A community radio station in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia has been issued a short term licence renewal from the CRTC, despite consistent non-compliance with regulations, due to the...
Philip Lind, one of the earliest hires at Rogers Communications Inc., has died at the age of 80, the company announced Sunday. He joined the fledgling firm in 1969 when he was hired by founder Ted Rogers.
“Phil worked for Rogers for 54 years, nearly 40 of them with my...
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...
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 on Thursday. Marblemedia’s Mark Bishop and Matthew Hornburg will serve as co-presidents of the new venture, reporting to Blue Ant CEO Michael MacMillan.
“With Mark...
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 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 due to its grievances with the Online News Act.
“We are disappointed in the recent actions taken by Meta, and encourage all foreign digital platforms to actively participate in meaningful discussions regarding Bill C-18 to create an open and accessible media landscape in Canada,” Corus wrote in a statement Monday.
Corus said it is suspending all advertising across all its brands and trademarks, and encouraged its partners and clients to follow suite.
“We look forward to actively...
In an ongoing tug-of-war at the CRTC, tech giants are arguing that a level...
The Forum for Research and Policy in...
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 with English- and French-language programming and the other almost entirely Indigenous-language...
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...
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 licence (COL) and reporting requirements for its subsidiary Groupe TVA Inc., calling the current...
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...
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 “unacceptable” while Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez said the company is being reckless by “trying to intimidate Canadians."
“Facebook 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...
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 their call for a restructuring of the Rogers Communications Inc. tangible benefits payment to shore...
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...
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 written to the CRTC asking for an extension of several deadlines in the regulator's consultation on the implementation of Bill C-11 – the Online Streaming Act – announced last week.
Under the...
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...
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 of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage upset members of that committee Monday. Clegg, president of global affairs for Meta Platforms Inc., had initially said he would show up to testify about Bill...
OTTAWA–As the Liberal Party of Canada gathers in the capital for its...
A Part 1 application has officially been opened...
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 Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage Thursday to discuss the Online News Act, Bill C-18. They defended a test which restricted access to news feeds and called for the establishment of a...
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...
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 offer arbitration (FOA) with hotel broadcaster Coopérative de câblodistribution Hill Valley because there are no regulatory...
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...
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 of Piikani Tsi Nii Ka Sin Broadcasting Association to broadcast a low-power Indigenous FM radio station in Brocket, Alberta.
Piikani Broadcasting is a not-for-profit,...
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...
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 Inc., and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Co. can increase the retail price of so-called "skinny basic" plans from $25 to $28 per month with a yearly indexing...
The Online News Act, Bill C-18, will “fundamentally change the...
The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual...
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 Liberal MP Greg Fergus violated the Conflict of Interest Act by writing a letter to the CRTC in support...
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...
OTTAWA–Australia has followed a different path to film and television...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
Rogers Communications Inc. will not need more financing from the capital markets in order to close its deal to acquire Shaw Communications Inc., according to Rogers' chief...
