Canadian households spent an average of $222.83 a month on communications services in 2016, the CRTC said in a report released Thursday.
That’s a two per cent increase, or $4.41, from the previous year, higher than the 1.4 per cent inflation rate, it said in the report....
BCE Inc. and Vice Media Inc. have reached a deal that will see new and previously produced content from the millennial-focused media brand be available on Bell’s platforms, the companies said in a press release Thursday.
That means that content from Viceland, Vice’s...
There is no need to set thresholds for jitter as part of the basic service standard, telecoms said in interventions to a CRTC consultation Monday. The regulator launched the consultation in July, when it issued...
The Jim Pattison Group of Companies is adding to its stable of radio...
The CRTC has approved the sale of a Fort McMurray, Alta. radio station and granted an exemption to the requirement to pay tangible benefits. It approved an application by United Christian...
Guylaine Roy, who was named associate deputy minister of Canadian Heritage last May, is leaving the department, according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office Friday.
Effective Monday, Roy will become the...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will not hear an appeal from an American movie studio challenging a Canadian court’s decision forcing it to pay court costs upfront for a defendant it is looking to sue for copyright infringement. Early last year, a federal court judge ordered Voltage Pictures LLC to put up $75,000 in a court account to cover the costs of defendant and Rogers Communications Inc. subscriber Robert Salna, who was accused by the studio of illegally downloading its content. The Federal Court of Appeal then denied Voltage’s appeal, and on Thursday, the country’s...
According to a recent report from the CBC/Radio-Canada Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project, 72 per cent of English-speaking Canadians have used a social networking service in the past month, with just over half of those using...
Perform Group’s Dazn sports streaming service will licence the NFL Sunday Ticket service to most of the major traditional television providers in Canada, according to a release on Tuesday. The...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will follow the incumbents’ lead and put in place initiatives to increase its stable of prepaid wireless customers, Videotron CEO Manon Brouillette indicated in a conference call with analysts...
The CRTC said it wasn’t moved by an application to relook at a decision...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron announced the promotion of Élodie Girardin-Lajoie to the position of...
The federal government announced more rural and remote internet funding for the Îles-de-la-Madeleine,...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has acquired digital media company Novramedia Inc., it said in a release on Wednesday. Novramedia develops and manages digital media products, like digital signage, software applications and...
Heritage shadow minister Peter Van Loan will no longer be an MP as of Sept. 30, according to a statement...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has launched a Canada-wide tour to hear what its members have to say about the legislative review of the Broadcasting Act and Telecommunications Act.
The group said in a release Monday it will be looking at what the review...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is consolidating its marketing and promotional...
Despite the impact over-the-top (OTT) streaming services have had on the television market for sometime in Canada, a new report by Think TV suggests that linear is still dominating those services. The report said that,...
The radio market in Lloydminster, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, can’t sustain another radio station, the CRTC said Wednesday. “While Lloydminster`s population is growing and average...
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled against a plan by the Quebec government...
Former chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister, replacing the embattled Mélanie Joly, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet on Wednesday.
Rodriguez has “a lot” of previous experience with this portfolio, independent...
Broadcasters with multiplatform properties are expected to benefit from a...
BCE Inc.’s media division has begun offering new 30-second ad spots that are customized to the TV show...
Due to actions which constituted “malvertising,” or the dissemination of malicious software in online ads, the CRTC issued notices of violations to two companies under the Canadian anti-spam legislation (CASL) Wednesday,...
The CRTC has issued new radio licences for stations in Georgina and Grimsby, Ont. that will broadcast classic hits and oldies, according to a pair of decisions Tuesday. The decisions follow a...
Nearly three quarters of Canadians, or 73 per cent, reported having ever watching livestreamed video, according to an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) study published in June. The activity is trending up, as half of the...
According to the latest data from the CRTC, the Canadian broadcasting and broadcast distribution...
The CRTC has approved the sale of Comedy Gold from BCE Inc.’s Bell Media to Wow Unlimited Networks Inc....
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
TV producer and former Liberal candidate Joanne Levy will be the new CRTC commissioner for the Manitoba and Saskatchewan region, according to an order-in-council from June 29.
Levy was originally part of the broadcast industry, working as television producer under her...
In early May, the Liberal government faced questions in the House of...
The CRTC released new data Thursday for the fourth quarter of 2017 that...
The CRTC has approved the purchase of a Medicine Hat radio station by Rogers Communications Inc., it said...
The panel appointed to lead the review of the Broadcasting Act and Telecommunications Act has met for the first time this week, and will continue to meet regularly over the summer, the federal...
The CRTC is now accepting interventions in its review of Cogeco Inc.’s plans to buy 10 radio stations from RNC Media Inc. Cogeco is proposing a tangible benefits package of six per cent of the value of the transaction, just under $1.2 million. The $18.5 million deal would nearly double the number of stations Cogeco owns. Comments are due July 30....
Facebook Inc.’s social media service will list lower on the newsfeed news items — and notify...
MONTREAL — Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly outlined Tuesday the...
Domestic and international content producers and over-the-top (OTT) services are continuing to partner...
In a pair of studies measuring home internet service this week, BCE Inc. was positioned at the two ends of the spectrum, topping out the list of fastest connections in Canada, but falling to near the...
Sony Corp.’s ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) service Crackle will cease existence in Canada next...
The federal government is affirming its commitment to enforcing the...
Cogeco Inc. has bought $8 million worth of the 2500 MHz paired spectrum band from Kian Telecom Inc.,...
One in eight Canadians have watched pirated TV or movie content online in...
Just over a quarter of Canadians surveyed by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said they don’t know how much broadband data they have, a concern a CIRA spokeswoman said could be attributed to digital literacy. The Internet Factbook trend report, released Wednesday, notes that 27 per cent of the 1,203 Canadians it surveyed in March don’t know how much data is included in their packages, despite the 85 and 81 per cent who are satisfied with their speed and data amounts,...
A European Union committee has approved a controversial copyright directive that critics say could interfere with the sharing of online content. At issue are two articles under the directive. The...
Following nine public meetings that began in March, the House committee...
The House industry committee heard some familiar suggestions from a number...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has partnered with l'Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du...
U.S.-based video services like Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV and Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Channels are “looking hard at Canada right now,” said Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy at a telecom and media investors conference on Wednesday.
“They're going to go...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) asked a parliamentary committee...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy is refusing to comment on a media...
Rogers Communications Inc. is launching additional TV-subscription authenticated, ad-supported...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile said more phones with Apple Inc.’s iOS and Alphabet...
According to the latest data from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitoring (MTM) project, 35 per cent of English-speaking internet users in Canada continue to own four types of electronic...
The popularity of fully-loaded set-top boxes, such as Kodi devices, is illustrative of an attitude of indifference toward piracy, the House of Commons industry committee heard Thursday. There is no...
BCE Inc. has made its TSN and RDS sports channels available without a TV subscription for $24.99 a month....
BCE Inc. will launch two new ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services, rebrand its entertainment...
The CRTC has approved Travelxp 4K, a channel focusing on travel, for distribution in Canada.
In a decision Wednesday, the regular said the India-based channel is aimed at “early adopters of 4K HDR display technology who are interested in travel, vacation destinations, backpacking treks and historical locales.”
The application was filed by law firm Lewis Birnberg Hanet....
The Office of The Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has asked the government for a...
A Supreme Court of Canada ruling in an online libel case won’t change much about how court jurisdiction over online content currently works in Canada, according to legal experts. “The SCC did...
OTTAWA — A proposal to eliminate a tax exemption for advertising on foreign digital media received...
Former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan filed an appeal on Tuesday of a May Federal Court decision which dismissed an application for a judicial review of his second firing from the communications regulator. Federal Court Judge...
TORONTO — An amber alert that resulted in three emergency texts sent to LTE phones in Ontario is a lesson that more training needs to be done to limit their frequency, since...
TORONTO — If there was a single point of agreement among panelists representing both small and big...
OTTAWA — The expert panel appointed by the federal government to...
TORONTO — The advent of fully autonomous cars on the road is still further away than some may think, according to an executive at a company that supplies small cells. “I would wager we’re...
During its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple Inc....
Corus Entertainment Inc. is partnering with Twitter Inc. to bring...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Heritage Minister Mélanie...
The growth of over-the-top (OTT) services did not change the mind of the Competition Bureau when it rejected a deal earlier this week involving two French-language channels. The bureau denied the...
Online video production and syndication company WatchMojo Inc. has signed an advertising sales deal with...
GATINEAU — The CRTC is recommending the government undertake a bevy of changes to the Canadian content system, including a new approach to funding content that would include...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it has come to an agreement with BCE Inc. to officially terminate a previous arrangement that would’ve seen two of its French-language specialty channels sold to Bell, after the Competition Bureau...
A government-commissioned report is shedding light on the extent of...
OTTAWA — Whistleblower and data scientist Christopher Wylie testified at...
The federal government should remove a 20-year-old radio royalty exception, allow royalties for music used in soundtracks, and extend copyright terms and the private copying levy, Music Canada told...
The federal and Quebec governments are putting roughly half a million dollars into a cybersecurity company that uses cryptographic techniques to protect against cyber attacks.
Crypto4A Technologies will receive $513,525, which includes a repayable $322,625 from the...
The Competition Bureau has blocked the $200 million sale of the Historia and Series+ channels from Corus...
Shaw Communications Inc. can repackage BCE Inc.’s Investigation Discovery and there is no need for the...
The ongoing review of the Copyright Act will begin focusing on the music, radio, television and film sectors next month. The House of Commons industry committee has heard from 100 stakeholders since the review began in...
Increasing prices for BCE Inc.’s CraveTV will help improve the...
Luce Julien, a 23-year veteran of CBC/Radio-Canada, will become...
A new Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report says 87 per cent of anglophone Canadians reported listening...
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has unveiled a set...
A motion asking the government to consider enshrining the concept of net neutrality into law passed unanimously in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
The motion, introduced in the House by Liberal MP John Oliver, went through its first hour of debate in March without...
The CRTC’s vice-chairwoman of telecom, Christianne Laizner, will stay in her role for a full five-year...
OTTAWA — A media advocacy group calling for changes that would upend the...
An anti-internet piracy coalition did not end up meeting with CRTC...
As stories about security and personal data breaches make the headlines,...
On Monday, the CRTC published a complaint from a group of media production companies including CBC/Radio-Canada outlining how, in their view, the BCE Inc.-supported Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, or Bell Fund, falls short in the evaluation, allocation and governance of...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments after correcting the data it used to determine wholesale rates during the regulator’s look at mandatory carriage renewals, according to a Friday letter. ...
The FairPlay coalition has responded to the laundry list of criticism...
Halifax-based DHX Media Inc. announced plans on Monday to sell some of its ownership of the Peanuts brand...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada announced a...
The CRTC has added a channel focused on “inviting and vicarious living...
OTTAWA — Two sides of the data-use debate squared off at the House ethics...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will be the final arbiter in the...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said it won’t force the migration of its...
The CRTC has issued broadcast licences for new FM radio stations in Regina, Sask. and the Sydney, Nova Scotia area, it said in a pair of decisions Tuesday. It granted an application by the non-profit United Christian Broadcasters Media Canada for a new station in Regina operating at 107.9 MHz with a “specialty Christian music format.” The Sydney station will be operated by Faith Baptist Church of Sydney and offer a “specialty Christian music and Interdenominational religious spoken word format” broadcasting at 90.7 MHz....
