Corus urges CRTC move on children’s programming By Ahmad Hathout If the CRTC used current foreign streamer investments to the Canadian system as a baseline to determine obligations, then it... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has been accepted as intervenor before the Federal Court of Appeal to explain the relationship between... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout The CRTC has closed the loop on a matter it opened over a year ago: that it does, indeed, have concurrent jurisdiction with Industry Canada over the... Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout Foreign streamers should be made to put money toward Canadian news funds because they are drawing money that used to go to support it out of the... Continue Reading
The CRTC last week in a letter informed Bell that the telecom’s recent move to start selling wireless devices locked to Bell’s network for 60 days is in apparent breach of the... Continue Reading
By Peter Menzies, former newspaper executive, past vice chair of the CRTC, and a Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow
On June 1, the Vancouver Whitecaps will play one of the most important games a Canadian club sports team has ever played.
In most countries – in fact in almost any country – broadcasters would be clamouring over each other for the ability to show it. The national public broadcaster might be claiming it as a program of national interest and politicians would be weighing in to play a little hero ball of their own and grab the spotlight.
The Whitecaps’ Concacaf Champions League…
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Public interest groups say the consultation is overdue By Ahmad Hathout Citing a broader portfolio of regulatory obligations, the CRTC on Monday launched its consultation on how to support and... Continue Reading
Bell Canada on Monday launched a new multimedia campaign, “Build. Connect. Grow Canada”, calling on the CRTC and new federal government to implement what it calls “smart policies” to unlock billions... Continue Reading
But most said they find contracts clear and easy to understand By Ahmad Hathout Only 18 per cent of Canadians are aware of the CRTC’s consumer protection codes, which are... Continue Reading
The CRTC will hold a virtual hearing July 10 on an application from Vista Radio to acquire Golden West Broadcasting’s English-language commercial radio station CJGY-FM in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and... Continue Reading
