Even though foreign streamers are litigating provisions of the Online Streaming Act in court, some money for Canadian content (CanCon) is slowly making its way to content...
As three of the CRTC’s top brass appeared before the federal Standing Committee on Industry and Technology earlier this week, they were asked to run MPs through how it...
The Wire Report's inaugural webinar saw our editor...
The CRTC has launched three consultations it says are aimed at improving consumer protection measures to...
The CRTC defended its telecommunications mandate before a skeptical Senate...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communications hastily adopted a private member’s bill on...
The CRTC cannot direct internet service providers (ISPs) to implement age verification techniques on pornographic websites in Canada, because the regulator must adhere to the...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada allowed companies to...
The CRTC has rejected a Public Interest Advocacy Centre request that it look into the involvement of...
The CRTC has created a new chief of consumer, research and communications...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner said Thursday that comments...
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...
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...
The CRTC has another opening among its senior officials, following the departure of secretary general Danielle May-Cuconato.
In an email, CRTC spokeswoman Patricia Valladao said May-Cuconato “joined another department a week ago.”
She added that “executive...
A group of American TV stations seems to be renewing its efforts to put compensation for signals...
OTTAWA — News quality came up as an issue at the first day of a study into the news media by the House of Commons heritage committee. Conservative MP Kevin Waugh, whose riding is in Saskatoon, brought up outsourcing of some...
OTTAWA — The CRTC’s head of broadcasting says radio revenue does not appear to be suffering as a result of competition from Internet-based streaming services. Scott Hutton, the commission’s executive director of...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada has been at the vanguard of changes the broadcasting industry has faced due to the emergence of digital media in recent years, Scott Hutton, the CRTC’s executive...
Canadians who took part in a CRTC consultation “want more” from their television services, including more diverse and higher-quality programming, as well as more choice to subscribe to the individual channels they want, the CRTC said. In a report released Wednesday that summarizes comments the commission received from a public consultation on the Canadian broadcasting system, the CRTC said respondents voiced complaints about the quality of available programming, and about inflexible and increasingly expensive TV channel packages. “Most who participated in … this...
