GATINEAU – The CRTC must give broadcasters the flexibility to compete against over the top (OTT) competitors such as Netflix, Google and Hulu, Shaw Media told the CRTC during…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL – More than 50,000 children are reported missing in Canada every year, so Avis de recherche (ADR.tv), the television channel devoted to public safety, today launched Child Alert,…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein said Monday that Bell Media is taking a “one step forward and two steps backward” approach to its Canadian content commitments during…
Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Rogers Media’s proposed Canadian program expenditures and programs of national interest spending drew the ire of the CRTC during the second day of hearings into the group-based…
Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Corus Entertainment must be included in the group-based licensing regime so as to better compete with its fellow broadcasters, the company said during its licence renewal hearing…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Former Rogers Communications company director and well-known lawyer John A. Tory died early Sunday morning. He was 81.
Tory helped to co-found the Toronto-based law firm Tory and…
Continue Reading
CANNES, FRANCE – Montreal-based music and broadcasting company Stingray Digital is buying Music Choice Europe Ltd. from a European private investment group, the company confirmed Monday. Financial terms of…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Astral Media’s third annual National Day of Caring for Kids radiothon is set to air on May 5.
Broadcast by over 60 English-language radio stations in more than…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet has signed a four-year agreement to broadcast live cricket matches from the Indian Premier League, beginning this Friday.
The agreement gives Sportsnet exclusive Canadian television and…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Canadian independent producers and the country’s major private broadcast groups reached an agreement in principle over terms in trade on Monday.
The framework deal, which is still subject…
Continue Reading
