When asked who should be most responsible for monitoring the spread of fake news, the most common answer given was the CRTC.
A new survey from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, found that 33 per cent of online Canadian adults -- defined as...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told reporters Tuesday morning that there is a “crisis of trust” as he launched the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s annual report, citing polling showing that 90 per cent of Canadians are concerned about...
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is teaming up with an artificial intelligence platform that it hopes will produce insights, which would otherwise be missed, from a...
Defendants in a failed reverse class action certification motion brought by Voltage Pictures LLC are filing an appeal against part of the decision by the Federal Court to withhold legal fees they say...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will argue in Federal Court later this month...
The work of the chairwoman heading the review of the broadcasting and telecom acts turned out to be more time-consuming and complicated than the government initially planned for, according to a memo obtained through Access to...
BCE Inc.’s proposed acquisition of French-language Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V would exacerbate a “crisis” in local television and especially local news programming, would negatively impact competition, and “raise serious concerns about Bell’s...
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia...
Voltage Pictures LLC and Rogers Communications Inc. have both agreed to drop their appeal and cross-appeal, respectively, against a decision by the Federal Court to award the telecom costs to dig up personal information of alleged...
Facebook Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on “proposed...
OTTAWA — New Public Safety Minister Bill Blair indicated Wednesday he is...
A group representing independent broadcasters is telling the CRTC it should maintain the rules forcing BCE Inc. into a dispute resolution process over affiliation agreements for its FibeTV. The...
An Alberta court has sided with Corus Entertainment Inc. in banning the use...
Twitter Inc. has registered to lobby the federal government on its internet advertising policy, following the social media company’s ban on political ads on its platform globally. The registration, effective November 1, seeks...
In a precedent-setting decision, a Federal Court judge has ordered internet...
In a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic and foreign affairs teams, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 14 other organizations have told the American government that they are concerned about the prospect of a three-per-cent sales tax for some digital giants proposed by the Liberal Party during the election campaign. In the letter -- addressed to the secretaries of state, treasury, and commerce -- the Chamber of Commerce and the 14 trade associations write that they are “disappointed” in the Liberals’ proposals. The organizations that co-signed the letter include the...
The movie studio that has for years sought to sue...
The country’s largest TV service providers are appealing an increase in the over-the-air distant signal...
Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have all told the CRTC that if the regulator allows Corus Entertainment Inc. to shift some of its CanCon requirements from one broadcast year...
GATINEAU — Either Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. is an essential part of...
Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and chief revenue officer from Jean Mongeau.
In the move announced last week, Lizotte comes to the CBC after some 25 years in the private sector. Since 2005, Lizotte has...
Ahead of the CRTC’s wireless review early next year, and on the heels of...
The CRTC has granted a new broadcasting licence for an FM radio station in Saint-Raymond-de-Portneuf, Quebec. It said in the Friday decision an individual named Michael Lambert was the only party to express an interest in...
High demand among advertisers for premium content to be siloed in ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD)...
Despite Conservative leader Andrew Scheer indicating throughout this...
As the Canada Revenue Agency considers how to administer $595-million worth...
The Conservative Party has now specified its plan to make web giants “pay...
Federal party leaders agreed Thursday evening in the last debate of the...
Organizations that represent important stakeholders in the field of Canadian content are staying...
The CRTC is within its jurisdiction to order companies to keep carrying each other’s TV signals even in the middle of a dispute, Telus Corp. told Federal Court, but the company also argued BCE Inc. isn’t the right entity to defend such an argument. That’s why, late last month, Telus requested the Federal Court of Appeal give it intervenor status in the case Quebecor Inc.’s Groupe TVA has brought against Bell, which challenges the regulator’s jurisdiction to force the companies to...
In 2012, the CRTC released a broadcasting decision that required Sirius XM Holdings Inc. to allocate, as a condition of licence, 20 per cent of some of its revenues to an English-language music fund...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is asking the CRTC if the broadcaster can spend...
During the first French-language debate of the federal election campaign,...
Ontario public broadcaster TVO is losing its longtime leader, after Lisa de Wilde announced yesterday that she would be stepping down as the broadcaster’s CEO after 14 years in the job. In a statement she posted on Twitter,...
The CRTC Tuesday released the results of its summit on gender parity in the Canadian broadcasting world, featuring “action plans” documents from some of Canada’s largest broadcasters. BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Corus Entertainment Inc., Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group, and CBC/Radio-Canada, among others, have all released policy documents focused on increasing the amount of women they employ. The summit itself was held on December 18, 2018, and in March 2019 the CRTC...
The Liberal Party platform, released Sunday, includes promises of new regulations for Canadian content on...
According to a report out this week from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), one out of every seven Canadians has gotten rid of their paid traditional TV subscriptions. According to an MTM spokesperson, the one in seven figure --...
BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are arguing in...
BCE Inc. and Stingray Group Inc. have launched a targeted advertising platform that allows ads to be placed on their radio stations, audio streaming apps and podcasts. The companies said in a press...
In asking the Federal Court to deny certifying a class of defendants in a copyright infringement case, an advocacy group is arguing that an IP address is insufficient in proving an individual has...
Three weeks after announcing a new CEO with a background in developing family-based entertainment products, DHX Media Ltd. announced Monday -- alongside its 2019 fourth quarter results -- that it would rebrand as WildBrain and reorganize itself around family-entertainment. On August 30, the...
In the event Federal Court allows a site-blocking application brought by...
The CRTC is objecting to a document-collection request Quebecor Inc. is...
Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc.’s Super Channel held meetings with “totally surprised” representatives of Canadian telecoms in the weeks before it filed a Federal Court...
OTTAWA — On the second and final day of a potentially precedent-setting court hearing on site-blocking, a Federal Court judge gave the parties until Wednesday to negotiate a revised draft site...
Two local Quebec radio groups representing around 60 stations in the province are asking the provincial...
OTTAWA — Lawyers representing BCE Inc., Quebecor Inc.’s Groupe TVA, and Rogers Communications Inc. asked a Federal Court judge this morning for a court order that would force a number of internet...
Whatever the outcome of next month’s federal election, there will be no...
Even before the federal election campaign officially kicked off, telecom price caps already emerged as a proposal that, if implemented, would reverse a decades-long policy trend in Canada and diverge from international norms.
Even some of those who would welcome the idea...
The CRTC has served a web hosting provider with an order to produce a...
BCE Inc. has formally filed its appeal arguments challenging a CRTC decision that said a quarter of its Canadian content contributions toward two concerts were not eligible. In July, Bell filed...
Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal is lobbying both the Alberta and Ontario...
Quebecor Inc. announced in a release Tuesday that Patrick Jutras would take over as senior vice-president and chief advertising officer of Quebecor and its TVA Group subsidiary. Jutras was previously vice-president of digital...
DHX Media Ltd. announced Thursday night that Michael Donovan would step down as CEO of the Halifax-based...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is in talks with other telecom companies about...
Corus Entertainment Inc. registered to lobby the government to promote the eligibility of broadcasters for a new journalism tax initiative announced by the federal government late last year. The...
MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron unveiled its new Helix platform...
Counsel to Voltage Pictures LLC and a number of movie studios is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to review a case that found Rogers Communications Inc. is owed $67.23 to disclose the personal information of five IP addresses tied to alleged copyright infringement. The Federal Court earlier this month found that Rogers was entitled to $35 per hour to complete the disclosure requests ordered by the court, after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in September that internet service providers...
Canadian Heritage will leave in place a CRTC decision that gave Rogers Communications Inc. the sole license to have its ethnic channel OMNI required on basic TV packages. An order-in-council, dated August 17, said Heritage is...
Shueisha Inc., a Japanese publisher of comic books, has filed an...
Walt Disney Co. announced Monday that it would be launching its Disney+ streaming service in Canada on...
The Federal Court of Appeal has decided not to hear an appeal from Montreal-based Independent Community Television (ICTV) of a May CRTC decision which renewed a mandatory-carriage license for ethnic...
Quebecor Inc. filed its appeal Wednesday in the Federal Court of Appeal in Montreal asking to overturn an April CRTC decision involving its TVA Sports channel.
The company was granted leave to appeal back in June.
The April decision from the CRTC forced the company...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) has endorsed a number of petitions to the Governor in Council, joining the call for the government to send the CRTC’s June decision granting a mandatory...
The federal government last week announced that it would pour $14.6 million...
The CRTC wants to know more about the potential for the Canadian...
The Federal Court is setting at $35 the hourly rate that Rogers...
Alyson Walker, vice-president of brand partnerships and client strategy at BCE Inc.’s media division,...
The Canadian Media Fund has announced it is hiring former Heritage Canada strategist Kelly Wilhelm to a newly created role of chief strategy officer. According to a release, Wilhelm will be “tasked with contributing to setting the future trajectory of the CMF, with a specific focus on...
Just as it allowed Corus Entertainment Inc. to do last month, the CRTC has given approval to BCE Inc. to...
Heritage Canada has commissioned seven working groups that are looking at...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division has appointed Jordan Banks as president, effective September 9, according to a Monday press release. Banks will replace Rick Brace, who was president since 2015 and will retire from Rogers at the end of this year. “Banks’s mandate will include overseeing the current $2 billion Rogers Media business across Sportsnet, Citytv, OMNI Television, Radio, the Toronto Blue Jays and TSC, with a focus on driving growth across sports and local in a digital world,” the release said. Banks has more than 20 years of experience in media, sports and tech, according to the release. He was previously at Facebook Inc. and its subsidiary Instagram, where he was managing director for seven years. Prior to that he was CEO of JumpTV for a year and...
Ahead of its renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences, the...
Rogers Communications Inc. has filed a response in a court case challenging...
Quebecor Inc. CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau is vowing to oppose BCE Inc.’s acquisition of a French-language...
BCE Inc. will purchase Groupe V Media Inc.’s conventional TV network V, Bell said in a press release Wednesday. The deal, which must still be approved by the CRTC, also includes “related digital assets including the...
Three of the nation’s largest broadcasters are suing the owners of a service that is allegedly selling live TV service packages and on-demand content without a licence or authorization.
Quebecor Inc.’s Groupe TVA Inc., BCE Inc., and Rogers Communications Inc. are...
As facial recognition becomes increasingly accessible to police and other...
Despite being “saddened” by the exit of one of its members, the panel reviewing Canada’s communications laws said it was forging ahead with its final recommendations, due in January 2020. Hank Intven, a lawyer and...
The CRTC has approved an acquisition by Stingray Group Inc. of the radio station CHOO-FM in Drumheller,...
The average Canadian household spent $233 a month on communication services in 2017, a $10.17 or 4.6 per cent increase from a year earlier, according to data from Statistics Canada released late last...
BCE Inc.’s media division is asking the Federal Court of Appeal to look...
Cogeco Inc. will launch its new IPTV service in its entire Canadian footprint by the end of the calendar...
Artificial intelligence technology allowing videos to be seamlessly...
The CRTC has filled the last of its open commissioner slots, as Yukon lawyer Claire Anderson has been named to the vacant seat representing British Columbia and the Yukon. Anderson, who practices law at the Whitehorse firm...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will challenge a recent CRTC decision ordering it to turn over information collected from TV set-top boxes to a working group. The CRTC issued that decision earlier this week, after Videotron walked away from the group in April. The working group was set up in the wake of the 2014 Let’s Talk TV hearings, and will collect viewership data in order to help broadcasters better plan their programming and advertisers to better plan their spending. The deadline for the system to be implemented is Jan. 15, 2020. Videotron said in a press release Friday that it...
The independence of the panel that will determine which print news...
The CRTC has ruled that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron must continue to participate in an industry-wide working group charged with creating a set-top box (STB) data measurement system. In April, Videotron walked away from the group, saying it didn’t want to provide any of its data to the STB working group. In an April letter to the CRTC, Shaw...
The CRTC has released digital media revenue and expense information compiled from the twenty private broadcasters. Digital media services collectively amassed more than $412 million in revenue for...
The imminent departure of BCE Inc. CEO George Cope, announced Friday...
Executives at Corus Entertainment Inc., historically proud of not being in the sports content business, admitted on Wednesday that the Toronto Raptors’ NBA finals route...
Music Canada, the trade organization which represents the Canadian divisions of some of the world’s largest record labels, has declared that the gap between what artists create and what they are...
Ending several months of uncertainty and speculations, Twitter Inc. has declared that it will join Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in not selling any political advertisements in Canada in the...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said in a social media post Wednesday that the Liberal government plans...
The blue ribbon panel in charge of reviewing Canada’s communications legislation has released its...
Two media groups have filed formal petitions to the Governor in Council, asking the government to...
Long-standing Quebecor Inc. executive Serge Sasseville has announced he will retire from his position as...
A bill aimed at improving children’s health by limiting the advertising of unhealthy foods to them,...
New data released by the CRTC Thursday shows the industry-wide trend of tumbling broadcast sector revenue...
The CRTC has begun the process of replacing its three-decade-old Indigenous broadcasting policy. “Since then, the broadcasting environment in Canada has experienced significant changes,” the regulator said in a notice Thursday. It said it would “co-develop a new framework for Indigenous broadcasting in Canada with Indigenous peoples. "The process will enable all of us to better understand what these broadcasting needs are, now and in the future, for both traditional and digital services," the notice said. To do that, the CRTC is introducing a new procedure with three phrases...
