Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge announced Monday the appointment of the advisory committee that will help develop policies regarding the future of CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding, governance, and mandate. Seven experts from various fields – four of which have...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Thursday. The Bloc Québécois continued its battle against integration in the House of Commons, while the Senate saw discussion about a lawsuit the Crown corporation filed against the Conservative party. During...
The Conservative Party launched attacks on CBC/Radio-Canada Wednesday after several days of the Bloc...
CBC/Radio-Canada has significantly reduced its financial shortfall and will...
Sylvain Lafrance has been appointed the new chair of Telefilm Canada, effective Thursday. His term will...
Monday the Bloc Québécois continued its assault on plans for CBC/Radio-Canada to merge some of its...
The Bloc Québécois has sounded the alarm after a report in La Presse that CBC/Radio-Canada is planning to merge some of its operations between English and French services....
A group of public interest broadcasters is getting more money from the...
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced Friday an...
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...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
The Bloc Québécois is calling for CBC/Radio-Canada to have its funding increased to avoid layoffs which it says is affecting the French side of the public broadcaster disproportionately. BQ heritage critic Martin Champoux raised the issue in Wednesday’s Question...
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 Bloc Québécois attacked Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada Thursday....
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...
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...
Blue Ant Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group Friends says CBC/Radio-Canada’s request that the CRTC amend its conditions of licence (COL) to exclude Olympic and Paralympic...
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 with Indigenous peoples from the 2022-2023 broadcast year until the 2023-2024 broadcast year. In an intervention from the National Campus and Community Radio...
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...
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...
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 clause-by-clause study of bill C-18, the Online News Act, on Friday morning. Committee chair Hedy Fry was scheduled to report the bill back to the chamber that afternoon. The final day went quickly. An...
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 Conservative leadership race, after three of the five candidates in the running said they want to defund the public broadcaster while the remaining two are calling for changes...
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
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...
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...
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 projects "to advance accessibility to broadcasting content for Canadians with disabilities," according to a Friday release. The announcement completes the fund's seventh round of grants, bringing...
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 sector after a preliminary study showed there was consensus among stakeholders that government...
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...
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...
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 mandate as a public service that fosters the development of Canadian programming, according to Public Interest Advocacy Centre general counsel John Lawford. Speaking to CRTC commissioners Tuesday as part of the regulator's public hearings into the renewal of the CBC's license, Lawford said that exhibition requirements for Canadian content and programs of national interest should first be met on...
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 days of the pandemic. "I know some Canadians were disappointed in us, and I'm very sorry about that," CBC's executive vice-president of radio and audio Susan Marjetti said about the March 19 decision, but explained that it was made with a view to preserving some level of local coverage early in the pandemic. Marjetti told CRTC vice-chair Caroline Simard that at...
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...
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...
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 partnering with the BIPOC TV & Film organization, which works to increase the representation of BIPOC individuals in on-camera and production roles. The initiative, known at HireBIPOC, bills itself as "the definitive and ubiquitous industry-wide roster of Canadian BIPOC creatives and crew" in Canada, and functions as a database of potential hires. According to a...
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 communications lawyers conference Thursday. The current 10-point system is “essentially an employment system that ensures that creative talent that works on shows is Canadian. It is not a culturally-based points system,” he said at the International Institute of Communications (IIC) conference,...
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...
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...
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 governments about their tax credit policies on film and television production in the provinces. The registrations, filed this month, seek to encourage the promotion, or maintenance of, tax benefits...