GATINEAU – Monday morning started with the presentation from a new Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB). When their intervention was filed in February 2020, the CAB was a shadow of itself, with skeleton staff and scope yet a year later the newly appointed president, Kevin Desjardins made his first presentation in front of the CRTC.
It should be noted that the main private broadcasters had intervened but had not indicated that they wanted to appear except for Québecor, which will appear Tuesday.
The presentation gave way to the usual boasting:” According to CRTC Data, while the CBC’s share of “contributions to…
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MONTREAL — As it presses ahead with the electrification of its entire fleet of vehicles, Quebecor today announced it is joining EV100, a global initiative launched by international non-profit The Climate Group aimed at accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles by business between now and 2030.
In January 2020, Quebecor pledged to electrify the entire fleet of 1,000 cars and light trucks operated by its subsidiaries, including Videotron and TVA Group. The plan entails purchasing electric cars and converting light trucks from internal combustion to electric engines, using Québec technology. The transition to electric is expected to eventually…
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MONTREAL — IP video solution provider Haivision Systems today announced Julie Tremblay has been appointed to its board of directors, effective immediately.
Tremblay (above) was formerly the president and CEO of TVA Group and Quebecor Media Group from July 2014 until her retirement in October 2017. Prior to that, between 1989 and 2014, she held various senior positions within Quebecor, including serving as vice-president of human resources for more than eight years and then as chief operating officer of Sun Media Corporation, and later president and CEO of Sun Media, until it was folded into the Quebecor Media Group.
Prior to…
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TORONTO — Heading into the NATPE Virtual Miami Marketplace and Conference happening later this month, Blue Ant International announced this week it’s already sold more than 300 hours of premium series to linear and streaming platforms across North America.
“We’ve had incredible interest from both our current customers and emerging streaming services in the United States and Canada,” said Solange Attwood, executive vice-president of Blue Ant International, in a press release. “The broad audiences that our platform partners offer speaks to the universal appeal of Blue Ant International’s catalogue, which has a diverse array of genres and includes programming…
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By Denis Carmel
GATINEAU – Late in 2019, in following up its universal service objective decision, the CRTC decided to study the barriers to building new facilities or to accessing or interconnecting with existing facilities in order to extend broadband networks more efficiently into underserved areas, including areas where, due to a lack of such networks, speeds don’t meet the service objectives.
Of course, in March 2020, the pandemic hit, and a vast number of Canadians went home to work, becoming completely dependent on their home’s high-speed Internet to continue work and school. Access to high-speed Internet rapidly became a political…
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GATINEAU – In the ongoing dispute between Bell subsidiary Cablevision and Vidéotron about who should bear the cost of points of interconnection (POIs) upgrades in Rouyn-Noranda and Val d’Or, in northwestern Québec, Cablevision filed its submission on December 14 and Vidéotron responded on December 16.
Cablevision denies any wrongdoing and asserts it only applied the CRTC approved tariffs relevant to the case, saying that networks updates costs should be borne by Cablevision, but changes to interconnection equipment should be paid by competitors. It would even envisage that with new competitors coming into the market, Cablevision would charge the new…
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Feds again being asked to compensate for transitions
By Ahmad Hathout
OTTAWA – The federal government has historically not compensated companies that must relocate their services to different spectrum bands to make room for emerging technologies. But companies with a vested interest in the repurposing of the C-band spectrum for 5G technology are urging the a change to that position.
Over the air (OTA) broadcasters had to absorb the cost of moving off the 700 MHz band for broadband use years ago. Broadcasters were told more recently by Innovation Canada (ISED) that they wouldn’t be financially covered for the millions of dollars…
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By Denis Carmel
ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. – On December 15, EBOX an independent television, telephone and internet provider based in Longueuil, Québec, announced it has now connected clients in Rouyn-Noranda this week and has launched in western Abitibi, including La Sarre and Macamic, a well as Authier, Authier-Nord, Duparquet, Dupuy, Gallichan, Sainte-Hélène de Mancebourg, Normétal, Palmarolle, Poularies, Saint-Germaine-Boule and Taschereau.
The company says in these municipalities, it is the first to offer competition, as Videotron is not yet offering service, but plans to do so.
EBOX, the largest independent provider in Québec with 450 employees and serving 130,000 customers, is riding on…
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MONTREAL — As the U.S. electoral college officially certified November’s presidential election results Monday afternoon, Quebecor chose today to highlight a recent cheeky ad campaign from one its clients, Le Clan Panneton, about Americans moving to Canada.
In one of its contextual advertisements, which ran in Quebecor’s Le Journal de Montréal, the moving company featured a truck adorned with a Donald Trump wig and the message “Trying to figure out how to move to Canada? We’re the solution!” The ad (above) appeared beside an article about a possible exodus of Americans to Canada after the U.S. presidential election.
“The campaign was…
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MONTREAL – In the context of the tabling of Bill C-10, the amendments seeking to modernize the Broadcasting Act, Quebecor’s TVA Group commissioned a poll to survey Quebecers’ perceptions and opinions about the role and complementarity of public and private television networks in Quebec.
1,019 English- or French-speaking respondents across Québec were surveyed between November 6 and November 12. The survey found:
78% of Quebecers believe it is in the public interest for public and private networks to complement rather than compete in the content that they offer.
81% of Quebecers believe the government should ensure that public broadcasters…
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