Major broadcasters are opposed to Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) request to temporarily raise the mandatory carriage rates of its AMI-tv and AMI-télé channels, citing...
A member of the Progressive Senators Group is calling on the federal government to renew the digital tax credit.
Andrew Cardozo was one of four Senators who hosted a round...
Advertising on foreign digital media like Meta...
The CRTC issued a series of decisions providing addenda to...
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Tuesday that it is introducing a video streaming...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the co-development process for an Indigenous broadcasting policy to ensure that all online broadcasts, radio, and...
After months of consultations, the CRTC has issued its Broadcasting Fees Regulations for all broadcasting...
The recent history of Rogers Communications Inc. has had more drama than anything broadcast on its CityTV network. The company poached its CEO Joe Natale from Telus Corp. only to ultimately dismiss...
Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, called on BCE Inc. to answer for its recent layoff...
The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing...
The CRTC has decided to look at whether the town of Yellowknife, NWT can support another FM radio...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) will receive permanent government funding to support Indigenous-led...
BCE Inc. is the subject of a Part 1 application before the CRTC over access...
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an...
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The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Groupe TVA has reached an agreement with CUPE local 687, which represents...
A member of the Independent Senators Group is questioning why penalties for...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced Friday an...
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild have inked a tentative labour agreement that will cover employees of the public broadcaster for the next three years.
The deal, which must be voted on by union members, sees an immediate pay increase of 6.1 per cent, including...
Neighbourhood Connect (NHC), operating under 2621159 Ontario Inc. DBA...
A Quebec senator is calling for the government to increase its spending in newspapers and magazines. During Wednesday’s Question Period, Independent Senators Group member Tony Loffreda said...
Witnesses before the House of Commons committee on Canadian Heritage all agreed Tuesday that a forum on the future of the media is required. Whether government has a role was...
Quebecor Inc. reported a successful fourth-quarter as it closed out the 2023 fiscal year, which it said...
Corus Entertainment Inc., Stingray Radio Inc., and...
The CRTC will initiate public consultation on Canada's Online News Act, formerly known as Bill C-18, next...
Organizations representing Canada’s creative industries are calling on...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it will be...
Stingray Group Inc. saw an increase in growth and revenue as it issued its third quarter results on Wednesday.
Organic growth increased by 23.9 per cent year over year in broadcasting and recurring commercial music revenues. Revenues jumped 12.4 per cent to $100.3...
OTTAWA–While artificial intelligence (AI) may seem daunting to people in...
OTTAWA–Foreign streamers will be a prickly problem for mainstream...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For...
CBC/Radio Canada has been ordered to pay costs after it lost a case over...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said there will be no public consultations on CBC/Radio-Canada’s new mandate.
The minister made the remarks Thursday at the...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
The Government of Canada is supporting Canadian feature films and television productions by investing...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday its plans to restructure its original content leadership team...
The CRTC has initiated a special consultation...
A coalition of nine advocacy groups and community...
As it gears up to launch several public consultations aimed at modernizing...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has joined up with other media organizations around the world in promoting a set of principles on the industrial landscape. The initiative wants local governments to regulate global streaming services, safeguard national...
CBC/Radio-Canada will not be permitted to appeal a lower court’s ruling...
Cogeco Inc. is partnering with Quickplay to adopt their cloud-native OTT platform, the company announced in a Tuesday press release.
The collaboration will offer Cogeco Media's five million listeners...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with...
The current and past Minister of Canadian Heritage were loath to endorse...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge would not take the bait when the Bloc Québécois attacked Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada Thursday....
Gatineau, Que. – Telus Corp. asked the CRTC to...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal...
Foreign streamers must pay their fair share of contributions to the Canadian broadcasting system, but...
Netflix Services Canada ULC says it has invested large amounts of money...
Those who stand to benefit from the Online...
Major broadcasters think that there should be a flexible contribution regime for Canadian programming – just so long as they don’t have to pay into it. The CRTC is continuing its hearings into the ramifications of the Online Streaming Act.
Tuesday’s session began...
Renewal of the Canadian broadcasting system should not rely on one rigid...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) on Friday called for the...
Representatives from several community radio stations emphasized their role as a third-pillar of the...
Canada’s news media are in crisis and the government is taking too long to respond, the House of Commons was told Tuesday. Those comments came from Bloc Québécois Heritage critic Martin Champoux.
Speaking in French, the MP said Quebecor Inc. subsidiary TVA and BCE...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), newly certified as an independent...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
The long-awaited hearing on how the CRTC should...
Tuesday Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge issued the final policy direction to the CRTC that...
Stéphanie Paquette has been named as a regional commissioner for Quebec on the CRTC, it was announced Tuesday. She begins her five-year term on Nov. 23.
She comes to the commission from Quebecor...
Stingray Group Inc. reported a 6.3 per cent increase in revenue during its...
Kid and family entertainment company WildBrain Ltd. released its Q1 2024 results Tuesday evening,...
The Canadian Media Guild has settled a strike against public broadcaster TV Ontario. Workers had been on...
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group announced Thursday a series of changes to cut down on operating costs, resulting in the elimination of 547 positions or 31 per cent of the company’s current workforce.
The layoffs will include 300 positions in in-house production, 98 positions related to the operations of TVA’s local stations, and 149 positions in other departments. The network said all affected employees received a minimum of 16 weeks notice from the day of the...
A host of problems led Corus Entertainment Inc. to post a difficult fourth quarter and year end results, the firm’s president and CEO told an analysts’ call.
“I would use the term double...
BCE Inc. and Fox Entertainment Global have unveiled a strategic licensing and distribution partnership,...
As the CRTC works out how it is going to wrangle streaming platforms and...
Rogers Communications Inc. has shuttered its all-news station in the...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) published a comprehensive report on diversity, equity, and inclusion (EDI) in the Canadian television industry, revealing both significant...
The CRTC is proposing to loosen some of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s...
The efficacy of the Online News Act was called into question during the Senate’s Question Period...
The Conservative Party continued its attack on CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday...
BCE Inc. filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song has released her list of free time political broadcasting allocated to the federal parties. The last update was in March. Time is allocated according to a formula...
Conservative MP Rachael Thomas brought a motion before the House of Commons...
Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) announced changes to its board of directors as it launches a...
APTN says its proposal to shift the terms of its licence will be good for...
Striking members of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) have voted to reject the latest offer from provincial educational network TV Ontario (TVO).
The union claims the suggested wage increase is not enough to counter inflation or the fact that provincial employees were...
The CRTC has determined that online services that...
The CRTC denied an application by CBC/Radio-Canada to delay consultations...
The CRTC will review the carriage of Fox News as a non-Canadian programming...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled a new list of parliamentary secretaries as Parliament returns for its fall session.
Taleeb Noormohamed will serve as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage,...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain Ltd. is “flooding” the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market with its programming and “diluting” the value of its...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)...
The CRTC Friday granted an FM licence to Four Senses Entertainment Inc. to...
Animators at WildBrain Ltd.’s Vancouver studios are attempting to unionize. A drive by the...
Dissatisfaction with the Online Streaming Act and defunding the CBC are among the resolutions being...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...
Canadian retail chain Peavey Mart has joined Stingray Group Inc.’s audio advertising network, according...
The CRTC added Natyf Inc., a Francophone station...
The CRTC issued another short-term broadcasting licence renewal after it found a French-language commercial ethnic AM radio station had not complied with its regulatory requirements.
In a Tuesday decision, the commission renewed CPAM Radio Union.com Inc.'s CJWI from Sept....
