CBC Annual Public Meeting tense, contentious
MONTREAL – Coming just three days after a protest just outside the building, the Annual Public Meeting of CBC/Radio-Canada held Wednesday at its Montreal HQ was expected to be difficult. […]
Evanov Radio adds another Montreal station to its stable
MONTREAL – A decade ago, Evanov Radio Group had three radio stations in the Greater Toronto Area. Now, it has 17 in four provinces, and is about to expand to […]
Bell and Rogers want to launch their new online SVOD portals through BDU partners
TORONTO – The CEOs of BCE and Rogers say they are more than happy to offer access to their upcoming online subscription video-on-demand services to other TV providers, and at […]
Bell Fund does not discriminate against Quebecor projects, says CRTC
GATINEAU – Quebecor Inc. complained to the CRTC in February that the Bell Fund, which gives money to digital and new media projects associated with television productions, had rejected three […]
Commissioner Shoan worries Vancouver radio approval calls into question “the integrity of the Commission’s licensing process”
GATINEAU – The CRTC has approved two of 13 competing applications for new radio stations and retransmitters in the Vancouver area. But the decision wasn’t unanimous, and the dissenting commissioner […]
Many conditions attached to Rogers’ TV license renewals (its control over HNIC on CBC makes it a “de facto” network, for example)
GATINEAU – Rogers has been left quite a regulatory pile of laundry to sort through with its license renewals announced Thursday. And, the company was told "no" a lot. The […]
Rogers CEO Laurence has no comment on the Loch Ness Monster while discussing company’s Q2
TORONTO – Though he was just coming off an announcement of hundreds of management layoffs, and numbers showing a 24% drop in net income, fewer cable TV subscribers and flat […]
Viewers Choice pulls the plug
MONTREAL – Viewers Choice, the 23-year-old pay-per-view service owned by Bell and Rogers and carried on cable providers in eastern Canada, is winding up operations and will shut down on […]
Videotron reveals new, do-everything app
MONTREAL – Vidéotron billed it as “the app that will change TV forever,” but in the end it wasn’t quite so revolutionary. On Thursday, the Quebec cable and wireless company […]
Cope says Bell near an announcement on 700 MHz rollout plans
MONTREAL — Bell Canada has begun the rollout of its 700 MHz wireless services across the country and will announce “in the next month or so” the communities across Canada, […]