The CRTC has approved the acquisition of two Ontario radio stations by Byrnes Communications Inc. from Vista Radio Ltd.
In a decision Monday, the regulator said it would not require the payment of tangible benefits for the ownership transfer of the two stations, 105.1...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will unlock FM chips in its newer smartphones, according to a press release issued Tuesday.
Emmis Communications Corp., the maker of the NextRadio smartphone app that works with smartphones’ built-in FM chip, said in the release that Samsung...
Nearly half of Canadians are concerned to some degree about the consequences of the phenomenon of fake news, with 31 per cent saying they are “extremely concerned,” according to a new report from...
MONTREAL — Cogeco Inc. is feeling more optimistic about the possibility...
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future...
In a release on Wednesday, digital media company BroadbandTV Corp. (BBTV) announced the launch of a...
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to lobby the federal government, while telecom and broadcasting communications in November grew significantly from the month before.
Joshua Sirefman of Sirefman Ventures, Inc. registered in early...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media and Bloomberg LP have announced a joint effort to resuscitate the American financial brand’s Canadian TV presence, with a release on Monday outlining the details of a rebrand...
In a press release on Monday, Blue Ant Media Inc. announced the promotion...
The CRTC launched a survey Thursday to find out why Canadians consume content the way they do, including why many still turn to traditional TV and radio while others go exclusively online. The...
Shaw Communications Inc. said on Wednesday evening that its former CEO, Jim Shaw, has died.
“Jim’s...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has purchased the New York-based streaming service Quello Concerts in a move...
The CRTC has denied an application by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. (ECGL) to bring a Polish music channel to Canada after Blue Ant Media Inc. and Stingray Digital Group Inc. said it would interfere with their own services. The...
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a case brought forward by BCE Inc. challenging the CRTC’s rule...
Rogers Communications Inc. and CBC/Radio-Canada signed a seven-year sub-licensing deal for the...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly named five new members to the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors for five-year terms, said a Tuesday press release. Harley Finkelstein, the chief of operations for Shopify Inc., René Légère, executive director of the Aberdeen Cultural Centre in Moncton, New Brunswick, and former CBC journalist and commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Marie Wilson, will start their terms immediately. Jennifer Rattray, a former journalist and currently an assistant deputy minister in the Manitoba government, and François Roy, a previous...
Canadian programmatic digital ad spending will account for two-thirds of display advertising by 2018, says a recent report from market research company eMarketer Inc. released on Tuesday. Programmatic ads are purchased and...
The CRTC has added the Dutch channel Insight UHD to its list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution, following an application by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. The English-language channel...
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
After a unanimous vote in the House of Commons, the federal government has triggered the long-awaited five-year review of the Copyright Modernization Act, though the timing might cause some...
Opposition leader Andrew Scheer isn’t going public with his position on the issue of net neutrality, even as two members of his caucus — both former Industry ministers — are publicly disagreeing on the question.
On Saturday, Innovation critic Maxime Bernier tweeted...
The number of Canadians who get their internet access wirelessly — either...
CBC/Radio-Canada has achieved its goal of doubling its digital reach more than two years early, the...
The CRTC granted a request by Bloomberg TV Canada to revoke its broadcasting licence Friday. The channel eliminated its in-house programming this August, according to a report in the Globe and Mail this summer. Its broadcasting...
Shaw Communications Inc. is now offering a video surveillance service aimed...
BCE Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc. are recommending the CRTC revise the minimum standard for spending for programs of national interest (PNI) and boost it to six per cent of the previous year’s...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced that Edward and Melinda Rogers, the...
Shaw Communications Inc. used the CRTC’s Creative Canada consultation this week to back website blocking as a strategy to fight privacy.
“The rapid growth of the black market for online...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is urging the CRTC to mandate service providers to unlock devices even if the customer doesn’t have an active account with the provider, in a Part 1...
The sale of non-core assets Rogers Communications Inc. said it is considering could be worth $4 billion to the company after taxes, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst...
In a memo to its employees on Monday, CBC/Radio-Canada announced it has improved its over-the-top (OTT)...
In a release on Monday, the Quebec government announced $36.4 million over five years in new investments supporting the province’s print media moving to digital. Announcing the funding over a Facebook Inc. livestream, Quebec...
A partnership between BCE Inc. and iHeartMedia Inc., iHeartRadio Canada announced Monday an update to its...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced a new export project to help Canadian content reach global...
OTTAWA — Canada’s highest court should prepare for consequences wrought on Canadian media in other countries, if it determines that a libel case — based on a foreign news article read by Canadians over the internet — can be tried in an Ontario court, the Supreme...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has appointed Monique Lafontaine as the...
The Competition Bureau has confirmed in an email they will review a recent deal between Torstar Corp. and Postmedia, which saw the exchange of 41 commuter, local or community newspapers between the two Canadian media organizations...
The CRTC has denied Rogers Communications Inc.’s request to amend a May...
Amazon.com Inc. announced multiple pieces of Amazon Web Service-based (AWS) video publishing software,...
The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and technology has outlined a number of ways to improve technology transfer — the move of knowledge developed in academic settings to...
Facebook Inc. has named Garrick Tiplady its new managing director of Facebook Canada and Instagram...
In an emailed statement, Blue Ant Media Inc. has confirmed the resignation of its CEO of television and...
While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to eliminate the boundaries that traditionally limited ownership of a combination of local media properties, including television, radio and newspaper, by a single entity.
“For too long, the Commission has failed to...
The union representing employees at 17 local TV and radio stations owned by...
OTTAWA — Policy makers in Canada have become more concerned about the...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has released an analysis of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), but cautions that there are still challenges for the adoption of practises...
OTTAWA — Questions around telecom, intellectual property and media...
OTTAWA — If BCE Inc.’s suggestion in September that the federal government should consider blocking websites that host infringing material to fight content piracy was...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s theScore announced Tuesday that chief financial officer Tom Hearne is...
Blue Ant Media Inc. has hired two new executives at its Kids & Global Networks division, the company...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) last week announced the release of hundreds of Canadian television and...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is in danger of having to close...
Quebecor Inc. said its wireless division has eclipsed one million subscribers since posting higher revenues and profits in its third-quarter earnings Thursday. “In the space of 7 years,...
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group has requested the modification of a condition...
TORONTO — If there’s one thing radio players can do to be successful in...
TORONTO — The federal government and the CRTC must pick up the pace and...
Sylvie Courtemanche is leaving her post as Corus Entertainment Inc.’s vice-president of government relations and compliance to become the new chairwoman of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC).
Courtemanche will start the job in January, the Canadian...
OTTAWA — Markets outside of Canada are increasingly important for music...
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...
Piracy of live TV is expected to increase, according to Sandvine Corp., which says it poses...
BCE Inc. CEO George Cope said the company needs to do a better job of finding opportunities in emerging advertising technology, as the company seeks additional revenue growth...
Distributel Communications Inc. has received the OK from the CRTC to acquire IPTV service provider Zazeen Inc., the company said in a press release Thursday.
Distributel has already been offering IPTV services for about three years in partnership with Zazeen.
"With...
Just over a week before Parliament is set to embark on its five-year review...
Users of the national video relay service (VRS) for hearing-impaired Canadians can now access the service...
Canada will be the testbed for Facebook Inc.’s new advertising transparency policies, according to a...
Interested parties now have an extra week to submit comments in the CRTC’s consultation on content distribution models. The regulator said in a notice Thursday it is extending the deadline for comments from Nov. 24 to Dec. 1....
In a press release on Wednesday, Pelmorex Corp. announced that Rory Capern will join the company as...
The CRTC said Wednesday that it will consider renewals of new and existing radio licences at a hearing early next year. The hearing will be held on Jan. 11 in Gatineau, Quebec, with interventions...
Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. is challenging the validity of patents held by...
DHX Media Ltd. has appointed Gary Finnegan as vice-president of programming strategy, it said in a press release Monday.
Finnegan, who will work out of the Toronto office, will “provide direction and guidance on DHX Television’s core business of creating and acquiring content that will be universally popular and drive viewer engagement for DHX Television,” the release said.
He moves to the company from Time Warner Inc.’s Turner International, where he most recently “oversaw content strategy for Turner...
On the final day of the CRTC’s broadcast distribution licence hearing,...
Facebook Inc. is teaming up with Ottawa-based digital literacy group,...
Fifty-seven per cent of Canadian anglophones subscribe to over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, with Netflix Inc. as the strong leader, according to the latest report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of...
Music Canada is asking the government to address the disparity between the value of creative content and the revenues that are generated from it. “The Value Gap challenges the livelihood and...
The federal government reiterated a previously held position that it will not implement taxes on internet service providers (ISP) in favour of Canadian content in a review of an earlier Heritage report that recommended just that. “The Committee’s recommendation to generate revenue by expanding broadcast distribution levies so that they apply to broadband distribution would conflict with the principle of affordable access,” read the review, which is dated Monday and addressed to Hedy Fry, chairwoman of the standing committee on Canadian Heritage. “The Government does not intend to...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Tuesday it is selling two...
GATINEAU, Que. — There are still some problems with the implementation...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Nelvana and Discovery Communications Inc. have...
The union representing Chinese-speaking media workers at properties owned...
The CRTC will consider mandatory distribution licence renewals for nine television channels when it holds a hearing next year, the regulator said in a Tuesday release. The commission said it will consider the renewal for the...
GATINEAU, QUE. — Some companies in a working group crafted to measure how...
TVA vice-president of programming, France Lauzière, has replaced Julie Tremblay as the president and CEO...
Canadian audience measurement organization Numeris said in a press...
The Federal Court has made its first major disclosure orders for subscriber information since internet service providers (ISPs) were temporarily barred from charging for that information.
David Fewer, director at the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public...
Sirius XM Canada Holdings Inc. has added 75 new channels to its SiriusXM Streaming service, it said...
Blue Ant Media Inc. is launching an animation studio, the company said in a press release Thursday....
Today, approximately 70 per cent of consumers watch TV and video content on their smartphone devices, double the number from 2012, according to the eighth edition of Ericsson AB’s annual ConsumerLab TV and Media report. The...
Perform Group’s over-the-top (OTT) sports service Dazn is partnering with...
Sabrina Geremia is the new country director for Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada.
She has been in the position on an interim basis since July, when Google Canada’s managing director left.
Geremia said in a note shared with clients that it’s “an incredibly exciting...
The CRTC has approved the acquisition of a Kelowna, B.C. radio station by Avenue Radio Ltd. from Vista Radio Ltd. However, it denied an Avenue Radio request for an exception to the requirement it pay tangible benefits, which it...
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...
The French channel Canal+ International is now available for distribution in Canada, the CRTC said...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has announced plans to lead her first “creative industries trade mission” to Shanghai, China in April 2018. The mission will focus on film, gaming, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR),...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC...
Facebook Inc. is testing a feature to provide context to the many news reports often shared through the...
The Canadian Cable System Alliance (CCSA) said Thursday that Lori Rosenberg will join its executive team...
The Quebec national assembly voted Tuesday to impose provincial sales tax on foreign digital services,...
Just over half, or 53 per cent, of Quebec households with internet access watch streaming video services, according to new research from the Centre francophone de recherche en informatisation des organisations (CEFRIO).
That’s an increase of 13 per cent from last year,...
