TORONTO – Bell Media has asked the CRTC for permission to delete 28 more analog rebroadcasting transmitters by amending the licences of some of its English-language television stations.
The move, says the broadcaster, will improve cost effectiveness at its conventional stations plus coordinates with the digital television transition schedule released by Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The Commission already approved the deletion of 40 Bell Media analog retransmitters during the company’s 2016 licence renewal application.
Bell Media said that the analog transmitters generate no incremental revenue, do not offer different programming from the main channels, attract little to no…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC estimates that its regulatory costs under section 9(1) of the broadcasting regulations will total $31.361 million for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.
The annual adjustment amount referred to in section 8(2) for the 2017-2018 fiscal year is $1.137 million.
Taking this adjustment into account, the net billing for the Part I licence fee for the 2019-2020 fiscal year is $32.498 million. This estimated net billing represents a 12% increase compared to the amount for the 2018-2019 fiscal year ($29.027 million) due to the ratification of collective agreements, including retroactive payments dating back to 2014-2015, the Commission said…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request by Iristel seeking interim relief from Bell Canada’s rate increases for certain circuits.
In an application dated December 19, 2018, Iristel asked the Commission for both interim and final relief regarding alleged anti-competitive conduct by Bell Canada over the rates that it charges Iristel for circuits associated with certain transport services.
Iristel submitted that the Commission must decide whether Bell Canada engaged in anti-competitive conduct by “unilaterally and without proper warning increasing its rates for certain forborne circuits” from by 80% to 250% in some cases, and by over 125% in others, both of…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has decided against issuing a call for new radio stations to serve Timmins after finding that the market cannot sustain an additional commercial radio station at this time.
Located in northeastern Ontario approximately 280 kilometers north of Sudbury, the Timmins radio market is currently served by four commercial FM radio stations: the English-language stations CJQQ-FM and CKGB-FM, operated by Rogers Media; the English-language station CHMT-FM, operated by Vista; and the French-language station CHYK-FM, operated by LE5 Communications. It is also served by the Indigenous station CJWT-FM, operated by Wawatay Native Communications Society, as well as rebroadcasting…
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WE’VE ALL HEARD THE conventional wisdom which says live sports is one of the last remaining mass audience attractions for linear TV – and that it will help retain a large chunk Canadian households opting for a subscription TV service.
Indeed, according to a new report from Winnipeg’s Communications Management Inc., TV companies and some streamers believe this in their bones, as evidenced by massive increases in spending on sports rights the past few years.
In fact, with the myriad ways sports is delivered, “the many emerging options for the delivery of video programming to consumers has also increased demand, with…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU — The CRTC has revised certain procedural dates as it continues to contemplate the creation of a mandatory code of conduct for Internet service providers.
Specifically, the new deadline for submission of responses to requests for information is April 4, and the revised deadline for final submissions is April 23, 2019.
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CHARLOTTETOWN – Almost 30,000 rural residents across Prince Edward Island will soon have access to expanded high speed broadband Internet coverage through a combination of fibre and fixed wireless technologies provided by both Bell Canada and Xplornet Communications.
The federal government said Friday that it will invest over $33.1 million in this project under the Rural and Northern Communities stream of the Investing in Canada infrastructure plan. The PEI government will provide over $3.5 million, while Bell Canada and Xplornet together will contribute over $37 million. Funding will only be disbursed to Bell Canada and Xplornet as performance and construction based…
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CANOE VENTURES IS hoping 2019 is the year where it begins to help build video on demand advertising together with BDUs and broadcasters into a $200 million marketplace.
The U.S. company (which is co-owned by MSOs Comcast, Cox Communications and Charter Communications) has been the driver behind huge success Stateside, where the VOD ad business is already a US$1 billion market. Canoe alone delivered 26 billion ad impressions in 2018 on 7,476 ad campaigns. It delivers VOD ads to 36 million American households for broadcast clients such as ABC, A+E, AMC, CBS, Discovery, MTV, NBC, Showtime, Univision and others.
Now,…
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GATINEAU – Stingray Radio’s proposed buy of Drumheller's CHOO-FM from Golden West Broadcasting is one of five applications that will be considered during a non-appearing CRTC hearing scheduled for May 16 at its headquarters in Gatineau.
The Commission said Tuesday that it will also consider three applications pertaining to French-language radio stations, as well as one from SiriusXM Canada seeking to amend two conditions of licence as part of the renewal of its broadcasting licence.
The deadline for interventions/comments/answers for all of the applications is April 11, 2019.
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FASCINATED BY TELEPHONES as a child, Dan Armstrong remembers thinking Bell Canada was “just the coolest thing in the world” and he marveled at how phones changed the world by allowing people to talk to each other anywhere.
Growing up in the Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton area, Armstrong’s family home backed onto a park where he and his friends would build forts. He figured out then that if he connected a phone receiver and a battery in series with another one on the other end, he could connect all the forts together so they could talk with each other.
Today,…
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