Cogeco Inc. will launch its new IPTV service in its entire Canadian footprint by the end of the calendar year, CEO Philippe Jetté said on a call with analysts Thursday.
“We are currently testing our IPTV platform and we are very enthusiastic about the advanced...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly manipulated for political purposes could potentially meet a national public interest threshold designated...
The CRTC has filled the last of its open commissioner slots, as Yukon lawyer Claire Anderson has been named to the vacant seat representing British Columbia and the Yukon. Anderson, who practices law at the Whitehorse firm...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will challenge a recent CRTC decision ordering it to turn over information collected from TV set-top boxes to a working group. The CRTC issued that decision earlier this...
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
The CRTC has ruled that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron must continue to participate in an industry-wide working group charged with creating a set-top box (STB) data measurement system. In April, Videotron walked away from the group, saying it didn’t want to provide any of its data to the STB working group. In an April letter to the CRTC, Shaw...
The CRTC has released digital media revenue and expense information compiled from the twenty private broadcasters. Digital media services collectively amassed more than $412 million in revenue for 2018, a 25 per cent rise on the $330 million they made in 2017, according to a letter published Friday that includes responses to a request for information issued in March to twenty broadcasters, which covered the period from 2016 to 2018. The 25 per cent revenue growth in 2018 represents a...
The imminent departure of BCE Inc. CEO George Cope, announced Friday...
Executives at Corus Entertainment Inc., historically proud of not being in...
Music Canada, the trade organization which represents the Canadian divisions of some of the world’s largest record labels, has declared that the gap between what artists create and what they are...
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its...
Two media groups have filed formal petitions to the Governor in Council, asking the government to...
Long-standing Quebecor Inc. executive Serge Sasseville has announced he will retire from his position as...
A bill aimed at improving children’s health by limiting the advertising of unhealthy foods to them, which was opposed by major Canadian broadcasters, has been left for dead on the order paper as the Senate adjourned for the summer last week.
The Child Health...
New data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue...
The CRTC has begun the process of replacing its three-decade-old Indigenous broadcasting policy. “Since then, the broadcasting environment in Canada has experienced significant changes,” the...
The Federal Court of Appeal has granted Quebecor Inc.’s application to challenge the CRTC’s ruling that it must continue to provide its TVA Sports signal to BCE Inc. customers following a tiff...
A former Astral executive is Quebec’s new representative to the CRTC, with the federal government appointing Alicia Barin to the commission for a five-year term. Barin will join the CRTC in August. She is a former executive...
The CRTC has approved a request from Corus Entertainment Inc. to shutter 44 of its television transmitting towers that serve rural customers. The original application from November said that the “rebroadcasting transmitters generate no incremental revenue, and attract little to no added viewership for Corus,” and argued that eliminating them would affect fewer than 20,000 viewers. The channels “rebroadcast the signals of various stations across the country,” the CRTC said, meaning that shutting them down would leave viewers without over-the air signals for those stations....
The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal request by MediaTube Corp. to present new evidence in a six-year-old patent infringement case brought against BCE Inc. Judge David Stratus agreed with Bell’s argument that...
BCE Inc. confirmed today that several thousand of its Fibe TV and Alt TV...
The federal government isn’t interested in helping ensure BCE Inc. sees a...
CRTC chairman and CEO Ian Scott told a broadcasting conference Tuesday that the commission is “prepared to be flexible with new approaches to regulation” as it prepares to review its policy for...
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Innovation Canada will give existing holders of 3.5...
The House industry committee is asking the Heritage committee to study...
TORONTO — The interim report due at the end of this month from the expert...
OTTAWA — The concept of privacy should factor more prominently in competition law when it comes to regulating social media and big data, a conference heard on Thursday. “Users need to be able...
OTTAWA — The spectre of past Conservative government cuts to CBC/Radio-Canada and potential future policy to force changes to CBC news coverage was the undercurrent at the House heritage committee Thursday afternoon during an appearance by CBC president Catherine Tait....
Corus Entertainment Inc., the only major Canadian broadcaster refusing to...
OTTAWA - Legislators on Tuesday gave some sense of what regulatory options...
OTTAWA — For the Canadian government to be more effective at legislating on issues including social media and internet of things (IoT) technology, it needs to communicate with technology specialists...
Broadcasters have lobbied the government for years to reimburse them for...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have both signed on to a declaration of principles around the promotion of electoral integrity online, aimed at combatting the spread of disinformation on social media sites in the run up to the 2019 federal election....
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Innovation Canada is recommending that the privacy commissioner be vested...
Users of a program that provides free access to conventional TV stations in areas where they’re not available over-the-air are asking the CRTC not to allow Shaw Communications Inc. to shut down the...
The House heritage committee says the government should do more to fight...
The Centre for Digital Rights has hired new lobbyists to help it research...
Shaw Communications Inc. is getting rid of $548 million in shares in Corus Entertainment Inc.
The...
An organization representing sound recording rights holders wants to...
Quebecor Inc. has turned to the Federal Court of Appeal to overturn the CRTC’s decision forcing it to keep providing the signal for its TVA Sports to BCE Inc.’s TV customers. It filed for leave...
A class action against BCE Inc.’s controversial 2013 relevant advertising program will be heard in an Ontario Court. The action, which alleges that the program violated the plaintiffs’ privacy rights “by using the personal information of its data service customers for its own marketing initiative,” was certified in a decision from Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice Monday. Bell began tracking subscribers’ habits -- including the websites they visited, their web searches and...
Almost 60 per cent of Canadians have “low trust and confidence” in Netflix Inc. to “protect Canadian culture and identity on television”; half of Canadians don't trust cable companies to do...
MONTREAL — The NDP’s platform for this year’s federal election will include requiring foreign...
When the Game of Thrones series premiere aired in 2011, streaming services...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said Friday the platform’s community guidelines, “in many respects,” go above what is currently prescribed in Canadian law, as the...
OTTAWA — In an at-times tense hearing of the House of Commons ethics committee, executives from the Canada office of Alphabet Inc.’s Google made the case that the company was technologically unable to sell political advertisements on its platforms in a way that would comply with Bill C-76. The bill, which became law in December last year, requires online platforms to create a database of political and partisan ads sold during the course of the 2019 election. They have to set up the databases by June 30. “It was simply not feasible for us to implement the extensive changes...
The new Fizz flanker brand launched by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is still...
OTTAWA — Canadian companies that sell digital products which are subject...
BCE Inc. has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC alleging Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron removed its film and TV show service Super Écran from its premium pack selection, giving its competitor Club...
Nicholas McHaffie, who served as counsel to TekSavvy Solutions Inc. in its long-running legal saga against movie studios looking to get the personal information of Canadians in copyright cases, has been appointed to the Federal...
The expected focus by the country’s largest wireless service providers...
The CRTC has told Sirius XM Canada Holdings Inc. that half a million...
Rogers Communications Inc. today announced that it is acquiring the Vancouver-based podcast company Pacific Content. “Podcasting is a big part of the future of audio. We quickly identified its immense potential and are being...
If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner takes Facebook Inc. to Federal...
The CRTC has approved a proposed sale of two Quebec radio stations to Leclerc Communication Inc., but not a requested exception to its ownership policy that Leclerc has said would kill the deal if not approved. Leclerc had asked the CRTC to allow it to buy French-language commercial stations CHOI-FM Québec and CKLX-FM Montréal from RNC Media Inc., but also for an exception to the CRTC’s ownership policy that would allow it to retain control of CHOI-FM -- which would mean Leclerc would own...
BCE Inc. has hit Quebecor Inc. with a $150-million lawsuit over Quebecor’s decision to cut the signal for its TVA Sports channel from Bell customers earlier this month. Quebecor pulled the TVA Sports signal at the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs in a dispute with Bell over carriage fees. The CRTC has since issued a mandatory order to keep the...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday it is...
The number of Canadians who opt for over-the-top services is set to surpass the number of Canadians who subscribe to traditional television providers next year, according to a report released...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Joe Natale emphasized the $1.7 billion the...
The CRTC will register a mandatory order with the Federal Court forbidding Quebecor Inc. from withholding the signal for TVA Sports from BCE Inc. subscribers — meaning that if Quebecor chooses to pull the signal again, it would be in contempt of court. If the company ignores the order, in addition to fines or other consequences the court could levy, “TVA Sports' licence will automatically be suspended for the duration of time that the signal is not provided to Bell Canada,” the CRTC said in a press release issued late Thursday. "The CRTC is very concerned by TVA Group's actions....
A chief Federal Court clerk has rejected Alphabet Inc.’s request to expand to constitutional questions the scope of a legal reference that seeks to determine whether Canada’s private sector...
Gatineau, Que. — Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau was unrepentant...
Twitter Inc. has added a timely subject matter to its lobby files: educating federal officials on social media use during elections. The social media company updated its files last week to include...
The Quebec Superior Court on Friday forced Quebecor Inc. to restore a TV...
The CRTC has told Quebecor Inc. executives to appear at a hearing in Gatineau Wednesday to explain why it defied the regulator and pulled the signal to its TVA Sports channel from BCE Inc. TV...
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge has granted an application by the...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) said it has a new national executive director in Marie Kelly, effective on Monday. Kelly, a labour lawyer by trade, will replace the retiring Stephen...
OTTAWA — Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said...
OTTAWA — It is now “very likely” that Canadians will face some form of cyber foreign interference, but it is “improbable” it will be on the scale of the 2016 United...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...
The panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications laws has hired...
Complaints about TV service to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services (CCTS)...
While the Canadian music industry aims to address revenue shortfalls in the...
One of the defendants in a long-running lawsuit against companies selling pre-loaded set-top boxes will pay three Canadian telecoms $5 million to settle the case, according to a March 20 consent judgment. That still leaves more than 125 other defendants in the suit, which dates back to 2016. That’s when a Federal Court judge issued a ban on sales of pre-loaded set-top boxes that come with software allowing users to access pirated TV content. More defendants were added to the case as it continued. The defendant is a numbered company in Ontario operating as Infinity TV. It is the first...
The CRTC wants to update both its Canadian Programming Expenditure policy and its annual broadcasting survey to reflect the growth of streaming and other digital options and is asking for input on how...
OTTAWA — If a court determines Google’s search engine falls under the country’s private sector privacy law, then that would effectively make the internet company a media regulator, counsel to...
The 2019 federal budget is boosting funding to the office of the privacy...
The CRTC has decided the Timmins, Ontario commercial radio market can’t sustain another station, rejecting an application by Vista Radio Ltd. for another broadcasting licence. Timmins has four...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division has announced it’s selling all seven of its magazine...
An illegal radio station that allegedly kept operating despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has been off the air since last August, the government said in a response tabled on...
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is announcing $1.7 billion in new rural...
Facebook Inc. will solicit the advice of an advisory group as part of its effort to ensure its ad registry captures key issues leading to the 2019 federal election. The group of five will include former NDP deputy leader Megan...
As the Liberal government unveils its last budget before the upcoming federal election, companies and industry groups will be watching to see if this is the year they’re finally granted some of the requests they’ve been making for years.
Various parties are suggesting...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the Attorney General of Canada (AGC) have filed appeals challenging Alphabet Inc.’s application to expand the scope of a deindexing case to include questions about whether forcing it to...
A trade association for Canadian-based television and content distribution...
Quebecor Inc. has filed a complaint with the CRTC against BCE Inc., alleging undue preference against its sports channel because it’s been excluded from a popular Bell TV package in Quebec....
The CRTC has approved the sale of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s stake in Telelatino Network Inc.,...
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be amended to include a number of references to accessibility for Canadians with disabilities, according to...
Bart Yabsley has been appointed as the new president of Sportsnet, filling a role left vacant when Scott Moore stepped down from that position last fall. Yabsley was most recently senior vice-president of sports and...
Alphabet Inc.’s search giant Google plans to ban political advertising from its platforms during the next federal election campaign in Canada, following the introduction of tougher political advertising transparency rules by...
The Liberal government has appointed Matthew Boswell on a full five-year...
The Federal Court has denied the CBC/Radio-Canada’s and the Media Coalition’s application to intervene in a case that will determine whether the privacy commissioner can order search engines to delist certain content -- at...
The Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC/Radio-Canada to expand its focus on children’s content to reflect a broader age range and is asking for new communications legislation to ensure it has the funding...
Despite heightened interest in the impact of social media on Canadian elections, Facebook Inc. said it has not heard of any Canadian institutions that have applied to view the social media giant’s...
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...
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when...
OTTAWA -- Democratic institutions minister Karina Gould said the government is angling closer to mandating internet companies remove illegal content from their platforms....
