COVERING THIS INDUSTRY for as long as we have has meant that on a few occasions, folks we know have asked us to please send a letter to the CRTC to support this or that application. Each time, we’ve said no. Not because certain applications don’t have merit, but because
THE PROPOSED REVIEW of our communications acts is about to proceed, but the problem is finding a significant issue that legislative change would solve. Of course, some improvements are possible, but I would gladly forego a few improvements if the alternative would be to subordinate the Telecom Act to the
LAST WEDNESDAY, THE CRTC ordered Sugar Mobile, a discount wireless services provider, to stop its unauthorized use of Rogers Communications’ wireless network. The telecommunications regulator found that Ice Wireless, Sugar Mobile’s sister company, had “improperly allowed the end-users of [Sugar Mobile] to obtain permanent, rather than incidental, access to [Rogers']
“ONLY IN CANADA” were the three words I couldn’t get out of my head while reading Corus Entertainment’s application to the CRTC to change the Nature of Service (NOS) for its specialty channel OWN. Stateside, OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network) has a pretty straightforward history. Daytime talk TV queen Oprah
WHILE LISTENING, PERPLEXED, to Tuesday’s “Say No To Bell” press conference led by Quebecor Inc. Cogeco Inc. and Bragg Communications, I tweeted “Horse is out of the barn, is lost in the woods and the barn is on fire.” Many of us are fond of using the “horse is out
IN NOVEMBER, THEN-MACLEAN’S magazine national columnist Andrew Coyne added his voice to the cacophony of critics carping about the CBC, saying the TV portion should become a pay channel, a-la HBO. Oy, where to begin with that one? How about starting with the Broadcasting Act, a law which mandates the
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC is asking Canadians to have their say on the country’s national broadcaster. As it gears up to renew the CBC’s radio and television licences for the first time in 12 years this fall, the Commission has launched an on-line consultation seeking input that it will consider
WELL, THAT WAS predictable. We awoke Wednesday morning to a new report on wireless – this time on data roaming charges – from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The press release bellowed: “More effective competition and better regulation needed to cut high mobile data roaming costs, says OECD”.
NOT LONG AGO I ASKED A CRTC senior policy advisor I know how work was going. It was one of those just-making-conversation questions we all ask, but I was a little surprised at his response: “Livin’ the dream,” he excitedly told me. Now, I’m not sure my facial expression betrayed
WHY WOULD KEITH PELLEY move to Rogers Communications? That’s the question the industry is asking this week. There are many speculative answers, but let’s try to look at some facts before we lob our own opinion-grenades. Pelley is a sports guy. A TV guy. A sports TV guy. He’s a
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