The CRTC has issued new radio licences for stations in Georgina and Grimsby, Ont. that will broadcast classic hits and oldies, according to a pair of decisions Tuesday. The decisions follow a November hearing in Toronto in which it considered multiple applications for the licences. For the new station serving Grimsby and Beamsville, Ont. the CRTC chose an application by Durham Radio Inc., saying the company “proposed a sound business plan that is based on its experience in the Hamilton radio market and third-party research,” and was the application that was least likely to negatively...
Nearly three quarters of Canadians, or 73 per cent, reported having ever watching livestreamed video, according to an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) study published in June. The activity is trending up, as half of the Canadian respondents said they watch more live video than they did a year before, the IAB said. It found that 42 per cent use branded apps or websites offered by TV networks to access livestreams, while only 31 per cent of the respondents said that they use a digital streaming subscription service not affiliated with a TV provider or broadcaster. That’s lower than...
According to the latest data from the CRTC, the Canadian broadcasting and broadcast distribution...
The CRTC has approved the sale of Comedy Gold from BCE Inc.’s Bell Media to Wow Unlimited Networks Inc....
Twitter Inc. wants to make sure the government understands how online...
TV producer and former Liberal candidate Joanne Levy will be the new CRTC commissioner for the Manitoba...
In early May, the Liberal government faced questions in the House of Commons about a Canadian citizen who had returned to the country after participating in the ongoing...
The CRTC released new data Thursday for the fourth quarter of 2017 that...
The CRTC has approved the purchase of a Medicine Hat radio station by Rogers Communications Inc., it said...
The panel appointed to lead the review of the Broadcasting Act and Telecommunications Act has met for the first time this week, and will continue to meet regularly over the summer, the federal...
The CRTC is now accepting interventions in its review of Cogeco Inc.’s plans to buy 10 radio stations from RNC Media Inc. Cogeco is proposing a tangible benefits package of six per cent of the...
Facebook Inc.’s social media service will list lower on the newsfeed news items — and notify...
MONTREAL — Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly outlined Tuesday the...
Domestic and international content producers and over-the-top (OTT) services are continuing to partner...
In a pair of studies measuring home internet service this week, BCE Inc. was positioned at the two ends of the spectrum, topping out the list of fastest connections in Canada, but falling to near the...
Sony Corp.’s ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) service Crackle will cease existence in Canada next week, following a content deal with BCE Inc.
The update was posted on the Crackle website, which pegged June 28 as the termination date. “Thank you to all who have...
The federal government is affirming its commitment to enforcing the...
Cogeco Inc. has bought $8 million worth of the 2500 MHz paired spectrum band from Kian Telecom Inc.,...
One in eight Canadians have watched pirated TV or movie content online in...
Just over a quarter of Canadians surveyed by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) said they don’t know how much broadband data they have, a concern a CIRA spokeswoman said could be...
A European Union committee has approved a controversial copyright directive that critics say could interfere with the sharing of online content. At issue are two articles under the directive. The first proposes that internet platforms like Facebook Inc. or Alphabet Inc.’s Google pay news companies to link to their content, called a “link tax.” The second includes copyright protections that would see the implementation of systems that would detect and block copyrighted material before it appears online, according to the directive. Detractors including the Electronic Frontier...
Following nine public meetings that began in March, the House committee...
The House industry committee heard some familiar suggestions from a number...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. has partnered with l'Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du...
U.S.-based video services like Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV and Amazon.com...
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) asked a parliamentary committee...
Corus Entertainment Inc. CEO Doug Murphy is refusing to comment on a media...
Rogers Communications Inc. is launching additional TV-subscription authenticated, ad-supported...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile said more phones with Apple Inc.’s iOS and Alphabet...
According to the latest data from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitoring (MTM) project, 35 per cent of English-speaking internet users in Canada continue to own four types of electronic device: computers, smartphones, tablets and internet-connected televisions. This number has not changed from the survey conducted in 2016, indicating that “[f]uture growth may be stifled as the penetration of smartphones and tablets approaches maturity,” according to the report. Another 35 per cent own three of the four devices. The data revealed that a subscription to Netflix Inc.’s...
The popularity of fully-loaded set-top boxes, such as Kodi devices, is illustrative of an attitude of indifference toward piracy, the House of Commons industry committee heard Thursday. There is no...
BCE Inc. has made its TSN and RDS sports channels available without a TV subscription for $24.99 a month....
BCE Inc. will launch two new ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services, rebrand its entertainment...
The CRTC has approved Travelxp 4K, a channel focusing on travel, for distribution in Canada.
In a...
The Office of The Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has asked the government for a 30-per-cent-increase to its budget, but said that it would need three times that amount for its work to have a significant effect.
In a letter to the House of Commons ethics committee, privacy...
A Supreme Court of Canada ruling in an online libel case won’t change much about how court jurisdiction over online content currently works in Canada, according to legal experts. “The SCC did...
OTTAWA — A proposal to eliminate a tax exemption for advertising on foreign digital media received...
Former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan filed an appeal on Tuesday of a May Federal Court decision which dismissed an application for a judicial review of his second firing from the communications regulator. Federal Court Judge...
TORONTO — An amber alert that resulted in three emergency texts sent to...
TORONTO — If there was a single point of agreement among panelists representing both small and big...
OTTAWA — The expert panel appointed by the federal government to...
TORONTO — The advent of fully autonomous cars on the road is still further away than some may think, according to an executive at a company that supplies small cells. “I would wager we’re...
During its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday, Apple Inc....
Corus Entertainment Inc. is partnering with Twitter Inc. to bring short-form “premium content” on the social media platform.
The content will be published by Corus’ social studio so.da and will include food, entertainment and pop culture, all catered to a...
OTTAWA — Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and Heritage Minister Mélanie...
The growth of over-the-top (OTT) services did not change the mind of the Competition Bureau when it rejected a deal earlier this week involving two French-language channels. The bureau denied the...
Online video production and syndication company WatchMojo Inc. has signed an advertising sales deal with...
GATINEAU — The CRTC is recommending the government undertake a bevy of...
Corus Entertainment Inc. said it has come to an agreement with BCE Inc. to officially terminate a previous arrangement that would’ve seen two of its French-language specialty channels sold to Bell, after the Competition Bureau rejected the deal earlier this week. Corus said Monday that the two companies were exploring their options after the bureau blocked the sale of Corus’ Historia and Series+ channels. In a Wednesday press release, Corus said the decision was to forego the agreement. “Corus Entertainment will continue to own and operate Historia and Séries+ and also...
A government-commissioned report is shedding light on the extent of...
OTTAWA — Whistleblower and data scientist Christopher Wylie testified at...
The federal government should remove a 20-year-old radio royalty exception, allow royalties for music used in soundtracks, and extend copyright terms and the private copying levy, Music Canada told...
The federal and Quebec governments are putting roughly half a million dollars into a cybersecurity...
The Competition Bureau has blocked the $200 million sale of the Historia and Series+ channels from Corus...
Shaw Communications Inc. can repackage BCE Inc.’s Investigation Discovery and there is no need for the...
The ongoing review of the Copyright Act will begin focusing on the music, radio, television and film sectors next month. The House of Commons industry committee has heard from 100 stakeholders since the review began in...
Increasing prices for BCE Inc.’s CraveTV will help improve the...
Luce Julien, a 23-year veteran of CBC/Radio-Canada, will become Radio-Canada's executive director of news and current affairs, following Michel Cormier’s retirement in July.
The editor-in-chief of Montreal daily newspaper Le Devoir since February 2016, Julien will be...
A new Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report says 87 per cent of anglophone Canadians reported listening...
A new organization called the Centre for Digital Rights (CDR) that is...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has unveiled a set...
A motion asking the government to consider enshrining the concept of net...
The CRTC’s vice-chairwoman of telecom, Christianne Laizner, will stay in her role for a full five-year term.
She was named to the position last year, on an interim one-year basis, starting in September 2017.
A May 17 order-in-council appointing her to the position...
OTTAWA — A media advocacy group calling for changes that would upend the...
An anti-internet piracy coalition did not end up meeting with CRTC...
As stories about security and personal data breaches make the headlines,...
On Monday, the CRTC published a complaint from a group of media production companies including...
The CRTC has issued a call for comments after correcting the data it used to determine wholesale rates during the regulator’s look at mandatory carriage renewals, according to a Friday letter. ...
The FairPlay coalition has responded to the laundry list of criticism...
Halifax-based DHX Media Inc. announced plans on Monday to sell some of its ownership of the Peanuts brand...
Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada announced a...
The CRTC has added a channel focused on “inviting and vicarious living programming” to its list of non-Canadian channels authorized for distribution Friday, following an application by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd.
The American channel, called A Wealth of Entertainment,...
OTTAWA — Two sides of the data-use debate squared off at the House ethics...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) will be the final arbiter in the...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron said it won’t force the migration of its...
The CRTC has issued broadcast licences for new FM radio stations in Regina, Sask. and the Sydney, Nova Scotia area, it said in a pair of decisions Tuesday. It granted an application by the non-profit United Christian...
In a decision on Monday, a Federal Court judge dismissed an application by former CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan for a judicial review of his termination from the CRTC in the...
Three French-language broadcasters will make their content available on the...
Showrunner Dennis Heaton is the new president of the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC), the organization said Monday.
The two-year term is effective May 1 and will end on April 30, 2020, a press release said.
A member of the...
The CRTC has dismissed a complaint by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron that...
The CRTC said it approved an application brought by Ethnic Channels Group...
TV service providers told the CRTC this week that cord-cutting by Canadians shouldn’t be the reason to give channels with mandatory carriage on basic packages higher monthly carriage fees. Shaw Communications Inc., Quebecor Inc. and Cogeco Inc. told the CRTC in a joint presentation during a hearing this week that they...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. will enter the radio business with the purchase of Newfoundland Capital...
Hayu, a streaming service from Comcast Corp.'s NBC Universal focusing on reality TV programming, will...
Quebecor Inc. will add two new channels to its stable of specialty services with the acquisition of...
OTTAWA — Proposed legislation that will require federal political parties to have and make public privacy policies covering the collection and use of electoral information is a “small” step in the right direction, but a lack of enforcement is a major concern in the...
A new specialty channel focusing on Catholic programming won’t compete...
Amazon.com Inc. will add 3,000 new employees in Vancouver, B.C., the company said in a press release on...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is asking the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities to consider how privacy protocols were implemented when selecting smart cities challenge winners....
OTTAWA — There is no reason for political parties to be using social...
Voltage Pictures LLC’s lawyer told the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) Thursday that while the “sky isn’t quite falling” when it comes to the damaging effects of piracy, it needs to be easier for rightsholders to go after those infringing their intellectual property....
Innovation Canada is pledging to regulate what makes up and goes into notice letters, it said as it announced its new intellectual property strategy Thursday. The government is looking to ban...
The CRTC will not do anything about a Part 1 application filed by CUPE’s Provincial Council for Communications (CPSC) asking it to drop its regulatory exemptions for digital services because the arguments made in its Part 1 are...
Rogers Communications Inc. and BCE Inc. have registered to lobby the...
OTTAWA — The chairman of the Senate transport and communications...
Cogeco Inc. has reached a deal with RNC Media Inc. to acquire 10 of RNC’s radio stations.
The deal,...
Advertisers on Facebook Inc. should expect changes — like less reliance on third-party data and better consent tools — to the platform after the privacy breach revelations this spring, says...
Frontier Networks Inc. is turning to the CRTC in a disagreement over whether the small telecom can resell wholesale internet service from Bragg Communications Inc.’s Eastlink, according to a CRTC...
Facebook Inc. will add itself to the federal lobbyist registry, the company said after its head of public...
CBS Corp.’s All Access streaming service is now available in Canada, the company said in a press release Monday.
The company’s president and CEO, Leslie Moonves, previously indicated CBS was planning a June launch.
The service, which costs $5.99 a month, “will...
