATINEAU, Que. — The CRTC should mandate a single provider to act as a certified MVNO throughout...
CRTC chairman Ian Scott said the new internet code will address many of the...
The Canadian Communications Systems Alliance (CCSA) is asking the Senate...
The Federal Court of Appeal said in a Monday decision that the CRTC lacks the jurisdiction to implement its Wholesale Code -- governing the business relationships between TV service providers and broadcasters -- though overturning the CRTC’s order enforcing the code may not have much practical effect. That’s because the CRTC has already embedded many of those provisions in broadcaster and TV providers’ licenses, according to Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) CEO Jay Thomson. “While disappointing, the court’s decision should have very little, if any, practical...
OTTAWA — The expert panel appointed by the federal government to...
OTTAWA — The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and...
The House of Commons standing committee on finance presented its budgetary policy report Friday, which included a recommendation for funding to ensure high-speed internet is available across Canada. Recommendation 89 in the...
The Canadian Cable System Alliance (CCSA) said Thursday that Lori Rosenberg will join its executive team...
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted...
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee recommendation to expand the five-per-cent contribution broadcast...
OTTAWA — The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) is hoping to build on what it calls a successful round of lobbying the federal government a year ago to have its concerns and ideas integrated...
The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) led the telecom field for lobbying the federal government in March, logging 15 communication reports for the month, according to the federal lobbyists’ registry. Those reports were split between organization president and CEO Jay Thomson and long-time consultant Harris Boyd, as they communicated with a variety of MPs, such as Opposition heritage critic Peter Van Loan, Liberal finance committee chair Wayne Easter and an Innovation Canada policy advisor. Boyd, who has been registered to lobby for CCSA for more than a decade, communicates with the government about CRTC broadcasting distribution regulations, namely “to ensure proposed changes do not increase license fees or financial contributions to Canadian programming or impose new obligations to carry programming...
The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) has named Jay Thomson as its new CEO. Thomson, who is currently the vice-president of broadcasting policy and regulatory affairs for the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), will start effective Feb. 1, 2017, the CCSA said in a press...
OTTAWA — Streaming video services like CraveTV and Shomi can and must be regulated as broadcasting entities in order to ensure funding for Canadian programming, the Canadian Media Production...