OTTAWA – Glenn O’Farrell’s plan to sell ad time on US specialty channels’ local avails in Canada is one step closer to fruition.
The former CAB president and CEO’s new company, Mediadenovo, learned Wednesday that its application will be considered as part of a CRTC public hearing scheduled for February 22, 2010. If approved, Mediadenovo would become a new programming undertaking that would sell the two minutes per hour of local availability ad time to national advertisers, and in turn, direct the majority of the revenues to Canadian programming.
In a move designed to further demonstrate its public policy credentials, the…
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OTTAWA – Public Mobile is the latest new wireless entrant scheduled to have its ownership structure scrutinized by the CRTC.
In a letter to the nascent company dated December 18, secretary general Robert Morin advised that Public Mobile will be subject to a Type 2 review of its ownership and control in order to determine its eligibility to operate as a Canadian telecommunications common carrier.
“When reviewing the ownership and control of Public Mobile, the Commission will apply the existing jurisprudence relating to determinations of control in fact, cognizant of the fact that in varying Telecom Decision CRTC 2009-678,…
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OTTAWA – Mediac Inc. is urging the CRTC not to “abandon” hearing- and visually-challenged consumers.
“With revenues shifting to multi-platform content distribution, the CRTC bears a duty to ensure that all Canadians’ ability to access the communications system is improved and strengthened, not reduced,” said Mediac president and CEO Beverley Milligan, in a statement. “As one of the central issues for hearing- or visually-challenged people with disabilities, and for those learning Canada’s official languages, accessibility will become meaningless unless the CRTC’s report to the government considers the benefits of encouraging and ensuring accessible content going forward.”
The company, which specializes in measuring…
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OTTAWA – Globalive is free to launch its wireless service after Industry Canada overturned the CRTC’s decision Friday.
In varying the CRTC decision, which determined that the nascent wireless company was not Canadian-owned and controlled, the Government said that it is not “removing, reducing, bending or creating an exception to Canadian ownership and control requirements in the telecommunications and broadcasting industries”, rather it’s decision is “specific to the facts of this case”.
“Globalive is a Canadian company, and meets Canadian ownership and control requirements under the Telecommunications Act,” said Industry Minister Tony Clement, in a statement. “We take this decision…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has caught and fined another telemarketer accused of violating the national do not call list (DNCL).
Infax – services d’informations sur demande par fax inc. has been fined $9,000 by the Commission for initiating three telemarketing telecommunications on its own behalf to telecommunications numbers registered on the national DNCL, when it was not registered with the national DNCL operator, and without having subscribed to the national DNCL.
The CRTC issued a notice of violation to Infax on September 22, 2009, which the company disputed in October. The Commission reviewed and dismissed Infax’s complaints on Thursday.
Infax has…
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DARTMOUTH – Newcap has received CRTC approval to sell its two FM stations in Thunder Bay, ON, to Acadia Broadcasting.
This transaction, which was announced in July, is expected to close within the next 30 days.
Newcap president and CEO Rob Steele said previously that there was limited opportunity for the company to expand its presence in the Thunder Bay area. It currently holds 79 radio broadcasting licences across Canada.
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – A new on-line consultation process will allow consumers a different way to express their opinions on the future of television to the CRTC.
The consultation tool, which launched Monday and will conclude on December 21 at midnight EST, is part of the Commission’s public hearing in to the matter that is scheduled to begin on December 7, 2009 in Gatineau. As previously reported by Cartt.ca, Heritage Minister James Moore issued an Order-in-Council in September requesting the Commission look into fee-for-carriage from the consumer’s point of view.
The CRTC is asking consumers and the industry to weigh in on the impact that…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has dismissed a complaint made against Bell TV by Quebecor Media Inc. over the way the DTH provider is combatting signal theft.
In a complaint dated March 23, 2009, Quebecor said that Bell TV had recently introduced a new sales method that would allow someone to equip themselves with one or several Bell TV receivers and to employ various methods of signal theft without Bell TV being able to track them. This practice of retailing ‘grab-and-go’ receivers calls into question the commitments Bell TV made in 2003 when it pledged to implement specific measures to combat signal theft,…
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OTTAWA – According to the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP), the CRTC should “force” cable and satellite companies to pay for the local TV stations they use.
Canada’s largest media union, scheduled to appear at the Commission’s hearing Tuesday afternoon, said that it’s up to the CRTC to “re-balance” revenues in the broadcasting system by having BDUS pay for the local TV stations they carry, just as they already pay for foreign signals.
"Canadians are already over taxed by cable companies drunk on profits so high that oil companies must be envious," said Peter Murdoch, VP of media, in a…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has rejected a request from a telemarketer charged with violating the national Do Not Call List to waive his fines, after he claimed that he didn’t receive the violation notice.
In an application dated September 11, 2009, Sugar requested that the Commission drop the penalty, claiming that he had not received adequate notice of the violation after a neighbour accepted delivery of the document on his behalf at his address, but that the package was never brought to his attention. The Commission fined Rob Sugar $4,000 in August for violating the DNCL rules.
In its decision, the…
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