UPDATED: Bell wants its channels off VMedia’s Roku channel. VMedia instead launches lawsuit
TORONTO – VMedia Inc. isn’t bowing to pressure from Bell Media to remove CTV and CTV2 from its live TV online streaming service. After Bell sent the company a cease […]
SKINNY BASIC: Why no more new rules are needed
GATINEAU – Canada’s broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) say they are doing what is required of them to meet rules on an entry level small package of TV channels, and that […]
SKINNY BASIC: Why the CRTC has to force carriers to provide promotion, clarity
GATINEAU – Consumers’ associations say the CRTC must ensure broadcast distribution undertakings (BDUs) do a better job of promoting the availability of a small entry level package as well as […]
CRTC sets out rules for disaggregated wholesale broadband
OTTAWA – Rogers Communications and Videotron must go back to the drawing board for parts of their respective disaggregated wholesale broadband offerings after the CRTC said Wednesday that while some […]
Simplicity of skinny basic complicated, CRTC hears
GATINEAU – It took more than a few hours but some sparks did fly at the CRTC’s flexible channel packaging hearing on Wednesday when commissioner Christopher MacDonald (right) questioned Bell […]
Why calls for new conditions on broadcasters must be rejected
This is not another new policy review GATINEAU – Canada’s major broadcasters say that a time when consumers have more TV viewing choices resulting from new flexible channel packaging rules […]
BDU HEARING: Are carriers doing enough for consumer choice?
STARTING SEPTEMBER 7, BROADCAST distributors (a.k.a. cable, IPTV and satellite TV providers) will go before the CRTC trying to convince the regulator they are providing consumers with the choice required […]
Why the Commission must maintain safeguards against VI power
GATINEAU – The CRTC shouldn’t bow to pressure from the vertically integrated (VI) entities and loosen any regulatory measures on their activities, according to comments from the non-VI broadcast distributors. […]
Why differential pricing is good, and bad, for industry and consumers
a.k.a. net neutrality… GATINEAU – There is pretty broad consensus among many of the interveners in the CRTC’s differential pricing consultation that the practice can have a positive impact on […]
Local TV: New rules, funding formulas, aim to save local TV news
CRTC addresses financial viability of news in local and community TV decision GATINEAU – The CRTC is redrawing the local news and community TV landscape, however, it stopped short of […]