MONTREAL – Videotron has promoted Hugues Simard to senior vice president and CFO, the company said Thursday.Simard, pictured, joined Videotron parent Quebecor in 1998. Before coming to Videotron, he was CFO... Continue Reading
GATINEAU - A group of Canadian television viewers and consumer-oriented organizations says that it’s time for the CRTC to change the way it regulates the broadcasting system; this time, by... Continue Reading
GATINEAU - Rogers Communications and Corus Entertainment have told the CRTC that it must reconsider the usefulness of Terms of Trade (ToT) agreement between broadcasters and independent producers in creating... Continue Reading
JUST BECAUSE BELL Canada, Quebecor Media, Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications are all broadcasters, specialty service operators, TV distributors, phone companies and broadband providers doesn’t mean they think alike. They... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Despite the fact cable and other TV carriers in many countries are compiling and using data gleaned from customer set top boxes to modify their programming and advertising,... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Though Quebecor’s Thursday morning conference call with financial analysts was ostensibly about its solid second quarter financial results, the biggest chunk of the hour on the phone was... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Benoit Robert has been hired as president and CEO of Quebecor’s sports and entertainment group, succeeding Aldo Giampaolo, who is now CEO of Feeling Productions, which manages Celine... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – While net income attributable to shareholders rose to $9.2 million in the second quarter of 2014, ended June 30th compared to $7 million in the same quarter last... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Though he was just coming off an announcement of hundreds of management layoffs, and numbers showing a 24% drop in net income, fewer cable TV subscribers and flat... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – It will surprise no one that the cost of sports television are front and centre for so many of the submissions to the CRTC’s TV Policy ReviewTelus, for... Continue Reading