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...
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...
OTTAWA, Ont. – No public institution, including Canada’s public...
CBC-Radio Canada CEO Catherine Tait won’t say if she, or the public...
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday its plans to restructure its original content leadership team...
The Bloc Québécois is continuing its fight for a fund to help Canadian...
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...
BCE Inc. revealed more details on Tuesday on its proposal for how base contributions from online...
BCE Inc. and Fox Entertainment Global have unveiled a strategic licensing and distribution partnership,...
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) published a comprehensive report on...
The CRTC will review the carriage of Fox News as a non-Canadian programming...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that WildBrain...
The CRTC denied an application by BCE Inc., Bragg Communication Inc.’s...
The CRTC said Tuesday that it was altering the rules for commercials on discretionary services. The...
Unionized workers at TVOntario walked off the job on Monday, marking the first strike the public...
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 Media and Marblemedia have decided to merge their operations into one firm, the companies said...
WildBrain Ltd. is accusing BCE Inc. of breaching its regulatory obligations...
Canadian public broadcasting advocacy group...
Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposal to change...
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...
The CRTC is seeking comments on whether it should consolidate several...
APTN has applied to the CRTC to consolidate its four channels into two, one...
Local independent news stations want to exclude...
Quebecor Inc. has reversed itself and will not be suspending TVA’s newscasts in Quebec City on weekends...
The government has extended the term of Catherine Tait as president and CEO...
Quebecor Inc. has won a copyright infringement case against a trio of...
A House of Commons committee is calling for the Minister of Canadian Heritage to ban Chinese state media...
A Federal Court of Appeal judge has dismissed an attempt by BCE Inc.,...
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...
A Part 1 application has officially been opened...
A group of six consumer and public advocacy organizations is asking the CRTC to step in to restructure a Rogers Communications Inc. payment to...
The CRTC won’t force Quebecor Inc. into final...
The CRTC has issued the broadcasting licence fees for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The estimated total...
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...
The CRTC released two commissioned reports on the changing nature of the...
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it had dismissed a leave to...
BCE Inc. is arguing to the CRTC that it is...
A New Democrat representing a border city wants the CRTC to review...
The CRTC is reopening its proceeding into whether or not BCE Inc., Cogeco Inc., Bragg Communications...
The CRTC announced that it will publish the data collected in its Annual...
The battle over the government’s Online Streaming Act, Bill C-11,...
OTTAWA–Streaming is the way of the future, a panel told the Canadian...
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...
OTTAWA – The Senate officially adopted the Online Streaming Act, a year...
OTTAWA — The Business Development Bank of Canada...
The purpose of the CRTC is to achieve policy...
Corus Entertainment Inc. president and CEO Doug Murphy said an “advertising recession” is the cause...
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...
An application by four companies to hike the price of basic television...
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...
The committee studying the Online News Act...
Supporters and opponents of the Online Streaming Act alike have their eyes...
The start of another hockey season brings another federal court site-blocking order for a trio of telecom...
Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and members of his department were the final witnesses as the...
The CRTC has extended the deadline for interventions on a consultation...
The CRTC announced Thursday it was extending the deadline for interventions...
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...
Whether or not enough content is produced in...
The emerging ad-hoc regime of site-blocking in...
Corus Entertainment Inc. revealed a $367.1 million...
New Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre...
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 Inc., and the Motion Picture Association - Canada (MPA-Canada), of...
The federal government is sending the CRTC's renewal of...
Canadian broadcasting executives, from companies...
The idea that the CRTC is capable of handling the...
In a Sept. 6 letter, the CRTC has accepted a request from Rogers Communications Inc. for final offer...
The CRTC has opened a Part 1 proceeding after BCE...
The Senate’s upcoming review of the Online...
Television revenues are rebounding from the pandemic slump while revenues...
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...
Several broadcast industry stakeholders are...
The Attorney General of Canada will not make any representations for itself...
An independent soccer channel is petitioning the CRTC to force Rogers Communications Inc. to carry its...
The Canadian Media Producers Association, with support from parties across the television and film...
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...
A consortium of broadcasters and rights-holders have won an opening salvo of a fight against a television...
VMedia Inc. can expand its national footprint with...
A Quebec-based hotel accused of copyright infringement is asking the CRTC...
The Federal Court dismissed a digital entertainment company’s lawsuit alleging that Quebecor Inc.’s...
With the NDP and the Bloc Québécois supporting...
BCE Inc. is supporting a Quebecor Inc. application for the CRTC to revoke...
BCE Inc. wants the government to incentivize foreign-domestic partnerships...
CRTC chair Ian Scott told the House of Commons Heritage Committee Tuesday...
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...
The CRTC has found that Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron did not contravene its...
In the wake of a Federal Court ruling that determined a trio of companies that had established a private...
When it comes to Canada's wireless market this year, there are a number of...
A Canadian cultural policy that adopts a...
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...
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh called once again for the government to disallow...
Corus Entertainment Inc.'s profits were hit by the loss of approximately $12 million in wage subsidies...
GATINEAU, Que.--The CRTC came in for a drubbing at two panels Wednesday at the annual conference of the...
Updated with TekSavvy reaction. The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday...
Thursday the CRTC released its broadcasting licence fees for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. The net...
Russian state-owned media outlets RT and RT France...
The Canadian government has allocated $2.5 million to help people identify...
Rogers Communications Inc. and civil organizations...
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,”...