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 guild since 2001 and serving on its council since 2012, Heaton has produced several shows and will head an upcoming Netflix Inc. program called The Order, the release noted.
“His showrunning experience will hold us in good stead as we go...
The CRTC has dismissed a complaint by Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron that claimed Rogers Communications Inc. was imposing minimum guarantees prohibited by the Wholesale Code on some sports channels.
Videotron said in its September complaint that Rogers’ “fixed fee...
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 Groupe Serdy, announced Tuesday.
As part of the $24-million transaction, Quebecor will acquire Évasion, a travel, adventure and food channel, and cooking and lifestyle...
OTTAWA — Proposed legislation that will require federal political parties...
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...
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 government on proposed Senate legislation, now moving through the House, to quell the impact of junk food advertising on children, joining critics who lobbied heavily in March about the bill they say will...
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 policy, Kevin Chan, was criticized for not registering.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to the Lobby Monitor that the company will register “as soon as possible,” adding it will do so even though it doesn’t meet the threshold of activity to register, which requires 20 per cent of work activity to be spent on lobbying. The spokesperson also said the company has asked lobbying commissioner Nancy Bélanger for a...
CBS Corp.’s All Access streaming service is now available in Canada, the company said in a press...
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...
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...
Rogers Communications Inc. customers spoke out on social media this week...
Rogers 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...
The notice-and-notice regime requires internet service providers (ISPs) to...
OTTAWA — Testimony from Facebook Inc. representatives at the House ethics...
Telus 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...
DHX Media Inc. has appointed a new president, chief operating officer (COO) and created the new position of chief commercial officer as its co-founder prepares to leave the company.
The moves follow the February departures of both its CEO and CFO, which National Bank analyst Adam Shine noted at the time were the result of the company’s underperformance and came in the middle of an ongoing strategic review.
DHX said in a press release Wednesday that co-founder Steven DeNure “will be transitioning out of his role as...
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...
Facebook Inc.’s attempt to reach out to members of the Parliamentary...
A British Columbia court said it will not set aside or change a provincial court decision to force...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner told the House of Commons ethics...
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 Tuesday that it has received eight applications that fulfill its criteria and wants Canadians to send in their comments on the proposals by May 17. It will then hold a public hearing on Oct. 15. Last year, the regulator gave Rogers Communications Inc. a temporary licence to run OMNI Regional as a...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has named Anne Bertrand, the former privacy commissioner for...
Mark Anthony Di Cio has been named director of sales of the Toronto...
The CRTC has turned down a complaint by Unifor against Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division for...
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,...
Complaints by Canadians about their telecom services increased so much in...
The vast majority of households with Kodi in Canada have the software...
Corus Entertainment Inc. is “accelerating” its transformation into a more data-centric company, its...
Telus Corp. customers in Alberta and B.C. can now purchase its WiFi mesh...
A proposal to implement a website-blocking system to fight piracy has drawn opposition from academics and advocacy groups in Canada, as well as input from international players and unusually high engagement from the public.
Nearly 10,000 total comments, the vast majority...
Facebook Inc. released its estimates of how many people were affected by...
Despite the impact of cord-cutting on the conventional television space in...
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...
OTTAWA — Catherine Tait’s appointment as head of CBC/Radio-Canada is...
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 start fact-checking photos and video, according to a transcript of a press event published by the social media company on Thursday. That followed earlier announcements about other changes the company is making that appeared to do little to dampen some Canadian parliamentarians’ plans to investigate recent controversies involving the platforms. “Rather than...
BCE Inc. 's media division has purchased a majority stake in a Toronto production studio, according to a...
The Quebec government’s 2018 budget, unveiled Tuesday, includes a measure...
A decades-old organization that is pushing for a multilateral approach to decision-making on the future...
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan couldn’t tell MPs or reporters...
OTTAWA — Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used...
The issue of whether a Chinese telecom equipment maker poses a security threat by operating in Canada is...
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...
Canada’s publicly-traded telecoms lost fewer TV subscribers in 2017 than...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is looking into reports data of 50 million Facebook Inc. users was used without their permission by a company with connections to Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
In an emailed statement Monday, the OPC said the office...
The CRTC has denied a proposal by Sirius XM Canada Holdings Inc. to create...
CBC/Radio-Canada is in negotiations over opening up its French-language...
The owner of iHeartRadio Media Inc., the company that aggregates radio content through its app, has filed...
OTTAWA — Treating social media companies, such as Facebook Inc., as...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is working on deploying its new IPTV service as quickly as possible, Manon Brouillette, CEO of the company’s telecom division, told analysts in a conference call Wednesday.
“We want to [get] to the market as fast as possible,” she said,...
Apple Inc. is acquiring the magazine app Texture, the company announced Monday.
Texture, which Rogers...
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....
A British Columbia court will not delay hearing a challenge brought by...
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....
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...
The privacy commissioner is calling for his office to be included in Bill...
The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) has filed a Part 1...
The government should consider including frameworks for a right to erasure...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games drew 31 million Canadians "across all English and French television network partners and digital streaming simulcasts," according to a Tuesday press release.
This is a decrease from the 2014 Winter Games...
The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday, confirmed the Canadian Media Fund (CMF) will receive top ups...
OTTAWA — The 2018 federal budget, released Tuesday afternoon, includes...
Both Dana Landry, DHX Media Ltd.’s CEO, and CFO Keith Abriel are leaving the company, DHX said in a...
Data insights and programmatic advertising that could disrupt digital...
Over six years after it was established, a government-funded non-profit initiative seeking to deliver fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) to about a quarter of Ontario’s — and 10 per cent of Canada’s — population is registered to lobby the government for the first time.
The...
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...
BCE Inc. is allegedly encouraging its employees to submit comments to the...
BCE Inc.’s Alt TV service is its “underappreciated driver for broadband growth,” Barclays Capital analyst Phillip Huang said in a research...
CBS Corp.’s All Access streaming service is coming to Canada in June, the company’s president and CEO...
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 Inc. will seek leave to appeal a recent CRTC decision on the...
Corus Entertainment Inc. has confirmed it is eliminating close “to 80...
After hints Britbox was coming to Canada but with no specific date, the British television streaming...
OTTAWA — Representatives from Canada’s biggest telecoms argued that flexibility in Canada’s net neutrality framework will be necessary with the advent of 5G, as they...
Ian Morrison, the co-founder of Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is handing over the reins of the...
The CRTC has approved VMedia Inc.’s application to bring to Canada a channel that helps viewers improve...
BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. both reported quarterly results for the three...
OTTAWA — The idea of of explicitly making net neutrality part of...
Viewership of the Super Bowl on CTV didn’t change much from last year, when the channel experienced a 39 per cent drop following the elimination of simultaneous substitution for the channel, BCE Inc.’s Bell Media said.
The company had hoped for a last-minute reprieve...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media has officially launched a free, ad-supported mobile app featuring video content...
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...
OTTAWA — More competition in the over-the-top (OTT) space is driving a trend of more ad-supported...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly faced questions this week about why a...
OTTAWA — The Canadian television industry is behind the curve when it...
The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is estimating that it has broken...
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...
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...
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 emphasized the efficacy of the current copyright protection system. The office of Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly pointed to Bains’ statement when asked about the issue, which Bains’ spokesman Karl Sasseville noted in an email was put out “on behalf of the government.” Bains, pointing to the...
