Blue Ant Media is promoting three staff members to new ranks.
Jamie Schouela is the production studio’s new chief operating officer, while Carlyn Staudt has become...
While Toronto-based DHX Television Ltd., which operates WildBrain Television, has accused Rogers Communications Inc. of giving preferential treatment to its competitors in...
The CRTC has approved the sale of 21 radio stations previously owned by BCE...
Toronto-based DHX Television Ltd., which operates WildBrain Television, is...
Wildbrain Ltd. has named Emma Witkowski to the new role of vice present of...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) has submitted a proposal to...
The CRTC is asking for comments on a proposal for a temporary fund aimed at supporting news programming by commercial radio broadcasters outside of major markets.
The...
The final replies to the CRTC’s review of the independent local news fund (ILNF) offer a wide range of...
Netflix Inc. is pulling its financial support of programs in the Canadian...
Amazon.com, Inc. is set to become the seventh member of the Motion Picture...
Rogers Communications Inc. is picking up BCE Inc.’s stake in Maple Leaf...
With Parliament returning today, there are a handful of bills affecting the online world still before...
Telus Corp. wants to see an unredacted version of Corus Entertainment...
As the CRTC reviews Google’s application for...
Patrick Smith has joined the Canadian Media...
The CRTC has released the final conditions for contributions to be paid by online streamers to support domestic content producers for the upcoming broadcast year.
The regulator held consultations with interested parties after releasing its initial policy in June. The...
Digital media saw an increase in revenues last year while conventional broadcasters experienced...
Rogers Communications Inc. and an independent programming company locked in...
While providing closed captioning on all programming for the deaf and hard...
The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld two lower court rulings that found...
As a lockout between Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and its unionized employees in Gatineau approaches its tenth month, a resolution might be in sight.
What union leaders...
Quebecor Inc. announced Monday that it has installed two new executives in...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants the Federal Court of Appeal to set aside a...
Strong results from its media division gave Quebecor Inc. a robust second quarter, the company reported...
Profits at Stingray Group Inc. took a dive in the first quarter of fiscal...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
Despite legislation introduced by the federal government meant to boost...
A federal MP and a member of the Ontario legislature from Kingston, Ont. have sent a joint letter to...
Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc., also known as...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported a successful second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year. Although the company’s cable segment struggled, its wireless and media divisions saw notable growth compared to the previous year.
Wednesday, the Toronto-based company announced its...
More sports leagues have been added to the list of game live streams...
The CRTC said Tuesday it is “prepared” to reconsider the eligibility...
The CRTC has agreed with CBC/Radio-Canada that it may exclude its spending...
An online TV streamer has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay a...
Canadian broadcasters and telecoms reported experiencing mixed effects from a global outage on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows platforms Friday morning.
Third-party cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said it issued a faulty software update, causing blue screens worldwide for...
Blue Ant Media Inc. is calling on the CRTC to lighten its CanCon spending obligations, blaming its...
Broadcasters that hold the rights to televise live...
Corus Entertainment Inc. expects to have cut a quarter of its full-time...
Broadcasting arbitrator Monica Song released the latest paid time political...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB)...
The CRTC is considering broadening the scope of the Broadcasting...
Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
The Wire Report welcomes former reporter Hannah Daley back as its new editor. Originally from New Brunswick, Daley studied journalism at King’s College in Halifax, and worked for online business news publication...
BCE Inc. has filed for an injunction to stop the launch of Discovery channels in Canada following a deal between Rogers Communications Inc. and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.
Rogers announced earlier this month that it had signed a deal that would see it take the Canadian...
The CRTC has kicked off what could be the final hurdle for Google to be...
The CRTC on Tuesday announced it is initiating two consultations on making...
Stingray Group Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. both announced new offerings of free, ad-supported...
The Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to quash the CRTC’s decision to grant regulatory relief to Corus Entertainment Inc.,...
A Toronto law firm is launching a class action suit against SiriusXM Radio...
The Competition Bureau has approved BCE Inc.’s acquisition of Outfront...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Monday that it had signed deals to bring programming from Warner...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has chosen the collective responsible for...
An Ontario senator is wondering why the Department of Canadian Heritage is looking at the future of...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Thursday it would offer...
Sirius XM Canada Inc. agreed to pay a $3.3 million penalty to the...
Stingray Group Inc. unveiled its financial results for the fourth quarter...
Online streaming services generating over $25 million in annual Canadian revenues will be required to pay five per cent of those revenues to support domestic content, the CRTC...
Conservative senator Leo Housakos continued his party’s attacks on CBC/Radio-Canada during the...
Éric Forest of the Independent Senators Group took to the floor of the Red...
The CRTC is asking for comments on its proposed Cost Recovery Regulations...
The CRTC is stepping in to resolve a dispute between BCE Inc. and Quebecor...
The CRTC has approved a request from APTN to consolidate its four channels into two and increase the mandatory carriage fee it charges broadcasters.
The regulator announced its decision on Tuesday, granting APTN permission to operate two channels, one with English- and...
The CRTC approved amendments to Corus Entertainment Inc.'s broadcasting...
Kids and family entertainment company Wildbrain Ltd. released the financial results for its third quarter...
CBC/Radio-Canada continued to come under fire in Parliament Thursday. The...
Quebecor Inc. reported a robust increase in revenues and profits for the first quarter of 2024, driven...
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....
BCE Inc. issued its first quarter 2024 results Thursday morning and...
The Miracle Channel Association (MCA) has been granted a licence for a...
Canada’s oldest public broadcaster is in a funding crunch but listeners...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Thursday that it is entering into an...
BCE Inc. announced Thursday that it is launching seven English and three French free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels. The services are available immediately on LG Channels and will be popping up on Samsung TV Plus later this quarter. Further channels and...
Following the release of its first quarter results of 2024, Rogers...
Toronto entertainment company WildBrain Ltd. has named Mark Trachuk as its general counsel. He will also...
A group of public interest broadcasters is getting more money from the...
As it reported further declines in revenue for the...
BCE Inc. did not give the federal government...
Major broadcasters are opposed to Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) request...
A member of the Progressive Senators Group is calling on the federal...
Advertising on foreign digital media like Meta...
The CRTC issued a series of decisions providing addenda to previously-issued licences on Friday. All three decisions involved final conditions of service for broadcasters....
In the wake of recent controversy surrounding BCE Inc.’s restructuring...
Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink announced Tuesday that it is introducing a video streaming...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments as part of Phase 2 of the...
After months of consultations, the CRTC has issued its Broadcasting Fees Regulations for all broadcasting...
The recent history of Rogers Communications Inc. has had more drama than anything broadcast on its CityTV network. The company poached its CEO Joe Natale from Telus Corp. only to ultimately dismiss him. It battled the Competition Bureau in order to be allowed to take over Shaw Communications. Then there was the internecine squabble between chair Edward Rogers and his...
Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, called on BCE Inc. to answer for its recent layoff...
The CRTC is issuing a call for applications from interested parties wishing...
The CRTC has decided to look at whether the town of Yellowknife, NWT can support another FM radio...
The Indigenous Screen Office (ISO) will receive permanent government funding to support Indigenous-led...
BCE Inc. is the subject of a Part 1 application before the CRTC over access...
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an...
The Wire Report, the leading news source covering telecom, digital communications and broadcast media in Canada, is searching for an editor to join our Ottawa office.
The Wire Report is part of The Hill Times Canada’s leading...
The Superior Court of Quebec has dismissed a request from RNC Media Inc. to...
Quebecor Inc. subsidiary Groupe TVA has reached an agreement with CUPE local 687, which represents workers in Montreal, Quebec City and local stations across Quebec. The parties announced the pact on Saturday.
Bargaining began in December of last year and was conducted...
