TORONTO – Canadian Media Guild (CMG) members working at Ontario public broadcaster TVO will be in a legal strike position on Friday, Aug. 18, CMG announced Tuesday. This comes after 95.8 per... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – WildBrain has filed a heavily redacted Part 1 application accusing Bell of disadvantaging its children’s programming to the benefit of Corus in the English-language markets. “The origin of... Continue Reading
By Connie Thiessen Corus Entertainment has undertaken a reorganization of its audio division. “We can confirm we’ve made a number of changes in our audio business as part of leadership... Continue Reading
By Connie Thiessen Blue Ant Media and marblemedia have announced the merger of their respective production and distribution operations into one unified studio and rights business. The deal sees Blue... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Telefilm Canada announced Wednesday seven French-language feature films are receiving a total of $3.8 million in funding as part of the second round of selections in its Production... Continue Reading
GATINEAU, OTTAWA and TORONTO – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada and print and digital news association News Media Canada (NMC) have jointly applied to the Competition... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Stingray Advertising and Loblaw Media, the retail media division of Loblaw Companies Limited, announced Tuesday a partnership to launch audio advertising in Loblaw grocery stores this summer. The... Continue Reading
CBC calls it “irresponsible” and “abuse of power”; CAB says it shows “tangible disregard for democracy” Starting Tuesday, Meta has begun blocking Canadian news content on Facebook and Instagram for... Continue Reading
TORONTO – WildBrain announced Tuesday new content deals with Amazon that will see several series from the Canadian kids’ and family entertainment company’s catalogue offered on Prime Video in Canada,... Continue Reading
By Connie Thiessen The deadline for interventions in Bell Media’s request for regulatory programming relief passed late last week with 19 submissions received by the CRTC, the majority making the case against the broadcaster’s proposal.... Continue Reading
