MONTREAL — Quebecor Content announced today a Quebec adaptation of the reality series I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! is set to air on TVA starting this fall.
Produced by Productions Déferlantes in collaboration with Quebecor Content, the Quebec version of this wilderness survival show “is inspired by the British ITV Studios format that has already been sold to 15 countries, including France, UK and Australia,” reads a press release.
“Forget creature comforts, fine food and the good life: well-known personalities of all ages and backgrounds will now be roughing it as they compete in a wide range of hair-raising…
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OTTAWA – BCE is asking the CRTC to order Videotron to remove the service Vrai for its broadcasting distribution undertaking (BDU) offer, according to a Part 1 application filed by BCE last November that was posted by the Commission today.
In the application, BCE claims Videotron’s Vrai is non-compliant with the CRTC’s hybrid video-on-demand (HVOD) exemption order.
Videotron launched Vrai last August, which was initially only available to Helix customers. Soon after, BCE filed a Part 1 application with the CRTC that alleged Videotron was in violation of the exemption order by not offering any Internet direct to consumer…
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MONTREAL – TVA’s specialty service CASA announced today it will premiere L’appel de la nature (The Call of the Wild) starting Monday Feb. 28 at 8 p.m.
The series, which stars Maryse L’Archevêque and Simon Sauvé as they build their dream home in the forest, is an original production by Sphère Média in collaboration with Quebecor Content.
L’appel de la nature shows “an inspiring and moving family project, following all the stages of the construction of their house,” explains an English translation of a French press release.
“Ready to do anything to acquire a better quality of life, the couple who work together will…
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MONTREAL – TVA announced today a new original series about home organization called Heureux Rangement (Happy Storage) will premiere on its specialty service CASA this spring.
The series, produced by Trio Orange in collaboration with Quebecor Content, features Mélissa Bédard, who helps stars get organized.
“Passionate about storage, the enthusiastic Mélissa Bédard will go to each show with a star who needs help putting order in a room in his house,” an English translation of a French press release announcing the series says.
“Whether it’s because she collects too many things or that she is a bit messy, the personality of the…
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MONTRÉAL – Trio Orange, a Canadian television and digital production company, and Quebecor Content announced today their new, 10-episode series Last Summers of the Raspberries is making its world premiere, closing the Berlinale series at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.
“From February 14 to February 16, 2022, Berlinale Series will premiere a number of series that stand out for their creativity and originality,” a press release says.
“Last Summers of the Raspberries is the second Quebec television production to be selected by the Berlin International Film Festival since this program dedicated to television series was launched.”
The series is directed by…
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MONTRÉAL – Quebecor and its subsidiaries TVA and CEC Publishing announced today they are helping bring Nos Géants (Our Giants), a series of 45 educational vignettes, to television and the web.
Nos Géants “will give audiences a deeper understanding of our culture by presenting significant figures who played important roles, in various ways, in Québec’s history, from New France to the present day,” a press release says.
It is being produced and distributed by the Fondation Lionel-Groulx, which has a mission of promoting Quebec’s history, language and culture, in collaboration with the Government of Québec.
“Nos Géants is an original concept developed by the…
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TORONTO – Speakers for the 8th annual Digital Media at the Crossroads (DM@X) conference, including those from BCE, Quebecor, Corus, CBC and Rogers, were finalized earlier this month, according to the conference steering committee.
DM@X, which will be held virtually this year from Jan. 21-22, will cover several topics, many of which are particularly timely given the priorities indicated in the federal government’s minister mandate letters released last month.
Topics include the regulation of streaming services and the role of the CRTC, the options for addressing online harm and fake news, new developments in support for Canadian news from digital…
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Also announces STACKTV to launch on Rogers Ignite TV and SmartStream, and 250+ hours of new sales
TORONTO – Corus Entertainment has reached yet another new milestone of over 725,000 paying subscribers to its STACKTV, Nick+ and other streaming platforms, increased from over 675,000 on Oct. 21, 2021, according to a press release announcing the company’s first quarter 2022 results today.
Subscriber revenue was reported to be $128 million for the quarter ended Nov. 30, an increase of 3% compared to the same quarter in 2021.
Revenue for the company overall was up 10% to $464 million compared to the…
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GATINEAU – Revenue from Canadian broadcasting services declined 6.6% to $15.8 billion in 2019-2020 compared to 2018-2019, the CRTC says.
This is highlighted in the broadcasting portion of the CRTC’s Communications Market Report (CMR; formally the Communications Monitoring Report), released last month, which covers the broadcast year spanning from Sept. 1, 2019, to Aug. 31, 2020, and as such includes around six months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The $15.8 billion in revenue does not include revenues from Internet-based services, known as over-the-top services (OTT), operating under the CRTC’s digital media exemption order.
Over half of the revenues were generated by broadcasting distribution…
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GATINEAU – Total revenue for Canada’s telecommunications sector was $53.4 billion in 2020, a decrease of 1.4% compared to 2019, the CRTC says.
This is according to the telecom portion of the CRTC’s Communications Market Report (CMR; formally the Communications Monitoring Report), released last month.
The report features data from 2020, during which the Covid-19 pandemic began, non-essential travel was curtailed and many Canadians ended up working from home. During this time, there were higher volumes of wireline voice calling, significantly increased Internet data usage and decreased mobile roaming, the report explains.
The 1.4% total revenue decrease for telecommunications in 2020 is…
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