The CRTC’s incoming vice-chairwoman of broadcasting, Caroline Simard, has a thorough, analytical mind and is well equipped to tackle the big issues in her new role at the telecom and broadcast regulator, according to the innovation minister’s lieutenant.
David...
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted positively by former colleagues who praised his experience and collegial style Tuesday, but his background...
The government should consider dividing the CRTC into separate telecom and broadcast regulators partly to ensure both issues get a fair view, according to a letter from the Internet Society of Canada (ISOC). The letter,...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is being sued for patent infringement by TiVo Inc. and one of its...
The CRTC has turned down a request by the Bell Fund to be allowed to devote...
Rogers Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to mandate TV providers keep OMNI in the same space on their channel line-ups when the new OMNI Regional service replaces the existing local stations. Rogers told the CRTC in a...
Ken Whyte, the former vice-president of public policy at Rogers Communications Inc., is joining the C.D. Howe Institute as a senior fellow.
“Ken’s achievements have made him one of Canada’s most respected journalists, and he has a wealth of insights in business,...
Cogeco Inc. reported stronger revenues and profits for its fiscal third quarter, the first earnings...
The Canadian TV landscape gets poor marks when it comes to the...
The CRTC has approved the acquisition by Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division of Tillsonburg Broadcasting Company Ltd. (TBCL), which operates two English-language stations in the small Ontario town. The deal, which...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will offer up virtual reality (VR) videos as part of an ongoing partnership...
Two senior executives at Corus Entertainment Inc. are expected to leave the company by the end of...
Canada’s social network usage is projected to grow steadily over the next four years but growth will slow compared to previous years, according to a report by research company eMarketer Inc. The...
The acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) could contribute to the discovery and growth of Canadian content, according to a mid-year trend report by the Canada Media Fund (CMF). “The progress of AI could support this...
The CRTC approved Tuesday an application by sponsor Ethnic Channels Group Ltd. to add Alaraby Television Network to its list of non-Canadian channels authorized for distribution. Ethnic Channels group said in its...
At the end of this week, following the departure of its vice-chairman of telecom, the CRTC will be left operating with only four commissioners and an interim chairwoman with...
Major internet-based companies and organizations are preparing to participate in a Wednesday campaign...
BCE Inc.’s media subsidiary said in a press release Friday that Bell will broadcast part of a concert...
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has made two new appointments to its board of directors.
Michael Schmalz...
As part of its discretionary tangible benefits proposal, Sirius XM Canada...
The CRTC has approved a music TV channel originating from Poland for distribution. Kino Polska Muzyka is sponsored in Canada by Ethnic Channels Group Ltd., according to the CRTC decision Thursday. The service, which is 95 per cent Polish-language and five per cent English-language, is listed as a 24-hour niche service with music video clips of the “best Polish-language popular music from the 1960s to today” while also broadcasting “profiles of Polish-language musical artists and concerts from time to time.”...
BCE Inc.’s media division announced that high-definition signals for its four Toronto radio stations are now available. The company said in a press release dated June 30 that Toronto AM stations Newstalk 1010 and TSN 1050, as...
The encounters with stakeholders that formed part of the rationale for his...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is increasing the data limits of wireless...
The deadline for interventions in a pair of Part 1 applications to the CRTC from Shaw Communications Inc. and Quebecor Inc. has been changed from July 31 to July 14. In late June, the two companies applied for...
The Ottawa-Gatineau radio market can’t sustain another station, the CRTC said in a Friday decision, and won’t consider an application for a new ethnic station in the area. The decision comes following a...
More than six dozen civil society organizations and individuals have come out to reiterate support for stronger data encryption in a letter addressed to a quintet of the world’s intelligence...
Activity by a working group tasked with studying the implementation of an audience measurement system via...
Shaw Communications Inc. is asking the CRTC to allow it to take OMNI’s over-the-air (OTA) station out...
The CRTC is asking for comment on renewals of licences held by 10 broadcasters. It said in a notice Thursday that some of the radio stations seeking renewal were previously found to be in non-compliance with their regulatory requirements and were renewed for short-term periods as a result. “The Commission notes the serious and, in some cases, recurring nature of those instances of apparent non-compliance in the current licence term,” it said. That includes Parrsoboro Radio Society’s CICR-FM in Parrsboro, N.S., as well as CFOR-FM, a commercial radio station in Maniwaki,...
TMN Go, the TV-everywhere service from BCE Inc.’s media division, will begin allowing viewers to download content for offline viewing.
The service will be available to...
The Federal Court has dismissed an application by Re:Sound Music Licensing Co. for a review of tariffs...
More creative groups are stepping up formal efforts to get the CRTC to reverse its licence renewal decision, which they say will negatively affect the production of Canadian content. On Thursday,...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has named Antoinette Noviello vice-president, corporate comptroller. “Antoinette is now taking charge of all aspects of Videotron's financial and accounting operations, including credit-risk...
A new report indicates that the number of companies operating in the virtual reality space in Canada has grown quickly in the past few years, though they say obstacles to their success include consumer adoption, financing and the maturity of the market overall. A study found that out of 200 companies surveyed that were involved in VR in 2016, 152 were active in VR a year earlier, and only 74 a year before that, while only 15 were active in VR in 2010. “The last few years have seen an explosion in companies engaging with VR, and especially in the number who have hitched their star...
Investel Capital Corp.’s TNW Wireless Inc. has been sold to an American holding and management company, United American Corp., the Florida-based company announced in a Wednesday press release. TNW Wireless, which serves...
Representatives from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a statement lauding the creation of a coalition by some of the world’s biggest tech companies aimed at tackling terrorist content online. On...
OTTAWA — In a landmark ruling, Canada’s top court dismissed an appeal...
Some of the world’s largest technology and social media companies are forming a coalition to counter terrorism. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism is being formed with the help of Facebook Inc., Microsoft...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) has formalized its complaint against the CRTC’s recent TV licence...
The European Union has fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 2.4 billion euros — about $3.6 billion in Canadian dollars — for giving itself an “illegal advantage” in its...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has named Philippe Cloutier its senior vice-president and chief financial...
American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural...
Corus Entertainment Inc. reported increases in both revenues and profit Tuesday, numbers that reflected its purchase of Shaw Communications Inc.’s media division last year. For the three months ended May 31, the broadcaster’s Q3 profits rose 35 per cent to $175.8 million from $130.2 million in the same quarter last year. Similarly, revenues rose 28 per cent to $461.6 million compared to $360.8 in the equivalent period last year. Television profits rose to $171.3 million compared to $127.9 million in the same quarter in 2016, while revenues in that segment jumped to $422.3 million...
The CRTC’s vice-chairman of telecom, Peter Menzies, is leaving the CRTC nearly a year before the end of...
Last month’s deluge of Canadian Cable Systems Alliance (CCSA) members on Parliament Hill for the...
Sam Sniderman has been named global head of commercial affairs and production at Blue Ant Media Inc.,...
OTTAWA — Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that British Columbia has...
Interactive Ontario has added three new directors to its board, the industry trade association said in a press release Wednesday. Joining the board are Sean Skelton, a software engineer at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Emma Westecott, director of the Game:play lab at OCAD University, and lawyer David Dembroski, who has served as secretary and a member of the executive committee at the organization. They replace Daniel Dales, Valerie Fox and Peter Miller, Interactive Ontario said in the press release. In addition, executive director Christa Dickenson has been named president and CEO...
Early adopters of virtual reality (VR) technology believe VR is poised to change pastimes like social networking and video viewing, though issues...
OTTAWA — Wawatay Native Communications Society will ask for an appeal of...
Snap Inc. has teamed up with Time Warner Inc. to develop programming for the picture- and video-sharing app Snapchat, Time Warner said Monday. In a blog post, Time Warner announced a new “global partnership” that will see...
OTTAWA — A nine-member panel has been charged with vetting potential appointees to the CBC/Radio-Canada...
Alex Maldini is the new vice-president of international sales and acquisitions at Blue Ant Media Inc.,...
Judith LaRocque has been appointed acting CRTC chairwoman for a four-month...
Now that former chairman Jean-Pierre Blais has departed the CRTC after five years at the helm, he leaves...
More anglophone Canadians are watching movies online, as the popularity of over-the-top (OTT) services continues, according to the latest Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report. The Thursday report by MTM, a project...
OTTAWA — All of the country’s cultural institutions need a rethink when it comes to reflecting the reality of aboriginal people in Canada, an indigenous broadcasting conference heard Saturday, with ideas ranging from creating a dedicated office at the CRTC, to...
Facebook Inc. said it wants to be a “hostile place” for terrorists, and outlined Thursday a series of steps it’s taking to counteract terrorism on its platforms. These actions include using artificial intelligence to...
OTTAWA — The next chair of the CRTC will have a more explicit focus on...
Stingray Digital Group Inc. said in a press release Friday it is expanding its head office in Montreal...
The CRTC said Thursday it won’t give Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron extra time to shut down its...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google Canada lobbied Leslie Church, its former communications head and now chief of staff to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly, on several occasions this year, meetings that are being criticized by Opposition MPs.
The issue came up for the second day in...
OTTAWA — After a year of study and hearing from 131 witnesses, some of...
OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee recommendation to expand the five-per-cent contribution broadcast...
The CRTC has approved five urban radio licences in markets across the country to serve Aboriginal peoples, a decision one Ontario Aboriginal radio station said will result in fewer hours, and less...
The federal government shouldn’t stand idly by, awaiting the looming...
CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais used what may prove to be his final address as head of the telecom...
CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais did not reapply for his job as CEO of the country’s telecom and broadcast regulator, according to a report by the Canadian Press. The wire service reported Monday that Blais “says he believes...
Canadians rely heaviest on CBC/Radio-Canada and the CRTC to protect...
A new office to support indigenous creators will open its doors, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly announced Monday at the Banff World Media Festival. The Indigenous Screen Office is a collaboration between the Aboriginal Peoples...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly acknowledged the “anxiety” members of the creative community are experiencing following the CRTC’s licence renewal decision, but didn’t...
Two Ontario markets with prospective applications for broadcasting licences can’t sustain any new radio stations, the CRTC said Friday. In separate decisions posted online, the regulator said...
BCE Inc.’s media division said Wednesday that it’s entered into an...
Non-traditional TV subscribers, such as those who use over-the-top (OTT) services, are more satisfied than those with traditional pay-TV subscriptions, a new J.D. Power survey suggested. Customers...
Three movie studios have gone through the Canadian court system to identify...
TORONTO — The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) also presents a chance for telecoms to monetize the data coming from IoT devices, said Michael Cihra, vice-president of IoT and emerging markets at Telus Corp.
“The one area that we also spend some time on now that...
BCE Inc.’s properties have scored the broadcast rights to the National Football League’s Thursday Night Football games, Bell Media announced Wednesday. The regular-season games will air on TSN, CTV Two and RDS as of the...
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and BCE Inc.’s media division have teamed up to develop virtual and augmented reality projects, the duo said in a Wednesday press release. "We're very excited to...
An additional nine local CTV stations across the country will begin airing an early evening newscast this fall, BCE Inc.’s media division said Wednesday. “Local news is an essential institution that unites communities...
Rogers Communications Inc. announced Tuesday its media sales division had signed two deals that “expand reach and deliver brand-safe, premium-content environments to advertisers.” In a press release, the company said the...
TORONTO — Products like new streaming TV services and sports-focused TV-everywhere offerings will help...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly is facing more calls to order the CRTC to review its licence renewal decision, this time from the Bloc Québécois. On Monday, Bloc MP Xavier Barsalou-Duval noted...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron made its bed and now it has to lie in it, according to consumer and digital rights advocates who opposed the company’s request for a delay in complying with the CRTC’s...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division will be expanding its CityNews program outside of Toronto...
Radio still factors heavily into the daily lives of anglophone Canadians, with local stations providing some of the most popular content, according to a new Media Technology Monitor (MTM) report. The Thursday report by MTM, a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, noted that 88 per cent of anglophones over 18 still listen to AM/FM radio content, with the average respondent listening to nine hours per week on traditional receivers — defined as a car radio, clock radio alarm or stereo system. About four in five use traditional receivers, with about 56 per cent of respondents indicating they use...
Twice-fired CRTC commissioner Raj Shoan has filed his application for judicial review, appealing his second removal from his post as the regional representative for Ontario. In a notice of application filed at the Federal Court...
Allowing customers to only select TV channels à la carte after they’ve taken advantage of one 10-channel small package doesn’t comply with the CRTC’s pick-and-pay rules, BCE Inc. was told....
OTTAWA — Before any right to be forgotten rules are instituted in Canada, there needs to be a fulsome public discussion, Colin McKay, head of public policy and government relations at Alphabet...
The CRTC has called for those holding TV service broadcasting licences that expire at the end of August 2018 to apply for their renewal. In a notice posted Thursday, the commission said licensees...
NorthVu Inc. has abandoned an appeal it filed with MediaTube Corp. in a dispute with BCE Inc. NorthVu filed a notice of discontinuance on May 23 in an appeal the two parties launched in February, against a January Federal Court decision that found Bell did not infringe a patent belonging to the two companies. NorthVu and MediaTube had claimed Bell and its Bell Aliant division used their patent, which allows TV signals to be more efficiently managed by sending only those signals the user selects, in its Fibe TV IPTV offering. The appeal filed by MediaTube continues....
Canada Media Fund (CMF)-supported content has seen a healthy export market in Europe, rivalling Canada’s number one export market in the United States, according to a new report sponsored by the Canadian Media Producers...
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly told a parliamentary...
The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) said in a press release Monday Judy Gladstone is taking over as its executive director. She replaces Pepita Ferrari in the role. Between 1997 and...
Conservatives elected Saskatchewan MP Andrew Scheer as party and official Opposition leader over the...
Both CBC/Radio-Canada and Netflix Inc. saw dramatic improvements in how Canadians view their brands over the past year, according to the latest edition of the Gustavson Brand Trust Index. The annual University of Victoria...
Rogers Communications Inc. has begun marketing itself as the Internet...
Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron is asking the CRTC for more time to comply with...
Blue Ant Media Inc. has acquired Racat Group, with international assets that include production houses and mobile game developers. As part of the deal, announced Wednesday, Blue Ant gets Racat’s New Zealand-based natural...
The Canadian public and the Conservative Party of Canada members have differing views when it comes to what the country should do about funding for CBC/Radio-Canada, according to surveys commissioned by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
While 82 per cent of the Canadian...
