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 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...
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 forward copyright infringement notices, not to identify customers to rightsholders for free, a...
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...
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...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has named Anne Bertrand, the former privacy commissioner for New Brunswick, as its new ad hoc privacy commissioner.
Bertrand will be responsible for independent investigation of “any complaints that may be lodged against the...
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 configured to access unlicensed content, according to a report by Sandvine Corp.
Out of the over...
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...
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...
BCE Inc. 's media division has purchased a majority stake in a Toronto production studio, according to a release on Thursday.
Pinewood Toronto Studios is a 33.5 acre facility located near the Port Lands, and has one of the largest sound stages in North America,...
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 being raised following related questions in the House of Commons on Monday.
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has been the subject of a number of security-related concerns...
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....
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...
Apple Inc. is acquiring the magazine app Texture, the company announced Monday.
Texture, which Rogers Communication Inc. launched in Canada five years ago, is a joint venture between Rogers and media and publishing companies Condé Nast, Hearst Communications Inc.,...
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 C-59’s new review process for the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), according to a...
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...
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...
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 9 order on the request of BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron and TVA Group. Lackman is behind a popular library for unofficial add-ons used with Kodi, a software application for set-top boxes that is frequently used to stream audio and video content for free. A second judge found that order to be unlawful, in a decision that the...
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 wholesale rate for Quebecor’s TVA Sports in the Federal Court of Appeal.
In the Jan. 17 decision, the CRTC sided with BCE Inc. when the two companies couldn’t agree on the wholesale rate Bell pays...
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...
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...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media has officially launched a free, ad-supported mobile app featuring video content in “snack-sized” portions, calling it a “growing new area” in a release on Monday.
SnackableTV was originally launched in beta on both Apple Inc.’s iOS and...
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 its performing rights revenue record, according to its preliminary financial results for 2017 released on Wednesday.
It said the total performing rights revenue...
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...
A broad coalition made up of Canada’s largest telecoms and broadcasters, as well as groups representing...
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has denied BCE Inc.’s request for a...
Proposed legislation intended to combat the marketing of unhealthy food and...
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...
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...
Viceland, a specialty channel targeting millennials launched as part of a partnership between Rogers Communications Inc. and Vice Media Inc., will stop broadcasting on March 31, according to a press release on Monday.
Rogers and Vice also said they would end their...
