MONTREAL – Restructuring costs at struggling Sun TV combined with a drop in advertising revenue helped pull down second quarter profits at Quebec-based Broadcaster TVA Group.Net income for the period ended... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – The CRTC’s proposal to include broadband as part of the basic service objective (BSO) for telcos is getting lukewarm support, at best. The Commission proposed the idea in... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – While the Commission has been prepared to consider applications for competitive news specialty services since last year, it is unmoved when it comes to considering them as a... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – If you give it to them, you must give it to us, too.That’s the gist of the message that Quebecor Media had for the CRTC on Monday when... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The CRTC has released an approximate schedule for its upcoming television license renewals. First up will be the renewal of Vide-on-Demand undertakings which will be handled via paper processes... Continue Reading
KORY TENEYCKE AND PIERRE KARL PÉLADEAU launched some stinging attacks on the established Canadian news channels last week in Toronto when they made public Quebecor Media’s plans to launch a... Continue Reading
IF EVERYONE PLAYS their expected part, Canadians may end up clamouring for the new SunTV News channel that its owner, Quebecor Media, envisions.The launch strategy, it appears, is so far... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Quebecor will transform Sun TV into a new “hard news/straight talk” English specialty channel called Sun TV News for television audiences tired of “being exposed to dry news”,... Continue Reading
TORONTO and OTTAWA - Quebecor’s rumoured new national news service could be revealed as early as Tuesday morning. Or, as we suspect, it will be a piece of a larger announcement... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - David Akin has been named as Sun Media’s national bureau chief in Ottawa, while Brian Lilley is its new senior correspondent.Akin, most recently the national affairs correspondent for... Continue Reading