Part III in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom Acts THERE IS NO QUESTION the emergence of Netflix as a major competitor for eyeballs in Canada has created significant disruption to the domestic broadcast landscape. With its more than six million subscribers and first place ranking in prime
3e Partie dans notre série sur la révision des Lois sur la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications NUL DOUTE l’arrivée de Netflix comme principal concurrent dans la course aux téléspectateurs au Canada a créé une perturbation majeure dans le paysage audiovisuel canadien. Avec plus de 6 millions d’abonnés au Canada et
WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to begin getting into the weeds of modernizing the Telecommunications Act and Broadcasting Act at some point in 2018 (one hopes), a major consideration will be whether it’s time to do away with two governing pieces of legislation and prune them into a single Communications Act.
ALORS QUE LE gouvernement s’apprête à amorcer le processus de modernisation de la Loi sur les télécommunications et de la Loi sur la radiodiffusion, en 2018 (espérons-le), une considération majeure sera de savoir si on doit abandonner les deux Lois pour les fusionner dans une seule. Greg Taylor, professeur adjoint
CELA FAIT PLUS DE 25 ans que la législation qui régit le secteur des communications a été promulguée. Malgré des changements mineurs, la Loi sur les télécommunications et la Loi sur la radiodiffusion sont essentiellement restées inchangées, leurs objectifs demeurant les mêmes. Elles ont résisté à l’épreuve du temps selon certains.
IT’S BEEN MORE THAN 25 years since legislation guiding the communications sector came into force. There have some minor changes, but both the Telecommunications Act and the Broadcasting Act have remained largely the same – their objectives essentially left untouched. They have stood the test of time, some say. Others,
SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT. Especially if I’m quoting Macbeth. We have analyzed the hell out of the CRTC’s TV Policy Review which is set to begin Monday in Gatineau, but there’s something ungraspable about the whole thing. Is there too much on the table? Probably. Is the Regulator looking to solve
GATINEAU – A group of Canadian television viewers and consumer-oriented organizations says that it’s time for the CRTC to change the way it regulates the broadcasting system; this time, by putting Canadians, and not a specific industry, front and centre. “The broadcasting system – and its business and regulation –
GATINEAU – Rogers Communications and Corus Entertainment have told the CRTC that it must reconsider the usefulness of Terms of Trade (ToT) agreement between broadcasters and independent producers in creating independent Canadian programming. On the other hand, the Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA) argues that in a new broadcast environment
JUST BECAUSE BELL Canada, Quebecor Media, Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications are all broadcasters, specialty service operators, TV distributors, phone companies and broadband providers doesn’t mean they think alike. They do, however, agree on this generation’s “Death Star”. We’re looking at you, Netflix. In their submissions to the CRTC’s TV
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