MONTREAL – Quebecor’s broadcaster/TV producer/publisher TVA Group reported last week that it posted $9.2 million in net income attributable to shareholders in the fourth quarter, up from $5.7 million in... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The federal government has followed through on its commitment to top up the Canada Media Fund in the face of declining contributions from broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs). Minister... Continue Reading
FOR MANY DECADES, THE Canadian TV market had the luxury of being a walled garden protected by the limits of technology. We even carved out a national production industry and... Continue Reading
5e partie dans notre série sur la révision des Lois sur la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications. Une entrevue exclusiveEN 1999 LORSQUE PIERRE Karl Péladeau était le PDG de la plus grande... Continue Reading
Part V in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom Acts. An exclusive interviewBACK IN 1999, WHEN Pierre Karl Péladeau was the CEO of the world’s largest printer and... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The Federal Court of Appeal ruled late yesterday that a Montreal man was indeed enabling the pirating copyrighted content by making TV shows from Rogers, Bell and Quebecor... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – The Canadian Union of Public Employees wants the CRTC to drop its digital media exemption order."The CRTC has the power to act swiftly and put a stop to... Continue Reading
Commission favoured BellMONTREAL - Quebecor has filed for leave to appeal a “baffling” CRTC decision that ruled against its French-language sports service TVA Sports in a carriage dispute with Bell.The... Continue Reading
Phase one of “Total Business Transformation” had targeted just 650CALGARY – Over the next 18 months, fully 25% of Shaw Communications’ current workforce will leave. Company president Jay Mehr says... Continue Reading
Towards a Canadian strategyOVER THE LAST two weeks, I’ve argued the Canadian strategy of supporting, and indeed actively pushing for, the vertical integration of our broadcasting system was a mistake,... Continue Reading