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New OTT offerings pose threat to BDUs, opportunity for producers
Media | 08/17/2017 4:47 pm EDT
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...
Ian Scott ‘collegial’ choice for new CRTC chair: former colleagues
Media | 07/18/2017 11:49 am EDT
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted positively by former colleagues who praised his experience and collegial style Tuesday, but his background...
How serious is the CRTC’s ‘unprecedented’ lack of commissioners?
Media | 07/10/2017 4:58 pm EDT
At the end of this week, following the departure of its vice-chairman of...
Shoan out as CRTC commissioner, appealing dismissal
telecom | 06/24/2016 8:08 pm EDT
In a “highly unusual” move, Raj Shoan, the CRTC commissioner representing Ontario, was removed from his post by the federal government on Friday, capping off a 14-month period of legal strife between Shoan and the...
Connectivity beats content in telecom/media sector: report
Media | 11/03/2015 8:24 pm EST
The notion that "content is king" is challenged in a new report that points out that connectivity services take in significantly more revenue than content providers in Canada and have seen...
New MTM report shows shrinking rate of TV subscriptions
Media | 03/05/2015 9:37 pm EST
New data shows an overall drop in the share of English Canadians subscribing to TV services over the last year. MTM, a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, released a report Thursday that showed the...
PIAC says up to $600M annually at stake in paper-billing issue
telecom | 07/23/2014 9:06 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says up to $600 million a year is at stake as the CRTC gets set to meet with telecommunications companies to discuss the practice of charging customers to receive paper bills. John Lawford, PIAC’s executive director, said in a phone interview that PIAC has put together estimates for a report, which will come out in the coming weeks. “[For] communication services, phone, TV, wireless and Internet, the estimated annual cost, if three in 10 Canadians receive paper bills, is between $387 to $601 million a year,” he said. “If the...
Ottawa company brings PVR capability to over-the-air TV
Media | 06/20/2014 3:11 pm EDT
Amid the many challenges television service providers were already facing, along came an Ottawa company making devices with digital recording capabilities and electronic-guide functionality for those...
Want pick-and-pay? You may end up paying $9 for TSN, consultant says
Media | 10/15/2013 9:12 pm EDT
If TV subscribers are about to receive individual channels on a pick-and-pay basis, as the Conservative government says it will mandate, they may be surprised at the standalone pricing for some of...
Overnight, Astral brand all but disappears
Media | 07/05/2013 7:15 pm EDT
BCE Inc. didn’t waste any time in absorbing the former Astral Media Inc. BCE, Canada’s largest vertically integrated communications and media company, formally gained control of Astral at 12:01 a.m. Friday, eight days...