I FINALLY HAVE A RESPONSE to something CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais asked we reporters – in absentia, mind you – during day eight of September’s Talk TV hearing, the day... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Quebecor’s QMI Content has finalized a major multi-platform agreement with Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) that includes French-language versions of kids favourites like Dora the Explorer, Go Diego... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Quebecor’s Videotron will be Canada’s fourth national wireless player “if the CRTC creates the right conditions”.The Montreal-based communications giant used its appearance Friday at the CRTC’s wireless hearing to... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Quebecor is expanding its philanthropic Éléphant: The Memory of Québec Cinema initiative to include a film festival devoted to restored and digitized movies.The inaugural Éléphant ClassiQ will open... Continue Reading
GATINEAU - Calls for relaxed broadcast regulations from Quebecor Media appeared to ring hollow with CRTC commissioners on the second day of the Regulator’s Let‘s Talk TV policy hearing. During... Continue Reading
GATINEAU - The implications of imposing old-style TV regulations on new age digital media providers was front and centre during the first day of the CRTC’s Let’s Talk TV policy... Continue Reading
SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT. Especially if I’m quoting Macbeth.We have analyzed the hell out of the CRTC’s TV Policy Review which is set to begin Monday in Gatineau, but there’s something... Continue Reading
GATINEAU - Quebecor Inc. complained to the CRTC in February that the Bell Fund, which gives money to digital and new media projects associated with television productions, had rejected three... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Quebecor has sold its digital design and marketing services Nurun subsidiary to the French advertising and public relations company Publicis Groupe for a cash consideration of CAN$125 million.President... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The federal government said that it will force the communication industry to abandon paper bill charges after the country’s biggest companies failed to commit to doing so at... Continue Reading