An Ontario-based ethnic broadcaster lobbying the government for funding to create a multilingual news channel to help Canadians access health information says it’s too early...
The CRTC has allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to reduce its mandated Canadian programming expenditures (CPE) in a single year, but declared any shortfall must be made up in the following year. In a Friday decision the regulator approved Corus’ application for its maximum CPE under-expenditure in a single year to be increased from five per cent to ten per cent, but ruled those under-expenditures must be paid during the next year, denying a Corus request to be able to push it back to the end...
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
The Scarborough radio market can’t support another commercial radio...
Canada’s television advertising market has moved to a stage of “modest recovery” after chapters of...
Telecom and media companies, including Quebecor Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc., have begun adding COVID-19-related registrations to their lobby files in recent weeks. On April 15, Corus added “discussions of...
Shaw Communications Inc. founder JR Shaw has passed away at the age of 85, the company said Tuesday.
Shaw founded Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd in 1966, which eventually as Shaw Communications grew into Canada’s largest TV service provider. The company also included a broadcasting division that was spun off into Corus Entertainment Inc., while Shaw entered the wireless market in 2016.
“I spoke to JR every day about the business. He was engaged and interested in everything the company was doing – from the...
The next period of time — no one knows just how long — will be "riddled with both demand and supply shocks," and the country's biggest media companies are in for a much bumpier financial ride...
Several independent broadcasters have written to the CRTC to say the regulator shouldn’t grant a request by TV providers to change a rule forcing cable and IPTV services to hand over viewership...
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use...
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have all told the CRTC that if the regulator allows Corus Entertainment Inc. to shift some of its CanCon requirements from one broadcast year...
High demand among advertisers for premium content to be siloed in ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD)...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC if the broadcaster can spend...
The CRTC Tuesday released the results of its summit on gender parity in the Canadian broadcasting world, featuring “action plans” documents from some of Canada’s largest broadcasters. BCE...
BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...
Three weeks after announcing a new CEO with a background in developing family-based entertainment products, DHX Media Ltd. announced Monday -- alongside its 2019 fourth quarter results -- that it would rebrand as WildBrain and reorganize itself around family-entertainment. On August 30, the Halifax-based company announced that it was putting Eric Ellenbogen in charge of the company after stints at Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal and DreamWorks Animation. “Rebranding as WildBrain embraces our commitment to creativity, imagination and innovation, and our 360 [degree] approach to brand management. For many years, our WildBrain group has been at the leading edge of the digital media business,” Ellenbogen said in a release Monday. The company also announced a revenue increase of 12 per cent to $108.8 million in its fourth quarterly...
Two local Quebec radio groups representing around 60 stations in the province are asking the provincial...
Corus Entertainment Inc. registered to lobby the government to promote the eligibility of broadcasters for a new journalism tax initiative announced by the federal government late last year. The...
Just as it allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to do last month, the CRTC has given approval to BCE Inc. to...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau is vowing to oppose BCE Inc.’s acquisition of a French-language...
Executives at Corus Entertainment Inc., historically proud of not being in the sports content business, admitted on Wednesday that the Toronto Raptors’ NBA finals route...
A bill aimed at improving children’s health by limiting the advertising of unhealthy foods to them,...
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...
Corus Entertainment Inc., the only major Canadian broadcaster refusing to...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s OMNI will continue to benefit from the sole...
Cogeco Inc. is lobbying the government to help Canadian radio news...
Shaw Communications Inc. is getting rid of $548 million in shares in Corus Entertainment Inc.
The...
The expected focus by the country’s largest wireless service providers...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting transmitters that it says “generate no incremental revenue and attract little to no viewership.”
The Part 1 application comes two years after the CRTC allowed Bell to shut...
A trade association for Canadian-based television and content distribution...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received...
The CRTC has approved the sale of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s stake in Telelatino Network Inc.,...
Internet-based video services generated enough revenue in Canada in 2017 to rival the total revenues of private and CBC conventional television stations combined, according to the CRTC’s...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has promoted Troy Reeb and Colin Bohm to its executive vice-president ranks, the company said in a press release Thursday.
Reeb, previously senior vice-president of Global News and Corus Radio, is now executive vice-president of broadcast...
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing...
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,...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per...
BCE Inc. is rolling out to more services a pre-existing program that asks its subscribers to consider giving the company their personal information to better target relevant ads to them. The program is an expansion of a...
The CRTC plans to soon start measuring the participation of women in television production and how much big TV broadcasters spend on production of Indigenous and official language minority...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is taking issue with a request by Telus Corp. to have Parliament change the...
An industry group has created a code of conduct governing the content and application of beer advertising, which will affect how beer is advertised on TV, radio and online.
Beer Canada created the “Responsible Advertising and Marketing Code,” updated in late...
A proposal by Corus Entertainment Inc. to shut down 44 television...
Corus Entertainment Inc. had $2.3 million in Canada Media Fund (CMF) money...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC for permission to shut down 44...
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...
OTTAWA — Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy told an industry conference Thursday the company has been experimenting with artificial intelligence, including for...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will retire at the end of this...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s wild ride through the unpredictable TV ad...
The CRTC published its reassessed baseline spending requirements for programs of national interest (PNI)...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) released its 2017-2018 annual report on Monday,...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
The latest report from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project outlined 24 per cent of anglophone Canadians said they have listened to a podcast in the last month. Interest in...
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled against a plan by the Quebec government...
Roku Inc. is launching its no-cost ad-supported video-on-demand service (AVOD) The Roku Channel in Canada, according to a blog post Monday. People who own Roku TVs or the Roku streaming box will have immediate access to...
Broadcasters with multiplatform properties are expected to benefit from a new video audience measurement (VAM) system from Numeris, which announced Thursday that it will begin...
The CRTC has approved the sale of Comedy Gold from BCE Inc.’s Bell Media to Wow Unlimited Networks Inc....
In early May, the Liberal government faced questions in the House of...
Amir Bigloo, who has a history of successful spectrum purchases as CEO of...
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives delivered a mapped-out vision for the...
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...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy is refusing to comment on a media...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is partnering with Twitter Inc. to bring...
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...
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...
The Competition Bureau has blocked the $200 million sale of the Historia and Series+ channels from Corus...
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
On Monday, the CRTC published a complaint from a group of media production companies including...
The FairPlay coalition has responded to the laundry list of criticism...
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. have registered to lobby the government on proposed Senate legislation, now moving through the House, to quell the impact of junk food advertising on children, joining critics who lobbied heavily in March about the bill they say will...
The CRTC wants Canadians to weigh in as it considers the candidates competing for a licence for a multi-ethnic channel with mandatory carriage on basic TV packages. It said in a press release...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is “accelerating” its transformation into a more data-centric company, its...
A proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn...
The CRTC is accepting comments on the sale of the Historia and Séries+ specialty channels from Corus Entertainment Inc. to BCE Inc. The regulator said in a Tuesday notice that Bell proposed to direct most of the $20 million in...
The owner of iHeartRadio Media Inc., the company that aggregates radio content through its app, has filed for bankruptcy in the United States, though the Canadian telecom that brought it north of the border says its radio operations won't be affected.
The company...
Data insights and programmatic advertising that could disrupt digital...
BCE Inc. is allegedly encouraging its employees to submit comments to the...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has confirmed it is eliminating close “to 80...
OTTAWA — The Canadian television industry is behind the curve when it...
Creative groups are standing their ground on spending for programs of national interest (PNI), suggesting that a marginal increase in funding for those programs proposed by the large English-language broadcasters last month is not...
A broad coalition made up of Canada’s largest telecoms and broadcasters, as well as groups representing...
Proposed legislation intended to combat the marketing of unhealthy food and...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Nelvana is shaking up its core team, with a new appointment and promotions,...
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future plans in the advertising technology and programmatic ad space as the company reported quarterly results Wednesday that showed its television advertising revenues fell to the tune of four per cent in...
Alphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...
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...
Sylvie Courtemanche is leaving her post as Corus Entertainment Inc.’s vice-president of government...
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...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Tuesday it is selling two French-language specialty channels, Historia and Séries+, to BCE Inc.’s Bell Media in a deal valued at...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Nelvana and Discovery Communications Inc. have...
An announcement by DHX Media Ltd. Monday that it is launching a strategic review that could see its board...
Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to...
Everything old is new again when it comes to telecom and media issues...
Wow Unlimited Media Inc. has named John Vandervelde its new chief financial officer and corporate...
While online discussion forums are rife with debate — and more often, complaints — about why Canadians can’t access popular American television shows legally online, Canadian content producers...
A proliferation of new streaming TV competition in Canada is set to benefit...
A controversial CRTC decision that creative groups said would negatively affect the production of Canadian content will be sent back to the CRTC for reconsideration by the federal cabinet, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly...
CBS Corp. will launch its CBS All Access streaming service in Canada next year, the company said in a press release Monday.
Canada will be the first foreign market for the U.S.-based service, which will launch “in the first half of 2018” with other countries to...
