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CRTC digs into reasons behind Canadians’ content consumption choices

Media | 01/04/2018 2:17 pm EST

The CRTC launched a survey Thursday to find out why Canadians consume content the way they do, including why many still turn to traditional TV and radio while others go exclusively online. The survey is part of its consultation on future content distribution models as part of the government’s Creative Canada strategy. The regulator must produce a report for the government by June 1. It noted in a press release it also wants to know how important programming made in Canada is to...

Jim Shaw, former Shaw CEO, dies at 60

Media | 01/04/2018 1:05 pm EST

Plan comes together for TV subs boost in Shaw Q3: MehrShaw Communications Inc. said on Wednesday evening that its former CEO, Jim Shaw, has died. “Jim’s countless contributions to our company are integral to Shaw’s long-term strength and growth as a Canadian industry leader,” current CEO and brother Brad Shaw said in...

Stingray buys concert streaming service

Media | 01/03/2018 2:05 pm EST

Stingray buys concert streaming serviceStingray Digital Group Inc. has purchased the New York-based streaming service Quello Concerts in a move...

Music channel denied Canadian distribution

Media | 12/21/2017 10:36 am EST

The CRTC has denied an application by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. (ECGL) to bring a Polish music channel to Canada after Blue Ant Media Inc. and Stingray Digital Group Inc. said it would interfere with their own services. The...

Court denies Bell Super Bowl SimSub appeal

Media | 12/19/2017 7:01 pm EST

Court denies Bell Super Bowl SimSub appealThe Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a case brought forward by BCE Inc. challenging the CRTC’s rule...

Rogers, CBC ink 7-year deal for HNIC NHL broadcast

Media | 12/19/2017 6:31 pm EST

Rogers, CBC ink 7-year deal for HNIC NHL broadcastRogers Communications Inc. and CBC/Radio-Canada signed a seven-year sub-licensing deal for the...

Five new directors named to CBC board

Media | 12/19/2017 5:22 pm EST

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly named five new members to the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors for five-year terms, said a Tuesday press release. Harley Finkelstein, the chief of operations for Shopify Inc., René Légère, executive director of the Aberdeen Cultural Centre in Moncton, New Brunswick, and former CBC journalist and commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Marie Wilson, will start their terms immediately. Jennifer Rattray, a former journalist and currently an assistant deputy minister in the Manitoba government, and François Roy, a previous...

Automated advertising set to grow in Canada: report

Media | 12/19/2017 3:22 pm EST

Canadian programmatic digital ad spending will account for two-thirds of display advertising by 2018, says a recent report from market research company eMarketer Inc. released on Tuesday. Programmatic ads are purchased and...

CRTC approves Dutch channel for distribution

Media | 12/14/2017 4:58 pm EST

The CRTC has added the Dutch channel Insight UHD to its list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution, following an application by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. The English-language channel...

BPF registers to lobby amidst consumer group funding concerns

Media | 12/14/2017 2:25 pm EST

Ian Scott ‘collegial’ choice for new CRTC chair: former colleaguesA few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...

Amidst NAFTA IP negotiation, Copyright Act review kicks off

Media | 12/13/2017 6:13 pm EST

After a unanimous vote in the House of Commons, the federal government has triggered the long-awaited five-year review of the Copyright Modernization Act, though the timing might cause some...

Scheer mum on net neutrality as CPC MPs take opposing sides

Media | 12/13/2017 4:39 pm EST

Scheer mum on net neutrality as CPC MPs take opposing sidesOpposition leader Andrew Scheer isn’t going public with his position on...

Canadian ‘tale of two internets,’ as 25% get online wirelessly: Deloitte

Media | 12/12/2017 6:39 pm EST

Canadian ‘tale of two internets,’ as 25% get online wirelessly: DeloitteThe number of Canadians who get their internet access wirelessly — either...

CBC digital expansion ahead of schedule

Media | 12/11/2017 2:58 pm EST

CBC digital expansion ahead of scheduleCBC/Radio-Canada has achieved its goal of doubling its digital reach more than two years early, the...

CRTC revokes Bloomberg TV Canada licence

Media | 12/11/2017 1:44 pm EST

The CRTC granted a request by Bloomberg TV Canada to revoke its broadcasting licence Friday. The channel eliminated its in-house programming this August, according to a report in the Globe and Mail this summer. Its broadcasting...

Shaw launches security video service for smaller businesses

Media | 12/11/2017 1:08 pm EST

Shaw launches security video service for smaller businessesShaw Communications Inc. is now offering a video surveillance service aimed at small and medium businesses, the company said in a press release Monday. “Traditional surveillance products are designed to provide owners with a way to track and record their businesses...

Bell, Corus offer 1% raise in baseline spending on PNI

Media | 12/08/2017 3:38 pm EST

STB data measurement complex task, group saysBCE Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc. are recommending the CRTC revise the minimum standard for spending for programs of national interest (PNI) and boost it to six per cent of the previous year’s...

Edward, Melinda Rogers to head company board of directors

Media | 12/08/2017 11:38 am EST

Melinda and Edward Rogers (photos via Rogers).Rogers Communications Inc. announced that Edward and Melinda Rogers, the...

Shaw backs website blocking for pirated content in CRTC consultation

Media | 12/07/2017 5:53 pm EST

Plan comes together for TV subs boost in Shaw Q3: MehrShaw Communications Inc. used the CRTC’s Creative Canada consultation this week to back website blocking as a strategy to fight privacy. “The rapid growth of the black market for online...

Smartphone unlocking shouldn’t be limited to current customers: PIAC

Media | 12/07/2017 5:49 pm EST

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is urging the CRTC to mandate service providers to unlock devices even if the customer doesn’t have an active account with the provider, in a Part 1...

Rogers potential sale of Blue Jays, other assets could net $4B: Canaccord

Media | 12/06/2017 2:09 pm EST

Rogers potential sale of Blue Jays, other assets could net $4B: CanaccordThe sale of non-core assets Rogers Communications Inc. said it is considering could be worth $4 billion to the company after taxes, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst...

CBC launches $5 a month premium OTT service

Media | 12/05/2017 4:20 pm EST

CBC board postings extendedIn a memo to its employees on Monday, CBC/Radio-Canada announced it has improved its over-the-top (OTT)...

Quebec commits $36m for newspapers’ move to digital

Media | 12/05/2017 2:53 pm EST

In a release on Monday, the Quebec government announced $36.4 million over five years in new investments supporting the province’s print media moving to digital. Announcing the funding over a Facebook Inc. livestream, Quebec...

Radio app iHeartRadio grows number of stations

Media | 12/04/2017 1:36 pm EST

Radio app iHeartRadio grows number of stationsA partnership between BCE Inc. and iHeartMedia Inc., iHeartRadio Canada announced Monday an update to its...

CMF launches export program for CanCon

Media | 12/01/2017 3:40 pm EST

CMF drives higher activity despite less fundingThe Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced a new export project to help Canadian content reach global...

SCC wrestles with scope of harm in online libel case

Media | 11/30/2017 2:00 pm EST

SCC sets Canadian jurisdiction in Facebook privacy caseOTTAWA — Canada’s highest court should prepare for consequences wrought on Canadian media in other...

Monique Lafontaine appointed Ontario commissioner for CRTC

Media | 11/29/2017 1:36 pm EST

Monique Lafontaine appointed Ontario commissioner for CRTCHeritage Minister Mélanie Joly has appointed Monique Lafontaine as the...

Competition Bureau reviewing Postmedia, Torstar deal

Media | 11/28/2017 5:53 pm EST

The Competition Bureau has confirmed in an email they will review a recent deal between Torstar Corp. and Postmedia, which saw the exchange of 41 commuter, local or community newspapers between the two Canadian media organizations...

CRTC denies Rogers request for OMNI local programming relief

Media | 11/28/2017 12:54 pm EST

Shaw, Quebecor ask CRTC to drop dual OMNI obligationThe CRTC has denied Rogers Communications Inc.’s request to amend a May...

Amazon releases online video production suite

Media | 11/27/2017 6:49 pm EST

200 to join Amazon’s Toronto officeAmazon.com Inc. announced multiple pieces of Amazon Web Service-based (AWS) video publishing software, which the company claims will “eliminate the need to procure expensive equipment for video data centers,” according to a release on Monday. According to its release,...

Gov’t should do more to support technology transfer: report

Media | 11/23/2017 12:33 pm EST

The House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and technology has outlined a number of ways to improve technology transfer — the move of knowledge developed in academic settings to...

Facebook names new Canadian division head

Media | 11/22/2017 4:08 pm EST

Facebook names new Canadian division headFacebook Inc. has named Garrick Tiplady its new managing director of Facebook Canada and Instagram...

Blue Ant Media CEO Raja Khanna steps down

Media | 11/21/2017 5:17 pm EST

Blue Ant Media CEO Raja Khanna steps downIn an emailed statement, Blue Ant Media Inc. has confirmed the resignation of its CEO of television and...

Tech giants increasing grip on advertising in Canada: report

Media | 11/21/2017 3:57 pm EST

Tech giants increasing grip on advertising in Canada: reportWhile the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...

FCC loosens local media ownership rules

Media | 11/17/2017 4:40 pm EST

FCC recommends SS7 best practices for service providersThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to eliminate the boundaries that traditionally limited ownership of a combination of local media properties, including television, radio and newspaper, by a single entity. “For too long, the Commission has failed to...

Bell Media layoffs ‘directly caused’ by the CRTC: Unifor

Media | 11/17/2017 3:01 pm EST

Bell Media layoffs 'directly caused’ by the CRTC: UniforThe union representing employees at 17 local TV and radio stations owned by...

Fake news worries increasing ahead of 2019 election: PPF CEO

Media | 11/15/2017 7:16 pm EST

Fake news worries increasing ahead of 2019 election: PPF CEOOTTAWA — Policy makers in Canada have become more concerned about the...

Lack of incentive undermines privacy protection tech: OPC

Media | 11/15/2017 6:55 pm EST

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has released an analysis of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), but cautions that there are still challenges for the adoption of practises...

Media, telecom issues not controversial in NAFTA: experts

Media | 11/15/2017 4:53 pm EST

Media, telecom issues not controversial in NAFTA: expertsOTTAWA — Questions around telecom, intellectual property and media...

Website blocking has potential to combat piracy, conference hears

Media | 11/14/2017 7:19 pm EST

Website blocking has potential to combat piracy, conference hearsOTTAWA — If BCE Inc.’s suggestion in September that the federal...

CFO Tom Hearne leaving theScore

Media | 11/14/2017 3:08 pm EST

CFO Tom Hearne leaving theScoreRogers Communications Inc.’s theScore announced Tuesday that chief financial officer Tom Hearne is...

Blue Ant makes two int’l executive hires

Media | 11/14/2017 11:00 am EST

Blue Ant makes two int'l executive hiresBlue Ant Media Inc. has hired two new executives at its Kids & Global Networks division, the company...

Canadian classics released on YouTube

Media | 11/13/2017 1:14 pm EST

Canadian classics released on YouTubeThe Canada Media Fund (CMF) last week announced the release of hundreds of Canadian television and...

CRTC cost award delays could lead to PIAC shutdown, group says

Media | 11/10/2017 5:24 pm EST

Telecoms pooh-pooh affordability fundThe Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is in danger of having to close up shop, and its executive director is laying the blame for the situation in which the consumer advocacy organization finds itself squarely at the CRTC’s feet. “This is their fault,”...

Videotron reaches 1M wireless subscribers as it reports Q3 results

Media | 11/10/2017 5:14 pm EST

Quebecor Inc. said its wireless division has eclipsed one million subscribers since posting higher revenues and profits in its third-quarter earnings Thursday.  “In the space of 7 years,...

Potential described video costs ‘exorbitant’: TVA Group

Media | 11/10/2017 3:27 pm EST

Potential described video costs ‘exorbitant’: TVA GroupQuebecor Inc.’s TVA Group has requested the modification of a condition...

Need to be proactive, can’t be reactive on radio trends: Bell, Rogers

Media | 11/09/2017 7:04 pm EST

Need to be proactive, can’t be reactive on radio trends: Bell, RogersTORONTO — If there’s one thing radio players can do to be successful in...

Government needs to move quicker, do more on telecom issues: panel

Media | 11/08/2017 6:13 pm EST

Government needs to move quicker, do more on telecom issues: panelTORONTO — The federal government and the CRTC must pick up the pace and...

Corus’ Sylvie Courtemanche appointed CBSC chair

Media | 11/07/2017 4:03 pm EST

Corus’ Sylvie Courtemanche appointed CBSC chairSylvie Courtemanche is leaving her post as Corus Entertainment Inc.’s vice-president of government relations and compliance to become the new chairwoman of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC). Courtemanche will start the job in January, the Canadian...

International market becoming key for music publishers: panel

Media | 11/07/2017 3:56 pm EST

International market becoming key for music publishers: panelOTTAWA — Markets outside of Canada are increasingly important for music...

Creative Canada ‘cultural policy, not tax policy’: Joly

Media | 11/02/2017 9:39 pm EDT

Creative Canada ‘cultural policy, not tax policy’: JolyOTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...

Live TV piracy to grow: Sandvine

Media | 11/02/2017 3:54 pm EDT

Live TV piracy to grow: SandvinePiracy of live TV is expected to increase, according to Sandvine Corp., which says it poses...

Bell needs to do more with ad tech, CEO says

Media | 11/02/2017 3:43 pm EDT

Alt TV managed service, doesn’t violate CRTC rules: CopeBCE Inc. CEO George Cope said the company needs to do a better job of finding opportunities in emerging advertising technology, as the company seeks additional revenue growth...

Distributel buying Zazeen, adds to exec team

Media | 11/02/2017 2:45 pm EDT

Distributel buying Zazeen, adds to exec teamDistributel Communications Inc. has received the OK from the CRTC to acquire IPTV service...

Expand statutory damages to other collectives: copyright groups

Media | 11/01/2017 5:43 pm EDT

Expand statutory damages to other collectives: copyright groupsJust over a week before Parliament is set to embark on its five-year review...

Video relay service availability extended

Media | 11/01/2017 4:50 pm EDT

Video relay service availability extendedUsers of the national video relay service (VRS) for hearing-impaired Canadians can now access the service...

Facebook to test more transparent ads in Canada

Media | 10/30/2017 5:01 pm EDT

Facebook to test more transparent ads in CanadaCanada will be the testbed for Facebook Inc.’s new advertising transparency policies, according to a...

CRTC extends deadline in Creative Canada consultation

Media | 10/26/2017 4:03 pm EDT

Interested parties now have an extra week to submit comments in the CRTC’s consultation on content distribution models. The regulator said in a notice Thursday it is extending the deadline for comments from Nov. 24 to Dec. 1. It launched the consultation as part of its work on a report, ordered by the federal government in its Creative Canada strategy, on future programming distribution models....

Rory Capern hired at Pelmorex

Media | 10/25/2017 4:39 pm EDT

Rory Capern leaves Twitter CanadaIn a press release on Wednesday, Pelmorex Corp. announced that Rory Capern will join the company as...

CRTC to hold Jan. hearing on radio licence applications

Media | 10/25/2017 1:59 pm EDT

The CRTC said Wednesday that it will consider renewals of new and existing radio licences at a hearing early next year. The hearing will be held on Jan. 11 in Gatineau, Quebec, with interventions...

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada release

Media | 10/24/2017 6:20 pm EDT

Broadcast lobbying jumped ahead of Creative Canada releaseCreative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...

Music Choice patents under review in dispute with Stingray

Media | 10/24/2017 5:44 pm EDT

Music Choice patents under review in dispute with StingrayStingray Digital Group Inc. is challenging the validity of patents held by...

Gary Finnegan joins DHX Media

Media | 10/24/2017 3:56 pm EDT

Analyst reaction largely positive to DHX reviewDHX Media Ltd. has appointed Gary Finnegan as vice-president of programming strategy, it said in a press release Monday. Finnegan, who will work out of the Toronto office, will “provide direction and guidance on DHX Television’s core business of creating and acquiring content that will be universally popular and drive viewer engagement for DHX Television,” the release said. He moves to the company from Time Warner Inc.’s Turner International, where he most recently “oversaw content strategy for Turner...

Rogers, Shaw indicate different plans for IPTV, internet bundling

Media | 10/20/2017 5:14 pm EDT

Rogers, Shaw indicate different plans for IPTV, internet bundlingOn the final day of the CRTC’s broadcast distribution licence hearing,...

Facebook outlines plans to tackle ‘election integrity’ in Canada

Media | 10/20/2017 5:08 pm EDT

Facebook to penalize false news disseminatorsFacebook Inc. is teaming up with Ottawa-based digital literacy group,...

57% of anglophones subscribe to OTT services: MTM

Media | 10/19/2017 5:41 pm EDT

Fifty-seven per cent of Canadian anglophones subscribe to over-the-top (OTT) streaming services, with Netflix Inc. as the strong leader, according to the latest report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a project of...

Narrow the ‘value gap,’ Music Canada tells gov’t

Media | 10/18/2017 7:50 pm EDT

Music Canada is asking the government to address the disparity between the value of creative content and the revenues that are generated from it. “The Value Gap challenges the livelihood and...

Government repeats no ISP tax in Heritage report review

Media | 10/18/2017 7:35 pm EDT

The federal government reiterated a previously held position that it will not implement taxes on internet service providers (ISP) in favour of Canadian content in a review of an earlier Heritage...

Corus focuses on content over broadcast with Historia, Séries+ sale

Media | 10/18/2017 6:16 pm EDT

Corus focuses on content over broadcast with Historia, Séries+ saleCorus Entertainment Inc. announced Tuesday it is selling two...

Look at high cost of à la carte channels, PIAC tells CRTC

Media | 10/17/2017 8:16 pm EDT

Look at high cost of à la carte channels, PIAC tells CRTCGATINEAU, Que. — There are still some problems with the implementation...

Corus, Discovery launching new kids’ content venture

Media | 10/17/2017 7:54 pm EDT

Corus, Discovery launching new kids' content ventureCorus Entertainment Inc.’s Nelvana and Discovery Communications Inc. have...

Part 1 applications filed against Rogers’ OMNI production

Media | 10/17/2017 7:41 pm EDT

Union to challenge Rogers’ use of third party for OMNI newscastsThe union representing Chinese-speaking media workers at properties owned by Rogers Communications Inc. and two other organizations have formalized complaints in two Part 1 applications that allege the company is offside of its licence requirements by outsourcing production...

CRTC consulting on mandatory carriage renewals

Media | 10/17/2017 3:00 pm EDT

The CRTC will consider mandatory distribution licence renewals for nine television channels when it holds a hearing next year, the regulator said in a Tuesday release. The commission said it will consider the renewal for the...

No business case, no set-top box measurement system: Cablecos

Media | 10/16/2017 8:29 pm EDT

No business case, no set-top box measurement system: CablecosGATINEAU, QUE. — Some companies in a working group crafted to measure how...

New CEO in at TVA Group after management shuffle

Media | 10/16/2017 12:19 pm EDT

New CEO in at TVA Group after management shuffleTVA vice-president of programming, France Lauzière, has replaced Julie Tremblay as the president and CEO...

Numeris working on new cross-platform measurement system

Media | 10/13/2017 5:02 pm EDT

Numeris working on new cross-platform measurement systemCanadian audience measurement organization Numeris said in a press...

Court issues no-cost orders for customer IDs of multiple ISPs

Media | 10/13/2017 4:47 pm EDT

Court issues no-cost orders for customer IDs of multiple ISPsThe Federal Court has made its first major disclosure orders for subscriber information since internet service providers (ISPs) were temporarily barred from charging for that information. David Fewer, director at the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public...

SiriusXM streaming service adds 75 channels

Media | 10/12/2017 3:38 pm EDT

SiriusXM streaming service adds 75 channelsSirius XM Canada Holdings Inc. has added 75 new channels to its SiriusXM Streaming service, it said...

Blue Ant opening animation studio

Media | 10/12/2017 2:38 pm EDT

Blue Ant opening animation studioBlue Ant Media Inc. is launching an animation studio, the company said in a press release Thursday....

Mobile video viewing at 70%: Ericsson report

Media | 10/12/2017 1:27 pm EDT

Today, approximately 70 per cent of consumers watch TV and video content on their smartphone devices, double the number from 2012, according to the eighth edition of Ericsson AB’s annual ConsumerLab TV and Media report. The...

NFL Sunday Ticket returns to broadcast TV with Dazn partnership

Media | 10/11/2017 6:16 pm EDT

Distributel’s TNW buy part of wider expansion plans: CEOPerform Group’s over-the-top (OTT) sports service Dazn is partnering with...

Sabrina Geremia named permanent Google Canada head

Media | 10/11/2017 5:32 pm EDT

Sabrina Geremia named permanent Google Canada headSabrina Geremia is the new country director for Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada. She has been in the...

CRTC OK’s sale of Kelowna radio station

Media | 10/11/2017 4:23 pm EDT

The CRTC has approved the acquisition of a Kelowna, B.C. radio station by Avenue Radio Ltd. from Vista Radio Ltd. However, it denied an Avenue Radio request for an exception to the requirement it pay tangible benefits, which it...

How big a threat are OTT sports services?

Media | 10/10/2017 5:55 pm EDT

How big a threat are OTT sports services?Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...

CRTC approves Canal+ International for distribution

Media | 10/06/2017 1:09 pm EDT

CRTC approves Canal+ International for distributionThe French channel Canal+ International is now available for distribution in Canada, the CRTC said...

Joly heading cultural trade mission to China in 2018

Media | 10/05/2017 6:36 pm EDT

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has announced plans to lead her first “creative industries trade mission” to Shanghai, China in April 2018. The mission will focus on film, gaming, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), performance art and museums, according to a press release. The release added the mission would focus on the creation of partnerships and business-to-business relationships, as part of an effort to promote “the discovery and distribution of Canadian creative content in global markets.” The initiative aims to expand the Canadian media industry access to the large...

Videotron takes Wholesale Code dispute with Rogers to CRTC

Media | 10/05/2017 6:27 pm EDT

Videotron takes Wholesale Code dispute with Rogers to CRTCQuebecor Inc.’s Videotron has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC...

Facebook launching tool to help ID fake news

Media | 10/05/2017 4:11 pm EDT

Facebook launching tool to help ID fake newsFacebook Inc. is testing a feature to provide context to the many news reports often shared through the...

Lori Rosenberg to join CCSA as VP of contracts

Media | 10/05/2017 3:00 pm EDT

Lori Rosenberg to join CCSA as VP of contractsThe Canadian Cable System Alliance (CCSA) said Thursday that Lori Rosenberg will join its executive team...

Quebec legislature votes to tax Netflix

Media | 10/04/2017 2:46 pm EDT

Quebec legislature votes to tax Netflix The Quebec national assembly voted Tuesday to impose provincial sales tax on foreign digital services,...

Netflix in 33% Que. households, Illico at 19%: report

Media | 10/03/2017 2:55 pm EDT

Netflix in 33% Que. households, Illico at 19%: reportJust over half, or 53 per cent, of Quebec households with internet access watch streaming video services, according to new research from the Centre francophone de recherche en informatisation des organisations (CEFRIO). That’s an increase of 13 per cent from last year,...

SOCAN appeals decision in making-available-right case

Media | 10/03/2017 1:22 pm EDT

The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has filed an appeal in Federal Court arguing that a Copyright Board decision that established the making available right under the Copyright Act applies to...

Analyst reaction largely positive to DHX review

Media | 10/02/2017 5:42 pm EDT

Analyst reaction largely positive to DHX reviewAn announcement by DHX Media Ltd. Monday that it is launching a strategic review that could see its board...

Joly’s cultural policy continues drawing mixed reaction

Media | 09/29/2017 5:20 pm EDT

Joly’s cultural policy continues drawing mixed reactionVarious groups praised the promised investment in production and promotion...

Bell Media cuts video production funds

Media | 09/29/2017 5:14 pm EDT

Bell Media cuts video production fundsAfter three decades in existence, MuchFact and BravoFact, funds of BCE Inc.’s media division, have...

CanCon, affordability, competition in CRTC mandate letter

Media | 09/29/2017 1:01 pm EDT

Promoting Canadian content and supporting creators, service affordability and encouraging competition and investment by companies are among the priorities outlined in the federal government’s...

Future reviews to determine much of DigiCanCon strategy: experts

Media | 09/28/2017 11:25 am EDT

Future reviews to determine much of DigiCanCon strategy: expertsOTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...

Rogers expands wireless data controls

Media | 09/26/2017 6:26 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc. said it will begin allowing the manager of shared wireless plans to control the quality of video streamed by members of the share plan. “With the new feature, the data manager (mom or dad, for...

Amazon adds Alexa to music app

Media | 09/26/2017 1:22 pm EDT

200 to join Amazon’s Toronto officeAmazon.com Inc. is making its voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant Alexa available on its...

France imposing Netflix tax

Media | 09/26/2017 12:47 pm EDT

France will put in place a two-per-cent tax on foreign digital video platforms, according to a report in Le Monde. The tax will begin in January 2018, the newspaper reported last week. In Canada, the federal government has indicated it’s not likely to begin imposing sales tax on platforms like Netflix Inc.’s, despite recent calls to do so from Quebec politicians....