QUEBEC CITY – Radio-Canada has launched a new Internet site, TOU.TV, the first in Canada offering free access to a well-stocked library of old and current French-language television dramas, variety... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – While Quebecor is ready and able to propel wireless telecommunications to new heights, the federal government stands in the way by hindering development, says Quebecor President and CEO... Continue Reading
MONTREAL and OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) has lost its most influential French-language member. Quebecor Media-owned Le Groupe TVA, the country’s largest private French-language TV broadcaster, informed... Continue Reading
QUEBEC CITY – Since Friday night, when Quebec’s floundering broadcast station TQS began stripping its news operations, the TV network has been ignoring its obligation to produce a certain number... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Cable and satellite distributors took it on the chin again Friday at the CRTC’s hearings on broadcasting, this time from Astral Media, the country’s biggest French and English... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – They compete aggressively for U.S. programs, audience share, and advertisers, but in an exceptional show of unity, executives from CTVglobemedia Inc and CanWest Global Communications sat shoulder-to-shoulder Thursday... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Bragg Communications, the east coast cable and telecom company that claims to be “small in a big way,” wants the CRTC to take on a similar persona, by making big... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Telus Corp., a relatively new entrant into the broadcast distribution field with the IPTV service it launched in 2006, says it would prefer the regulatory status quo than... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre-Karl Péladeau challenged the CRTC today to re-write its “little red book” of more than 400 broadcasting rules and regulations or risk seeing... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Quebec film and television production company Remstar Corporation has won the bidding war for the financially troubled TQS television network. TQS’s Board of Directors and the networks’ shareholders... Continue Reading
