TV License Renewal: Producers forced to defend their demands
LAVAL — After a day of pushing major French-language television broadcasters to justify their demands for fewer regulatory burdens, the CRTC pushed the other way on Wednesday, for interest groups […]
TV License Renewal: Hard hit by declining revenues, French broadcasters ask CRTC for new yoga mat
LAVAL – “There’s so much discussion of flexibility that you’d think we were at a yoga club,” cracked CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais during day one of the license renewal hearing […]
CBC chiefs face the politicians
OTTAWA – CBC’s top executives were asked to defend the public broadcaster’s perceived competition with private media during a hearing of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Tuesday. The […]
Montreal AM radio license holders secure transmitters as launch deadline approaches
MONTREAL – There may yet be hope that a group of Montreal-based entrepreneurs will launch a pair of news-talk AM radio stations in Montreal almost five years after the first […]
Vidéotron focused on innovation as it opens smart living lab in Montreal
MONTREAL – The fifth generation mobile network is still in the testing phase, and the Internet of Things is still in its infancy. We’re a few years away from gigabit […]
CBC, with other public broadcasters, unveil plans for global content distribution market
MONTREAL — The most newsworthy and groundbreaking presentation at the Public Broadcasters International conference in Montreal this week was given at 7:30 a.m. to a sparse crowd by a man […]
Public broadcasters struggle to attract millennials; CBC launching millennial news project
MONTREAL – There was a lot of discussion about the problem, but not much in the way of big solutions during the first full day of the Public Broadcasters International […]
RADIO: Why it doesn’t look like new AM stations will be launched in Montreal
MONTREAL – Five years ago, during a surprisingly competitive CRTC process to award new commercial AM radio stations in Montreal, one independent group burst onto the scene with grand promises […]
UPDATED: Attraction Radio grows to 13 stations through latest acquisition
Growing in small market Quebec MONTREAL – It only started in 2012, but Quebec’s Attraction Radio has already grown, entirely through acquisitions, to become one of the top radio broadcast […]
LOCAL NEWS: TVA union decries move to centralize production
MONTREAL – The union representing employees of three of TVA’s smaller-market TV stations sounded the alarm on Wednesday about a move by management that it says will result in pre-taped […]