French viewsers get it all (well, a lot) on TOU.TV
QUEBEC CITY – Radio-Canada has launched a new Internet site, TOU.TV, the first in Canada offering free access to a well-stocked library of old and current French-language television dramas, variety […]
Bureaucrats, incumbents, stand in the way of telecom development, says Quebecor’s Peladeau
MONTREAL – While Quebecor is ready and able to propel wireless telecommunications to new heights, the federal government stands in the way by hindering development, says Quebecor President and CEO […]
UPDATE: TVA quits the CAB
MONTREAL and OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) has lost its most influential French-language member. Quebecor Media-owned Le Groupe TVA, the country’s largest private French-language TV broadcaster, informed […]
TQS plan does not impress commissioners
QUEBEC CITY – Since Friday night, when Quebec’s floundering broadcast station TQS began stripping its news operations, the TV network has been ignoring its obligation to produce a certain number […]
Astral takes another whack at distributors at CRTC hearings
GATINEAU – Cable and satellite distributors took it on the chin again Friday at the CRTC’s hearings on broadcasting, this time from Astral Media, the country’s biggest French and English […]
CTV, Global go arm-in-arm before CRTC
GATINEAU – They compete aggressively for U.S. programs, audience share, and advertisers, but in an exceptional show of unity, executives from CTVglobemedia Inc and CanWest Global Communications sat shoulder-to-shoulder Thursday […]
Bragg tries touchdown pass at CRTC hearing
GATINEAU – Bragg Communications, the east coast cable and telecom company that claims to be “small in a big way,” wants the CRTC to take on a similar persona, by making big […]
Telus tells CRTC to avoid rabbit hole
GATINEAU – Telus Corp., a relatively new entrant into the broadcast distribution field with the IPTV service it launched in 2006, says it would prefer the regulatory status quo than […]
Quebecor tells commissioners to throw out the rule book
GATINEAU – Quebecor Inc. president and CEO Pierre-Karl Péladeau challenged the CRTC today to re-write its “little red book” of more than 400 broadcasting rules and regulations or risk seeing […]
TQS finds buyer in film company Remstar
MONTREAL – Quebec film and television production company Remstar Corporation has won the bidding war for the financially troubled TQS television network. TQS’s Board of Directors and the networks’ shareholders […]