Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues in radio continue to take a hit, the CRTC said Tuesday in its annual report on the broadcast industry. The greatest increase was for digital media broadcasting undertakings (DMBUs).
The report...
Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years and said it should be on must-offer status in English Canada for four years. That wasn’t good enough for one commissioner.
The LGBTQ+-themed network had asked for must-offer coverage across both...
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 pirate in the Federal Court. BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. were joined in the court action by Columbia Pictures Industries Inc., Disney Enterprises Inc.,...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a soaring profit margin for the...
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...
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 allegedly failing to obtain "sufficient consent" from individuals who do not require the creation of a Google account to collect their personal information when they use its...
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 million from $403 million this time last year, according to the company's third quarter results released Wednesday.
Television revenue was up to $404.1 million from $379.8 million a year ago. Radio revenues were also up to $29.3 million from $23.2 million at the close of the third quarter last year.
Advertising revenue was up to just under $238 million from $233.2 million last year, while subscriber revenue climbed...
The Federal Court dismissed a digital entertainment company’s lawsuit alleging that Quebecor Inc.’s...
Public interest advocacy groups and the union representing CBC/Radio-Canada workers are sounding the alarm about the level of programming discretion afforded to the public broadcaster under the five year licence renewal released...
In a letter from the Deputy Minister of Canadian...
The CRTC chair has said that social media...
The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked Conservative party...
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back against the government's effort to establish a legally novel threshold for the search of personal digital...
The government's effort to convince...
The CRTC announced it was initiating a proceeding to improve telecommunications services in Canada’s...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez attacked the opposition for...
BCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke...
The Department of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development has launched its consultation on the framework for the auction of mmWave spectrum bands, alongside proposed measures to "promote competition, foster innovation and ensure providers use their spectrum in a timely manner," the department announced in a Monday afternoon release.
The auction is planned to take place in 2024 and submissions to the proposed framework are due Sep. 6, with reply comments due a month later on Oct. 7.
“Our government...
Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube believes the provisions of Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, give too much power to the CRTC to regulate content, the company’s head of government affairs and public...
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
The Minister of Canadian Heritage has assured the House of Commons that the next chair of the CRTC will...
A former senior general counsel at the Department...
A Walt Disney Company executive is questioning...
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. have reached an...
The CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its regulations or video-on-demand exemption order, after BCE Inc. filed a complaint that the company...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...
As the Competition Bureau takes Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw...
Former CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies has claimed...
The CRTC will take at least two years to fully...
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the CBC/Radio-Canada’s bureau in Moscow in retaliation for the removal of RT, the state-sponsored Russian...
Former APTN and current Dadan Sivunivut CEO has...
The House of Commons Heritage committee is arguing against the merger of...
A federal court judge has dismissed a challenge...
Tuesday the CRTC granted a broadcast licence for a discretionary service to...
Canada's competition laws have become too sensitive to price, particularly in mergers, and should instead...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told conference attendees...
Conservative MP John Nater wants the Liberal government to withdraw its...
Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen decried the fake outrage he said the...
The recent move by Canada's competition watchdog to block the pending acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc by Rogers Communications Inc. shows that the bureau is "aiming...
The Conservatives continue to lambaste the government for the Online...
Canadians are sending approximately 6,459 complaints per week to the Spam...
A joint petition to cabinet from the National Pensioners Federation and the...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has entered the battle to pass Bill C-11, the Online...
The Competition Bureau has filed an application with the Competition Tribunal seeking a "full block" of the proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. by Rogers...
Debate continued in the House of Commons Thursday on the Online Streaming Act, known as Bill C-11....
In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...
Thursday the CRTC released the schedule for broadcasters and telecommunications companies to report under...
Conservative MP Martin Shields castigated the government for advertising on...
When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...
Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Joe Friday...
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
The CRTC has admonished Telus Corp. for not entirely fulfilling its...
A Saskatchewan senator called on the government to do more to ensure internet connectivity is extended to First Nations reserves. Senator Marty Klyne pointed out that current standards are for 50 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 10 Mbps upload.
“Those upload...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort...
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
Friday the CRTC approved an application by the Burns Lake & District...
Rogers Communications Inc. CEO Tony Staffieri declined to comment on what he called "rumours" that the company – alongside Shaw Communication Inc. – have presented a plan to the federal government that would see Xplornet Communications Inc. take over Shaw's Freedom...
Cogeco Inc. is preparing its entry into Canada’s mobile wireless market but has no definitive timeframe, as it is still contingent on the approval by the CRTC for the terms...
The cabinet has declined to overturn or send back...
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
In a federal government that is mostly targeted towards new spending on...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Corus Studios announced Thursday it has sold...
The implementation of age verification online is a...
The CRTC is generally supportive of Bill C-11, the revised broadcasting...
New legislation from the Government of Canada will...
Facial recognition technology (FRT) needs human oversight to avoid egregious errors in the legal system according to panelists who testified before the House of Commons’...
Extremist groups are able to propagate their message and raise funds...
GATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the...
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's...
The CRTC approved two separate applications by Cogeco Inc. and Arsenal Media which would essentially see...
Digital creators are wary of the government’s claim that amendments to the Broadcasting Act will not include them. The current legislation, Bill C-11, is too vague, the...
The CRTC has approved Rogers Communications Inc.'s acquisition of Shaw...
Updated with TekSavvy reaction.
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
Cogeco Inc. has two different labour disputes brewing, according to the union representing two different...
The Canadian government should place a national...
The industry group Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) has sent a letter personally addressed...
Thursday the CRTC released its broadcasting licence fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.
The net...
Russian state-owned media outlets RT and RT France...
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations told the CRTC that in addition to Russia Today and Russia Today France (collectively, RT) it should remove all state-owned...
