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...
Shaw 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 Digital Group Inc. has purchased the New York-based streaming service Quello Concerts in a move...
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...
The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a case brought forward by BCE Inc. challenging the CRTC’s rule...
Rogers Communications Inc. and CBC/Radio-Canada signed a seven-year sub-licensing deal for the...
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...
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...
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...
A few months after the emergence of a proposal asking the CRTC to shift...
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...
Opposition leader Andrew Scheer isn’t going public with his position on...
The number of Canadians who get their internet access wirelessly — either...
CBC/Radio-Canada has achieved its goal of doubling its digital reach more than two years early, the...
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 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...
BCE 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...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced that Edward and Melinda Rogers, the...
Shaw 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...
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...
The 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...
In a memo to its employees on Monday, CBC/Radio-Canada announced it has improved its over-the-top (OTT)...
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...
A partnership between BCE Inc. and iHeartMedia Inc., iHeartRadio Canada announced Monday an update to its...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced a new export project to help Canadian content reach global...
OTTAWA — Canada’s highest court should prepare for consequences wrought on Canadian media in other...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has appointed Monique Lafontaine as the...
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...
The CRTC has denied Rogers Communications Inc.’s request to amend a May...
Amazon.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,...
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 Inc. has named Garrick Tiplady its new managing director of Facebook Canada and Instagram...
In an emailed statement, Blue Ant Media Inc. has confirmed the resignation of its CEO of television and...
While the total amount of advertising money flowing to Canadian media has...
The 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...
The union representing employees at 17 local TV and radio stations owned by...
OTTAWA — Policy makers in Canada have become more concerned about the...
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...
OTTAWA — Questions around telecom, intellectual property and media...
OTTAWA — If BCE Inc.’s suggestion in September that the federal...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s theScore announced Tuesday that chief financial officer Tom Hearne is...
Blue Ant Media Inc. has hired two new executives at its Kids & Global Networks division, the company...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) last week announced the release of hundreds of Canadian television and...
The 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,”...
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,...
Quebecor Inc.’s TVA Group has requested the modification of a condition...
TORONTO — If there’s one thing radio players can do to be successful in...
TORONTO — The federal government and the CRTC must pick up the pace and...
Sylvie 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...
OTTAWA — Markets outside of Canada are increasingly important for music...
OTTAWA — Opposition MPs continued their criticism of Heritage Minister...
Piracy of live TV is expected to increase, according to Sandvine Corp., which says it poses...
BCE 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 Communications Inc. has received the OK from the CRTC to acquire IPTV service...
Just over a week before Parliament is set to embark on its five-year review...
Users of the national video relay service (VRS) for hearing-impaired Canadians can now access the service...
Canada will be the testbed for Facebook Inc.’s new advertising transparency policies, according to a...
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....
In a press release on Wednesday, Pelmorex Corp. announced that Rory Capern will join the company as...
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...
Creative organizations stepped up and added to a surge in lobbying activity...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. is challenging the validity of patents held by...
DHX 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...
On the final day of the CRTC’s broadcast distribution licence hearing,...
Facebook Inc. is teaming up with Ottawa-based digital literacy group,...
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...
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...
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 Entertainment Inc. announced Tuesday it is selling two...
GATINEAU, Que. — There are still some problems with the implementation...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s Nelvana and Discovery Communications Inc. have...
The 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...
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...
GATINEAU, QUE. — Some companies in a working group crafted to measure how...
TVA vice-president of programming, France Lauzière, has replaced Julie Tremblay as the president and CEO...
Canadian audience measurement organization Numeris said in a press...
The 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...
Sirius XM Canada Holdings Inc. has added 75 new channels to its SiriusXM Streaming service, it said...
Blue Ant Media Inc. is launching an animation studio, the company said in a press release Thursday....
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...
Perform Group’s over-the-top (OTT) sports service Dazn is partnering with...
Sabrina Geremia is the new country director for Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada.
She has been in the...
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...
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...
The French channel Canal+ International is now available for distribution in Canada, the CRTC said...
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...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC...
Facebook Inc. is testing a feature to provide context to the many news reports often shared through the...
The Canadian Cable System Alliance (CCSA) said Thursday that Lori Rosenberg will join its executive team...
The Quebec national assembly voted Tuesday to impose provincial sales tax on foreign digital services,...
Just 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,...
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...
An announcement by DHX Media Ltd. Monday that it is launching a strategic review that could see its board...
Various groups praised the promised investment in production and promotion...
After three decades in existence, MuchFact and BravoFact, funds of BCE Inc.’s media division, have...
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...
OTTAWA — While the response to the long-awaited results of Heritage...
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.com Inc. is making its voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant Alexa available on its...
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....
