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Quebecor, cultural groups praise Que. budget digital sales tax
Media | 03/28/2018 4:01 pm EDT
The Quebec government’s 2018 budget, unveiled Tuesday, includes a measure to impose sales tax on digital services sold in the province.
According to budget documents, “foreign companies that sell more than $30,000 in
taxable supplies per year of incorporeal property...
In telecoms’ year-end, cord-cutting slows, wireline grows
Media | 03/21/2018 12:14 pm EDT
Canada’s publicly-traded telecoms lost fewer TV subscribers in 2017 than in each of the previous two years, while they added enough wireless customers to beat last year’s record high of new wireless adds.
A Wire Report compilation of the subscriber numbers reported by...
Radio-Canada asks broadcasters ‘to pool our strengths’ on OTT, content
Media | 03/16/2018 10:02 am EDT
CBC/Radio-Canada is in negotiations over opening up its French-language...
Videotron ‘full speed’ ahead on IPTV: Brouillette
Media | 03/14/2018 5:27 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is working on deploying its new IPTV service as quickly as possible, Manon...
Judge upholds injunction against Kodi add-on host
Media | 02/21/2018 5:22 pm EST
The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a number of telecoms in their case against the man behind TV AddOns. Last June, a civil search warrant was carried out at a property connected to Adam Lackman following a June...
Alt TV quietly becoming significant for Bell: Barclays
Media | 02/20/2018 2:47 pm EST
BCE Inc.’s Alt TV service is its “underappreciated driver for broadband growth,” Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang said in a research...
ISED expands AWS-1 coverage requirements, licence terms
telecom | 02/16/2018 4:49 pm EST
Innovation Canada is extending both licence terms and coverage requirements following a consultation on AWS-1 spectrum renewals, it said in a decision Friday. In 2008, ISED — then Industry Canada — auctioned off AWS-1 and other spectrum for a term of 10 years using Tier 2 and Tier 3 licence areas. Following a consultation in June, which saw Canada’s largest wireless providers request a longer term period, ISED said Friday it will expand the term for AWS-1 and G Block to 20 years — I Block for 10 years — and require those providers to cover additional areas serving 172...
Quebecor turning to court over TVA Sports wholesale fee
Media | 02/16/2018 4:27 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. will seek leave to appeal a recent CRTC decision on the...
Cross-industry coalition calls for website-blocking
Media | 01/29/2018 6:21 pm EST
A broad coalition made up of Canada’s largest telecoms and broadcasters, as well as groups representing...
CRTC gives TVA Sports more flexibility on ad scheduling
Media | 01/23/2018 3:22 pm EST
The CRTC has given Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Sports fewer restrictions on when it can broadcast ads, saying that the channel can now “average the maximum amount of 12 minutes of advertising material...
Bell, Telus sign on to Ericsson’s TV platform
Media | 01/19/2018 2:53 pm EST
BCE Inc. said Thursday it has signed a deal with Ericsson AB to use its TV platform, following a similar...
CRTC sides with Bell in wholesale dispute with Quebecor
Media | 01/17/2018 5:34 pm EST
The CRTC has settled a disagreement between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. over the wholesale rate Bell pays for Quebecor’s TVA Sports. “The Commission finds that the evidence does not support the...
As its TV ad revenue drops, Corus says ad tech is the future
Media | 01/10/2018 6:05 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future...
BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns
Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
Size of 600 MHz set-aside, licence areas points of contention
telecom | 11/21/2017 5:25 pm EST
While much of the debate around the upcoming 600 MHz spectrum auction has centered on implementing spectrum set-asides, issues like imposing a spectrum cap and the size of any set-aside, the ability...
Videotron reaches 1M wireless subscribers as it reports Q3 results
Media | 11/10/2017 5:14 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. said its wireless division has eclipsed one million subscribers since posting higher revenues and profits in its third-quarter earnings Thursday. “In the space of 7 years, Videotron has carved out a place for itself in the telecom industry’s big leagues,” Manon Brouillette, president and CEO of Quebecor’s telecom division, said in a Thursday release. “It’s an indication of the consumer receptiveness to our offering and the need for more competition in the...
Potential described video costs ‘exorbitant’: TVA Group
Media | 11/10/2017 3:27 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group has requested the modification of a condition...
Rogers unfazed by Freedom ‘Big Gig’ offer: CEO
telecom | 10/19/2017 4:34 pm EDT
Joe Natale isn’t worried about Shaw Communications Inc.’s move to offer its Freedom customers 10...
CRTC consulting on mandatory carriage renewals
Media | 10/17/2017 3:00 pm EDT
The CRTC will consider mandatory distribution licence renewals for nine television channels when it holds a hearing next year, the regulator said in a Tuesday release. The commission said it will consider the renewal for the...
New CEO in at TVA Group after management shuffle
Media | 10/16/2017 12:19 pm EDT
TVA vice-president of programming, France Lauzière, has replaced Julie Tremblay as the president and CEO...
Privacy commish issues Equifax advice; Canoe reports breach
Media | 09/13/2017 1:52 pm EDT
The federal privacy commissioner is urging Canadians who are worried about whether their personal information was affected by the Equifax Inc. hack to contact the company directly. “After learning about the breach via media reports, our office contacted Equifax to seek information, including details on how Canadians were affected. Discussions with Equifax are ongoing and the company is cooperating with our office,” the Office of the Privacy Commissioner said in a Tuesday announcement on its website. Adding that the office was “seized with this issue,” the note advised...
High interim tariffs, logistics still mire disaggregated system
telecom | 08/31/2017 5:13 pm EDT
The CRTC's goal of fuelling wireline competition by jumpstarting the...
CRTC to hold Toronto hearing on broadcasting applications
telecom | 08/31/2017 2:16 pm EDT
The CRTC said Thursday that it has scheduled a hearing to take place in Toronto on Nov. 27 to consider 11 broadcasting applications. They include three applications for stations in Grimsby and...
CRTC OK’s dropping dual OMNI obligation ahead of Sept. 1 launch
Media | 08/31/2017 12:59 pm EDT
Applications by Shaw Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron...
Small ISPs welcome rollout of disaggregated wholesale regime
telecom | 08/29/2017 6:17 pm EDT
The CRTC kickstarted the industry’s move to a disaggregated wholesale...
Videotron latest to announce X1-based IPTV
Media | 08/29/2017 5:00 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will launch its IPTV service using the X1 platform from Comcast Corp., the...
Strong wireless trend continues with Quebecor Q2
Media | 08/10/2017 5:09 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. continued the industry trend of steady gains in wireless this past quarter, with...
Quebecor, Shaw to benefit from 600 MHz set-asides: analysts
telecom | 08/08/2017 3:27 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile will be the big winners if Innovation Canada goes ahead with its plans to set aside spectrum for smaller players in the...
Kodi add-on host prepping for legal battle
Media | 08/02/2017 5:36 pm EDT
A Montreal man connected to a popular repository for Kodi add-ons, who was ordered by the Federal Court...
Transparency reporting in Canada: still opaque?
telecom | 07/31/2017 4:15 pm EDT
Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal information, the current landscape may be as good as it gets for transparency reporting in Canada, a privacy expert says.
As of Monday, only two of the country’s...
Videotron-Freedom spectrum sale complete
telecom | 07/24/2017 4:24 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has closed its spectrum sale to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile, the company announced Monday. The $430-million transaction of seven 2500MHz and 700MHz licences in southern Ontario,...
Péladeau criticizes CRTC for TVA licence changes
Media | 07/21/2017 4:04 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau is chastising the CRTC for its May 15 decision involving...
Videotron facing patent infringement claim from TiVo
Media | 07/17/2017 4:26 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is being sued for patent infringement by TiVo Inc. and one of its...
ISED approves Videotron spectrum transfer to Freedom
telecom | 07/11/2017 11:30 am EDT
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) has approved the transfer of spectrum licences from Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile. ISED said in a Monday release that the...
Shaw, Quebecor OMNI applications expedited
Media | 07/04/2017 12:03 pm EDT
The deadline for interventions in a pair of Part 1 applications to the CRTC from Shaw Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. has been changed from July 31 to July 14. In late June, the two companies applied for permission to drop one channel from Rogers Communications Inc.’s OMNI from their basic service when the new OMNI Regional service, which has mandatory carriage, begins broadcasting in order to prevent duplication. The commission said in letters to the companies last week that it was granting their request to expedite the process. The new deadline for replies is July...
STB data measurement complex task, group says
Media | 06/30/2017 2:23 pm EDT
Activity by a working group tasked with studying the implementation of an audience measurement system via...
CCSA leads lobbying after Hill visit
Media | 06/26/2017 2:55 pm EDT
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
Spectrum buy to improve Shaw network, but benefits will take time: analysts
telecom | 06/13/2017 5:40 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. announced Tuesday that it has purchased 700MHz and 2500MHz spectrum from Quebecor Inc. for $430 million, in what Shaw described as “a significant milestone towards...
‘Alternative video’ services more satisfying than pay TV: study
Media | 06/08/2017 3:10 pm EDT
Non-traditional TV subscribers, such as those who use over-the-top (OTT) services, are more satisfied than those with traditional pay-TV subscriptions, a new J.D. Power survey suggested. Customers...
Videotron ‘author’ of own misfortune: consumer advocates
Media | 06/05/2017 5:01 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron made its bed and now it has to lie in it, according to consumer and digital rights advocates who opposed the company’s request for a delay in complying with the CRTC’s...
Telecoms pooh-pooh affordability fund
telecom | 05/26/2017 2:31 pm EDT
Establishing a dedicated fund to tackle service affordability for low-income Canadians as part of the...
Quebecor has tools to combat Bell fibre push: Pruneau
telecom | 05/25/2017 5:32 pm EDT
Jean-Francois Pruneau, Quebecor Inc.’s senior vice-president and chief financial officer, told an investor’s conference Thursday that his company’s quad-play strategy in Quebec will limit the impact of BCE Inc.’s...
Terrebonne asks CRTC for help with access agreement
telecom | 05/18/2017 2:38 pm EDT
Another Canadian municipality is turning to the CRTC after failing to agree on a municipal access...
Koodo, Virgin Mobile tops in wireless purchase satisfaction: study
telecom | 05/12/2017 2:53 pm EDT
Wireless customers are taking advantage of an improved online experience and increasingly making purchases over the Internet, according to the results of a study released Thursday. The percentage of customers making wireless purchases online has increased to 42 per cent from 39 per cent a year earlier, J.D. Power said in a release about its 2017 Canadian Wireless Purchase Experience Study. Over the year, the number of customers who made in-store purchases declined to 61 per cent from 65 per...
Quebec union ‘disappointed’ budgets didn’t address taxation imbalance
Media | 03/29/2017 8:58 pm EDT
A Quebec union representing communications sector employees said it is disappointed with both the federal and provincial budgets, saying that in “both cases, no action has been taken to counter...
Quebecor revenue, profits up in Q4
Media | 03/17/2017 3:15 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. reported $3.88 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2015, up 7.5 per cent or $271.8 million from a year earlier. It also reported a net loss of $22.5 million in the three-month period ending...
Péladeau confirms he won’t bring change to Quebecor
Media | 03/15/2017 9:08 pm EDT
After analyst speculation about whether Quebecor Inc.’s returning CEO would affect the strategic direction of the company, Pierre Karl Péladeau confirmed on a conference...
CBC ‘dimmer star’ in media landscape, conservative event hears
Media | 02/27/2017 6:15 pm EST
OTTAWA — When talking about CBC/Radio-Canada’s role in the media landscape, the public broadcaster is a “pygmy amongst giants,” and more focus should be aimed at large...
Investor concerns about changes at Quebecor ‘overdone’: Huang
Media | 02/21/2017 6:50 pm EST
Some investors are worried about potential disruptions at Quebecor Inc. following the return of former CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau to the company, though such concern is overblown, said Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang. “We believe the stock's unsurprising negative reaction on the news reflects investors' concerns that there will be disruptions to the four years of disciplined execution under professional management, after Mr. Peladeau had stepped down as...
Péladeau’s return to Quebecor shouldn’t affect business: analysts
Media | 02/16/2017 10:20 pm EST
The man who led Quebecor Inc. for 14 years but left to join provincial politics will return as head of the company Thursday, though despite the change in leadership, analysts expect...
Videotron introduces flat-rate roaming
telecom | 02/15/2017 8:50 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is introducing a new service for customers to avoid bill shock when roaming internationally. The Daily Traveller Pass will allow customers to pay a flat fee — at $6 per day...
Don’t divorce handset, service pricing: wireless providers
telecom | 02/07/2017 10:15 pm EST
GATINEAU, Que. — Changing the rules so that the cost of a wireless device is divorced from a monthly service payment on a customer’s bill would take a considerable amount of work to...
Anne Vivien new Quebecor EVP of music development
Media | 02/06/2017 10:22 pm EST
Quebecor Inc. said Monday music creation will be a key focus for the company going forward, as it announced the appointment of a new executive vice-president of music development, Anne Vivien. “Already a big music...
Marie Ginette Lepage takes SVP role at Stingray
Media | 01/26/2017 5:54 pm EST
Marie Ginette Lepage is leaving Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to join the team at Stingray Digital Group Inc., Stingray announced. In a press release, the company said Lepage would take on the role of senior...
Build voice and data support at same time in NG911 system: Freedom
Media | 01/19/2017 11:22 pm EST
GATINEAU, Que. — There are unique considerations for wireless carriers when contemplating the switch to next-generation 911 (NG911) services, a CRTC panel was told on the penultimate day of a...
Court dismisses dispute over hydro pole pricing
telecom | 12/20/2016 10:31 pm EST
A panel of Ontario Divisional Court judges has dismissed an application from a group of telecom companies disputing the Ontario Energy Board’s handling of setting new rates for attaching communications equipment to hydro...
‘Virtually impossible’ to quantify damage from set-top boxes: telecoms
Media | 11/25/2016 10:07 pm EST
BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron are asking a federal court judge to dismiss an appeal of an injunction banning sales of “pre-loaded”...
Skinny basic best practices not enough to ‘scare’ BDUs: PIAC
Media | 11/21/2016 9:50 pm EST
The best practices for TV service providers offering skinny-basic cable packages announced by the CRTC Monday don’t amount to much more than lip service, with no real consequences for providers who don’t align themselves with the regulator’s preferred behaviour, according to a consumer advocate. John Lawford, executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), said in a phone interview he was initially excited by the decision posted to the CRTC’s website Monday, outlining its findings following a fall proceeding into the skinny-basic cable...
Videotron goes on defence as differential pricing hearing wraps
Media | 11/04/2016 11:49 pm EDT
GATINEAU, Que. — Those who innovate shouldn’t be penalized because their competitors can’t keep up, the CRTC heard Friday from representatives of the telecom company...
Telecom services bolster Quebecor’s Q3
Media | 11/03/2016 4:48 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s telecommunications services boosted its third quarter, as it posted an $8.3-million loss, the company said in its quarterly financial report Thursday. The loss from the three months ended Sept. 30,...
Quebecor announces job cuts, magazine closures
Media | 11/02/2016 7:13 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc. said Wednesday it was making cuts to its media division to “maintain its lead in news and content production and keep focusing on its flagship brands.” In a press release, the company said...
Zero-rating regime should be similar to ITMP framework: CNOC
Media | 11/01/2016 12:50 am EDT
GATINEAU — On the first day of the CRTC’s hearing on differential pricing practices, a consortium representing small telecoms asked the CRTC to allow but regulate the practice of zero-rating,...
TVA Group posts smaller loss, buoyed by hockey
Media | 10/28/2016 7:34 pm EDT
TVA Group Inc. reported a smaller net loss in the third quarter compared to the previous year, as revenues were lifted by the World Cup of Hockey event this fall. In the three-month period ended Sept. 30, the Quebecor Inc. subsidiary reported a net loss of $32.5 million, compared to a loss of $36.4 million in the same period a year earlier. Operating income for all three segments was down 33 per cent to $20.6 million from $30.8 million last year. Broadcast and production and film production and audio-visual services fell, the former due to lower adjusted income for TVA...
AT&T, Time Warner deal shows VI trending in opposite directions: analyst
Media | 10/24/2016 9:18 pm EDT
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...
CRTC’s lowering of HSA rates means small ISPs ‘free to innovate’: CNOC
telecom | 10/06/2016 8:00 pm EDT
The CRTC has set revised interim wholesale rates for high-speed access (HSA) services, criticizing large Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for proposing “unreasonable” rates that were too...
Bell asks for injunction against VMedia OTT service
Media | 10/04/2016 8:24 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is asking the Ontario Superior Court to grant an interim and permanent injunction to stop VMedia Inc. from delivering Bell's CTV channels on its over-the-top (OTT) service. VMedia began offering the...
Shaw best-positioned carrier, regardless of Liberal policy: Barclays
telecom | 09/26/2016 6:47 pm EDT
Shaw Communications Inc. is “the one player in the industry who is very well positioned” regardless of the direction the Liberal government takes on wireless policy,...
Class action targets automatic service price adjustment
Media | 09/23/2016 7:20 pm EDT
Lawyers are asking a Quebec court to allow a class action lawsuit against companies that they allege are violating the province’s consumer protection laws by requiring customers to take the...
Quebecor in ‘no rush’ to get rid of 700MHz spectrum: Pruneau
telecom | 09/22/2016 10:26 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s chief financial officer Jean-François Pruneau said Thursday the company is content to wait to sell the 700 MHz spectrum it picked up in 2014 and...
CRTC skinny basic hearing ‘premature,’ telecoms say
Media | 09/06/2016 9:10 pm EDT
As the CRTC is set to look into the implementation of its skinny basic TV package rules by industry, telecoms are arguing the proceeding is largely premature, given that the commission’s skinny...
Bell’s Wholesale Code appeal, conditions of licence ask face stiff opposition
Media | 08/26/2016 9:14 pm EDT
BCE Inc. has “unclean hands” in its effort to have the Wholesale Code overturned by the federal Appeal Court while simultaneously applying to have removed certain conditions of...
CRTC allowing off-tariff GSM agreements, for now
telecom | 08/05/2016 8:50 pm EDT
The CRTC has determined that a hands-off approach to regulating roaming rates on GSM networks until it approves a final set of guidelines would not put smaller carriers in a negotiating disadvantage with larger ones. The regulator drew that conclusion in a decision on Friday, stating that negotiations on GSM roaming pricing are optional and if a smaller carrier does not agree with the terms, “ it can use a Commission-approved default tariff that contains rates, terms, and conditions that are just and reasonable.” In the meantime, “allowing off-tariff agreements...
Federal gov’t facing second legal battle over wireless wipeout
telecom | 08/05/2016 7:11 pm EDT
The Canadian government could end up fighting a war on two fronts over the previous government’s drive to have four national wireless carriers. According to a notice on the Global Affairs...
Hockey heartache helps push TVA Group to $5.7M loss
Media | 08/02/2016 5:12 pm EDT
A poor showing by the National Hockey League’s Montreal Canadiens helped to usher in a $5.7 million net loss for TVA Group Inc., the broadcasting and magazine publishing arm of Quebecor Inc. According to a report on...
Facebook, AT&T defend differential pricing in CRTC review
Media | 06/30/2016 8:23 pm EDT
Facebook Inc. and AT&T Inc. have waded into the CRTC’s review of differential pricing practices, arguing that the commission should allow carriers to offer zero-rated services...
Sports now make up 50% of top 10 grossing channels: CRTC
Media | 06/23/2016 10:02 pm EDT
Sportsnet One and TVA Sports are, for the first time, in the top 10 highest-grossing TV channels, according to the CRTC’s latest stats on Canadian programming—and of those top 10, five are...
Broadcast licence renewal hearing set for November
telecom | 06/16/2016 3:56 pm EDT
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...
CRTC ‘rebalances’ TV system funds; up to $90M available for local news
Media | 06/15/2016 10:44 pm EDT
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...
Club Illico announces 4K production
Media | 06/15/2016 4:56 pm EDT
Another Canadian company is joining the ultra-high-definition field, with Quebecor Inc. announcing its media division was producing its first 4K show. Videotron’s over-the-top (OTT) service Club Illico said in...
CRTC launches review of zero-rating, sponsored data
Media | 05/18/2016 9:32 pm EDT
Net neutrality advocates welcomed the CRTC’s launch of a new consultation on “differential pricing practices” for both wireline and wireless data plans Wednesday, a process that will see a public hearing kick off...
Big-box wireless customers ‘high risk’: study
telecom | 05/13/2016 8:43 pm EDT
Consumers who shop at big-box stores are more likely to purchase unlocked phones and are more likely to switch wireless providers, according to results of a study released Thursday. Half of the customers who buy phones from...
No charging after cancellation, CRTC reminds service providers
telecom | 05/05/2016 6:50 pm EDT
The CRTC issued a clarification Thursday reminding telecommunications service providers that they can’t charge for services once they’ve been cancelled. “Furthermore,...
Péladeau steps down as PQ leader
Media | 05/02/2016 7:46 pm EDT
Pierre Karl Péladeau announced Monday he is resigning as the leader of Quebec’s Parti Québécois, citing family reasons. Quebecor Inc. said in a press release following the announcement that it...
Koodo leads in customer-service satisfaction: study
telecom | 04/29/2016 5:02 pm EDT
Millennial wireless customers are pushing the trend to online, self-serve options for customer service, according to a new J.D. Power study released Thursday. Customer care contact via companies’ online tools such as...
TVA shuts down business channel
Media | 04/19/2016 6:57 pm EDT
TVA Group Inc., the broadcasting and magazine publishing division of Quebecor Inc., announced Tuesday its Argent channel, a business and financial specialty service, will go off the air as of April 30. TVA said in a press release...
Sugar Mobile model threatens facilities-based competition: Telus, Quebecor
telecom | 03/18/2016 8:47 pm EDT
Allowing Sugar Mobile to continue roaming on Rogers Communications Inc.’s network would be a “backdoor means” to mandated mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access, and “a recipe to destroy any appetite for facilities-based competition,” Telus Corp. said. The company waded into an ongoing dispute between Sugar Mobile — an affiliate of Ice Wireless, an Iristel Inc. subsidiary — and Rogers, in which final interventions were due...
CRTC tells Videotron it can drop Avis de recherche
Media | 03/03/2016 10:09 pm EST
The CRTC decided Thursday Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron no longer has to distribute ADR.TV, known as Avis de recherche, and that Videotron did not give itself an undue preference by dropping the channel while continuing to...
TVA Group posts Q4 revenue increase
Media | 03/01/2016 9:40 pm EST
TVA Group Inc., the broadcasting and magazine publishing arm of Quebecor Inc., reported a 147 per cent rise in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing in $16.8 million compared to $6.8 million during the same period a...
Shaw to keep Wind’s current strategy in place: exec
telecom | 02/09/2016 9:51 pm EST
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....
TVA, Bell Media take down illegal sports streaming website
Media | 02/05/2016 9:44 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA division and BCE Inc.’s media subsidiary have shut down a website that was pirating the TVA Sports and RDS sports channels. The companies said in a press release...
Videotron to stream 4K sports content
Media | 02/04/2016 10:53 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron announced Thursday it will be offering live sports in 4K quality to its Illico ultra-high-definition set-top-box customers. The company said in a press release that it will stream 12 games in total – four upcoming Ottawa Senators NHL games and eight Toronto Raptors NBA games. Videotron said in an email that these are the only games that will stream "for the moment," and will be produced by BCE Inc.’s TSN on channel 910. Videotron’s 4K set-top-box is priced at $399. In January, Rogers Communications...
CRTC says incumbents can’t change terms in interim roaming rates
telecom | 11/30/2015 8:55 pm EST
The CRTC has told Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Telus Corp. that the terms and conditions in interim tariffs the incumbents filed following the CRTC’s move in May to regulate some...
Videotron’s MAtv still violating licence conditions: complaint
Media | 11/17/2015 6:12 pm EST
A group that previously battled MAtv, the community channel operated by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, is telling the CRTC that MAtv is still violating the conditions of its licence months after a...
Quebecor reports big gains in mobile, OTT
Media | 11/05/2015 3:23 pm EST
Quebecor Inc.'s third-quarter financial report showed the company is seeing strong gains in the areas of mobile service and its over-the-top streaming service, Club Ilico. The company said in a press release Thursday that...
Rogers, Telus on opposing sides of zero-rated music case
Media | 10/15/2015 8:39 pm EDT
An undue-preference complaint against a music streaming service offered by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has Rogers Communications Inc. arguing that zero-rating the service is a net-neutrality...
Supreme Court denies Bell appeal against Quebecor
Media | 10/15/2015 8:13 pm EDT
The Supreme Court on Thursday denied BCE Inc.'s appeal of damages it was ordered to pay Quebecor Inc. subsidiaries for the hacking of Bell's satellite-TV service a decade or more ago and the lost revenue that resulted...
CRTC merges complaints against Videotron music service
Media | 09/28/2015 7:36 pm EDT
The CRTC has merged two complaints against a service by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron that exempts some music streaming services from counting against mobile customers’ data caps. Videotron...
Stingray launches 4K TV channel
Media | 09/22/2015 2:52 pm EDT
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has launched a channel that it says is the first in North America to offer around-the-clock 4K content. The Stingray Ambiance channel is available through TV service offered by Quebecor...
PIAC launches complaint against Videotron music service
Media | 09/01/2015 8:45 pm EDT
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is asking the CRTC to direct Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron to change the price structure of its new music service, which exempts data consumed through some...
Videotron to launch new music service
telecom | 08/25/2015 3:17 pm EDT
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron announced Tuesday it will be launching a new music service later this week. It said in a news release that a service called Unlimited Music will be “a Canadian first in mobile services,” adding that more information will be released at a press conference on Thursday. Last week, Videotron announced it was shutting down its Zik music-streaming service, citing a pattern of consolidation in global industry for online music....