New data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue continued last year, with broadcasters and TV service providers both seeing declines.
Between 2017 and 2018, revenues for the total broadcasting sector -- both TV...
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 regulator said in a notice Thursday. It said it would “co-develop a new framework for Indigenous broadcasting in Canada with Indigenous peoples. "The process will enable all of us to better understand what these broadcasting needs are, now and in the future, for both traditional and digital services," the notice said. To do that, the CRTC is introducing a new procedure with three phrases...
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...
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 IPTV customers lost access to the game during the crucial final 30 seconds of last night’s NBA Finals Game 5 between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors.
The Raptors lost as Kyle Lowry’s...
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...
Corus Entertainment Inc., the only major Canadian broadcaster refusing to...
OTTAWA - Legislators on Tuesday gave some sense of what regulatory options may be coming down the road for big data and social media giants as lawmakers from Canada and some...
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...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Innovation Canada is recommending that the privacy commissioner be vested with order-making power to clamp down on non-compliance related to the collection and use of...
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...
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 over-the-top (OTT) services to collect and remit sales tax on revenues earned in Canada and ending the tax exemption for advertising on foreign online platforms.
NDP MPs...
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...
The new Fizz flanker brand launched by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is still...
OTTAWA — Canadian companies that sell digital products which are subject to sales tax are “disadvantaged” by foreign companies who are exempt from the tax, according to one of the auditors behind a report released by the auditor general’s office Tuesday.
Audit...
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...
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 turning to Federal Court to force Facebook Inc. to improve its privacy practises, after it found the...
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...
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 as he justified his decision to pull the TVA Sports signal from BCE Inc. TV subscribers Wednesday,...
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...
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 consultants to produce research papers on six topics, most of which have an international focus,...
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...
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 Alphabet Inc. said in Federal Court on Thursday. The court is currently in the process of determining whether search engine delisting -- the process of making certain information harder to find on the internet -- is captured under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). In that case, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC), which brought the initial...
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...
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 companies is seeking new federal incentives it says would lead to increasing up-front distributor...
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...
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. Bill C-76, which received Royal Assent on Dec. 13, created new rules requiring online advertisers to set up a registry of partisan and election-related ad messages that run during an election -- including the writ period and a pre-election period starting on June 30. “For the duration of the 2019 federal election campaign, Google will not...
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...
OTTAWA — Facebook Inc.’s head of public policy in Canada said the...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty of identifying Canadian content online to the panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and...
Key evidence relied upon by movie studios in a substantial chunk of copyright infringement cases that have yielded vast sums of money from settlements has been ruled insufficient by a Federal Court...
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,...
A majority of Canadian internet users say the federal government should impose fines or other sanctions on social media companies that don’t remove fake news from their platforms, according to polling released by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Tuesday. Eight-in-ten respondents to an online panel poll said companies should face fines or other sanctions in instances where ‘fake news’ content isn’t taken down after it’s been reported. Of those in favour, 38 per...
Netflix Inc. will expand its production presence in Canada by leasing space at two Toronto production...
Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube makes up just over 35 per cent of worldwide mobile data traffic, making it the...
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing...
Better representation at the CRTC of official language minority communities is a concern a number of...
OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. said it was surprised to see two motions for disclosure of subscriber information filed by two movie studios late last year and challenged them because they did not include...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s former chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will be CBC/Radio-Canada’s new executive vice-president of CBC.
Williams, who retired from Corus last year, will start the Toronto-based job on May 1, CBC said in a press release Wednesday.
Michel Bissonnette,...
Former CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix has joined the business law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP as strategic counsel in its Montreal office, according to a press release from Blakes Monday.
"The experience that Hubert has acquired in recent years,...
