As the CRTC works on revising how it defines Canadian and Indigenous audio content, online streaming services argue that no existing methods, nor any adaptation of them, are...
Two and a half million Canadians have virtually no access to local news, a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reveals. The report, titled News Deprivation: Canadian communities starving for local news, was released on March 20.
Since 2008, 11 per...
Amazon.com, Inc. is set to become the seventh member of the Motion Picture...
Rogers Communications Inc. is picking up BCE Inc.’s stake in Maple Leaf...
With Parliament returning today, there are a handful of bills affecting the online world still before...
The Copyright Board of Canada announced Tuesday it is signing on to the...
Charlene Gavel could be considered a lifer at Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. After serving as CFO of SaskTel International, she moved over to the main company,...
As the CRTC reviews Google’s application for...
Patrick Smith has joined the Canadian Media...
The CRTC has released the final conditions for contributions to be paid by online streamers to support...
Digital media saw an increase in revenues last year while conventional broadcasters experienced...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld two lower court rulings that found...
As a lockout between Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
Quebecor Inc. announced Monday that it has installed two new executives in...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding a mainstay in his talking points this year. But CBC CEO Catherine Tait says she is not worried about the broadcaster's survival if his party gains power in the next election.
“The...
Despite legislation introduced by the federal government meant to boost...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a successful second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year. Although the...
More sports leagues have been added to the list of game live streams...
The CRTC has agreed with CBC/Radio-Canada that it may exclude its spending...
Broadcasters that hold the rights to televise live sporting events including the NHL, NBA, and Premier League have secured an order from the Federal Court requiring internet...
Deceptive design practices – meant to influence the privacy decisions of...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB)...
Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
The Wire Report welcomes former reporter Hannah Daley back as its new editor. Originally from New Brunswick, Daley studied journalism at King’s College in Halifax, and worked for online business news publication...
BCE Inc. has filed for an injunction to stop the launch of Discovery...
The CRTC on Tuesday announced it is initiating two consultations on making...
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after...
The Asian Television Network International Limited is asking the CRTC to authorize the “Mirror Now” channel for distribution as programming. The network, which says on its website that it...
An Alberta judge shot down a request from Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. for an injunction against Best Buy Canada Ltd., Staples Canada ULC, Canada Computers Inc., and London Drugs Limited as part of its suit against the retailers whose employees allegedly recommended to customers that they pirate content using media boxes. In a decision released Friday, Justice Michael Lema of the province’s Court of Queen’s Bench denied Edmonton-based Allarco, the owner of the Super Channel television network, an injunction stopping the stores from selling “certain TV set-top boxes.” The...
Professional networking platform LinkedIn will have its applications for a summary trial heard in the...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
The CRTC has approved the sale of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s stake in Telelatino Network Inc.,...
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be...
Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel reviewing Canada’s communications legislation. “Non-Canadian broadcast undertakings like the foreign-owned OTTs need to be required to commit to buying and streaming Canadian content, and in particular, Canadian feature films as well as contribute to the Canadian cultural eco-system,” CAFDE...
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty...
The real value of the funding CBC/Radio-Canada receives has slipped significantly due to inflation, the...
A group representing the Canadian community TV sector is asking the panel reviewing the broadcasting and...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has promoted Troy Reeb and Colin Bohm to its executive vice-president ranks,...
Netflix Inc. will expand its production presence in Canada by leasing space at two Toronto production...
Trish Williams is moving from Temple Street Productions to CBC/Radio-Canada, where she will be CBC’s new executive director of scripted content.
Starting this week, she...
Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to the damage done by European colonialism, comments she made at a high-profile industry event Thursday where representatives from every sector of Canadian...
A meeting with individuals leading the federal government’s review of...
The number of Canadians who consume their video content mostly through...
A new report using data from Statistics Canada says 44.5 per cent of Canadian households headed by...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
Canada’s public broadcaster has hired Torstar Corp.’s Claude Galipeau as its executive vice-president of corporate development.
The chief revenue officer of Torstar will join CBC/Radio-Canada on Jan. 7, 2019, the broadcaster said Tuesday. In 2002, he was the CBC’s executive director of digital programming and business development, according to his LinkedIn profile, and has since held digital media roles at BCE Inc.-owned Astral Media between 2008 and 2009 and...
The CRTC has dismissed an appeal by BCE Inc. and ordered it to pay...
A proposal by Corus Entertainment Inc. to shut down 44 television...
OTTAWA -- Two of Canada’s largest telecoms and CBC/Radio-Canada told the Supreme Court on Monday that it’s “absurd” and “illogical” for a court to force them to ensure the safety of an...
The number of English-speaking adults in Canada subscribing to over-the-top streaming services continues...
OTTAWA — The Copyright Board will work to address long-standing criticism over how long it takes to issue decisions, including by implementing new regulations, CEO Nathalie Théberge told members of the House industry committee....
Ontario’s auditor general is raising concerns about a legal "loophole"...
The CRTC has approved a budget increase for a service that allows...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Telus Corp. and Shaw Communications Inc. say...
There’s a lack of consensus over who should help Canadians determine what counts as ‘fake news’, but the government, non-profits and internet service providers (ISPs)...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Seeking to differentiate itself from other applicants,...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants members of Parliament to include...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Rogers Communications Inc. is taking what it learned a year ago and is proposing to rectify what a previous CRTC panel said were shortcomings to run its national ethnic channel for a...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. is in negotiations with Rogers Communications...
OTTAWA — Canada’s elections commissioner said his office has nurtured a good relationship with employees of the tech giants and doesn’t expect that to deteriorate going...
An expert in copyright law is asking senators to nix a reform measure in...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and its counterpart in Quebec are party to a “permanent working...
Cogeco Inc. has a new senior vice-president of public affairs and communications, the telecom announced Tuesday, following the retirement of René Guimond.
Marie-Hélène Labrie will replace...
The French government will work with Facebook Inc. on a new initiative to...
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...
The government should combine the Heritage and Innovation ministries, and...
Stingray Digital Group Inc.’s Stingray Business division, which provides background music and digital signage to businesses, is expanding in Europe.
It said Friday it has purchased Belgian company DJ-Matic, which also...
Blue Ant Media Inc. is acquiring Saloon Media, a Toronto production company “specializing in globally relevant factual television,” it said in a press release Thursday. Saloon Media’s shows include Mummies Alive and...
The CRTC has approved Cogeco Inc. to purchase 10 radio stations from RNC Media Inc., it said in a decision Thursday. “The Commission considers that the RNC stations integrated into Cogeco could benefit from economies of scale and Cogeco’s resources to maximize advertising revenues, which would contribute to the financial viability of these stations,” the regulator said. The $18.5 million deal will double Cogeco’s stable of radio stations, with the company picking up new stations in Quebec’s Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Abitibi-Témiscamingue regions, as well as in Lachute,...
Streaming video platforms in the European Union will have to ensure 30 per...
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...
OTTAWA — The expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
An e-petition concerning a Quebec man who allegedly kept operating an illegal radio station, despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has gathered the...
Hélène Laurendeau will be the new deputy minister at Canadian Heritage, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Friday afternoon. Laurendeau is currently deputy minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, a role she’s held since April 2016. Laurendeau has worked across a wide swath of departments, including the Public Service Commission, Treasury Board, Privy Council Office (PCO) and Justice Canada, although this will be her first time at Heritage. She will replace Heritage’s current deputy minister Graham Flack, who is moving over to become deputy minister of...
Amazon.com Inc. is launching a DVR that will work with a digital antenna to...
The Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC) told a House of Commons committee reviewing the Copyright Act that small internet service providers would like to see “some tweaking” to the notice-and-notice regime.
That...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it...
As cultural protection emerges as a last-stretch NAFTA sticking point,...
MONTREAL — As technological change accelerates, CBC/Radio-Canada has to keep pace, according to CEO Hubert Lacroix, who said Thursday “we can’t think of the...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)’s Toronto branch is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to “call on...
Heritage Canada’s announcement of an expert advisory panel for its review of Canadian content in a digital age, which includes representatives from a number of broadcasters, was met with both praise and...
A group of Quebec broadcasters say that unless accountability measures are put in place, the increased funding the federal government has slated for CBC/Radio-Canada will be a “blank cheque” allowing it to “step up its already ferocious competition against private broadcasters.” Quebecor Inc.’s TVA, Group V Media Inc. and Groupe Serdy issued a press release Wednesday afternoon in response to comments by CBC CEO Hubert...
Amazon.com Inc. has launched Amazon Video Direct, a new “self-service program” that will allow video creators to distribute their content to Amazon customers. The company said in a...
The CRTC said Monday it has approved the addition of Canal Q to its list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution. It said in the decision that the channel is “a 24-hour...
Sony Corp.’s Sony Pictures Television (SPT) said Monday it has named Phil King its new senior vice-president of distribution for Canada. “Based in Toronto, King will be responsible for managing and growing SPT’s distribution activity across Canada, leading all film, television and formats licensing...
In response to a question about the federal government’s position on a Quebec bill that would lead to the blocking of gambling websites, Heritage Minister Melanie Joly said “we believe in...
In the United States, mobile advertising revenues were up 66 per cent in 2015 compared to the previous financial year, totalling $20.7 billion US in 2015, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Overall, Internet advertising revenues grew 20 per cent from 2014 to 2015, when they totalled $59.6 billion US in the American market. The report said that over the past 10 years, Internet advertising has had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17 per cent, and since 2010, that growth was “fueled” by a 100 per cent CAGR in mobile advertising, while...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday that it plans to launch programmatic, or automatic, ad-buying for traditional TV. “Corus will be the first Canadian broadcaster to commit to bringing programmatic TV advertising...
The CRTC has approved an application for a radio broadcasting licence in St. Catharines, Ont., while denying a licence for a developmental community station in Mississauga, Ont. The commission said...
Steve Ladurantaye, head of news and government partnerships at Twitter Inc.’s Canadian division, will be the new managing editor of digital news at CBC/Radio-Canada. The move is effective May 9, Ladurantaye said in a...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported Wednesday a three-per-cent rise in revenue in the second fiscal quarter of 2016 to $197.7 million, up from $191.5 million the same period a year earlier. In the three months...
Next month, long-time Netflix Inc. subscribers will be notified of a price hike to their monthly bill, with subscriptions going from $7.99 per month to $9.99 per month, the company confirmed in an email Monday. The price...
When companies launched TV-everywhere products a few years ago, they did so as part of an effort to compete with then-new streaming services — but now that many of those same companies have...
A new report from Convergence Consulting Group Ltd. estimates 3.43 million Canadian households, or about 23.7 per cent, didn’t have a traditional TV subscription with a cable,...
CBC/Radio-Canada said in a press release Wednesday that Katherine Wolfgang will be its new head of publicity as of April 26. Wolfgang most recently worked as vice-president of marketing and communications at...
The CRTC said Tuesday it has approved the France 24 Arabic TV channel for distribution in Canada. The channel is an Arabic-language news service originating in France, it said. The regulator said in a separate decision Tuesday that it has also removed the Korean-language MBC Channel America from the list, following an application by Mondo Globo Inc. asking for its removal. The company had indicated “it is in the process of registering the service as an exempt third-language service,” the CRTC noted....
