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Accessible Media seeks to increase rates for mandatory carriage

Media | 03/05/2024 5:49 pm EST

Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) submitted an application to the CRTC for an interim rate increase for its AMI-tv and AMI-télé channels to address the financial challenges facing the organization, which predominantly serves Canadians with disabilities. AMI's application...

Demographic data provides solid evidence for diversity and inclusion, conference told

Internet and Governance | 02/01/2024 8:12 pm EST

OTTAWA–Demographic reporting is essential if we are to promote diversity in film and television, the Canadian Media Producers Association was told Thursday. Its annual Prime...

Attacks on CBC are concerning, says CMPA president at Prime Time conference

Media | 02/01/2024 12:35 pm EST

OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...

Tait won’t rule out bonus pay for CBC’s top brass despite job cuts

Media | 01/30/2024 6:42 pm EST

CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...

Corus restructures content leadership team 

Media | 01/29/2024 3:40 pm EST

Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday its plans to restructure its original content leadership team...

BQ media fund idea won’t solve problems, St-Onge maintains 

Media | 11/27/2023 5:31 pm EST

The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...

APTN says funds needed to support public service broadcasters

Internet and Governance | 11/27/2023 4:56 pm EST

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) on Friday called for the creation of a Services of Exceptional Importance Fund to support mandatory carriage broadcasters and other important services in the broadcasting system that meet critical policy mandates.  The...

Bell lays out contribution framework proposal at CRTC

Internet and Governance | 11/22/2023 9:13 am EST

BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...

Bell and Fox forge alliance to boost original CanCon

Media | 10/27/2023 3:51 pm EDT

BCE Inc. and Fox Entertainment Global have unveiled a strategic licensing and distribution partnership,...

WGC report finds gains in member diversity but stagnant work opportunities

Media | 10/25/2023 5:02 pm EDT

The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) published a comprehensive report on...

CRTC to hold proceedings on Fox News carriage in Canada

Media | 09/20/2023 4:19 pm EDT

The CRTC will review the carriage of Fox News as a non-Canadian programming...

No financial justification to increase skinny basic rate from $25 to $28: CRTC

Media | 09/05/2023 3:40 pm EDT

The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...

CRTC changes ad rules for discretionary services

Media | 09/05/2023 3:34 pm EDT

The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...

TVO workers on strike with no talks looming

Media | 08/24/2023 4:12 pm EDT

Unionized workers at TVOntario walked off the job on Monday, marking the first strike the public...

CRTC directed to include modified U.S. home shopping programs as authorized foreign programming services 

Media | 08/16/2023 6:03 pm EDT

The CRTC is being directed to include modified American home shopping television programming services based in the U.S. on its list of non-Canadian programming services...

Blue Ant and marblemedia announce merger

Media | 08/10/2023 4:26 pm EDT

Blue Ant Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...

WildBrain says Bell is giving one up to its competitor Corus 

Media | 08/09/2023 5:33 pm EDT

WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations...

Rogers’s proposal to expand PNI categories requires larger public consultation: CMPA

Media | 07/20/2023 4:36 pm EDT

Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change...

FRPC, PIAC, demand CRTC handle consolidated broadcasting proceeding request as Part 1 

Media | 07/11/2023 3:35 pm EDT

The Forum for Research and Policy in Communications (FRPC) and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) are not happy with how the CRTC is handling their request to hold one...

CRTC entertaining idea of consolidating multiple broadcasting COL requests

Media | 07/10/2023 4:15 pm EDT

The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several...

APTN to increase Indigenous-language programming with new ‘Languages’ channel

Media | 07/04/2023 2:35 pm EDT

APTN has applied to the CRTC to consolidate its four channels into two, one...

TVA changes mind about cutting weekend newscasts

Media | 06/21/2023 8:54 am EDT

Quebecor Inc. has reversed itself and will not be suspending TVA’s newscasts in Quebec City on weekends...

Catherine Tait reappointed as president of CBC/Radio-Canada

Media | 06/01/2023 5:04 pm EDT

The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...

Federal Court dings hotel rebroadcasters for copyright infringement against Quebecor

Media | 05/30/2023 7:38 am EDT

Quebecor Inc. has won a copyright infringement case against a trio of...

Parliamentary committee calls for China TV ban

Media | 05/19/2023 2:11 pm EDT

A House of Commons committee is calling for the Minister of Canadian Heritage to ban Chinese state media...

Judge rejects broadcasters’ request for increased fine in set-top box case

Media | 05/19/2023 2:05 pm EDT

A Federal Court of Appeal judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc.,...

CRTC becoming more accommodating to stakeholders: Eatrides

Internet and Governance | 05/15/2023 2:34 pm EDT

OTTAWA–The CRTC is improving its process to be more responsive to its various stakeholders, the commission chair said Monday. Vicky Eatrides was the opening speaker at the annual conference of the International Institute of Communications Canadian Chapter. “A key...

Public interest groups call for shored up Broadcasting Participation Fund

Media | 04/17/2023 5:08 pm EDT

A group of six consumer and public advocacy organizations is asking the CRTC to step in to restructure a Rogers Communications Inc. payment to...

CRTC issues broadcasting licence fees

Media | 03/22/2023 1:03 pm EDT

The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...

Champagne most lobbied minister in Canadian government, survey finds

Media | 03/22/2023 12:56 pm EDT

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne was the most-lobbied minister in cabinet last year, a survey has discovered. Reporters for the Wire Report’s affiliated...

CRTC releases pair of broadcasting reports that paint dire picture

Media | 03/03/2023 6:04 pm EST

The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...

CBC and CTV lose leave to appeal BC case to Supreme Court

Media | 03/02/2023 11:06 am EST

The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...

Masse calls for CRTC review of cross-border advertising

Media | 02/27/2023 3:08 pm EST

A New Democrat representing a border city wants the CRTC to review...

CRTC reopens basic television price hike proceeding

Media | 02/21/2023 5:25 pm EST

 The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...

CRTC to release broadcaster revenue data, aggregated by industry segment

Media | 02/16/2023 4:43 pm EST

The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual...

Senators continue fight over Streaming Act and CBC’s future

Media | 02/08/2023 1:22 pm EST

The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11,...

Unscripted series the wave of the future for streamers, CMPA conference hears

Media | 02/06/2023 1:31 pm EST

OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian...

CBC’s Tait says IP ownership has to remain front and centre of CanCon rules; Amazon disagrees

Media | 02/03/2023 5:14 pm EST

OTTAWA– An Amazon Inc. Prime Video executive has said CanCon rules hinder getting Canadian stories to a world market, but CBC/ Radio-Canada’s president and CEO says...

UPDATED: Senate passes C-11; Rodriguez expects C-11 to become law next week

Media | 02/02/2023 7:17 pm EST

OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...

Corus still feeling effects of advertising recession

Media | 01/13/2023 5:43 pm EST

Corus Entertainment Inc. president and CEO Doug Murphy said an “advertising recession” is the cause...

Quebec hotel company keeps exempt BDU status, despite protests of Quebecor and Bell

Media | 01/04/2023 4:47 pm EST

The CRTC has denied Quebecor Inc.’s request to sanction Coopérative de câblodistribution Hill Valley, and to remove it from the list of exempted broadcasting distribution...

Increase to skinny basic rates not popular with public, CRTC hears

Media | 12/13/2022 6:15 pm EST

An application by four companies to hike the price of basic television...

CBC to stay in Bill C-18

Media | 12/06/2022 6:29 pm EST

Despite concerns about CBC/Radio-Canada muscling private media out of competition for advertising dollars in the news sector, the House of Commons Heritage committee defeated...

Senate won’t define discoverability in Online Streaming Act definitions

Media | 11/24/2022 5:11 pm EST

Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...

Hockey broadcasters win fresh site-blocking order

Media | 11/23/2022 7:43 am EST

The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...

Rodriguez urges senators to pass Online Streaming Act

Media | 11/22/2022 8:17 pm EST

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the...

CRTC extends deadline in Quebecor advertising application 

Media | 11/15/2022 5:14 pm EST

The CRTC has extended the deadline for interventions on a consultation...

PIAC wins partial victory as CRTC extends basic skinny proceeding

Media | 10/27/2022 3:11 pm EDT

The CRTC announced Thursday it was extending the deadline for interventions...

Streamers should be obliged to sell cable integration apps to small BDUs: CCSA

Media | 10/27/2022 11:35 am EDT

The organization representing independent companies providing cable TV and IPTV services is arguing that the Online Streaming Act has ignored the needs of small broadcasting...

CRTC seeking comment about removal of advertising limits

Media | 10/06/2022 2:14 pm EDT

The CRTC is seeking comments on whether or not it should allow Quebecor Inc.'s TVA Group to show more advertising on its discretionary services, as well as the possibility of removing the 12 minute-per-hour limit on other discretionary services as well.  In a notice of...

Netflix and MPA-Canada want C-11 to be flexible for global undertakings

Media | 10/04/2022 5:14 pm EDT

Netflix Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...

CBC licence renewal sent back to CRTC for not meeting objective of Broadcasting Act

Media | 09/22/2022 5:28 pm EDT

The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...

Broadcasters want policy direction on C-11; streamers want their algorithms left alone

Media | 09/15/2022 7:51 pm EDT

Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...

CRTC to arbitrate Rogers dispute over Family Channel

Media | 09/08/2022 4:50 pm EDT

In a Sept. 6 letter, the CRTC has accepted a request from Rogers Communications Inc. for final offer...

TV revenues recover while radio continues decline: CRTC report

Media | 08/23/2022 5:03 pm EDT

Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...

OUTtv licence renewed, becomes must-offer in English Canada

Media | 08/18/2022 5:05 pm EDT

Thursday the CRTC renewed the licence of OUTtv Network Inc. for five years and said it should be on must-offer status in English Canada for four years. That wasn’t good enough for one commissioner. The LGBTQ+-themed network had asked for must-offer coverage across both...

AG won’t fight CMPA’s application for leave to appeal CBC license 

Media | 08/11/2022 3:22 pm EDT

The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...

OneSoccer demands carriage on Rogers

telecom | 08/10/2022 4:22 pm EDT

An independent soccer channel is petitioning the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to carry its...

CMPA files petition to cabinet on CBC license 

Media | 08/08/2022 6:57 pm EDT

The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...

PIAC, pensioners want cabinet to overturn CRTC’s CBC licence renewal

Media | 08/05/2022 3:45 pm EDT

The National Pensioners Federation and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre have filed a petition asking cabinet to overturn the CRTC’s renewal of the CBC/Radio-Canada...

Bell, Rogers and TV creators triumph over pirates

Media | 08/03/2022 5:25 pm EDT

A consortium of broadcasters and rights-holders have won an opening salvo of a fight against a television...

Quebecor’s acquisition of VMedia exciting for competition says co-founder, CNOC

Media | 07/28/2022 5:38 pm EDT

VMedia Inc. can expand its national footprint with...

Quebec hotel company asks CRTC to mandate negotiations with Bell

Media | 07/11/2022 5:43 pm EDT

A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC...

Court finds Videotron did not violate Rovi patents

Media | 06/27/2022 4:26 pm EDT

The Federal Court dismissed a digital entertainment company’s lawsuit alleging that Quebecor Inc.’s...

Punish hotel broadcaster who infringed on copyright: Bell tells CRTC

Media | 06/07/2022 3:31 pm EDT

BCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke...

C-11 needs to incentivize a new era of foreign-domestic partnerships: Bell

Media | 06/02/2022 2:54 pm EDT

BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...

Intent of C-11 is to exclude digital creators: CRTC chair

Media | 06/01/2022 6:01 pm EDT

CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...

C-11 will “hang over the system until Supreme Court has spoken” over jurisdiction: Palmer

Media | 05/31/2022 6:29 pm EDT

A former senior general counsel at the Department of Justice has told members of parliament studying the Online Streaming Act that the bill “lacks a foundation in Canadian...

CRTC dismisses Bell complaint that Videotron Vrai HVOD service violates regulations

Media | 05/30/2022 4:53 pm EDT

The CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its...

Quebecor asks CRTC to punish hotel broadcasters

Media | 05/06/2022 2:53 pm EDT

In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...

Rogers-Shaw merger benefiting wireless industry as a whole in 2022: Bell CEO

Media | 05/05/2022 4:35 pm EDT

When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...

CPAC appoints new president, CEO

Media | 04/29/2022 1:02 pm EDT

The Cable Public Affairs Channel Inc. (CPAC) named Christa Dickenson as its president and chief executive officer, the public affairs broadcaster announced Friday in a press release. Dickenson has 30 years of experience in the film, cable television, interactive digital media, technology, and telecommunications sectors. She has worked at Telefilm Canada, Interactive Ontario, Rogers Communications Inc., CTV News, as well as CPAC. She was also named as one of “the 20 most powerful women in global entertainment” by...

Singh calls for halt of Rogers-Shaw merger, PIAC appeals to cabinet

Media | 04/27/2022 4:38 pm EDT

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...

Corus profit margins lower, citing end of CEWS.

Media | 04/08/2022 5:01 pm EDT

Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...

Panelists tell government to reform the CRTC

Media | 03/30/2022 7:14 pm EDT

GATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the...

Supreme Court dismisses TekSavvy appeal of GoldTV site-blocking order

Media | 03/24/2022 1:28 pm EDT

Updated with TekSavvy reaction. The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...

CRTC issues broadcasting licence fees 

Media | 03/17/2022 3:23 pm EDT

Thursday the CRTC released its broadcasting licence fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. The net...

Federal government spends $2.5m to battle disinformation

Internet and Governance | 03/16/2022 3:17 pm EDT

The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...

Rogers, civil groups, say CRTC should remove Russian state-owned channels from airwaves

Media | 03/09/2022 4:27 pm EST

Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...

Bill C-11 a new bill with no new ideas, and a ‘legal pretzel’ for censorship: CPC

Media | 03/01/2022 5:05 pm EST

For the second time in the span of a year, the Liberal government has introduced a new bill to update Canada’s broadcasting act but “what it doesn't bring is new ideas,”...