Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has been appointed a member of the Order of Canada. The honour was announced in late December by Rideau Hall. Von Finckenstein was also Commissioner of the Competition Bureau for seven years. He served at the CRTC from 2007 to...
Ian Scott's tenure as chair of the CRTC comes to a close Thursday. The Wire Report sat down with Scott to reflect on his time leading the organization.
The Wire Report: Have you figured out what's next?
Ian Scott: I haven't. We have, as you know, post-employment...
The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de...
Canada’s Competition Tribunal is dismissing the Commissioner of...
As spectators await the release of a decision in the takeover of Shaw...
In a dispute between Rogers Communications Inc....
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez Monday morning announced the appointment of Vicky Eatrides as the incoming chair of the CRTC.
Eatrides' five-year term is...
In the drama that has unfolded in front of the Competition Tribunal over...
The ministers most responsible for telecom and broadcasting policy in Canada are pledging to follow...
A report issued by a Carleton University professor asserts that revenue from communications and internet access services and subscription services far surpass advertising revenues. They outstrip the...
An application by four companies to hike the price of basic television...
The CRTC has revised its rules for Canadian content in commercial radio. In...
The Senate Transport and Communications Committee defeated two amendments on Tuesday that would have struck the “exemption to the exemption” on user generated content (UGC) in the Online Streaming...
The CRTC announced Monday that it will hold proceedings in February to consider six applications before...
The committee studying the Online News Act...
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes on the Senate’s Transportation and Communications committee as it begins to sift through the 98...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the...
The House of Commons’ Heritage Committee’s clause-by-clause review of...
MISSISSAUGA – CRTC chair Ian Scott said he does not know what the state of the CRTC’s finances will look like in future but the commission is “fine” for the moment as it prepares to take on a...
The first day of the House of Commons’ Heritage...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told members of the Senate Committee on Transport and Communication that the commission has no intention of regulating algorithms under the terms of the Online Streaming Act. The legislation, Bill C-11, is currently before the Senate.
“What the bill...
Canadians have been sending slightly fewer complaints per week to the Spam...
Indigenous broadcasting stakeholders proposed amendments to the Online...
The CRTC has extended the deadline for interventions on a consultation...
The second week of the Competition Tribunal's hearing into whether or not...
Arguments began Thursday in a Federal Court case that would see pirated...
Service and sales improved when Shaw Communications Inc. bought Wind Mobile...
Canada’s Online News Act could serve as a template for countries around...
Telus Corp. reported a 9.9 per cent increase in its overall revenues for the three months that ended on...
BCE Inc. reported what it said were record subscriber additions in the third quarter of 2022, according to executives speaking to analysts on an earnings call Thursday morning.
Bell CEO Mirko Bibic told analysts the gains were partially – though not entirely –...
Quebecor Inc. released its third quarter figures...
Legislation that would force digital giants like...
A collection of labour unions appeared before the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications...
Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, came out swinging against...
Hopes that the government’s Online Streaming Act would receive quick passage in the Senate may be dashed by a proposal to delay voting until the Transport and Communications Committee gets to interview the new chair of the CRTC. Two members of the committee discussed the...
Tandy Yull is returning to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters as Vice President, Policy and...
The CRTC announced Thursday it was extending the deadline for interventions...
The organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and...
Financial analysts reacting to Tuesday's announcement from Innovation...
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that...
Whether or not enough content is produced in...
The emerging ad-hoc regime of site-blocking in...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and CRTC chair Ian Scott were...
Corus Entertainment Inc. revealed a $367.1 million loss this quarter blaming goodwill impairment charges, an advertising recession, and the CRTC’s Canadian programming...
The chair of the Senate Transport and...
The former Vice Chairperson of the CRTC and a media company president...
Telus Corp. and BCE Inc. have accused Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
A survey commissioned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada found that most...
CRTC chair Ian Scott issued a statement on Thursday over the controversy about cost awards going to the Community Media Advocacy Centre. According to a report in the Globe and...
New Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre...
The question over the place of algorithms and...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether or not it should allow Quebecor...
Executives from the French-language music group...
An Alberta Senator is claiming his privileges as a parliamentarian were...
Netflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...
by Jenna Cocullo
At the frontier of the future...
The executive director of Digital First Canada...
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a trio of amendments to the Online Streaming Act to deal with deficiencies he sees at CBC/Radio-Canada. Senator Percy Downe of the Canadian Senators Group was speaking Tuesday during debate on C-11....
As the House of Commons Heritage committee Tuesday...
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications continued its...
The government’s plan to force social media platforms to negotiate...
The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...
The Rouyn-Noranda market cannot support another commercial radio station, the CRTC wrote in a decision released Thursday as it denied an application for a broadcasting license...
Multinational streaming platforms continue to decry the influence of the CRTC in the Online Streaming Act, calling for two amendments, while representatives of the Canadian music industry say Bill...
While both support the Online Streaming Act and would like to see it passed, executives from APTN and OutTV would like to see more added to the bill to strengthen their...
BCE Inc. has once more gone to the federal court seeking an injunction against a number of unidentified, John Doe pirate streamers.
In a statement of claim filed with the court on Thursday, Bell...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
The idea that the CRTC is capable of handling the...
Rogers Communications Inc. wants competition commissioner Matthew Boswell...
Rogers Communications Inc. is arguing to the CRTC...
The Federal Court of Appeal found that the CRTC was correct in allowing Québecor Inc. to bring forward an undue preference complaint against BCE Inc. over sports packaging,...
In a Sept. 6 letter, the CRTC has accepted a request from Rogers Communications Inc. for final offer arbitration (FOA) with WildBrain Ltd. over carriage of the Family Channel and its subsidiary Family Jr.
In a redacted letter to both parties, the commission said it had...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song has released the schedule for free-time...
The CRTC has opened a Part 1 proceeding after BCE...
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online...
The CBC/ Radio-Canada’s English services may have a target on its back, depending on who wins the...
CRTC Thursday launched a website where Canadians can participate in a newly designed, streamlined version of the regulator's consultation process.
The site, crtcconversations.ca, allows users to register with a username and password in order to participate in currently...
Canada’s Conflict of Interest and Ethics...
Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...
Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years...
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
Quebecor Inc.’s president and CEO has said the company’s recent...
A consortium of broadcasters and rights-holders have won an opening salvo of a fight against a television...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a soaring profit margin for the company's second quarter, surprising analysts just weeks after a national outage put its networks and...
The CRTC denied a request filed by Sarnia Media and Entertainment Inc....
The July 8 nationwide Rogers Communications Inc....
The ministers of Canadian Heritage and Intergovernmental Affairs,...
The Competitive Network Operators of Canada has lent its full-throated...
The Supreme Court of Canada says Canada’s Copyright Act “does not exist solely for the benefit of authors,” in a decision in which it found that the Copyright Board...
Editor's note: for clarity, this story makes...
A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC...
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google for...
The Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is suing Quebecor Inc. for...
In a Wednesday morning joint statement, Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
A Federal Court judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc. and Ericsson AB...
More than 50 personalities for CBC/...
For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5...
The Federal Court dismissed a digital entertainment company’s lawsuit alleging that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron infringed on its interactive television program guide (IPG) patents because the technology is part of the common knowledge of a skilled person.
The court also...
