BCE Inc. will launch a new French-language specialty channel on Dec. 12, the company said Thursday. Called “Investigation,” the channel will focus on “on the world of crime and investigation and forensic techniques,” it said in a release. Bell said it would launch the channel with a “freeview” on its Bell TV and Fibe TV services, with other providers to be announced soon. The company proposed the channel during CRTC hearings into its acquisition of Astral Media Inc. this spring....
The federal government will wait to see the results of a CRTC report on how best to implement a pick-and-pay television model before deciding whether to get involved in the process, Heritage Minister Shelly Glover said. “We can’t make any decisions until we see the [CRTC’s] report because I want to make sure we have a complete picture,” Glover said in an interview Thursday. “They’re going to do their report and we’re going to wait for it …...
A Montreal radio station has sent a letter to the CRTC asking the regulator to look into whether CBC/Radio-Canada is targeting local advertisers when selling ads on its Espace Musique radio channel. Radio-Classique Montréal Inc., whose CJPX-FM station broadcasts classical music in Montreal, said that in September,...
The CRTC will not issue a call for applications for new radio stations to serve the Saskatoon market due to concerns about the effect licensing additional commercial stations would have. The commission said in a decision...
A draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, leaked Wednesday, shows that the U.S. and Canada have found themselves at odds over copyright issues during the negotiating process. The 95-page...
Rogers Communications Inc. on Wednesday announced two new features for customers of its NetBox 3.0 service, one that helps viewers decide what to watch and another that provides a selection of kids programming. The...
The CRTC is consulting on an application by Rogers Communications Inc. and an application by Cogeco Inc. subsidiary Cogeco Diffusion, the commission said in a notice Tuesday. It said Rogers had applied on behalf of its subsidiaries Mountain Cablevision Ltd. and Fido Solutions Inc., for a corporate reorganization within the Rogers Communications Partnership. The CRTC said the “corporate reorganization involves a change at the partner level of RCP, which consists of replacing RCI [Rogers Communications Inc.] [with] Mountain as one of the licensed partners. Mountain and Fido will continue...
Asian Television Network International Ltd. reported higher earnings and revenue for the three-month period ended Sept. 30 in comparison to a year earlier. The Markham, Ont.-based broadcaster, with more than 40 specialty TV...
A new report shows that Netflix Inc. and Google Inc.’s YouTube are the source of more than half the traffic being accessed by Internet users on fixed networks in North America. Waterloo,...
Five years after the 2008 global financial crisis caused a 10 per cent decline in Canada's TV advertising revenues, private conventional broadcasters are still feeling the pain. “If you...
CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said the television broadcasting framework needs to be adapted to the way people watch television today. “We need to effectively develop a regulatory framework that will be flexible enough to be adapted to the new technological reality, and the way people consume their...
The CRTC should block Corus Entertainment Inc.’s acquisition of the Teletoon Canada, Historia and Séries+ specialty channels from BCE Inc. because the deal is not in the “public interest,” the Public...
The CRTC on Thursday said it approved the sale of CHFT-FM, or K-Rock 100.5, in Fort McMurray, Alta., to Harvard Broadcasting Inc. from Newcap Inc. Harvard owns radio stations throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan, while Newcap is...
Performing rights copyright collective SOCAN reached an agreement for its members to receive additional payments from the use of their music in YouTube videos, the collective said. SOCAN said in a release Wednesday the deal...
Steve Maich is the new senior vice-president and general manager of publishing at Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division. The company said in a release Wednesday that Maich will “oversee all Publishing brands and...
Richard Lachance is the new president and CEO of Cogeco Inc. subsidiary Cogeco Diffusion Inc., the company said. Lachance, who joined Cogeco in 1999, was previously senior vice-president of Cogeco Diffusion, the company said in a release Wednesday. Lachance’s “deep knowledge of the industry combined with his vision and exceptional dynamism make him the ideal candidate to steer our media subsidiary toward new summits," Louis Audet, Cogeco Inc. president and chief executive, said in the release....
Torstar Corp., publisher of the Toronto Star newspaper and operator of web properties including the Workopolis job board, reported a third-quarter loss on Wednesday. The company said it lost $70.8 million in the three months ended Sept. 30, compared to a profit of $11.1 million one year earlier. The company attributed much of the loss to an increase...
Canadian Wireless and Telecommunications Association (CWTA) senior vice-president Jim Patrick will be moving to Shaw Communications Inc. next year. Patrick, who started at the CWTA in 2008 and previously worked in senior positions at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, will start at Shaw in January as the company's vice-president for...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division laid off 94 employees in an effort to lower expenses, the Canadian Press reported Tuesday. Andrea Goldstein, senior director of communications at Rogers Media, confirmed in an...
Quebecor Media Inc. subsidiary TVA Group Inc. reported revenues of $102.2 million in the three-month period that ended Sept. 30, up from $97.2 in the same period a year earlier. The company reported a profit of $6.3 million in its third-quarter financial results on Tuesday, up from $1.5 million at...
Southshore Broadcasting Inc. is now broadcasting test signals on four channels using multiplexing technology, said Tony Vidal, Southshore’s president and CEO. Multiplexing allows broadcasters to transmit multiple digital TV channels and sub-channels over a single, 6 MHz block of spectrum previously used to broadcast a single, analog channel. Southshore’s CFTV station became the first broadcaster in the country to receive CRTC authorization to multiplex signals last August. The company began broadcasting test signals on its CFTV-DT1, CFTV-DT2, CFTV-DT3 AND CFTV-DT4 channels on Oct. 28. “We are very excited to the first television Broadcaster inCanada to utilize the spectrum to this full potential,” Vidal said in an emailed statement to The Wire...
Corus Entertainment Inc. told CRTC commissioners that it is in the best interest of the Canadian broadcast industry that it acquire control of Teletoon Canada, Historia and Séries+ from BCE Inc. “We are here to...
Asian Television Network International Ltd. chief executive Shan Chandrasekar said in a release that the company plans to “enhance our strong Customer base on a Consumer oriented Pick and Pay Model across Canada." He made the comment in a release Monday about ATN launching six new channels on BCE Inc.’s Fibe TV. Four of those channels will be launched in collaboration with Indian broadcaster...
A tipping point of cord-cutting or “drastic cord shaving” for TV services won’t happen within the next five years, a new report by PwC said. “As long as consumers...
Jean-Pierre Blais, Chairman of the CRTC, said Monday that his organization is embracing the philosophy of “open government” and cited examples like the hearings that resulted in the commission blocking BCE Inc.’s...
The recent federal Conservative party convention in Calgary resulted in a new policy approach to funding for CBC/Radio-Canada. Party delegates approved by a vote of 596 to 504 a motion that "control and operations of the CBC...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division said Monday it hired industry veteran Brad Kubota for a newly created position. The company said in a release that Kubota will be Roger Media's vice-president of Western...
Newfoundland Capital Corp. Ltd., the parent company of Newcap Inc., reported a profit of $8.7 million for the three-month period ending Sept. 30. The company said in a release that figure was $9.7 million higher than the $1.1...
The CRTC denied aspects of a Rogers Communications Inc.’s corporate reorganization as part of a $400-million deal to purchase Shaw Communications Inc.’s cable subsidiary Mountain...
Bell Aliant Inc. reported a profit of $81 million for the three-month period ending Sept. 30, falling $7 million from the same time period a year earlier. The company, which is controlled by BCE Inc. through a 44 per cent stake, said in a release Thursday that its operating revenue for the third quarter was $695 million, falling 0.4 per cent from $697 million at the same time a year earlier. “Growth in TV, Internet, other data, wireless and other revenues were offset by declines in local and long distance revenues,” the company said. Bell Aliant added 11,600 high-speed...
Cogeco Inc. lost 14,210 cable television subscribers in the fourth quarter, the company said in a quarterly financial statement released Thursday. In its cable segment, Cogeco said it had 1,065,075 television subscribers at the end of the quarter on Aug. 31, 2013, down 14,210 from the previous quarter. The company reported having 562,260 telephone...
For a channel that has exclusive Canadian broadcast rights to big-ticket international sports events, beIN Sport doesn’t have the greatest track record in this country. The channel, a sports...
The CRTC is consulting on a targeted review of its commercial radio policies, the commission said. In a notice Wednesday, the CRTC said it is consulting on its process for determining whether to call for competing applications...
Cynthia Schyff is the new chief financial officer at independent broadcaster Blue Ant Media Inc., the company said in a release Wednesday. Schyff will “oversee all finance initiatives” for the company, Blue Ant said. Schyff, who has “over 20 years of finance experience in the technology industry,” most recently served as worldwide head of operational risk and GRC at IBM Corp., the company said....
The Conservative government should launch a major review of the Copyright Board of Canada, looking at its role and mandate as new technologies change the distribution of copyrighted works, experts said. In interviews with The Wire Report, Carys Craig, an associate professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, Ariel Katz, an associate professor in the faculty of law at the University of Toronto, and Howard Knopf, a copyright lawyer with Macera & Jarzyna, LLP in Ottawa, criticized the Copyright Board and said they support a review. Katz and Craig said the board is acting...
The CRTC will hold a hearing in January in Surrey, B.C., to consider 16 radio licence applications, including 14 applications to launch a new Vancouver-area radio station, the commission said. In a notice Tuesday, the broadcast...
The number of Canadians who used online technology to make phone or video calls nearly doubled from 2010 to 2012, Statistics Canada said. StatsCan said in a release Monday that the number of Canadians who used services such as Microsoft Corp.-owned Skype or Apple Inc.’s FaceTime to make phone or video calls over the...
Shaw Communications Inc.’s profits fell 12 per cent in the past 12 months as the company lost more cable subscribers in the fourth quarter. Shaw said in a release Thursday that it lost 29,522 cable subscribers in the three...
Rogers Communications Inc. reported slightly lower profits in the third quarter of 2013 as its wireless revenues and postpaid subscriber additions slowed, the company said. In a quarterly financial report released Thursday,...
Corus Entertainment Inc.’s fourth-quarter profits nearly halved in 2013 as the company’s radio stations in the key Toronto and Edmonton areas “underperformed” due to poor audience ratings, the company said....
The CRTC officially launched its public consultation on television services, asking the public for input into questions related to the Conservative government’s promise to unbundle television...
The CRTC updated its regulatory framework for pay-per-view services, deciding that they should be licensed under the same broad criteria as video-on-demand services. The commission said in a decision Wednesday that the...
Netflix Inc. is not interested in sports content, Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at the company, said during a conference call with analysts Monday, according to a transcript available on the company’s website. “We're still not interested in sports,” Sarandos said in response to a question about Netflix’s appetite for...
CBC/Radio-Canada is in “ongoing” negotiations with the National Hockey League (NHL) to renew its Hockey Night in Canada broadcasting rights, which are scheduled to expire in June. “We’ve been negotiating with the NHL,” Hubert Lacroix, CBC’s president and CEO, said at the public broadcaster’s annual public meeting in Toronto on Wednesday. “Conversations are ongoing and we hope to hear in the near future of how they will conclude,” he said. The Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) program is the anchor of CBC’s Saturday night schedule from...
Television is “by far the primary source for sports,” with 56 per cent of anglophone sports fans using their TV as their main source for sports content, according to a Media Technology Monitor report. MTM, a joint research project between CBC/Radio-Canada and BBM Analytics, said in a report released Tuesday that 23 per cent consider the...
Apple Inc. will likely start selling a new television device in 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Analyst Masahiko Ishino told WSJ that Apple would probably begin selling the ultra-high-definition TVs in the fourth...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said it will investigate BCE Inc.’s plans to track customers’ television viewing and Internet and mobile device usage habits. In an emailed statement, Valerie Lawton, a...
If viewers of Netflix Inc.’s Canadian streaming service are in the mood for a Canadian show, they might find their selections pretty limited. Not counting children’s content, viewers can...
Canada’s gaming industry employed 16,500 full-time equivalents in 2012, up five per cent from 15,700 in 2011, Nordicity said in a report commissioned by the Entertainment Software Association of Canada. The report, released by ESAC Tuesday, said there were 329 gaming studios in Canada in 2012, down five per cent from 2011. It also said the sector generated a total of 27,000 full-time jobs through direct employment and through indirect employment in industries that supply the gaming sector. The sector completed about 910 video game projects in 2012, the report said, 43 per cent for mobile platforms, 22 per cent for computers, and 16 per cent for consoles....
Canada’s broadcast distribution companies may be facing more regulatory risk than investors perceive, Canaccord Genuity analyst Dvai Ghose said in a note to clients on Tuesday. “Last week the Government’s Throne...
The CRTC approved an application by Bathurst Radio Inc. to operate an English-language, low-power community FM radio station in Bathurst, N.B. In a decision Monday, the commission said the station would broadcast 116 hours of...
Jean Malavoy is the new executive director of the Community Radio Fund of Canada. Malavoy was previously executive director of the Association des auteures et auteurs de l'Ontario français, and has worked in arts management for 30 years, CRFC said. The organization said it has also...
OTTAWA—The Conservative government announced it reached an agreement in principle for a free trade deal with Europe, ensuring EU access to Canada’s telecom sector and eliminating EU tariffs on Canadian communications technologies. The government announced the agreement Friday morning, though it did not provide...
The Conservative government’s promise to “unbundle” television channels and move toward a pick-and-pay model will involve a complex series of changes to the broadcasting system,...
TSN appointed Nathalie Cook as its new vice-president of sales and brand partnerships, the broadcaster said. In a release Tuesday, TSN said Cook has previously served in a “variety of senior management roles” at the broadcaster and its parent company, Bell Media (a BCE Inc. subsidiary). She was most recently vice-president of marketing and...
Consumers want more choice and flexibility in television. Unfortunately, before Canada’s television regulator has even had a chance to carefully consider the issue, there has been a rush to judgment. The detractors say it can’t be done, or shouldn’t be done, as though Canadians are wrong for thinking...
If TV subscribers are about to receive individual channels on a pick-and-pay basis, as the Conservative government says it will mandate, they may be surprised at the standalone pricing for some of...
Telus Corp. is suing AMC Networks Inc. to prevent it from withholding its popular TV content during a carriage dispute between the two companies, Reuters reported Tuesday. According to Reuters, Telus said in an Oct. 11 complaint filed in a New York court that AMC was threatening to pull its channel—which features hit shows Mad Men, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad—as the American broadcaster demanded higher fees from Telus for carrying the channel on its IPTV service. Telus said in the filings that AMC's efforts to extract more money from the company are in breach of a 2010 carriage deal that allows Telus to distribute the channel until the end of 2014. Reuters noted that Telus also denied AMC's claims that the Canadian broadcast distributor had previously breached...
Netflix Inc. is in talks with broadcast distributors in the United States to make its video streaming service available through the providers’ set-top boxes, the Wall Street Journal reported. In a report citing anonymous sources Sunday, WSJ said Netflix is asking the distributors to load a Netflix app on their set-top boxes, which consumers use...
A new coalition of about 30 organizations is calling for stronger safeguards on privacy rights, said the group, whose members include advocacy group OpenMedia.ca and consumer group the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. The “Protect Our Privacy” coalition said in a release Thursday it is calling on the government...
When Canada's wireless carriers put out new two-year mobile plans after the release of the CRTC's wireless code in June, many of the new rate plans emphasized the savings that could come through household or family sharing plans. Telus Corp.’s “Share Plus” plan, BCE Inc.’s “share...
Walt Disney Co. is closing its Pixar animation studio in Vancouver. Chris Wiggum, senior publicist for the company, said in an emailed statement that Pixar Canada “will cease operations immediately.” “[A]s we look at the creative and business needs of our studio, we’ve made the decision to refocus our efforts and resources under one roof in Emeryville [California] and will be closing the studio...
BCE Inc. entered a “multi-year strategic partnership” with the National Basketball Association (NBA), the company said. In a release Wednesday, Bell said the deal will allow its customers to watch “new weekly NBA content on their smartphones and tablets” throughout the league’s regular season and playoffs. It will also make “new nightly NBA highlights” available on its mobile TV service, the company said. Bell will also be the presenting sponsor of the “NBA Canada Series pre-season game platform” and “NBA All-Star Balloting platform in Canada,” the release said....
In the second quarter of 2013, the number of Canadian households with no paid TV subscription “who rely solely on Internet for video entertainment” rose to 1.1 million, consulting firm...
A coalition of activists and community broadcasters are asking the CRTC to postpone its decision on Videotron Ltd.’s application for a new English-language community TV station in Montreal to...
Apple Inc. is planning to bring its iTunes Radio streaming music service to Canada, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg said Apple plans to expand the service, released in the U.S. Sept. 18, to Canada...
The CRTC should follow a “market driven approach” to the broadcast rules for all-news channels, Conservative MP David Anderson said in a letter to the regulator in response to its CRTC’s proposed “news neighbourhoods” regulations. In the Sept. 4 letter to CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais, written while Anderson was...
The CRTC approved two applications for broadcasting distribution operations, which would serve Stratford, St. Mary’s and Kingston, Ont. The commission said in a decision Monday it approved an application by Wightman Telecom...
The CRTC is consulting on 16 television and radio applications, the commission said in a notice Friday. The applications include broadcasting licences for a Spanish-language sports and entertainment channel, a French-language horror genre channel, and an English-language specialty channel broadcasting user-generated content, the CRTC said. The...
Amazon Inc. plans to release a set-top box by the upcoming holiday shopping season, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The newspaper, citing anonymous sources, said the device is similar to the Roku Inc. player and will...
Last month's deal for more cooperation between the Competition Bureau and the CRTC is “a first step, baby step,” Commissioner of Competition John Pecman said Thursday at a conference in Ottawa. “What really...
Total media advertising revenue across all platforms rose to $12.5 billion in 2012 from $12 billion a year earlier, the Television Bureau of Canada (TVB) said. In a report called “Net Advertising Revenue,” released Thursday, TVB said Internet ad revenue, including earnings from "traditional" media publishers, rose from $2.7 billion in 2011 to $3.1 billion in 2012. TVB said 61 per cent of that revenue “is derived from listings such as search and classified & directories,” while online video and display advertising, which is most comparable to traditional brand advertising, represented 33 per cent online revenue, or $1 billion. "The remaining 6% of online revenue is derived from mobile, gaming and email," the report said. TVB said that,...
Rogers Communications Inc. is launching a service for customers to receive “personalized, location-based offers from their favourite retailers on their smartphone,” the company said in a release Wednesday. The...
The CRTC approved an application from TV5 Quebec Canada to add Berbère Télévision to the list of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution in Canada. In a decision Wednesday, the CRTC said the general interest channel would broadcast “information and entertainment programming aimed at the entire...
The CRTC approved a licence application by Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. for an English-language FM station in Portage La Prairie, Man. The station will have a “Classic Rock music format” and will target adults...
French gaming company Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. will concentrate its American operations for online games and infrastructure in Montreal, the company said in a release Monday. The company said it will also invest $373 million over seven years in the expansion of its motion capture technologies, resulting in an expected 500 new jobs in Quebec...
The CRTC revoked the licence of CityNews Channel, the regulator said in a decision Tuesday. Rogers Communications Inc.’s media subsidiary had requested that the licence for the national, English-language specialty category B service be revoked. Rogers said in May that it cancelled the channel, along with Rogers’ English-language South-Asian newscast, on its Omni Television service, and that it would also stop its Alberta-based production operations....
The CRTC is consulting on changes to how to measure local programming requirements for conventional television stations. The commission said in a notice Tuesday that BCE Inc.’s media division had applied to amend the licence conditions for its conventional television stations. The changes would “allow those English-language conventional...
Claude Laflamme is the new vice-president of legal and regulatory affairs at Stingray Digital Group Inc., the company said in a release Friday. Laflamme, previously vice-president of corporate and regulatory affairs at Astral Radio, left Astral following its acquisition by BCE Inc. over the summer. “Having worked in the legal departments of large private companies for more than 20 years, Ms. Laflamme will be a key...
Nataline Rodrigues was appointed director of original programming at Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division. The appointment is effective Oct. 1, the company said in a release Monday. Rodrigues will “manage the submission, development, and production of original Canadian...
The CRTC approved a new video on demand service to serve “multi-unit dwellings in downtown Toronto.” In a decision Friday, the commission approved an application by Beanfield Technologies Inc. for a regional video on demand service. The service would “consist primarily of current titles from Hollywood studios, including movies and...
Heather Conway is the new executive vice-president of English Services at CBC/Radio Canada. In a release Thursday, the public broadcaster said Conway, now chief business officer at the Art Gallery of Ontario, would start in her new role in early December. “Her business-focus to decision...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s media division will launch a tablet app offering subscribers “all-you-can-read” access to more than 100 magazines. The company said in a release Thursday that the Next Issue Canada...
Roku Inc. will roll out two new streaming players in October, the company said. In a post on the company’s blog Wednesday, Roku said its new Roku 1 and Roku 2 devices will stream high-definition video to users’ TVs,...
Fifty-seven per cent of Canadians had access to four or more wireless carriers in 2012, while a 6.3 per cent increase in revenues to $20.37 billion for wireless providers was powered by higher use of...
David Basskin is retiring as president and CEO of the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency after 24 years with the copyright collective. His retirement is effective Sept. 30, the CMRRA, which licenses the reproduction of songs, said in a release this week. “It’s been an exciting time to be part of Canada’s music industry,” Basskin said in a statement. He added that it was “an honour to serve those without whom there would be no music—the authors. It all starts with the songs. I’ll look back with satisfaction on my years with CMRRA. Together with a remarkable team of managers, board members and colleagues, we fought hard for our clients and strengthened their rights and earnings.” Basskin, a graduate of the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School, joined CMRRA after working as...
Mike Fries, chief executive of cableco Liberty Global Plc., said he doesn’t expect Apple Inc. to come out with its own television, Bloomberg reported Monday. Previous reports predicted that Apple would release a new iTV...
The CRTC and the federal Competition Bureau reached a deal to encourage more cooperation between the two organizations, the CRTC said. In a release Wednesday, the commission said the deal will mean the two regulatory bodies share...
The CRTC approved a CBC/Radio-Canada application for a new English-language FM radio station in Saskatoon. In a decision Monday, the commission said the station will replace the rebroadcasting transmitter CBK-1-FM Saskatoon....
The CRTC dismissed a complaint by NB Spring and Manufacturing Ltd. against Rogers Communications Inc. The CRTC said in a decision Monday that NB Spring had alleged Rogers “subjected it to an undue disadvantage and had given...
In a fragmented media market, one thing hasn't changed: advertisers continue to look for eyeballs. And that means following Canadians in their online video viewing. Online video advertising revenues rose 27 per cent last year, the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada reported last week, reaching $92 million in 2012, and forecasts by companies like Brightroll Inc. and PriceWaterhouseCoopers say the segment will continue growing. Still, you would have to multiply that $92 million thirty eight times to reach the level of Canadian advertising revenues for television in 2012, which,...
The number of Canadian subscribers to Netflix Inc.'s online streaming service has almost doubled year-over-year, reaching 21 per cent of Canadian adults this spring, according to polling data by Media Technology Monitor. MTM,...
Technology has changed “old assumptions" about the CRTC's role as "a gatekeeper,” Peter Menzies, the CRTC’s vice-chairman of telecommunications, said in a speech at a Canadian Cable Systems Alliance conference on Monday. “But now the Internet and all the devices that can reach it...
Jacques Parisien, Bell Media’s president of national specialty and pay TV, radio, and out-of-home, is leaving the company, BCE Inc. said. In a release Monday, the company said Parisien has decided to leave at the end of 2013. Parisien was previously executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Astral Media Inc. and president of Astral Radio, prior to Astral’s acquisition by BCE in July. “I...
The CRTC is consulting on a radio licence renewal by Faithway Communications Inc. for its Fredericton, N.B. Christian music radio station. The regulator said in a notice Friday that the company applied to change the frequency of...
BCE Inc.’s Bell Media subsidiary is rebranding its MuchMore specialty channel as M3, the company said in a release Thursday. Bell said M3 would target viewers in their 30s and that its programming would include “music, the hottest scripted series, reality programming and blockbuster...
A dispute over the Illico brand has made its way to Federal Court as legal research services company Illico Communications Inc. appealled a decision by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office that favoured Videotron Ltd. Videotron, a Quebecor Inc. subsidiary, has been promoting its Illico on-demand television service,...
TVO appointed Michael Carpentier as its new vice-president of business development, innovation and marketing, the Ontario public broadcaster said in a release Tuesday. Carpentier will be responsible for growing revenues, overseeing marketing activities, and leading TVO's digital strategy, the release said. He has been serving in the role on an interim basis since July 2013, TVO said. Carpentier has more than 20...
Online advertising revenues in Canada rose 15 per cent in 2012, reaching a total of $3.1 billion, said a new report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada. Chris Williams, president of IAB Canada, said in a telephone interview that the revenues were slightly higher than forecasted for 2012. “In general,...
The CRTC approved an application by Saugeen Community Radio Inc. to operate an FM radio station in Mount Forest and Wellington North, Ont., the commission said. In a decision Tuesday, the regulator said the English-language community FM station would broadcast 126 hours of programming each broadcast week, including 120 hours of local programming. The station would operate at 88.7 MHz, the commission said....
