CBC/Radio-Canada on Tuesday announced the five finalists who have been selected to vie for the honour of representing Canada at the Eurovision Song Contest 2027 being held in Bulgaria next May.
Marking the first time Canada will participate in the international music competition, the finalists chosen by a jury of industry professionals include: Acadian singer-songwriter and 2020 La Voix winner Josiane (Josiane Comeau); Juno Award-winning dance-pop artist Rêve (Briannah Donolo); 2024 Juno winner for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Ottawa-born singer-songwriter Talk (Nicholas Durocher); B.C.-born Chinese-Canadian artist and Juno nominee…
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The CRTC last week approved Hope Channel Canada’s purchase of the English-language commercial religious specialty FM radio stations CJRP-FM Saint John and its transmitter CJRP-FM-1 Rothesay, and CKOE-FM Moncton, in New Brunswick.
The stations currently operate under DARR FM Radio Ltd. and Houssen Broadcasting Ltd.’s Alive FM brand, broadcasting Christian music and programming. DARR FM and Houssen are both owned and controlled by James Houssen, based in Moncton.
Hope Channel Canada is an Oshawa, Ont.-based not-for-profit corporation controlled by its Canadian board of directors. It currently…
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By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers is claiming in a Part 1 made public Monday that Concord Pacific Development Corp. is forcing it to pay a $300 per-unit fee to access two properties under construction in Burnaby, British Columbia.
The cable giant claims, since July 2024, it has been seeking access to the properties at 5889 Barker Avenue and 4750-4754 Kingsway, but Concord “has consistently refused to discuss access by Rogers to the Properties unless Rogers agrees to pay an upfront per unit entry fee of $300 to obtain Concord’s permission to access the multi-dwelling units after construction is complete.
“Concord has also stated…
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A new white paper commissioned by Rocket Fund Canada (formerly Shaw Rocket Fund) is calling for Canada to put the rights of children and youth at the centre of how kids’ media is created, funded and governed, while also urging action to address the current crisis facing the industry.
The white paper, Project Sunbeam: Kids’ Rights in Canadian Media, calls for a “Team Canada approach” to building a stronger future for Canadian children’s media. According to the report, 85 per cent of both Anglophone and Francophone industry members feel the sector is in crisis or…
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Videotron claims it is also owed $2.8M in BAI deal; Rogers claims Videotron owes it $4M
By Ahmad Hathout
Quebecor’s Videotron is suing Rogers for $151 million over aspects of its acquisition of Freedom Mobile.
Videotron filed a detail-less six-page notice of action in Ontario Superior Court last year that alleged Rogers owed it $91 million in breaches of the Freedom sale agreement, which required Rogers and Shaw to offload the mobile wireless subsidiary to merge. The transactions – Rogers buying Shaw and Quebecor buying Freedom (formerly Wind Mobile) – closed in April 2023.
Since then, Rogers and Quebecor have…
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Fans consumed over 250 TB of wireless data during the 13 matches hosted in Canada
Bell Media announced Tuesday that 30.5 million unique Canadian viewers overall tuned into live coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2026 tournament on TSN, RDS, CTV, Noovo and Crave, according to preliminary data from Numeris.
The 104 tournament matches at FIFA World Cup 2026 attracted a per-game average audience of 1.6 million viewers, an increase of more than 50 per cent compared to the 2022 tournament held in Qatar, Bell Media said in a press release.
The 2026 final on Sunday became the most-watched…
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Corus says it is adding news gathering roles
By Connie Thiessen
Unifor says the latest round of layoffs at Corus will impact 43 unionized workers across the country, with most of those job losses in Alberta.
The union says an estimated 28 positions are set to be eliminated in Alberta, two in British Columbia, five in Winnipeg, two in Saskatoon, three in the Maritimes, and three in the Ontario region.
Corus confirmed to Cartt’s sister publication Broadcast Dialogue on Thursday it’s centralizing television production for its Global News stations in Edmonton and Calgary in Toronto as part of programming changes…
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While the history-making run of Canada Soccer’s men’s national team at FIFA World Cup 2026 came to an end on Saturday afternoon, Canadians were watching the action in record numbers, with an average audience of 5.4 million viewers on Bell Media’s TSN, RDS, CTV, Noovo and Crave, according to preliminary data from Numeris cited by Bell Media in a press release Monday.
Surpassing previous Canadian viewership records, the Canada vs. Morocco match becomes the most-watched Canada match ever at the FIFA World Cup, and the biggest non-final match on record, according to Bell Media.
Overall, according to the…
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The CRTC on Monday launched three separate proceedings to garner comments on the market capacity and the appropriateness of issuing a call for radio applications to serve three Quebec markets, including Shawinigan and Mékinac Regional County Municipality, Saint-Hyacinthe, and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
The proceedings follow applications from LE5 Communications Inc. to operate new French-language commercial FM radio stations serving the three markets.
For all three proceedings, interested parties have until August 5 to submit comments. The deadline for replies to interventions is August 20.
If little or no interest is expressed to…
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With an average audience of 5.2 million viewers on Bell Media’s TSN, RDS, CTV, Noovo and Crave, Canada Soccer’s men’s national team’s 1-0 victory over South Africa on Sunday ranks as the most-watched non-final FIFA World Cup knockout round match on record in Canada, according to preliminary data from Numeris cited by Bell Media in a press release Monday.
Overall, according to the viewership data, 11.8 million unique Canadian viewers tuned in for some part of the match, which saw audiences peak with 8.2 million viewers at 4:53 p.m. ET as Canada midfielder Stephen Eustáquio scored the…
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