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Gov’t posts CRTC commissioner job for B.C./Yukon

Media | 04/23/2018 12:44 pm EDT

The federal government has a new job posting for a CRTC commissioner for British Columbia and Yukon to replace Stephen Simpson, whose term ends June 22. The deadline for applications for the Vancouver-based position, which pays between $142,800 and $168,000 a year, is May 17. Also currently vacant is the post for a commissioner for Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The government has been looking for someone to fill that role since Candice Molnar’s term ended in January 2017....

CRTC says no hearing in license renewal consults

Media | 04/20/2018 5:38 pm EDT

The CRTC has opted out of an in-person hearing as it reconsiders its May 2017 licence renewal decision, instead launching a second phase of written consultations. The regulator was told to revisit the decisions made in previous license renewals in an order-in-council last year. The deadline for the first phase of consultations in that process was in January. In a pair of notices of consultation Friday, the CRTC said that it “considers that the positions of the applicants and the interveners are sufficiently clear and detailed to allow the process to continue without the appearance of...

Rogers email users mad about missing data mining opt-out

Media | 04/20/2018 5:18 pm EDT

Rogers email users mad about missing data mining opt-outRogers Communications Inc. customers spoke out on social media this week...

Rogers bounces back on wireless with 95,000 postpaid ads

Media | 04/20/2018 4:33 pm EDT

Rogers requests extension for Wireless Code changesRogers Communications Inc. reported increases in wireless revenue and subscribers in the three months ending March 31, which it said drove its overall revenue up eight per cent over the year to $3.63...

It’s not ‘notice-and-Norwich,’ SCC to hear in disclosure costs case

Media | 04/20/2018 11:33 am EDT

SCC sets Canadian jurisdiction in Facebook privacy caseThe notice-and-notice regime requires internet service providers (ISPs) to...

MPs unsatisfied with Facebook testimony, mull further regulations

Media | 04/19/2018 4:51 pm EDT

MPs unsatisfied with Facebook testimony, mull further regulationsOTTAWA — Testimony from Facebook Inc. representatives at the House ethics...

Telus says it’s first Canadian provider to offer 4K HDR

Media | 04/19/2018 4:13 pm EDT

Telus says it’s first Canadian provider to offer 4K HDRTelus Corp. is launching 4K high dynamic range (HDR) on-demand content on its Optik TV IPTV service, it said in a release Thursday. HDR is a feature meant to improve picture quality through better contrast and colour output. The release claims that Telus is the first TV provider to directly offer HDR service in Canada. “4K HDR, enriching the viewing experience with more than a billion available colours, is the new gold standard in TV picture quality,” said...

Exec shakeups at DHX continue

Media | 04/18/2018 5:05 pm EDT

Analyst reaction largely positive to DHX reviewDHX Media Inc. has appointed a new president, chief operating officer (COO) and created the new position...

Non-compliant radio stations summoned by CRTC

Media | 04/18/2018 2:05 pm EDT

The CRTC has ordered four radio stations to a public hearing on June 18 in Gatineau, Que. to answer to commissioners for “repeated” non-compliance of its radio regulations, licence conditions and/or the regulator's mandatory...

MPs critical about Facebook contact ahead of committee appearance

Media | 04/18/2018 1:39 pm EDT

MPs critical about Facebook contact ahead of committee appearanceFacebook Inc.’s attempt to reach out to members of the Parliamentary...

B.C. court dismisses Google case in Equustek

Media | 04/18/2018 12:33 pm EDT

B.C. court dismisses Google case in EquustekA British Columbia court said it will not set aside or change a provincial court decision to force...

Facebook data leak could affect Canadian elections: Therrien

Media | 04/17/2018 5:03 pm EDT

Facebook data leak could affect Canadian elections: TherrienOTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner told the House of Commons ethics...

CRTC asks for public input on Canada’s next multi-ethnic channel licensee

Media | 04/17/2018 4:43 pm EDT

The CRTC wants Canadians to weigh in as it considers the candidates competing for a licence for a multi-ethnic channel with mandatory carriage on basic TV packages. It said in a press release...

Anne Bertrand named ad hoc privacy commish

Media | 04/16/2018 2:17 pm EDT

Anne Bertrand named ad hoc privacy commishThe Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has named Anne Bertrand, the former privacy commissioner for...

New director for Bell Media French-language sales in Toronto

Media | 04/11/2018 1:00 pm EDT

New director for Bell Media French-language sales in TorontoMark Anthony Di Cio has been named director of sales of the Toronto...

Rogers can outsource Chinese-language newscasts: CRTC

Media | 04/10/2018 5:29 pm EDT

Union to challenge Rogers’ use of third party for OMNI newscastsThe CRTC has turned down a complaint by Unifor against Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division for contracting out its Chinese-language newscasts to Fairchild Media Group Inc. instead of producing them in-house. The regulator said in a decision Tuesday that Rogers...

House heritage committee to study creative industry ‘remuneration models’

Media | 04/10/2018 5:22 pm EDT

The House Heritage committee will launch a study on “remuneration models for artists and creative industries in the context of copyright” as part of the government’s Copyright Act review,...

Spike in complaints causing delays at CCTS, mid-year report outlines

Media | 04/10/2018 6:00 am EDT

Spike in complaints causing delays at CCTS, mid-year report outlinesComplaints by Canadians about their telecom services increased so much in...

71% of households with Kodi can access unlicensed content: Sandvine

Media | 04/06/2018 2:50 pm EDT

71% of households with Kodi can access unlicensed content: SandvineThe vast majority of households with Kodi in Canada have the software...

Corus plans TV ad tech test next month

Media | 04/05/2018 6:29 pm EDT

Corus plans TV ad tech test next monthCorus Entertainment Inc. is “accelerating” its transformation into a more data-centric company, its...

Telus now offering mesh WiFi product in Alta. and B.C.

Media | 04/05/2018 5:04 pm EDT

Telus now offering mesh WiFi product in Alta. and B.C.Telus Corp. customers in Alberta and B.C. can now purchase its WiFi mesh network product, called Boost Wi-Fi, to extend coverage of home wireless networks, according to a release on Thursday. Using up to five wireless “boosters” per household, it will “efficiently...

FairPlay regime ineffective, counter to Telecom Act: opponents

Media | 04/05/2018 4:39 pm EDT

FairPlay regime ineffective, counter to Telecom Act: opponentsA proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn...

Data of over 600K Canadians swept up in Facebook data scandal

Media | 04/04/2018 6:34 pm EDT

Data of over 600K Canadians swept up in Facebook data scandalFacebook Inc. released its estimates of how many people were affected by...

Ad complaints on TV highest, despite trust in medium: Ad Standards

Media | 04/04/2018 5:42 pm EDT

Ad complaints on TV highest, despite trust in medium: Ad StandardsDespite the impact of cord-cutting on the conventional television space in...

Data breach notification rules coming Nov. 1

Media | 04/04/2018 1:41 pm EDT

The federal government has announced that mandatory breach notification rules found in the 2015 Digital Privacy Act will come into force Nov. 1 this year, according to an order-in-council dated March 26. As originally reported...

New CEO’s content background indicates shift at CBC: experts

Media | 04/03/2018 5:19 pm EDT

Marie-Philippe Bouchard to take over from Catherine Tait at CBCOTTAWA — Catherine Tait’s appointment as head of CBC/Radio-Canada is...

Facebook talks election security after tough week

Media | 03/29/2018 5:52 pm EDT

Facebook Inc. announced a series of new measures to harden the platform against misinformation Thursday, saying it has needed to ban a Macedonia-based ring spreading fake news during the late 2017 Alabama senate race, and will now...

Bell adds Toronto production studio to its portfolio

Media | 03/29/2018 4:03 pm EDT

Bell adds Toronto production studio to its portfolioBCE Inc. 's media division has purchased a majority stake in a Toronto production studio, according to a...

Quebecor, cultural groups praise Que. budget digital sales tax

Media | 03/28/2018 4:01 pm EDT

Quebecor, cultural groups praise Que. budget digital sales taxThe Quebec government’s 2018 budget, unveiled Tuesday, includes a measure...

Internet Society establishes lobby footing in Canada

Media | 03/27/2018 6:32 pm EDT

Internet Society establishes lobby footing in CanadaA decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future of the internet has registered to lobby the government for the first time. The Feb. 20 registration under consultant Kathleen Monk of Earnscliffe Strategy Group is on...

Questions remain about CSE public info use, Cambridge Analytica

Media | 03/23/2018 10:46 am EDT

Questions remain about CSE public info use, Cambridge AnalyticaOTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan couldn’t tell MPs or reporters...

OPC investigating Facebook as gov’t responds to privacy concerns

Media | 03/21/2018 6:20 pm EDT

OPC investigating Facebook as gov’t responds to privacy concernsOTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used...

Huawei concerns raised in Parliament

Media | 03/21/2018 4:52 pm EDT

Election 2019: watch for price caps, Netflix regs, Huawei banThe issue of whether a Chinese telecom equipment maker poses a security threat by operating in Canada is...

CRTC consulting on Historia, Séries+ sale

Media | 03/21/2018 2:31 pm EDT

The CRTC is accepting comments on the sale of the Historia and Séries+ specialty channels from Corus Entertainment Inc. to BCE Inc. The regulator said in a Tuesday notice that Bell proposed to direct most of the $20 million in...

In telecoms’ year-end, cord-cutting slows, wireline grows

Media | 03/21/2018 12:14 pm EDT

In telecoms’ year-end, cord-cutting slows, wireline growsCanada’s publicly-traded telecoms lost fewer TV subscribers in 2017 than in each of the previous two years, while they added enough wireless customers to beat last year’s record high of new wireless adds. A Wire Report compilation of the subscriber numbers reported by...

OPC to look into Cambridge Analytica revelations

Media | 03/19/2018 6:06 pm EDT

OPC to look into Cambridge Analytica revelationsThe Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is looking into reports data of 50 million Facebook Inc....

CRTC denies ‘self-serving’ Sirius XM fund proposal

Media | 03/16/2018 5:27 pm EDT

STB data measurement complex task, group saysThe CRTC has denied a proposal by Sirius XM Canada Holdings Inc. to create...

Radio-Canada asks broadcasters ‘to pool our strengths’ on OTT, content

Media | 03/16/2018 10:02 am EDT

Radio-Canada asks broadcasters ‘to pool our strengths’ on OTT, contentCBC/Radio-Canada is in negotiations over opening up its French-language...

iHeartRadio files for bankruptcy in U.S.

Media | 03/15/2018 5:17 pm EDT

Radio app iHeartRadio grows number of stationsThe owner of iHeartRadio Media Inc., the company that aggregates radio content through its app, has filed...

Treat Facebook as broadcaster in 2019 election: professor

Media | 03/14/2018 5:35 pm EDT

Treat Facebook as broadcaster in 2019 election: professorOTTAWA — Treating social media companies, such as Facebook Inc., as...

Videotron ‘full speed’ ahead on IPTV: Brouillette

Media | 03/14/2018 5:27 pm EDT

Videotron ‘full speed’ ahead on IPTV: BrouilletteQuebecor Inc.’s Videotron is working on deploying its new IPTV service as quickly as possible, Manon...

Apple buying magazine app partially owned by Rogers

Media | 03/13/2018 2:17 pm EDT

Apple buying magazine app partially owned by RogersApple Inc. is acquiring the magazine app Texture, the company announced Monday. Texture, which Rogers...

CRTC starts next steps on disaggregated regime expansion

Media | 03/12/2018 4:47 pm EDT

The CRTC is asking telecoms to provide information about demand for high-speed internet as the next step toward implementing the disaggregated wholesale regime in regions outside Ontario and Quebec....

Equustek case back in B.C. court over internet jurisdiction

Media | 03/12/2018 4:35 pm EDT

Equustek case back in B.C. court over internet jurisdictionA British Columbia court will not delay hearing a challenge brought by Alphabet Inc. against a worldwide search result ban a previous court ordered, in a case that law professor Michael Geist says could have implications for how the courts deal with jurisdiction issues when...

CRTC approves Jamaican, Portuguese channels for distribution

Media | 03/12/2018 3:59 pm EDT

The CRTC has approved applications by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. to add five new channels to the commission’s list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution....

Anglophone TV subs down slightly to 73%: MTM

Media | 03/09/2018 4:54 pm EST

The percentage of anglophones subscribing to TV service fell to 73 per cent in 2017 from 75 per cent a year earlier, according to the latest numbers from CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) project. Continuing...

OPC says it’s ‘at a loss’ over exclusion from CSE oversight

Media | 03/08/2018 3:41 pm EST

Privacy sweep finds issues with some educational apps: OPCThe privacy commissioner is calling for his office to be included in Bill...

CCSA says Rogers violating the rules in affiliation agreement dispute

Media | 03/02/2018 11:59 am EST

CCSA leads lobbying after Hill visit  The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) has filed a Part 1...

House ethics committee backs right to be forgotten in Canada

Media | 03/01/2018 5:23 pm EST

House ethics committee backs right to be forgotten in CanadaThe government should consider including frameworks for a right to erasure and a right to de-indexing in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the House of Commons ethics committee is recommending in a new report. “The Committee...

Olympic audiences slightly down from 2014, CBC stats show

Media | 03/01/2018 2:46 pm EST

Olympic audiences slightly down from 2014, CBC stats showCBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games drew 31...

Money for CanCon in budget stopgap measure: CMPA

Media | 03/01/2018 1:33 pm EST

Money for CanCon in budget stopgap measure: CMPAThe 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday, confirmed the Canadian Media Fund (CMF) will receive top ups...

Cybersecurity, LEO satellites, data on OTT services in federal budget

Media | 02/27/2018 4:21 pm EST

Cybersecurity, LEO satellites, data on OTT services in federal budgetOTTAWA — The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon, includes...

DHX’s CEO, CFO departures no surprise: analyst

Media | 02/26/2018 12:22 pm EST

Analyst reaction largely positive to DHX reviewBoth Dana Landry, DHX Media Ltd.’s CEO, and CFO Keith Abriel are leaving the company, DHX said in a...

Data, programmatic ads benefit in telecoms’ media ownership: Moody’s

Media | 02/23/2018 12:53 pm EST

Data, programmatic ads benefit in telecoms’ media ownership: Moody’sData insights and programmatic advertising that could disrupt digital...

SWIFT takes fibre goals to the Hill

Media | 02/21/2018 5:57 pm EST

SWIFT takes fibre goals to the HillOver six years after it was established, a government-funded non-profit initiative seeking to deliver...

Judge upholds injunction against Kodi add-on host

Media | 02/21/2018 5:22 pm EST

The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a number of telecoms in their case against the man behind TV AddOns. Last June, a civil search warrant was carried out at a property connected to Adam Lackman following a June...

Bell asking employees to support FairPlay at CRTC: report

Media | 02/21/2018 12:53 pm EST

Bell asking employees to support FairPlay at CRTC: reportBCE Inc. is allegedly encouraging its employees to submit comments to the...

Alt TV quietly becoming significant for Bell: Barclays

Media | 02/20/2018 2:47 pm EST

Bell’s Alt TV can ‘turn the tide’ against competitors: CanaccordBCE Inc.’s Alt TV service is its “underappreciated driver for broadband growth,” Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang said in a research note following a meeting with Bell CEO George Cope. “No other competitor in BCE’s footprint is currently able to provide a similar Live TV streaming...

CBS All Access coming to Canada in June

Media | 02/16/2018 5:04 pm EST

CBS All Access expanding into CanadaCBS Corp.’s All Access streaming service is coming to Canada in June, the company’s president and CEO...

Get rid of digital media exemption, CUPE asks CRTC

Media | 02/16/2018 4:31 pm EST

CUPE’s Provincial Council for Communications (CPSC) in Quebec is calling on the CRTC to drop the rules that exempt digital over-the-top (OTT) services from the same regulations as traditional broadcasters, in a news release on...

Quebecor turning to court over TVA Sports wholesale fee

Media | 02/16/2018 4:27 pm EST

Quebecor turning to court over TVA Sports wholesale feeQuebecor Inc. will seek leave to appeal a recent CRTC decision on the...

Corus cutting 80 news jobs, many in ‘traditional TV production’

Media | 02/16/2018 10:48 am EST

Corus cutting 80 news jobs, many in ‘traditional TV production’Corus Entertainment Inc. has confirmed it is eliminating close “to 80...

Britbox officially launches in Canada

Media | 02/14/2018 4:30 pm EST

Britbox officially launches in CanadaAfter hints Britbox was coming to Canada but with no specific date, the British television streaming service officially launched Wednesday. The contract-free, $9-per-month subscription service teased its availability in Canada when it suggested on its website that it was...

Telecoms defend FairPlay to MPs, call for 5G net neutrality flexibility

Media | 02/13/2018 2:01 pm EST

Telecoms defend FairPlay to MPs, call for 5G net neutrality flexibilityOTTAWA — Representatives from Canada’s biggest telecoms argued that...

Ian Morrison steps down from watchdog Friends

Media | 02/12/2018 1:27 pm EST

Ian Morrison steps down from watchdog FriendsIan Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the...

CRTC approves English Club TV for distribution

Media | 02/09/2018 4:41 pm EST

CRTC approves English Club TV for distributionThe CRTC has approved VMedia Inc.’s application to bring to Canada a channel that helps viewers improve...

Bell, Telus report wireless sub gains from December promos

Media | 02/08/2018 6:27 pm EST

Bell, Telus report wireless sub gains from December promosBCE Inc. and Telus Corp. both reported quarterly results for the three...

Liberals signal interest in enshrining net neutrality in law

Media | 02/06/2018 7:24 pm EST

Liberals signal interest in enshrining net neutrality in lawOTTAWA — The idea of of explicitly making net neutrality part of...

CTV Super Bowl viewership steady from last year: Bell

Media | 02/06/2018 3:11 pm EST

CTV Super Bowl viewership steady from last year: BellViewership of the Super Bowl on CTV didn’t change much from last year, when the channel experienced a...

Bell’s Snackable TV officially on the menu

Media | 02/05/2018 5:58 pm EST

Bell’s Snackable TV officially on the menuBCE Inc.’s Bell Media has officially launched a free, ad-supported mobile app featuring video content...

CRTC asks digital giants for info, promises confidentiality

Media | 02/05/2018 2:02 pm EST

As part of its government-ordered proceeding on future content distribution models, the CRTC is asking a number of companies — including Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Netflix Inc. — for information...

Ad-supported VOD rising as OTT grips TV market

Media | 02/02/2018 6:54 pm EST

Ad-supported VOD rising as OTT grips TV marketOTTAWA — More competition in the over-the-top (OTT) space is driving a trend of more ad-supported video-on-demand (VOD) services, panelists told a media conference on Friday. The final day of the Prime Time conference in Ottawa hosted a panel about what’s going on in...

Joly cites confidentiality for redactions in Netflix ATIP request

Media | 02/02/2018 2:32 pm EST

Joly cites confidentiality for redactions in Netflix ATIP requestHeritage Minister Mélanie Joly faced questions this week about why a...

Canadian media industry still behind on data, conference hears

Media | 02/01/2018 7:57 pm EST

Canadian media industry still behind on data, conference hearsOTTAWA — The Canadian television industry is behind the curve when it...

SOCAN expects higher annual revenues for 2017

Media | 01/31/2018 5:44 pm EST

SOCAN expects higher annual revenues for 2017The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is estimating that it has broken...

Interventions due March 1 in website-blocking proceeding

Media | 01/31/2018 5:16 pm EST

The CRTC has officially launched the Part 1 process for an application asking the regulator to set up an anti-piracy website-blocking system. The Part 1 was posted on the CRTC's website Tuesday...

1% increase for PNI not enough, creative groups say

Media | 01/30/2018 5:33 pm EST

Creative groups are standing their ground on spending for programs of national interest (PNI), suggesting that a marginal increase in funding for those programs proposed by the large English-language broadcasters last month is not enough to support Canadian content. “About the only virtue of the proposed 6% level is that it is not 5%,” the Directors Guild of Canada said in its reply to the proposal, which were due last week. “DGC does not believe that the [governor-in-council] sent back these decisions assuming the result would be such a marginal improvement in PNI.” That one...

Gov’t points to open internet for ‘legal content’ in FairPlay response

Media | 01/30/2018 4:25 pm EST

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains has released a statement on a call by a coalition of broadcasters, telecoms and creative groups to begin blocking websites hosting pirated content, in which he...

Cross-industry coalition calls for website-blocking

Media | 01/29/2018 6:21 pm EST

Cross-industry coalition calls for website-blockingA broad coalition made up of Canada’s largest telecoms and broadcasters, as well as groups representing...

Supreme Court denies Bell’s request for stay on simsub ban

Media | 01/26/2018 4:55 pm EST

SCC sets Canadian jurisdiction in Facebook privacy caseThe Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has denied BCE Inc.’s request for a...

Bill on junk food ads for kids could do ‘significant damage’: Corus

Media | 01/24/2018 4:20 pm EST

Bill on junk food ads for kids could do ‘significant damage’: CorusProposed legislation intended to combat the marketing of unhealthy food and...

Canada touts wins on copyright, culture in TPP deal

Media | 01/24/2018 3:17 pm EST

The Canadian government announced Tuesday it has reached an agreement with 10 other countries taking part in the negotiations of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). It said it had...

CRTC gives TVA Sports more flexibility on ad scheduling

Media | 01/23/2018 3:22 pm EST

The CRTC has given Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Sports fewer restrictions on when it can broadcast ads, saying that the channel can now “average the maximum amount of 12 minutes of advertising material...

Rogers partnership with Vice ends, Viceland to stop broadcasting

Media | 01/22/2018 2:54 pm EST

Rogers partnership with Vice ends, Viceland to stop broadcastingViceland, a specialty channel targeting millennials launched as part of a...

Nelvana makes management changes

Media | 01/19/2018 4:03 pm EST

Nelvana makes management changesCorus Entertainment Inc.’s Nelvana is shaking up its core team, with a new appointment and promotions,...

Bell, Telus sign on to Ericsson’s TV platform

Media | 01/19/2018 2:53 pm EST

Bell, Telus sign on to Ericsson’s TV platformBCE Inc. said Thursday it has signed a deal with Ericsson AB to use its TV platform, following a similar announcement from Telus Corp. in December. Bell has used Ericsson’s Mediaroom IPTV platform on its Fibe TV since 2010, Ericsson said in the release, and will now use...

Bell asks Supreme Court for stay, reversal of CRTC simsub decision

Media | 01/18/2018 4:12 pm EST

Bell asks Supreme Court for stay, reversal of CRTC simsub decisionWeeks ahead of the 2018 Super Bowl, BCE Inc., along with the National...

CRTC sides with Bell in wholesale dispute with Quebecor

Media | 01/17/2018 5:34 pm EST

The CRTC has settled a disagreement between BCE Inc. and Quebecor Inc. over the wholesale rate Bell pays for Quebecor’s TVA Sports. “The Commission finds that the evidence does not support the...

End of 2017 saw Stingray, Birch Hill reinvigorate lobby efforts

Media | 01/17/2018 4:39 pm EST

Stingray Digital Group Inc. and Birch Hill Equity Partners ramped up their lobbying in December, with both submitting their first communications reports for the year in the last weeks of 2017....

Rogers to buy Alberta station CJCY-FM

Media | 01/17/2018 12:24 pm EST

Rogers Communications Inc. said it will buy an Alberta radio station after coming to an agreement with Clear Sky Radio Inc. to acquire the licence of the station. The Medicine Hat classic hits music station CJCY-FM at 102.1...

BBC-ITV streaming service coming to Canada

Media | 01/15/2018 5:12 pm EST

BBC-ITV streaming service coming to CanadaBritbox, a streaming service showcasing British television, will be “coming soon to Canada,” according to its website. The contract-less monthly subscription service, driven by the United Kingdom’s BBC and TV broadcaster ITV PLC, is currently available in the...

CRTC OKs ownership change for two Ont. radio stations

Media | 01/15/2018 4:05 pm EST

CRTC OKs ownership change for two Ont. radio stationsThe CRTC has approved the acquisition of two Ontario radio stations by Byrnes Communications Inc. from...

Samsung to unlock FM chip in new smartphones

Media | 01/12/2018 3:47 pm EST

Samsung to unlock FM chip in new smartphonesSamsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will unlock FM chips in its newer smartphones, according to a press release...

31% of Canadians ‘extremely concerned’ about fake news: MTM

Media | 01/12/2018 2:51 pm EST

Nearly half of Canadians are concerned to some degree about the consequences of the phenomenon of fake news, with 31 per cent saying they are “extremely concerned,” according to a new report from...

Citing gov’t signals, Cogeco CEO indicates renewed interest in wireless

Media | 01/11/2018 5:55 pm EST

Citing gov’t signals, Cogeco CEO indicates renewed interest in wirelessMONTREAL — Cogeco Inc. is feeling more optimistic about the possibility...

As its TV ad revenue drops, Corus says ad tech is the future

Media | 01/10/2018 6:05 pm EST

As its TV ad revenue drops, Corus says ad tech is the futureCorus Entertainment Inc. executives emphasized their optimism about future...

BroadbandTV opens mobile game-making division

Media | 01/10/2018 5:10 pm EST

BroadbandTV opens mobile game-making divisionIn a release on Wednesday, digital media company BroadbandTV Corp. (BBTV) announced the launch of a...

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobby

Media | 01/08/2018 4:14 pm EST

Sidewalk Labs, civil liberties group register to lobbyAlphabet Inc.’s Sidewalk Labs kicked off the new year by registering to...

Bell and Bloomberg in bed for business network rebrand

Media | 01/08/2018 3:41 pm EST

BCE Inc.’s Bell Media and Bloomberg LP have announced a joint effort to resuscitate the American financial brand’s Canadian TV presence, with a release on Monday outlining the details of a rebrand...

Jamie Schouela to helm Blue Ant’s Canadian media operations

Media | 01/08/2018 12:28 pm EST

Jamie Schouela to helm Blue Ant’s Canadian media operationsIn a press release on Monday, Blue Ant Media Inc. announced the promotion of Jamie Schouela to president of Canadian media at the content production company. Initially brought on as vice-president of marketing and then moving to the role of executive vice-president of...