Local independent news stations want to exclude Corus Entertainment Inc. from the Independent Local News Fund (ILNF) until the CRTC issues a broader policy review – a move...
Several trade unions representing Canadian media members, artists, and producers are opposed to Corus Entertainment Inc.’s and other Canadian broadcasters’ calls for the...
Corus Entertainment Inc. president and CEO Doug Murphy said an “advertising recession” is the cause...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
For the three months that ended on May 31, Corus Entertainment Inc.'s overall revenue was up to $433.5...
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Corus Studios announced Thursday it has sold more than 400 episodes of programming to Walt Disney Co.’s American streaming service Hulu.
The series in the deal feature lifestyle, renovation, unscripted and crime content. This is in...
Community-owned television outlets “are not producing local news that...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy reiterated a long-standing call...
Revenues across Corus Entertainment Inc.'s radio and television divisions were up significantly as the company reported its third quarter earnings results Tuesday.
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Corus Entertainment Inc. reported Friday that it had begun to recover some of the losses of the earlier stages of the pandemic, with bleeding stopped in its television segment. The company posted second quarter television revenues of $338.5 million, a mere three per cent drop from the $347.8...
The CRTC needs to do away with restrictive regulations, argue multiple...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported Tuesday its first-quarter revenues were $420.3 million, down 10 per cent from the same period a year earlier. Profits, meanwhile, were down three per cent to $178.6 million in the three-month...
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...
The production slowdown stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns has created a crisis for Corus Entertainment Inc. in terms of meeting its CRTC-mandated Canadian programming expenditures (CPE),...
The CRTC has allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to reduce its mandated Canadian programming expenditures (CPE) in a single year, but declared any shortfall must be made up in the following year. In a Friday decision the regulator approved Corus’ application for its maximum CPE under-expenditure in a single year to be increased from five per cent to ten per cent, but ruled those under-expenditures must be paid during the next year, denying a Corus request to be able to push it back to the end...
The financial impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdowns led to a “very tough quarter” for Corus...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has deferred the declaration of its dividends in response to the uncertainty...
Corus Entertainment Inc. this morning reported television revenue either in line or slightly higher than...
High demand among advertisers for premium content to be siloed in ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD)...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC if the broadcaster can spend less on the development and acquisition of Canadian content in the upcoming fiscal year, and make up the shortfall later on in its licence term.
The inherent volatility of the media industry, the...
Corus Entertainment Inc. registered to lobby the government to promote the eligibility of broadcasters for a new journalism tax initiative announced by the federal government late last year. The...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
Executives at Corus Entertainment Inc., historically proud of not being in...
The CRTC has approved a request from Corus Entertainment Inc. to shutter 44 of its television transmitting towers that serve rural customers. The original application from November said that the...
Corus Entertainment Inc., the only major Canadian broadcaster refusing to...
Rogers Communications Inc.'s OMNI will continue to benefit from the sole...
Shaw Communications Inc. is getting rid of $548 million in shares in Corus Entertainment Inc.
The...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it will see TV ad growth in the third quarter...
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the CRTC to allow it to shutter 28 of its rebroadcasting transmitters that it says “generate no incremental revenue and attract little to no viewership.”
The Part 1 application comes two years after the CRTC allowed Bell to shut...
The National NewsMedia Council wrote to the expert panel reviewing...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported quarterly results Friday that showed TV ad revenue increasing 3.6 per...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is taking issue with a request by Telus Corp. to have Parliament change the...
Corus Entertainment Inc. had $2.3 million in Canada Media Fund (CMF) money...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC for permission to shut down 44 television rebroadcasting transmitters in small rural markets, arguing they are too expensive to run.
“The rebroadcasting transmitters generate no incremental revenue, and attract little to no...
OTTAWA — Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy told an industry...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will retire at the end of this...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s wild ride through the unpredictable TV ad...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is consolidating its marketing and promotional...
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled against a plan by the Quebec government...
In early May, the Liberal government faced questions in the House of...
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives delivered a mapped-out vision for the...
The growth of over-the-top (OTT) services did not change the mind of the Competition Bureau when it rejected a deal earlier this week involving two French-language channels. The bureau denied the...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it has come to an agreement with BCE Inc. to officially terminate a previous arrangement that would’ve seen two of its French-language specialty channels sold to Bell, after the Competition Bureau rejected the deal earlier this week. Corus said Monday that the two companies were exploring their options after the bureau blocked the sale of Corus’ Historia and Series+ channels. In a Wednesday press release, Corus said the decision was to forego the agreement. “Corus Entertainment will continue to own and operate Historia and Séries+ and also...
The FairPlay coalition has responded to the laundry list of criticism...
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. have registered to lobby the...
The CRTC wants Canadians to weigh in as it considers the candidates competing for a licence for a multi-ethnic channel with mandatory carriage on basic TV packages. It said in a press release...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is “accelerating” its transformation into a more data-centric company, its...
The CRTC is accepting comments on the sale of the Historia and Séries+ specialty channels from Corus Entertainment Inc. to BCE Inc. The regulator said in a Tuesday notice that Bell proposed to direct most of the $20 million in tangible benefits from the $200 million transaction to “two French-language components of certified independent production funds, namely the Bell Fund and the Fonds Harold Greenberg.” The deadline for interventions is April 19. The CRTC noted that if it receives “interventions that raise substantive concerns and warrant further discussion, the Commission...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has confirmed it is eliminating close “to 80...
Creative groups are standing their ground on spending for programs of national interest (PNI), suggesting that a marginal increase in funding for those programs proposed by the large English-language broadcasters last month is not...
Proposed legislation intended to combat the marketing of unhealthy food and...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Nelvana is shaking up its core team, with a new appointment and promotions,...
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Tuesday it is selling two...
Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to...
While online discussion forums are rife with debate — and more often, complaints — about why Canadians can’t access popular American television shows legally online, Canadian content producers...
A proliferation of new streaming TV competition in Canada is set to benefit content producers even as it causes problems for the country’s broadcasters and TV service providers through fragmented audiences and higher content costs — though it doesn’t yet signal an...
A controversial CRTC decision that creative groups said would negatively affect the production of Canadian content will be sent back to the CRTC for reconsideration by the federal cabinet, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) is disputing arguments made in an open letter published...
Two senior executives at Corus Entertainment Inc. are expected to leave the company by the end of...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported increases in both revenues and profit Tuesday, numbers that reflected its purchase of Shaw Communications Inc.’s media division last year. For the three months ended May 31, the...
Rogers Communications Inc. will get a three-year window to run its new national ethnic channel before having to compete with other proposals for its mandatory carriage, the CRTC announced Monday. The regulator partially approved the company’s application to establish OMNI Regional as a new national service to be carried on skinny-basic cable TV packages as part of its decision on licence renewals of large, English-language TV groups. Rogers had proposed what it called a not-for-profit solution to replace the ethnic-language newscasts it eliminated in 2015. OMNI Regional will...
Shaw Communications Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc. will close three Shaw local TV stations in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary, and redistribute the annual funding to Global News...
The fallout from Alphabet Inc.’s placing of advertisements next to unfavourable content is in line with an ongoing trend of some advertisers shifting money from digital back to traditional...
Facebook Inc. is increasing its government relations presence in Ottawa, with three new registrations filed with the lobbying commissioner’s office last month. According to the federal lobbyists’...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is now selling to advertisers users’ cookie data to better target audience members, the company announced Monday. In a press release, Corus said it’s the “first major Canadian...
More than 400 Canadian radio stations across the country are now available on a newly launched app featuring both public and private broadcasters. The free Radioplayer app launched Wednesday “gives radio listeners...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s purchase of Shaw Communications Inc.’s media division again helped it post a revenue increase, this time a 105 per cent increase and a 100 per cent...
There isn’t much disagreement between some of the country’s biggest media and telecom service providers over whether foreign entities, such as over-the-top providers like Netflix...
GATINEAU, Que. — CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais floated the idea that the commission should require a public consultation before a broadcaster closes a TV station during the last day...
GATINEAU, Que. — The question of whether news stations owned by vertically-integrated (VI) companies need safeguards for journalistic independence came up at the CRTC’s English-language TV licence renewal hearing Wednesday, with the commission chairman floating the idea of implementing rules codifying independence. CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais asked Telus Corp. representatives whether codifying “principles of independence” as a condition of licence would solve concerns they identified in their opening statement Wednesday. Telus had argued that...
Multi-channel networks (MCNs) have carved out a space in the online video ecosystem in recent years, leading traditional broadcasters to move into MCNs as a relatively low-risk way to reach younger...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has launched History Vault, a subscription over-the-top (OTT) service featuring programming from its History channel. The service, which costs $5.49 a month, “features hundreds of hours of...
Two communities in Ontario’s Hamilton-Niagara region can handle “at least” one radio station, the CRTC said as it issued a call for applications Thursday. The announcement...
Ronnie Stanton will leave his current position as vice-president of radio programming for Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Corus Radio Network, though he will continue to consult for the company. Corus spokeswoman Samantha...
A potential merger between AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc. highlights a move by United States-based companies toward vertical integration, just as developments in Canada suggest the opposite is happening north of the border, according to an analyst. “While the U.S. is becoming more vertically integrated, Canada is moving in the other direction,” Jeff Fan, an analyst at Scotiabank, said in a note Monday. The deal, which would see AT&T acquire Time...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported Wednesday a 99 per cent increase in revenues for the fourth quarter, despite a decline in radio revenues. The three-month period, which...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is making seven of its news talk radio stations available for free internationally on Apple Inc.’s Apple Music streaming service. The company said in...
iHeartMedia Inc.'s free digital radio and music streaming service is now available in Canada, according to a press release from BCE Inc.’s media division. The free app, iHeartRadio, is available on a preview basis...
Canada’s biggest telcos told investors Wednesday that they are seeing growth in wireless data usage on the first of a two-day conference hosted by CIBC World Markets. BCE Inc....
Canadian producer-distributor Nelvana, which is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., has inked a deal with a Walt Disney Co. subsidiary licensing international broadcast and on-demand rights for a new animated series...
Burgeoning Ottawa-based TV app maker You.i TV has hired its first chief operating officer, the company announced this week. In a Tuesday press release, the company said Dan Beer’s appointment was made “in order to fuel the company’s continued rapid growth and...
The CRTC has denied an application by Durham Radio Inc. to change the transmitter of its FM tower to expand its service into Toronto. In a decision Monday, the commission said that the proposal to modify the CJKX-FM-2, a...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s first quarterly report since it bought Shaw Media showed the acquisition drove a significant increase in overall revenues, profits and expenses, despite a fall in the division’s revenue due...
The CRTC said Wednesday it will hold a public hearing to renew broadcast licences held by large ownership groups, including Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., Corus Entertainment Inc. and Quebecor Inc. this fall. A hearing for French-language groups will take place in the Montreal area on Nov. 22, while the regulator will consider English-language renewals in Gatineau, Que. on Nov. 28. It said its objectives include examining “the effectiveness of the group-based approach over the last licence term for the large ownership...
The CRTC has established new funding for local television news in a decision on its local and community TV hearing, though advocates expressed concern that the changes won’t happen quickly...
OTTAWA — The results of the sweeping review of Canadian content in a digital age announced by Heritage Canada last week could take 10 years to materialize, University of Ottawa law professor...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday that it plans to launch programmatic, or automatic, ad-buying for traditional TV. “Corus will be the first Canadian broadcaster to commit to bringing programmatic TV advertising...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported Wednesday a three-per-cent rise in revenue in the second fiscal quarter of 2016 to $197.7 million, up from $191.5 million the same period a year earlier. In the three months...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has closed its $2.65-billion acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc.’s media division and appointed a team of executive vice-presidents for the combined company. Barbara Williams, formerly president of Shaw Media, is now chief revenue officer at Corus and will “oversee all strategic and operational aspects of generating audience growth and engagement across Corus’ platforms,” the company said in a press release Friday. She will also “play a central role in the development of the company’s growth strategies and ongoing...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Wednesday it has appointed Deirdre Brennan as the new vice-president of content for its Corus Kids division. It said in a press release that Brennan will “oversee all content aspects of...
The pressure Catalyst Capital Group Inc. has been applying on Corus Entertainment Inc. shareholders to vote down a proposal to purchase the media division of Shaw Communications Inc. isn't likely...
The CRTC denied a request from the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), along with several other parties, to have a public hearing on Shaw Communications Inc.’s sale of...
As it takes ownership of Wind Mobile, Shaw Communications Inc. will continue positioning Wind as a cheaper option compared to the big three national wireless carriers, according to the company’s chief operating officer....
The CRTC has approved a request that releases Country Music Television Ltd. (CMT) from its obligation to broadcast country music videos. In a decision posted to its website on Thursday, the commission agreed with the majority of...
The CRTC on Thursday acknowledged receipt of an application from Shaw Communications Inc. to sell its media division to Corus Entertainment Inc., and said interested parties have until Feb. 15 to file submissions on the matter....
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Tuesday it intends to offer a round of "subscription receipts" as a way to raise money to partially fund its recently announced purchase of Shaw Communications Inc.'s media division....
BCE Inc.'s Bell Media division said Wednesday that the June 14 season finale of Game of Thrones on HBO Canada broke a record for the most-viewed pay- or specialty-TV broadcast of all time in this country. It said there were...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday it has reached a deal with BCE Inc. to receive CTV programming for three TV stations in Ontario. It said in a press release CKWS-TV in Kingston, CHEX-TV in Peterborough and Channel 12 in Oshawa will start to get a slate of CTV programming on Aug. 31. Included are shows such as The Amazing Race Canada, MasterChef Canada and CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme, Corus said. Corus said more details would be announced closer to when the deal takes effect....