The Competition Bureau has updated its Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines, as part of what it said in a Thursday press release would be an annual review. It said the updated guidelines clarify “the Bureau’s approach to conducting investigations of alleged anti‑competitive activities that relate to intellectual property, making it easier for stakeholders such as the legal community, the pharmaceutical industry and others with a stake in intellectual property matters to operate within the law.” It added the main revisions include “clarification on the...
BCE Inc. said in a press release Friday it has begun allowing customers to buy ongoing access to on-demand movies. The Own with Bell service is available to its IPTV customers, who can access it through their on-demand menus. The first movie available will be Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which will cost $24.99, the release added....
Corus Entertainment Inc. has closed its $2.65-billion acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc.’s media division and appointed a team of executive vice-presidents for the combined company....
Rogers Communications Inc. will begin offering its Sportsnet channels without a TV subscription for $24.99 per month, the company announced Thursday. Scott Moore, president of Sportsnet and NHL...
The CRTC has approved an application by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. to add Nautical Channel to the list of non-Canadian services authorized for distribution. The British TV channel focuses on “programming...
The CRTC has denied an application by a low-power station that has to stop broadcasting over its current frequency as a result of a previous CRTC decision, because its proposal would put it in direct...
On the day Canadian TV providers were required to make their skinny basic options available to consumers, experts expressed skepticism about how many Canadians will sign up for the new offers and their ability to improve the trend toward cord-cutting. Drew McReynolds, an analyst with RBC Dominion Securities, said in a research note Tuesday that the new options launched by the TV providers “are designed to protect profitability and/or incentivize households to largely stick with existing channel bundles, which in some cases have been improved.” The new offers are the...
The number of advertising campaigns in Canada that used video ads only on mobile platforms more than doubled in the past quarter, growing from three per cent to seven per cent, according to Videology Inc. Mobile was included in...
The federal government will hold a consultation on the Internet's effect on Canada’s media industry. According to a transcript, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly said in question period...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s $24.99 skinny basic offer will include the U.S. "4+1” networks ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and PBS, and its theme packages will cost between $3 and $18. Rogers spokeswoman Jennifer Kett sent...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has bought Numedia, a company that provides technology used by retail stores to play in-store audio. The company said in a press release Wednesday that the deal is worth $2 million. According to...
CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said Wednesday the CRTC will stick to the course of action it has set despite disapproval by those who feel the CRTC’s direction “upsets their entitlements...
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA division and BCE Inc.’s media subsidiary have shut down a website that was pirating the TVA Sports and RDS sports channels. The companies said in a press release...
While advertising will remain a key part of the TV ecosystem, the television industry will have to provide better audience data in order to keep up with digital competition, said Barbara Williams, president of Shaw Communications...
According to the Conference Board of Canada, high debt levels and weak job prospects will make it difficult for Canadians to increase spending on telecom services in 2016, limiting industry growth. A...
Heritage Minister Melanie Joly is refusing to specify that the CBC will receive the $150 million in extra funding the Liberal government promised during last year’s election, despite receiving questions on the subject from both the opposition and the media in recent days. “Fair observers are sort of torn between having no reason to distrust the prime minister at this point and yet, it’s a sensitive subject because of what’s happened in the past,” when previous governments reversed positions on CBC funding, said Ian Morrison, spokesman for the watchdog group...
