Corus Entertainment Inc.’s chief operating officer, Barbara Williams, will retire at the end of this month.
The company said in a press release Wednesday that it won’t be appointing anyone to replace her in the role, since Williams has “led and developed a strong...
GATINEAU — Consumer protection and seniors advocacy groups told the CRTC Tuesday Canada needs new rules for the telecom industry to deal with aggressive and misleading sales practices, and that seniors are frequently targeted by pushy salespeople.
One...
Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations for Alphabet...
The Canadian Communications Systems Alliance (CCSA) is asking the Senate...
Stingray Digital Group Inc.’s move to enter the Canadian radio market has...
GATINEAU— CRTC Chairman Ian Scott opened public...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s wild ride through the unpredictable TV ad market is expected to become more stable as its long-term strategy sets in, its CEO Doug Murphy said...
A new report from the Angus Reid Institute indicates that the cost of services is the main driver behind...
OTTAWA -- BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are asking the House heritage committee to amend parts of the copyright and telecommunications acts to compel a number of intermediaries to take down websites that make available...
Steve Ladurantaye is leaving CBC/Radio-Canada after two and a half years at...
Canada has been “pushing hard” to speed up development of a plan for...
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...
While services like Perform Group’s Dazn and Rogers Communications Inc.’s Sportsnet Now have been emerging in recent years, they “haven’t yet caught on in the Anglophone market,” Media...
CBC/Radio-Canada saw a nearly six per cent boost in its total ad revenue...
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 benefit from economies of scale and Cogeco’s resources to maximize advertising revenues, which would contribute to the financial viability of these stations,” the regulator said. The $18.5 million deal will double Cogeco’s stable of radio stations, with the company picking up new stations in Quebec’s Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Abitibi-Témiscamingue regions, as well as in Lachute,...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) said it is gathering more information about whether the personal information of Canadians was implicated in a leak involving an Alphabet Inc. social network. “Google has contacted...
Blue Ant Media Inc. has named Julie Chang its new vice-president of...
A multi-million dollar class action claim has been filed in Ontario Superior Court against television content producer Cineflix Media Inc. and its affiliates, claiming workers were denied minimum...
A new online radio service from Quebecor Inc. indicates the company is...
Streaming video platforms in the European Union will have to ensure 30 per cent of their catalogues are made up of European content, according to new preliminary rules...
OTTAWA — Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to see the Copyright Board of Canada tariff setting process...
OTTAWA — Two senators on the Senate transport and communications...
Nearly a dozen content producers have obtained a court order banning set-top box software developed by an individual in Canada that allows users to watch their content for free, according to court...
Internet traffic is “more encrypted than ever,” with a “conservative estimate” suggesting more than half of all internet traffic is encrypted, according to Sandvine Corp.’s 2018 Global...
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...
OTTAWA -- There is an “urgent need” for Canadian lawmakers to set out a new communications framework now that Canada has hammered out a new trilateral agreement on trade to replace the North...
The CRTC has no jurisdiction to implement a system to block websites...
OTTAWA -- Fraudulent copyright infringement claims made through Canada’s...
The new trade pact forged by Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) holds onto a key exemption for Canada’s cultural industries but contains a range of revisions to intellectual property, digital trade and broadcasting...
The CRTC has opened up a comment period after it received applications from Vista Radio Ltd. for two new commercial radio stations in North Bay and Timmins, Ont. Vista radio currently operates 41...
Netflix Inc. says it’s “on track to exceed” its $500 million pledge...
Some of the battles taking place before the CRTC related to site-blocking...
Quebecor Inc. is urging Quebec political parties to pledge that they’ll keep a provincial film and TV tax credit and support the province’s film industry, the company said in a press release...
The Competition Bureau is calling for online video streaming services to review their marketing practices, terms and conditions after it found they’re sometimes unclear and hard to understand. The bureau issued letters to 12 Canadian video streaming operators Tuesday asking them to conduct their own reviews into the clarity and transparency of their marketing practices and terms of service to make sure they’re following best practices and complying with the law, it said in a press release...
OTTAWA — Canada’s private broadcasters are defending Canada’s existing copyright laws and tariff...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia are joining forces on a multi-million dollar venture to build out a 5G hub on the university’s campus over the next three years. The telecom said in a...
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has met with creative groups in his first registered lobby...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has appointed Ryan Fuss its new senior vice-president of advertising sales,...
OTTAWA -- Lawmakers need to make net neutrality a major priority and...
Facebook Inc. will introduce a pilot project aimed at securing election campaigns for the United States midterm elections this fall. The company said in a blog post that past elections have shown that candidates, politicians...
OTTAWA -- Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams is asking Canadian lawmakers to...
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy watchdogs collectively urged their own governments Monday to pass legislation placing political parties in Canada under...
Facebook Inc. is facing another class action suit in Ontario over how it...
Facebook Inc. is adding verification of photos and videos to its fact-checking of content on its social...
As politicians file back into Parliament Hill’s Centre Block for the...
OTTAWA --- In a decision that could serve as a deterrent to copyright...
The European Parliament passed its copyright directive Wednesday, with some amendments to the controversial articles 11 and 13.
The directive includes measures proposing that internet platforms, like Facebook Inc. or Alphabet Inc.’s Google, pay news companies to link to their content, as well as copyright protections that would see the implementation of systems to detect and block copyrighted material before it appears online.
In a press release Wednesday, the legislative body said it included some amendments in...
Former Blue Ant Media Inc. content executive Vanessa Case has joined the ranks of Vice Media Inc.'s...
Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has shuffled his caucus's shadow cabinet in the lead up to...
The federal government has quietly been testing the security of communications equipment used by Chinese-owned telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., The Globe and Mail reported...
As cultural protection emerges as a last-stretch NAFTA sticking point,...
The CRTC said Thursday it is considering taking action on potential changes it outlined in a May report looking at programming distribution models. The Harnessing Change report recommended a number...
Long-time Liberal insider and Bluesky Strategy Group principal Tim Barber has registered formally to...
The CRTC should focus its efforts on taking action against telecoms that have been directly accused of unethical sales practices instead of applying blanket rules on the entire industry, smaller...
After this summer’s cabinet shuffle, the Heritage minister will gain two...
The CRTC published its reassessed baseline spending requirements for programs of national interest (PNI) following industry backlash and a government request to revisit the decision that set minimums at five per cent of a broadcaster’s previous year revenues.
The...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has confirmed that its vice-president of...
In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook Inc. announced the global launch of...
In the three years since the last Canadian federal election, emerging...
According to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada, 67 per cent of adult Canadians purchased a digital product, such as a subscription to a streaming service, ebooks or online newspapers, between...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) released its 2017-2018 annual report on Monday, revealing that kids' content beat out drama in export sales revenue for the first time.
With $32.3-million in sales for 78 projects, the children and youth segment ended up above the drama...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has...
The CRTC outlined Monday the details of an online public opinion survey concerning the regulator’s efforts to look into the allegedly unethical sales practises of the country’s telecoms. The information the Commission...
CBC/Radio-Canada has appointed Gave Lindo to lead the public broadcaster’s over-the-top (OTT) content...
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters registered to lobby the federal government on its review of the Copyright Act in July, which was otherwise a sleepy month in telecom and media government...
Conservative MP Maxime Bernier announced Thursday that Montreal Economic...
Canadian Heritage has posted the job application for the CRTC’s regional commissioner for Quebec, a year before the incumbent’s term is up. Yves Dupras, a Quebec lawyer, began a five-year term as the current commissioner...
Media organizations owned by Quebecor Inc. have gone to court to push back against judgements made by a press oversight group in Quebec, according to a release on Wednesday. Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, 24...
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. (SaskTel) announced the launch of a new TV service using Ericsson AB’s MediaFirst-powered IPTV platform in a press release on Wednesday. Dubbed the maxTV Stream, according to the...
More than a dozen movie studios have sued Canadians in recent months in a flurry of cases that has so far yielded over $200,000 in settlement agreements from individuals,...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has named its first chief revenue officer, appointing David Purdy — who previously worked at Rogers Communications Inc. and Vice Media Inc. — to the role.
“David’s experience in driving growth and revenue generation within the television and media industries...
The latest report from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project outlined 24 per cent of anglophone Canadians said they have listened to a podcast in the last month. Interest in...
The Senate transport and communications committee said Tuesday the...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced a new financing program to encourage television co-developments by Canadian and South African producers on Tuesday. The total amount of funds being allocated is $120,000, with individual...
Canadian households spent an average of $222.83 a month on communications services in 2016, the CRTC said in a report released Thursday.
That’s a two per cent increase, or $4.41, from the previous year, higher than the 1.4 per cent inflation rate, it said in the report....
BCE Inc. and Vice Media Inc. have reached a deal that will see new and previously produced content from...
There is no need to set thresholds for jitter as part of the basic service standard, telecoms said in interventions to a CRTC consultation Monday. The regulator launched the consultation in July, when it issued...
The Jim Pattison Group of Companies is adding to its stable of radio...
The CRTC has approved the sale of a Fort McMurray, Alta. radio station and granted an exemption to the requirement to pay tangible benefits. It approved an application by United Christian...
Guylaine Roy, who was named associate deputy minister of Canadian Heritage last May, is leaving the department, according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office Friday.
Effective Monday, Roy will become the...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will not hear an appeal from an American movie studio challenging a Canadian court’s decision forcing it to pay court costs upfront for a defendant it is looking to sue for copyright...
According to a recent report from the CBC/Radio-Canada Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project, 72 per cent of English-speaking Canadians have used a social networking service in the past month, with just over half of those using...
Perform Group’s Dazn sports streaming service will licence the NFL Sunday Ticket service to most of the major traditional television providers in Canada, according to a release on Tuesday. The...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron will follow the incumbents’ lead and put in place initiatives to increase its stable of prepaid wireless customers, Videotron CEO Manon Brouillette indicated in a conference call with analysts Thursday.
“Stay tuned. We are preparing something in that area,” she said in response to a question about companies like BCE Inc. who have been launching prepaid services with the hopes of attracting customers who can later be converted to...
The CRTC said it wasn’t moved by an application to relook at a decision...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron announced the promotion of Élodie Girardin-Lajoie to the position of...
The federal government announced more rural and remote internet funding for the Îles-de-la-Madeleine,...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has acquired digital media company Novramedia Inc., it said in a release on Wednesday. Novramedia develops and manages digital media products, like digital signage, software applications and...
Heritage shadow minister Peter Van Loan will no longer be an MP as of Sept. 30, according to a statement posted on social media Sunday.
Since 2004, Van Loan has represented the riding of York-Simcoe. He was a cabinet minister from 2006 until the 2015 ouster of the...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) has launched a Canada-wide...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is consolidating its marketing and promotional...
Despite the impact over-the-top (OTT) streaming services have had on the television market for sometime in Canada, a new report by Think TV suggests that linear is still dominating those services. The report said that,...
The radio market in Lloydminster, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, can’t sustain another radio station, the CRTC said Wednesday. “While Lloydminster`s population is growing and average...
The Quebec Superior Court has ruled against a plan by the Quebec government...
Former chief government whip Pablo Rodriguez is the new heritage minister,...
Broadcasters with multiplatform properties are expected to benefit from a...
BCE Inc.’s media division has begun offering new 30-second ad spots that are customized to the TV show...
Due to actions which constituted “malvertising,” or the dissemination of malicious software in online ads, the CRTC issued notices of violations to two companies under the Canadian anti-spam legislation (CASL) Wednesday, culminating in fines totalling $250,000. It’s the first time the CRTC has used the legislation to take “enforcement action to combat the installation of malicious software through online ads,” it said in a press release. According to the CRTC summary of the investigation, anonymous actors used Datablocks Inc.’s automated ad-buying software as well as Sunlight...
