OTTAWA – The Federal Court of Canada has granted Bell Media, Groupe TVA, and Rogers Media an interim injunction against GoldTV.biz and GoldTV.ca, ordering GoldTV to disable its IPTV services pending a final decision on what is gearing up to be a test case for the big broadcasters efforts to require all Internet service providers (ISPs) to block unlicenced web sites they say are pirating their content.
In addition, the injunction forbids the as yet unknown individuals or entities operating the services, called John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 in the documents filed with the court, from transferring "access,…
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MONTREAL – Quebecor’s digital radio platform QUB Radio will debut a new innovation on Monday, August 19, where listeners will be able to customize their morning listening just like would a music playlist.
Starting at 6 a.m., host Benoit Dutrizac will offer users the opportunity to build their own show with a choice of current-events segments, interviews conducted by Félix Séguin, Caroline St-Hilaire, Mario Dumont, Rémi Nadeau, Anaïs Guertin-Lacroix and many more, and daily newscasts presented by Alexandre Dubé, says the Quebecor press release.
This new offering, called “Dutrizac sur mesure,” will be available on the homepage of the QUB…
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GATINEAU – As Cartt.ca has reported earlier, Bell and Québecor tell a radically different story when it comes to Québecor division Vidéotron’s desire to offer TPIA service via Bell division Cablevision du Nord – and those differences are even more evident in Quebecor’s reply to the CRTC, filed on August 6th.
One of the arguments made by Québecor is that competition and its benefits – something the Competition Bureau said in its Broadband Report released this week is a necessity – does not exist in the northwestern quadrant of Québec, seeing as how Abitibi-Témiscamingue is only served by Télébec…
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MONTREAL – Second quarter revenues for Quebecor came in at $1.06 billion, up 1.8% for the same quarter of 2018 after the company added 38,300 new wireless subscribers.
Adjusted EBITDA for the period ended June 30th was $455 million, up 6.8% and net income attributable to shareholders was $140.2 million in the quarter, well ahead of last year’s $42 million.
Cable and wireless division Vidéotron significantly increased its revenues from mobile telephony by 11.9% and Internet access by 2.6% in the second quarter of 2019. Vidéotron's total average billing per unit ("ABPU") was $50.20 in the second quarter of 2019, compared…
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MONTREAL – Quebecor Media’s TV, film and publishing division TVA Group reported second quarter operating revenues of $146 million, a year-over-year increase of $5.8 million for the period ending June 30.
The quarterly net loss attributable to shareholders was $6.2 million, which compares to a net loss attributable to shareholders of $9.6 million in the same quarter of 2018.
Consolidated adjusted EBITDA of $3.76 million was $6.57 million better than Q2 2018.
In the broadcasting segment of the company, TVA Group reported $1.9 million negative adjusted EBITDA, $6.2 million better than last year’s quarter, mainly attributable to the Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Last summer Cloudwifi, a Kitchener-based ISP that operates mostly in the apartment and condo space, filed an application with the CRTC requesting an order stating Bell Canada can’t interfere with a customer’s use of the inside wire.
The CRTC agreed with the independent ISP but Bell appealed saying because Cloudwifi was not a local exchange carrier (LEC) or a BDU, it had no legal, regulatory, or other rights of use or access to the facilities at issue. On July 17, 2019, the Commission asked interested parties for applications on the review of CRTC decision…
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MONTREAL – As predicted, Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau hates the proposed purchase of the V network and Noovo.ca by Bell Media.
The acquisition of the network and its digital assets by Bell “will further undermine an already precarious ecosystem by allowing a dominant player to become still more so,” reads a Quebecor press release sent out about 24 hours after Bell’s announcement Wednesday.
“The transaction will significantly alter the balance of power between media companies and have major consequences,” adds the statement.
The company worres that Bell, with its power in “conventional television, specialty channel, pay TV,…
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Bell looks to burnish money-losing network
MONTREAL – Bell Media today announced it will purchase the conventional TV network V and its related digital assets, including the ad-supported VOD service Noovo.ca, from Groupe V Média.
The deal, which would bring Bell its first French-language TV network, is pending CRTC and Competition Bureau approval (We’re expecting vigorous opposition from Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau when the application to the Commission is made public). Those with good memories will recall V used to be TQS and was co-owned by Cogeco and CTVglobemedia. It’s current owner purchased the station in 2008, when it was…
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But has to fight Bell for it at the CRTC
MONTREAL –Vidéotron said last week it plans to offer consumers and small businesses in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue “a full line of telecommunications services, including Internet, television and IP telephone service” by the end of 2019.
The western Quebec region of 145,000 (most of whom live in the cities of Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d’Or, but are spread over 57,000 sq. km.) is primarily served now by Cablevision du Nord, a cable company and ISP which is owned by Bell Canada.
The interesting part of this story is how Vidéotron plans to service the region: as…
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Some numbers truly unexpected as we break down the report on individual specialty services
INDEPENDENT CANADIAN SPECIALTY services are punching well above their weight when it comes to making and delivering Canadian content, despite the fact they live in a far lower margin world than those owned by vertically integrated companies.
Collectively, independent, or non-vertically-integrated specialty channels spent a whopping 59% of their revenue on Canadian content in 2018, far outpacing VI channels, which collectively spent 38% of revenues on Cancon in the 2018 broadcast year, which ended August 31st. These numbers are according to the CRTC’s 2018 Individual Discretionary and…
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