OTTAWA – Despite not being able to reach the Native radio station CKBK-FM Thamesville, the CRTC still renewed its broadcasting licence for another two years.
Lenape Community Radio Society filed an application to renew the licence for CKBK-FM which is set to expire on August 31, 2017. The Commission said that it found the licensee in non-compliance with certain sections of the Radio Regulations after noting that it had failed to provide annual returns for the 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 broadcast years, or confirmation that it had implemented a public alerting system by the March 31, 2016 deadline.
“Moreover, the licensee did…
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RECENT MOVES BY GLOBAL MEDIA PLAYERS to go over-the-top (OTT) and direct-to-consumer (D2C) mark a tipping point for the media industry and could have profound, long-term implications for the Canadian media landscape, says a Bay St. analyst.
A research report by BMO Capital Markets telecom/media/cable financial analyst Tim Casey notes that Canada’s traditional television broadcasters, (whose business models rely on “reselling” content from Hollywood), are at a greater risk than television distributors (BDUs) who offer broadband service, which he describes as “a natural business hedge against changing viewing habits”.
“Television distribution is a lower-margin business compared with broadband given roughly half the revenue…
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Videotron to launch independent channel on September 1st
MONTREAL — Earlier this year, Sylvain Gagné said he was ready to give up on his dream.
“That was my last shot", the Callisto Television Corp. president told Cartt.ca in a recent interview. “I was saying to myself if I don’t get any attention or any agreement I will give up. For me, that was really frustrating. I spent the past four years trying to get that off the ground. If I don’t succeed, that will be four years wasted.”
His dream is Terror TV, a specialty channel devoted to horror…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request by Northwestel to review and vary an earlier decision detailing costing assumptions that impact the rates that the company can charge for its fibre backbone service known as Wholesale Connect.
Wholesale Connect provides for the transport of telecommunications traffic across communities served by Northwestel’s fibre or high-capacity microwave radio transport links. The service, available at different bandwidth levels in 30 communities in the company’s operating territory, allows competitors to connect their points of presence in those communities for the purpose of providing telecommunications services to their own end-users.
In November 2016, the Commission undertook…
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OTTAWA – The Alberta/Saskatchewan city of Lloydminster may soon have a new radio station after the CRTC issued a call for comments on the market capacity and on the appropriateness of issuing a call for radio applications in that market.
The Commission said Wednesday that it issued the call after receiving an application from Vista Radio for a commercial radio station to serve the area.
Interventions are due by September 15 and the deadline to file replies is September 25, 2017. Following receipt of comments, the CRTC said that it will conduct an assessment of the market’s capacity to support an additional station, taking into account…
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WHILE CANADA’S CREATIVE COMMUNITY was quick to applaud Monday’s decision referring back the CRTC’s group licence renewal (GLR) decisions for Canada’s large private television broadcasters, some members are hoping that the review will encompass more than Programs of National Interest (PNI).
In a joint press release, the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) and the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) noted that other challenges to the GLR decisions that formed the basis of their joint petition were not addressed in Monday’s announcement. These include the removal of independent production obligations on…
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Feds underscore support for CanCon ahead of fall’s ‘Canadian Content in a Digital World’ announcement
GATINEAU – Heeding the outcry from Canada’s creative community, the Governor in Council has ordered the CRTC to reconsider its group licence renewal decisions for large television broadcasters that, among other changes, lowered the amount that major broadcasters must spend on Programs of National Interest (PNI).
The rare move came late Monday, followed by a statement by Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly who said that the federal government wants the Commission to review its May decisions to renew the licenses for the television services of…
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APRES SES ETUDES UNIVERSITAIRES à Sherbrooke, Nathalie Gagnon pensait brièvement poursuivre sa carrière ailleurs. Cependant, elle avait toujours une petite pensée pour son chez-elle, à La Baie, au Saguenay. Et c’est là qu’elle est retournée, depuis maintenant plus d’un décennie.
Elle est directrice de marketing et communication chez DéryTelecom, un câblodistributeur spécialisé en services aux milieux ruraux. Depuis 2016, elle fait également partie du quatuor des copropriétaires. Dans une région qui a historiquement été défini par ses villes industrielles, DéryTélécom fait un impact remarquable. “L’idée de contribuer à maintenir la vitalité économique en région, à maintenir des services et à…
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AFTER ATTENDING UNIVERSITY in Sherbrooke, Nathalie Gagnon briefly thought of making a career elsewhere. But the Saguenay native never forgot her roots, was drawn back to her hometown of La Baie, where she’s remained for the past decade.
Gagnon is now director of marketing and communication at DéryTelecom, a telecommunications company specialized in rural services. Since 2016, she has been part of the quartet of co-owners, along with longtime Déry employees Éric Banville, Cédric Tardif and Bryan Godbout. In a region that has long been defined by its company towns and large industrial conglomerates that have built and supported cities,…
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TORONTO — Having been given CRTC approval in May to operate its national, multicultural OMNI Regional service as a must-carry, basic-service specialty channel, Rogers Media is building up the channel’s multilingual news content, with daily news in Mandarin and Cantonese scheduled to begin September 1.
A Rogers Media spokesperson has told Cartt.ca that the company has reached a service agreement with Fairchild Television to provide studio and production support for 30-minute daily national news broadcasts in Mandarin and Cantonese. Under the editorial direction of Rogers Media, these half-hour news broadcasts will be produced by Fairchild TV and televised exclusively on…
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