The CRTC has given Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Sports fewer restrictions on when it can broadcast ads, saying that the channel can now “average the maximum amount of 12 minutes of advertising material offered in each clock hour over the broadcast day.” It noted in Tuesday’s decision that TVA competitor BCE Inc.’s RDS was given the same flexibility in its licence renewal in May 2017. Previous licence requirements stated that the channels “shall not distribute more than 12 minutes of advertising material during each clock hour.” Quebecor had argued that loosening the requirements...
Viceland, a specialty channel targeting millennials launched as part of a partnership between Rogers Communications Inc. and Vice Media Inc., will stop broadcasting on March 31, according to a press release on Monday.
Rogers and Vice also said they would end their...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Nelvana is shaking up its core team, with a new appointment and promotions,...
BCE Inc. said Thursday it has signed a deal with Ericsson AB to use its TV platform, following a similar...
Weeks ahead of the 2018 Super Bowl, BCE Inc., along with the National...
The CRTC has settled a disagreement between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. over the wholesale rate Bell pays for Quebecor’s TVA Sports. “The Commission finds that the evidence does not support the...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. and Birch Hill Equity Partners ramped up their lobbying in December, with both submitting their first communications reports for the year in the last weeks of 2017. Birch Hill, an investment firm whose partners include Groupe Maskatel LP, which was acquired this month by BCE Inc., saw its first lobby activity in a year and a half, filing five communications reports with officials at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED). Representatives reached out to with Parvinder Sachdeva, policy advisor at Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains’ office, as...
Rogers Communications Inc. said it will buy an Alberta radio station after coming to an agreement with Clear Sky Radio Inc. to acquire the licence of the station. The Medicine Hat classic hits music station CJCY-FM at 102.1...
Britbox, a streaming service showcasing British television, will be “coming soon to Canada,”...
The CRTC has approved the acquisition of two Ontario radio stations by Byrnes Communications Inc. from...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will unlock FM chips in its newer smartphones, according to a press release...
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 it said makes it the “the leading distributor of Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) concerts in the world.”
Stingray said in a Wednesday release that the...
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,...
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 revenues, which they say will translate into a windfall of millions of dollars to Canadian content producers.
“This will set a floor for PNI spending that is tens of millions of dollars higher for the large English-language television groups than what the Commission...
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...
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 industry — in a new report released Thursday. The committee’s eighth report capped off a study into technology transfer that took place in May and June, which found that while there has been progress on the issue in the past 20 years, there is still room for improvement. The benefit of technology transfer is that it allows “a) private firms to take advantage of academic expertise and...
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...
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, Videotron has carved out a place for itself in the telecom industry’s big leagues,” Manon Brouillette, president and CEO of Quebecor’s telecom division, said in a Thursday release. “It’s an indication of the consumer receptiveness to our offering and the need for more competition in the...
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...
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 vice-president of partnerships, starting Nov. 7.
“Rory Capern will work to strengthen Pelmorex’s position as an advertising and insights leader in Canada, while ensuring consumers needs are at the forefront of their solutions,” said the release.
The release also outlined Pelmorex’s goal to move beyond just its main weather-related media products, like the Weather Network and MétéoMédia, by creating the...
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...
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 national broadcast of eight networks, and one in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories which, if approved, will continue to be required programming on basic packages. The hearing will be held in Gatineau, Quebec, on April 30, with deadlines for submissions being November 16. The regulator has the authority to compel providers to distribute channels under section...
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...
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...
