Amazon.com, Inc. is set to become the seventh member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) as the battle between major online streamers and the CRTC continues to play out in...
Rogers Communications Inc. is picking up BCE Inc.’s stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) — owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors sports...
With Parliament returning today, there are a handful of bills affecting the online world still before...
The Copyright Board of Canada announced Tuesday it is signing on to the...
Charlene Gavel could be considered a lifer at Saskatchewan...
As the CRTC reviews Google’s application for...
Patrick Smith has joined the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) as director of regulatory affairs. He will primarily be involved in developing policy and representing...
The CRTC has released the final conditions for contributions to be paid by online streamers to support...
Digital media saw an increase in revenues last year while conventional broadcasters experienced...
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...
Quebecor Inc. announced Monday that it has installed two new executives in...
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made slashing CBC/Radio-Canada’s...
Despite legislation introduced by the federal government meant to boost...
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 has agreed with CBC/Radio-Canada that it may exclude its spending...
Broadcasters that hold the rights to televise live...
Deceptive design practices – meant to influence the privacy decisions of...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) denounced a wave of recent legal challenges filed by Apple Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., and the Motion Picture Association-Canada...
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...
The CRTC on Tuesday announced it is initiating two consultations on making...
The Senate committee studying the Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11, officially completed its work after...
The Asian Television Network International Limited is asking the CRTC to authorize the “Mirror Now” channel for distribution as programming. The network, which says on its website that it...
An Alberta judge shot down a request from Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. for an injunction against Best Buy Canada Ltd., Staples Canada ULC, Canada Computers Inc., and London Drugs Limited as part of...
Professional networking platform LinkedIn will have its applications for a summary trial heard in the...
The panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and telecom acts received comments from a number of non-industry parties, such as provincial governments and police services, while some of the biggest online companies in the world, including Amazon.com Inc., did not submit...
The CRTC has approved the sale of Corus Entertainment Inc.’s stake in Telelatino Network Inc.,...
Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications legislation should be...
Both over-the-top services and broadcasters should be required to show a certain amount of Canadian feature films, the Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters is asking the panel...
Marco Dubé will take over the vice-president of people and culture position at CBC/Radio-Canada when...
Organizations representing Canadian publishers are flagging the difficulty of identifying Canadian content online to the panel in charge of reviewing the broadcasting and...
The real value of the funding CBC/Radio-Canada receives has slipped significantly due to inflation, the...
A group representing the Canadian community TV sector is asking the panel reviewing the broadcasting and...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has promoted Troy Reeb and Colin Bohm to its executive vice-president ranks,...
Netflix Inc. will expand its production presence in Canada by leasing space at two Toronto production...
Trish Williams is moving from Temple Street Productions to CBC/Radio-Canada, where she will be CBC’s new executive director of scripted content.
Starting this week, she...
Music in public establishments such as malls, bars and restaurants should...
OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s president Catherine Tait compared Netflix Inc.’s worldwide presence to...
A meeting with individuals leading the federal government’s review of...
The number of Canadians who consume their video content mostly through online platforms is catching up to the proportion of the population that mostly watches traditional TV, a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM) shows.
The report said 28 per cent of Canadians...
A new report using data from Statistics Canada says 44.5 per cent of Canadian households headed by...
As the new year begins, the months ahead promise a new spectrum auction, new CRTC announcements on...
Canada’s public broadcaster has hired Torstar Corp.’s Claude Galipeau as its executive vice-president of corporate development.
The chief revenue officer of Torstar will join CBC/Radio-Canada on Jan. 7, 2019, the...
The CRTC has dismissed an appeal by BCE Inc. and ordered it to pay...
A proposal by Corus Entertainment Inc. to shut down 44 television rebroadcasting transmitters in small rural markets hasn’t found support among intervenors, though content-production industry groups were opposed to the requested exemption to the CRTC’s tangible benefits...
OTTAWA -- Two of Canada’s largest telecoms and CBC/Radio-Canada told the Supreme Court on Monday that it’s “absurd” and “illogical” for a court to force them to ensure the safety of an...
The number of English-speaking adults in Canada subscribing to over-the-top streaming services continues...
OTTAWA — The Copyright Board will work to address long-standing criticism over how long it takes to issue decisions, including by implementing new regulations, CEO Nathalie Théberge told members of the House industry committee....
Ontario’s auditor general is raising concerns about a legal "loophole"...
The CRTC has approved a budget increase for a service that allows...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Telus Corp. and Shaw Communications Inc. say...
There’s a lack of consensus over who should help Canadians determine what...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Seeking to differentiate itself from other applicants,...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants members of Parliament to include a “flexible copyright exemption” for AI and machine learning copying in the Copyright Act, adding to a chorus of voices from digital companies calling on Parliament to address the issue....
GATINEAU, QUE. -- Rogers Communications Inc. is taking what it learned a year ago and is proposing to rectify what a previous CRTC panel said were shortcomings to run its national ethnic channel for a...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. is in negotiations with Rogers Communications...
OTTAWA — Canada’s elections commissioner said...
An expert in copyright law is asking senators to nix a reform measure in...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and its counterpart in Quebec are party to a “permanent working group” seeking to deal with the challenges wrought by artificial intelligence, it said following a conference held on the matter.
The working group on Ethics and...
Cogeco Inc. has a new senior vice-president of public affairs and communications, the telecom announced Tuesday, following the retirement of René Guimond.
Marie-Hélène Labrie will replace...
The French government will work with Facebook Inc. on a new initiative to...
TORONTO — Broadcasters should think about renting out their own studios...
The government should combine the Heritage and Innovation ministries, and...
Stingray Digital Group Inc.’s Stingray Business division, which provides background music and digital signage to businesses, is expanding in Europe.
It said Friday it has purchased Belgian company DJ-Matic, which also...
Blue Ant Media Inc. is acquiring Saloon Media, a Toronto production company “specializing in globally relevant factual television,” it said in a press release Thursday. Saloon Media’s shows include Mummies Alive and...
The CRTC has approved Cogeco Inc. to purchase 10 radio stations from RNC Media Inc., it said in a decision Thursday. “The Commission considers that the RNC stations integrated into Cogeco could...
Streaming video platforms in the European Union will have to ensure 30 per...
The Federal Court of Appeal said in a Monday decision that the CRTC lacks the jurisdiction to implement its Wholesale Code -- governing the business relationships between TV service providers and broadcasters -- though overturning the CRTC’s order enforcing the code may not have much practical effect. That’s because the CRTC has already embedded many of those provisions in broadcaster and TV providers’ licenses, according to Canadian Communication Systems Alliance (CCSA) CEO Jay Thomson. “While disappointing, the court’s decision should have very little, if any, practical...
OTTAWA — The expert panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s...
An e-petition concerning a Quebec man who allegedly kept operating an illegal radio station, despite being shut down by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) has gathered the...
Hélène Laurendeau will be the new deputy minister at Canadian Heritage, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Friday afternoon. Laurendeau is currently deputy minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, a...
Amazon.com Inc. is launching a DVR that will work with a digital antenna to...
The Canadian Network Operators’ Consortium (CNOC) told a House of Commons committee reviewing the Copyright Act that small internet service providers would like to see “some tweaking” to the notice-and-notice regime.
That includes limiting the content of the letters to “only contain the elements prescribed by statute,” said lawyer Chris Tacit, speaking on behalf of the organization Wednesday afternoon.
“This will prevent abuse by parties who use such...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it...
As cultural protection emerges as a last-stretch NAFTA sticking point,...
MONTREAL — As technological change accelerates, CBC/Radio-Canada has to keep pace, according to CEO Hubert Lacroix, who said Thursday “we can’t think of the...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)’s Toronto branch is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to “call on...
Heritage Canada’s announcement of an expert advisory panel for its review of Canadian content in a digital age, which includes representatives from a number of broadcasters, was met with both praise and...
A group of Quebec broadcasters say that unless accountability measures are put in place, the increased funding the federal government has slated for CBC/Radio-Canada will be a “blank...
Amazon.com Inc. has launched Amazon Video Direct, a new “self-service program” that will allow video creators to distribute their content to Amazon customers. The company said in a...
The CRTC said Monday it has approved the addition of Canal Q to its list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution. It said in the decision that the channel is “a 24-hour Portuguese-language niche service featuring entertainment programming,” originating from Portugal....
Sony Corp.’s Sony Pictures Television (SPT) said Monday it has named Phil King its new senior vice-president of distribution for Canada. “Based in Toronto, King will be responsible for managing and growing SPT’s distribution activity across Canada, leading all film, television and formats licensing...
In response to a question about the federal government’s position on a Quebec bill that would lead to the blocking of gambling websites, Heritage Minister Melanie Joly said “we believe in...
In the United States, mobile advertising revenues were up 66 per cent in 2015 compared to the previous financial year, totalling $20.7 billion US in 2015, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau....
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...
The CRTC has approved an application for a radio broadcasting licence in St. Catharines, Ont., while denying a licence for a developmental community station in Mississauga, Ont. The commission said in a decision on its website Wednesday that it approved an application by Sivanesarajah Kandiah for an English-language commercial AM station in St. Catharines, which would play classic hits from the past four decades. The decision said the CRTC “considers that the proposed AM station would serve to complement existing stations by offering an additional programming choice via the classic hit...
Steve Ladurantaye, head of news and government partnerships at Twitter Inc.’s Canadian division, will be the new managing editor of digital news at CBC/Radio-Canada. The move is effective May 9, Ladurantaye said in a...
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...
Next month, long-time Netflix Inc. subscribers will be notified of a price hike to their monthly bill, with subscriptions going from $7.99 per month to $9.99 per month, the company confirmed in an email Monday. The price...
When companies launched TV-everywhere products a few years ago, they did so as part of an effort to compete with then-new streaming services — but now that many of those same companies have...
A new report from Convergence Consulting Group Ltd. estimates 3.43 million Canadian households, or about 23.7 per cent, didn’t have a traditional TV subscription with a cable,...
CBC/Radio-Canada said in a press release Wednesday that Katherine Wolfgang will be its new head of publicity as of April 26. Wolfgang most recently worked as vice-president of marketing and communications at...
The CRTC said Tuesday it has approved the France 24 Arabic TV channel for distribution in Canada. The channel is an Arabic-language news service originating in France, it said. The regulator said in a separate...
The Competition Bureau has updated its Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines, as part of what it said in a Thursday press release would be an annual review. It said the updated guidelines clarify “the Bureau’s...
BCE Inc. said in a press release Friday it has begun allowing customers to buy ongoing access to on-demand movies. The Own with Bell service is available to its IPTV customers, who can access it through their on-demand menus. The first movie available will be Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which will cost $24.99, the release added....
