A group of public interest broadcasters is getting more money from the federal treasury, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced in the 2024 budget on Tuesday. CBC/Radio-Canada is receiving an extra $42 million above the more than one billion dollars it was...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced Friday an independent advisory committee has been struck that will begin the search for a new president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada. Chairing the committee is Just for Laughs president and CEO Charles Décarie. The...
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild have inked a tentative labour...
Reaction has been swift and condemnatory to the announcement Thursday by...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing to protest the job cuts at CBC/Radio-Canada announced last year. For...
CBC/Radio Canada has been ordered to pay costs after it lost a case over...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said there will be no public consultations on CBC/Radio-Canada’s new mandate. The minister made the remarks Thursday at the...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
CBC/Radio-Canada will not be permitted to appeal a lower court’s ruling...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Tuesday with...
The current and past Minister of Canadian Heritage were loath to endorse...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge would not take the bait when the...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge faced a barrage of questions...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight against cutbacks at CBC/Radio-Canada. Tuesday in Question Period, BQ leader Yves-François Blanchet said this is the worst possible time for the public broadcaster to cut jobs. The job losses were announced Monday. In his...
Gatineau, Que. - CBC/Radio-Canada's decision to slash 600 jobs and leave...
Canada's public broadcaster is cutting 10 per cent of its workforce and slashing some programming to deal...
The Conservative Party continued its attack on CBC/Radio-Canada Tuesday...
The CRTC denied an application by CBC/Radio-Canada to delay consultations...
Dissatisfaction with the Online Streaming Act and defunding the CBC are among the resolutions being raised at the Conservative Party of Canada policy convention coming up in Quebec City. A 51-page book of policy statements has been released by the party in advance of the...
Blue Ant Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
The CBC is requesting the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL),...
In a Thursday ruling, the Federal Court of Appeal sided with Société...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
The editors and executives of Canada's largest newspapers were on...
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...
CBC/Radio-Canada is asking the CRTC to give it more time before holding a required consultation with Indigenous peoples. Under the conditions of the CBC's license, issued in 2022, the CBC is required to hold a consultation with Indigenous Peoples at least once every two...
Public broadcasting advocacy group Friends is “frustrated” that the...
Thursday the Supreme Court announced it was allowing an appeal by a group of media into the unsealing of...
Members of the Senate are calling on the CBC/Radio-Canada to maintain its...
Quebecor Inc.’s efforts to reach all wholesale and MVNO access agreements...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year to the day since it was first introduced in the House of Commons. The vote passed Thursday...
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after...
The House of Commons Committee on Canadian Heritage finished...
Despite concerns about CBC/Radio-Canada muscling private media out of competition for advertising dollars in the news sector, the House of Commons Heritage committee defeated...
OTTAWA–Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook, is so upset that...
A Prince Edward Island senator told his colleagues he wants to bring in a...
The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...
The CBC/ Radio-Canada’s English services may have a target on its back, depending on who wins the...
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself in an application for judicial review to which it is a party over the CRTC's renewal of the...
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
The CRTC has granted a sweeping flexibility that paves the way for CBC/Radio-Canada to shift toward a...
Canadian politicians were quick to condemn Russia’s move to close the...
The CRTC has issued an administrative renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada's broadcasting license through Aug. 30 of this year, over a year after the regulator held hearings into the...
Friends, formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, announced Wednesday that Marla Boltman has...
The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund is awarding some $371,000 to four new...
The CRTC is holding a consultation to determine a series of applications...
According to an advocacy group opposing restrictions on the internet,...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the first party leader to explicitly oppose the proposed acquisition of Shaw...
After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally called Sunday for a...
Canadian Heritage is seeking input on how best to compensate the news...
The CRTC has ruled that the CBC/Radio-Canada is not giving itself an...
With advertising revenues battered by the pandemic -- particularly the second half of the year -- the CRTC Friday reported widespread drops in broadcast revenues for the 2019-2020 year, with total revenues coming in at over $15.7 billion. The commission’s report...
The CRTC has approved an application from CBC...
The CRTC has released the findings from its first phase in the development of a new Indigenous...
CBC/Radio-Canada is once again asking the CRTC to temporarily relieve it of its local programming and described video obligations for the period of this year’s Tokyo Olympics. In its part 1 application to the CRTC, posted...
CBC/Radio-Canada president Catherine Tait doubled down on its request for greater flexibility to spend on...
On the final day of three weeks of CRTC hearings into CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal, the public broadcaster Thursday tried to push back against some of the criticism levelled at it by intervenors. CBC's digital spending does not degrade its news coverage, and the...
The Canadian Media Producers Association has called on the CRTC to force...
The new digital initiatives from CBC/Radio-Canada like the English-language Gem and its French counterpart ICI Tou.tv have not yet shown themselves to be good enough to fulfill the broadcaster's...
To begin the third and final week of the CRTC's hearings on CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal, organizations representing the directors and writers for Canada's film and television industry have...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau has called on the CRTC to recentre...
The advocacy group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has called on the CRTC...
On the final day of the first week of CBC/Radio-Canada's license renewal hearing before the CRTC, CBC...
On the second day of the CRTC's hearings into the CBC/Radio-Canada license renewal, CBC executives detailed the lead up to the broadcaster’s much-criticized decision to cut local news broadcasts across the country in the early...
The COVID-19 pandemic dropped CBC/Radio-Canada’s revenues by 11 per cent,...
In the lead up to its license renewal hearings in January, CBC/Radio-Canada has declined to provide the CRTC with statistics about the diversity of its in-house production staff. Following a procedural request from the non-profit Community Media Advocacy Centre in November, the regulator requested details about the numbers of women, Indigenous people, people from racialized groups, LGBTQ2 people, and people with disabilities working on CBC/Radio-Canada productions in key roles, including...
Prince Edward Island senator Percy Downe has announced that he will introduce an amendment that will prevent CBC/Radio-Canada from publishing or broadcasting sponsored content. Following on from...
The CRTC will not open a new Part 1 or consultation in response to a letter from a number of ex-CBC/Radio-Canada employees criticizing the public broadcaster’s new branded content scheme, Tandem. ...
Impatient with the progress of a month-old Part 1...
A group of former CBC employees have asked the CRTC to look into CBC/Radio-Canada sponsored content program Tandem. The Friday Part 1 application, which is not yet available on the regulator’s...
In anticipation of CBC/Radio-Canada’s January license renewal hearings, the CRTC has requested that the broadcaster collect file information about staff diversity on its productions. In a letter to CBC executive director of corporate and regulatory affairs Bev Kirshenblatt, the commission asked the broadcaster to provide statistics about the number of individuals from marginalized groups who held key roles (such as producers, editors, directors, writers, and lead performers) on all CBC...
The branded content initiative launched by CBC/Radio-Canada last month has been put on hiatus while the...
Canada’s largest broadcasters have committed to making the use of a Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) hiring database a prerequisite to giving original productions the green light. The broadcasters are...
Given the precarious situation around the now-escalating COVID-19 pandemic, what will actually be...
The election of Erin O'Toole as federal opposition leader late Sunday night makes "the threat of CBC...
The CRTC has renewed CBC/Radio-Canada’s license for a year until September 2021, and delayed the...
The federal government has appointed two individuals to the board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada. Sandra Mason and Bill Tam will join the board for five-year terms, according to a Thursday press release from Canadian...
Canada should follow Britain’s lead and change the system it uses to classify productions as Canadian content, Richard Stursberg, former head of CBC/Radio-Canada’s English services, said at a...
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has urged the federal government to help prominent media outlets facing...
CBC/Radio-Canada has temporarily suspended its English-language local TV newscasts in all locations bar the North, as it opts to consolidate programming into one national news program during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement on Wednesday, the CBC’s general manager of news Susan Marjetti said the consolidated newscasts at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. would integrate journalism and coverage from its specialty news channels, local CBC stations and its The National program. In the statement, Marjetti said “extraordinary times require extraordinary measures.” “We are needed now more...
Conservative Party leadership hopeful Erin O’Toole has called for CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding for its digital and english-language television department to be slashed, declaring the national broadcaster is “stuck in the...
OTTAWA — Whether or not CBC/Radio-Canada can move away from advertising revenue is a “political...
OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says his government will introduce legislation to...
OTTAWA — A broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review report...
Several independent broadcasters have written to the CRTC to say the regulator shouldn’t grant a request by TV providers to change a rule forcing cable and IPTV services to hand over viewership data. Currently, TV service providers are working on a set-top box viewership measurement system, the implementation date of which has been delayed due to factors including an attempt by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to withdraw from the group. There is currently both an active and a suspended condition of licence on the implementation of the system. The active COL requires the system -- which...
Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and...
Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal is lobbying both the Alberta and Ontario...
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
OTTAWA — The spectre of past Conservative government cuts to...
An organization representing sound recording rights holders wants to...
Almost 60 per cent of Canadians have “low trust and confidence” in Netflix Inc. to “protect Canadian culture and identity on television”; half of Canadians don't trust cable companies to do...
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be...
The Shaw Rocket Fund wants CBC/Radio-Canada to expand its focus on children’s content to reflect a broader age range and is asking for new communications legislation to ensure it has the funding...
Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel reviewing Canada’s communications legislation. “Non-Canadian broadcast undertakings like the foreign-owned OTTs need to be required to commit to buying and streaming Canadian content, and in particular, Canadian feature films as well as contribute to the Canadian cultural eco-system,” CAFDE...