The broadcasting licence for Cogeco Inc.’s on-demand service has been renewed by the CRTC until Aug. 31, 2028.
The renewal application for Cogeco On Demand’s licence,...
Unionized workers at TVOntario walked off the job on Monday, marking the first strike the public broadcaster has experienced. A total of 74 people, both on-air and off-air personnel, are on the picket lines. The employees have been without a contract since last October....
The CRTC will defer new applications and complaints relating to radio as it...
A community radio station in Parrsboro, Nova...
Philip Lind, one of the earliest hires at Rogers Communications Inc., has died at the age of 80, the...
BCE Inc. has announced it is closing its Vrak Channel and is laying the blame squarely at the feet of...
The CRTC is being directed to include modified American home shopping television programming services based in the U.S. on its list of non-Canadian programming services...
Once again the CRTC has decided to issue a short term renewal licence to a...
Two radio stations in British Columbia have been granted short-term...
Blue Ant Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations...
Stingray Group Inc. reported revenue and subscriber growth for the first quarter of the 2024 fiscal year...
A group of news organizations have filed an application with the...
The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear two appeals brought by Rebel News Network Ltd. against...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
OTTAWA–Pascale St-Onge vows to keep up the fight with tech giants over the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act. Wednesday she was appointed as Minister of Canadian Heritage, replacing Pablo Rodriguez, who is now Minister of Transport.
She promises to keep up...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is the third best workplace in the...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is adding itself to the list of industry players who are suspending advertising on Meta Platform Inc. after the tech giant announced it will block Canadian news content on Facebook and its other platforms...
In an ongoing tug-of-war at the CRTC, tech giants are arguing that a level...
The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) are not happy with how the CRTC is handling their request to hold one...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several...
Other governments and private sector companies are joining in the boycott of Meta Platforms Inc. after it announced plans to block Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s move came in...
APTN has applied to the CRTC to consolidate its four channels into two, one...
The CRTC has now received reply comments in its ongoing proceeding into how to implement the Online Streaming Act. As with the original interventions, proposals vary depending on the group submitting...
The CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL),...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has announced it will be removing Canadian news links from its websites.
The...
Local independent news stations want to exclude...
Meta Platforms Inc. said it will no longer provide news on social media...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to amend the conditions of licence (COL) for its broadcasting properties to allow for more independently-produced programming and to expand what is defined as a program of national interest (PNI).
Under its current COL, Rogers...
Quebecor Inc. has reversed itself and will not be suspending TVA’s newscasts in Quebec City on weekends...
The CRTC denied SiriusXM Canada Inc.’s request for relief from its...
Quebecor Media Inc. is asking the CRTC to remove some of the conditions of...
The rapid pace of change in the technology sector has led a group of Parliamentarians to form an emerging technology caucus where members of all parties can learn about the brave new world.
The...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media members, artists, and producers are opposed to Corus Entertainment Inc.’s and other Canadian broadcasters’ calls for the...
The proposed financial threshold for exemption for online streaming...
Approximately 1,300 BCE Inc. employees will be...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Meta Platforms Inc.’s move to block news content on its platform is...
Sunday in Banff saw the launch of Canadian Broadcasters for Sustainability, a consortium of 22...
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with Société...
The federal government is spending $5.5 million to create the Canadian Digital Media Research Network...
Revenues and subscriber growth featured prominently in Stingray Group Inc.’s quarterly report...
Tuesday the Senate Transport and Communications Committee continued its...
Spokespeople for Alphabet Inc.’s Google expressed further concerns they have with the Online News Act, Bill C-18, and proposed amendments to address them during a technical...
Monday Horizon Media Canada released a report that found TikTok is facing a crisis in trust due to the bad press it has been receiving of late. There are concerns that the Chinese-owned platform may be sharing users’ private...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
A group of consumer advocacy organizations have received some support for...
Quebecor Inc. has won a copyright infringement case against a trio of...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has written to the CRTC asking whether or not that the company will be allowed to avail of the Independent Local News Fund in the wake of Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw Communications.
Corus was founded as Shaw Radio in the...
CBC/Radio-Canada has received several letters of support in its attempt to delay a mandated consultation...
In a back-and-forth between CBC/Radio-Canada on when the broadcaster should...
A coalition of 12 different public sector and public interest groups have...
A House of Commons committee is calling for the Minister of Canadian Heritage to ban Chinese state media...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc.,...
OTTAWA–Delegates to the International Institute of Communications...
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its...
Now that the Online Streaming Act has become law, the CRTC is launching a...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) told the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications that the Online News Act, Bill C-18, is needed and should be passed as soon as possible.
“The Canadian Association of Broadcasters supports Bill C-18 for two...
Wednesday the CRTC announced it had allowed new area code overlays for...
The Senate Committee on Transport and Communication continued its study of...
Sir Nicholas Clegg’s reversal of an agreement to appear before the House...
OTTAWA–As the Liberal Party of Canada gathers in the capital for its...
A Part 1 application has officially been opened with the CRTC on whether to remove the American news channel Fox from the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized...
After months of contentious debate, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, has become law. The Senate voted...
Rogers Communications Inc. released its first quarterly report since it was granted approval to take over...
Senior executives of Alphabet Inc.’s Google appeared before the House of...
Former Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has been appointed Rogers Communications Inc.'s chief corporate...
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the CRTC to give it more time before holding a required consultation with...
The Conservatives are keeping up their battle against the government’s...
A group of six consumer and public advocacy organizations is asking the CRTC to step in to restructure a Rogers Communications Inc. payment to...
Fiscal 2023 will be an "especially challenging" year for Corus...
The new regime at the CRTC met with general approval Wednesday from industry representatives speaking for small players. The final day of the Canadian Association of Wireless Internet Service Providers (CanWISP) annual conference in Gatineau featured a panel titled...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is...
The CRTC won’t force Quebecor Inc. into final...
The CRTC has adjusted how it considers the use of stock footage for the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says he is not worried that American president Joe Biden will lobby against the Canadian government’s two online bills, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, and Bill C-18, the Online News Act. There are reports that the president...
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...
Thursday the Supreme Court announced it was allowing an appeal by a group of media into the unsealing of...
The CRTC Thursday approved a radio broadcasting license for Piikani Resource Development Ltd. on behalf...
Members of the Senate are calling on the CBC/Radio-Canada to maintain its...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song has updated her list on the amount of...
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is...
The House of Commons Heritage committee voted Tuesday to summon top executives from Alphabet Inc.'s Google to appear before the committee on Mar. 6, days after the Canadian Press reported that the tech giant had begun blocking some news content in response to the...
A New Democrat representing a border city wants the CRTC to review...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
The Online News Act, Bill C-18, will “fundamentally change the...
The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual Digital Media Survey – covering 2020-2021 – aggregated by industry segment, audio and audiovisual....
After years of consideration, the CRTC determined that Yellowknife, NWT...
During Tuesday’s Question Period, two Conservative MPs from Quebec took...
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that...
Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says...
Monday the federal government outlined new policy directions for the CRTC, with an emphasis on...
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11,...
OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian...
OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has...
In its first notable broadcasting decision under new chair Vicky Eatrides, the CRTC has dismissed a BCE Inc. undue preference complaint against Quebecor Inc. over the...
