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CCTS reports surge in Rogers, Bell, and Telus complaints
telecom | 04/25/2024 9:38 am EDT
Customer complaints against telecom and TV service providers surged by 43 per cent between Aug. 1, 2023 and Jan. 31, 2024, according to the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services’ (CCTS) most recent mid-year report.
The report, released Thursday,...
WildBrain appoints Mark Trachuk as general counsel
Media | 04/22/2024 12:29 pm EDT
Toronto entertainment company WildBrain Ltd. has named Mark Trachuk as its general counsel. He will also serve as corporate secretary to the board of directors. He succeeds James Bishop, who has left the firm.
Trachuk arrives from Norton Rose Fulbright, a global law firm....
Corus still waiting for regulatory relief from CRTC as revenues continue to fall in Q2
Media | 04/15/2024 6:40 pm EDT
As it reported further declines in revenue for the...
Bell failed to give feds advance notice of layoffs, defends cuts in committee testimony
Media | 04/12/2024 9:07 pm EDT
BCE Inc. did not give the federal government...
Broadcasters oppose AMI’s proposed mandatory carriage rate increase
Media | 04/10/2024 6:49 pm EDT
Major broadcasters are opposed to Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) request...
CRTC sets final conditions of service on three broadcast licence holders
Media | 04/05/2024 6:12 pm EDT
The CRTC issued a series of decisions providing addenda to...
Accessible Media seeks to increase rates for mandatory carriage
Media | 03/05/2024 5:49 pm EST
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an interim rate increase for its AMI-tv and AMI-télé channels to address the financial challenges facing the organization, which predominantly serves Canadians with disabilities.
AMI's application...
Demographic data provides solid evidence for diversity and inclusion, conference told
Internet and Governance | 02/01/2024 8:12 pm EST
OTTAWA–Demographic reporting is essential if we...
Attacks on CBC are concerning, says CMPA president at Prime Time conference
Media | 02/01/2024 12:35 pm EST
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
Tait won’t rule out bonus pay for CBC’s top brass despite job cuts
Media | 01/30/2024 6:42 pm EST
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
Corus restructures content leadership team
Media | 01/29/2024 3:40 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday its plans to restructure its original content leadership team...
BQ media fund idea won’t solve problems, St-Onge maintains
Media | 11/27/2023 5:31 pm EST
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...
APTN says funds needed to support public service broadcasters
Internet and Governance | 11/27/2023 4:56 pm EST
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) on Friday called for the...
Bell lays out contribution framework proposal at CRTC
Internet and Governance | 11/22/2023 9:13 am EST
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
Bell and Fox forge alliance to boost original CanCon
Media | 10/27/2023 3:51 pm EDT
BCE Inc. and Fox Entertainment Global have unveiled a strategic licensing and distribution partnership,...
WGC report finds gains in member diversity but stagnant work opportunities
Media | 10/25/2023 5:02 pm EDT
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) published a comprehensive report on diversity, equity, and inclusion (EDI) in the Canadian television industry, revealing both significant...
CRTC to hold proceedings on Fox News carriage in Canada
Media | 09/20/2023 4:19 pm EDT
The CRTC will review the carriage of Fox News as a non-Canadian programming...
“WildBrain can’t have their cake and eat it to,” Bell tells CRTC in undue preference dispute
Media | 09/14/2023 6:10 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
No financial justification to increase skinny basic rate from $25 to $28: CRTC
Media | 09/05/2023 3:40 pm EDT
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
CRTC changes ad rules for discretionary services
Media | 09/05/2023 3:34 pm EDT
The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...
TVO workers on strike with no talks looming
Media | 08/24/2023 4:12 pm EDT
Unionized workers at TVOntario walked off the job on Monday, marking the first strike the public broadcaster has experienced. A total of 74 people, both on-air and off-air personnel, are on the picket lines. The employees have been without a contract since last October....
CRTC directed to include modified U.S. home shopping programs as authorized foreign programming services
Media | 08/16/2023 6:03 pm EDT
The CRTC is being directed to include modified...
Blue Ant and marblemedia announce merger
Media | 08/10/2023 4:26 pm EDT
Blue Ant Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...
WildBrain says Bell is giving one up to its competitor Corus
Media | 08/09/2023 5:33 pm EDT
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations...
CBC request to alter CPE, PNI, expenditures is result of licence renewal flaw: Friends
Media | 08/01/2023 6:35 pm EDT
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
Rogers’s proposal to expand PNI categories requires larger public consultation: CMPA
Media | 07/20/2023 4:36 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change...
FRPC, PIAC, demand CRTC handle consolidated broadcasting proceeding request as Part 1
Media | 07/11/2023 3:35 pm EDT
The Forum for Research and Policy in...
CRTC entertaining idea of consolidating multiple broadcasting COL requests
Media | 07/10/2023 4:15 pm EDT
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several...
APTN to increase Indigenous-language programming with new ‘Languages’ channel
Media | 07/04/2023 2:35 pm EDT
APTN has applied to the CRTC to consolidate its four channels into two, one...
ILNF recipients want Corus excluded from the pot until CRTC conducts wider policy review
Media | 06/29/2023 4:27 pm EDT
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...
TVA changes mind about cutting weekend newscasts
Media | 06/21/2023 8:54 am EDT
Quebecor Inc. has reversed itself and will not be suspending TVA’s newscasts in Quebec City on weekends...
Catherine Tait reappointed as president of CBC/Radio-Canada
Media | 06/01/2023 5:04 pm EDT
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
Federal Court dings hotel rebroadcasters for copyright infringement against Quebecor
Media | 05/30/2023 7:38 am EDT
Quebecor Inc. has won a copyright infringement case against a trio of...
Parliamentary committee calls for China TV ban
Media | 05/19/2023 2:11 pm EDT
A House of Commons committee is calling for the Minister of Canadian Heritage to ban Chinese state media...
Judge rejects broadcasters’ request for increased fine in set-top box case
Media | 05/19/2023 2:05 pm EDT
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., and Quebecor Inc. to win a greater damages payout from a seller of pre-loaded...
CRTC becoming more accommodating to stakeholders: Eatrides
Internet and Governance | 05/15/2023 2:34 pm EDT
OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its...
CRTC opens Part 1 into the removal of Fox News from Canadian distribution at request of LGBTQ rights group
Media | 05/03/2023 4:57 pm EDT
A Part 1 application has officially been opened...
Public interest groups call for shored up Broadcasting Participation Fund
Media | 04/17/2023 5:08 pm EDT
A group of six consumer and public advocacy organizations is asking the CRTC to step in to restructure a Rogers Communications Inc. payment to...
CRTC denies final arbitration request in hotel broadcaster’s dispute with Quebecor
Media | 03/27/2023 4:03 pm EDT
The CRTC won’t force Quebecor Inc. into final...
CRTC issues broadcasting licence fees
Media | 03/22/2023 1:03 pm EDT
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...
Champagne most lobbied minister in Canadian government, survey finds
Media | 03/22/2023 12:56 pm EDT
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne was the most-lobbied...
CRTC releases pair of broadcasting reports that paint dire picture
Media | 03/03/2023 6:04 pm EST
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
CBC and CTV lose leave to appeal BC case to Supreme Court
Media | 03/02/2023 11:06 am EST
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...
BDUs raising TV rates for customers not covered by small basic rate is irrelevant: Bell
Media | 03/01/2023 6:12 pm EST
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is irrelevant to consider whether a broadcasting distribution undertaking (BDU) might raise rates for customers who are not covered by...
Masse calls for CRTC review of cross-border advertising
Media | 02/27/2023 3:08 pm EST
A New Democrat representing a border city wants the CRTC to review...
CRTC reopens basic television price hike proceeding
Media | 02/21/2023 5:25 pm EST
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
CRTC to release broadcaster revenue data, aggregated by industry segment
Media | 02/16/2023 4:43 pm EST
The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual...
Senators continue fight over Streaming Act and CBC’s future
Media | 02/08/2023 1:22 pm EST
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11,...
Unscripted series the wave of the future for streamers, CMPA conference hears
Media | 02/06/2023 1:31 pm EST
OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian Media Producers Association with tweaks to the way content is produced. The Prime Time conference held a...
CBC’s Tait says IP ownership has to remain front and centre of CanCon rules; Amazon disagrees
Media | 02/03/2023 5:14 pm EST
OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has...
UPDATED: Senate passes C-11; Rodriguez expects C-11 to become law next week
Media | 02/02/2023 7:17 pm EST
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
Business Development Bank of Canada announces $30M, partnership with Telefilm, for Canadian cultural sector
Media | 02/02/2023 3:59 pm EST
OTTAWA — The Business Development Bank of Canada...
CRTC vice-chair broadcasting prioritizing public policy goals over financial implications of C-11
Media | 01/24/2023 6:19 pm EST
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
Corus still feeling effects of advertising recession
Media | 01/13/2023 5:43 pm EST
Corus Entertainment Inc. president and CEO Doug Murphy said an “advertising recession” is the cause...
Quebec hotel company keeps exempt BDU status, despite protests of Quebecor and Bell
Media | 01/04/2023 4:47 pm EST
The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de...
Increase to skinny basic rates not popular with public, CRTC hears
Media | 12/13/2022 6:15 pm EST
An application by four companies to hike the price of basic television...
CBC to stay in Bill C-18
Media | 12/06/2022 6:29 pm EST
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...
Consultation will be held for exemption under Bill C-18, committee votes down amendment to force negotiation with all outlets
Media | 11/25/2022 4:56 pm EST
The committee studying the Online News Act unanimously voted to include a clause in Bill C-18 that would ensure that the CRTC can hold public consultations regarding...
Senate won’t define discoverability in Online Streaming Act definitions
Media | 11/24/2022 5:11 pm EST
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...
Hockey broadcasters win fresh site-blocking order
Media | 11/23/2022 7:43 am EST
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
Rodriguez urges senators to pass Online Streaming Act
Media | 11/22/2022 8:17 pm EST
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the...
CRTC extends deadline in Quebecor advertising application
Media | 11/15/2022 5:14 pm EST
The CRTC has extended the deadline for interventions on a consultation...
PIAC wins partial victory as CRTC extends basic skinny proceeding
Media | 10/27/2022 3:11 pm EDT
The CRTC announced Thursday it was extending the deadline for interventions of its proceedings into the price of basic television service. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
Streamers should be obliged to sell cable integration apps to small BDUs: CCSA
Media | 10/27/2022 11:35 am EDT
The organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and...
C-11 allows Canadian cultural sector to avoid becoming “service industry”: Canada Media Fund
Media | 10/25/2022 4:03 pm EDT
Whether or not enough content is produced in...
Bell granted World Cup site-blocking order; broadcasters seek NHL piracy blocking renewal
Media | 10/24/2022 5:07 pm EDT
The emerging ad-hoc regime of site-blocking in...
Corus partially blames advertising recession, CRTC required programming expenditures, for fourth-quarter losses
Media | 10/21/2022 7:18 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc. revealed a $367.1 million...
Thomas makes heritage critic, Perkins moves to industry in CPC shadow cabinet shuffle
Media | 10/12/2022 2:51 pm EDT
New Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre...
CRTC seeking comment about removal of advertising limits
Media | 10/06/2022 2:14 pm EDT
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether or not it should allow Quebecor...
Netflix and MPA-Canada want C-11 to be flexible for global undertakings
Media | 10/04/2022 5:14 pm EDT
Netflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...
CBC licence renewal sent back to CRTC for not meeting objective of Broadcasting Act
Media | 09/22/2022 5:28 pm EDT
The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...
Broadcasters want policy direction on C-11; streamers want their algorithms left alone
Media | 09/15/2022 7:51 pm EDT
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies both big and small, told Senators studying the government’s efforts to update the Broadcasting Act that they would like to...
Former commissioner laughs at idea that CRTC is capable of handling C-11; PIAC advocates for static discoverability
Media | 09/15/2022 1:22 pm EDT
The idea that the CRTC is capable of handling the...
CRTC to arbitrate Rogers dispute over Family Channel
Media | 09/08/2022 4:50 pm EDT
In a Sept. 6 letter, the CRTC has accepted a request from Rogers Communications Inc. for final offer...
CRTC proceeds with Bell complaint against Videotron despite “abusive timing” of application
Media | 09/02/2022 5:29 pm EDT
The CRTC has opened a Part 1 proceeding after BCE...
Senator hopes ‘nonpartisan’ committee study of C-11 will clear up ‘misinformation’ around Online Streaming Act
Internet and Governance | 08/30/2022 5:34 pm EDT
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online...
TV revenues recover while radio continues decline: CRTC report
Media | 08/23/2022 5:03 pm EDT
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...
OUTtv licence renewed, becomes must-offer in English Canada
Media | 08/18/2022 5:05 pm EDT
Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years...
In petitions to GiC, broadcasting stakeholders upset of lack of local news requirements for CBC
telecom | 08/12/2022 5:06 pm EDT
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
AG won’t fight CMPA’s application for leave to appeal CBC license
Media | 08/11/2022 3:22 pm EDT
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...
OneSoccer demands carriage on Rogers
telecom | 08/10/2022 4:22 pm EDT
An independent soccer channel is petitioning the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to carry its...
CMPA files petition to cabinet on CBC license
Media | 08/08/2022 6:57 pm EDT
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
PIAC, pensioners want cabinet to overturn CRTC’s CBC licence renewal
Media | 08/05/2022 3:45 pm EDT
The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...
Bell, Rogers and TV creators triumph over pirates
Media | 08/03/2022 5:25 pm EDT
A consortium of broadcasters and rights-holders have won an opening salvo of a fight against a television...
Quebecor’s acquisition of VMedia exciting for competition says co-founder, CNOC
Media | 07/28/2022 5:38 pm EDT
VMedia Inc. can expand its national footprint with...
Quebec hotel company asks CRTC to mandate negotiations with Bell
Media | 07/11/2022 5:43 pm EDT
A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC to order BCE Inc. to enter into good faith negotiations with the company regarding the terms of distribution of Réseau des sports (RDS) and its other discretionary services, claiming that the...
Court finds Videotron did not violate Rovi patents
Media | 06/27/2022 4:26 pm EDT
The Federal Court dismissed a digital entertainment company’s lawsuit alleging that Quebecor Inc.’s...
C-11 heads to Senate, over Conservative objections, after passing third reading in the House of Commons
Media | 06/21/2022 6:15 pm EDT
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...
Punish hotel broadcaster who infringed on copyright: Bell tells CRTC
Media | 06/07/2022 3:31 pm EDT
BCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke...
C-11 needs to incentivize a new era of foreign-domestic partnerships: Bell
Media | 06/02/2022 2:54 pm EDT
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair
Media | 06/01/2022 6:01 pm EDT
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday that Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, is needed to modernize Canada’s broadcast sector. The Broadcasting Act from 1991 did a lot of good but stands out as a product of its time, he said.
“I...
C-11 will “hang over the system until Supreme Court has spoken” over jurisdiction: Palmer
Media | 05/31/2022 6:29 pm EDT
A former senior general counsel at the Department...
CRTC dismisses Bell complaint that Videotron Vrai HVOD service violates regulations
Media | 05/30/2022 4:53 pm EDT
The CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its...
Quebecor asks CRTC to punish hotel broadcasters
Media | 05/06/2022 2:53 pm EDT
In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...
Rogers-Shaw merger benefiting wireless industry as a whole in 2022: Bell CEO
Media | 05/05/2022 4:35 pm EDT
When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...
Quebec and French Canadian artists will be the losers if social media is unregulated, conference hears
Media | 05/04/2022 6:15 pm EDT
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
CPAC appoints new president, CEO
Media | 04/29/2022 1:02 pm EDT
The Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) named Christa Dickenson as its president and chief executive...
Singh calls for halt of Rogers-Shaw merger, PIAC appeals to cabinet
Media | 04/27/2022 4:38 pm EDT
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...
Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.
Media | 04/08/2022 5:01 pm EDT
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
Panelists tell government to reform the CRTC
Media | 03/30/2022 7:14 pm EDT
GATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Wireless Internet Service Providers (CanWISP). Many questioned the current mandate of the regulator and others criticized it for being slow and...