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May 19, 2013 — Yahoo!News: Conservative MP James Moore says he’s not making a play for PM’s job by Andy Radia
Conservative MP James Moore says that he isn't launching a campaign for the Conservative Party leadership.
May 18, 2013 — Globe & Mail: How Ottawa's plan to foster wireless competition sank by Rita Trichur, Sean Silcoff and Boyd Erman
Columnists say that the Telus-Mobilicity takeover announcement is a powerful signal that the current government’s wireless strategy is on life support.
May 16, 2013 — CTV News: Mike Duffy tried to influence CRTC decision on Sun Media
Senator Mike Duffy is alleged to have asked a Conservative insider to urge the CRTC to grant Sun TV News mandatory carriage.
May 15, 2013 — Canadian Media Research: CBC’s Audience Crisis: CBC TV Audience is Down 40%, Lowest in History by Barry Kiefl
Researcher says the CBC’s latest report confirms that many programs on the main TV service, despite efforts to be more “popular,” have fallen to audience levels not much greater than many specialty channels.
May 15, 2013 — Waterloo Record: CBC keeps Kitchener radio costs secret by Jeff Outhit
Columnist says the taxpayer-funded CBC is keeping secret the cost of its new local radio station, while it spars with private stations that are upset to be competing with the public purse.
May 14, 2013 — Cartt.ca: 9(1)(h) COMMENTARY: Maybe the CRTC should impose a penetration rate based card on the whole industry by Greg O'Brien
Writer says big BDUs often treat independent broadcasters like unworthy annoyances, and not the partners they are.
May 14, 2013 — CBC News: Disgust with Tories led to Labrador byelection win, Liberal says
Former Conservative MP Peter Penashue blames CBC News reports on his spending for having defined him very negatively.
May 13, 2013 — Poynter: New research finds 92 percent of time spent on news consumption is still on legacy platforms by Rick Edmonds
Columnist says when you measure news consumption in the U.S. by time spent, rather than raw audience numbers, digital platforms are getting only 8 percent of the action.
May 13, 2013 — National Post: BCE says it will walk away from Astral deal if forced to sell more assets by Christine Dobby
BCE Inc. chief executive George Cope says that the sale of further French television services or the pay service The Movie Network would defeat the two strategic rationales his company has for buying Astral.
May 10, 2013 — Huffington Post Canada: CBC: The Conservative Broadcast Corporation by Jamie Biggar, Ian Morrison and Angus Wong
FRIENDS, Leadnow and SumOfUs say that no public broadcaster anywhere in the free world faces the degree of political interference as that proposed for the CBC in Bill C-60.
May 10, 2013 — CBC Radio Q: Jian's essay on the so-called CBC crisis by Jian Ghomeshi
Q host Jian Ghomeshi says the CBC is not in crisis and that CBC holds the largest audience share in the country.
May 8, 2013 — Ottawa Citizen: Bell must sell Astral's pay TV, Rogers says by LuAnn LaSalle
Rogers says Bell should be forced to sell Astral's Movie Network pay TV service if the CRTC is going to allow the $3.4-billion revised merger of the two companies to go ahead.
May 8, 2013 — Montreal Gazette: CRTC hearings: Telecom firm Eastlink denounces Bell-Astral deal
Telecom company Eastlink remains opposed to Bell’s bid to buy specialty TV and radio company Astral Media despite changes to the deal and is asking the CRTC to turn the merger down for a second time.
May 8, 2013 — Lobby Monitor: Advocacy group, unions protest proposed labour requirements for crown corporations
FRIENDS delivers a petition on the Parliament Hill signed by more than 100,000 Canadians.
May 8, 2013 — Toronto Star: Critics fear Tories’ changes to collective bargaining at Crown corporations will threaten CBC independence by Joanna Smith
Columnist says groups, such as FRIENDS, who are worried that government involvement in labour negotiations at Crown corporations will threaten the independence of the CBC are stepping up efforts to persuade the Conservatives to reconsider.
May 8, 2013 — Sun News Network: CBC supporters rally in Ottawa against government interference by Jessica Hume
FRIENDS says the independence of CBC is under attack as the government proposes to bring union contracts of Crown corporations under Treasury Board control.
May 8, 2013 — Huffington Post Canada: ‘Free CBC' Petition Signed By 120,000 Against Tories' Bill C-60
FRIENDS says that with ultimate control of the salaries and working conditions of all CBC employees in the hands of the government, as proposed in Bill C-60, the CBC would have to contend with the perception that its editorial decisions may be politically motivated.
May 7, 2013 — StarPhoenix: Bell says Astral purchase good for consumers by Luann Lasall
BCE Inc. says consumers will get more content and Bell will play fair with its competitors as it makes a revised sales pitch to the CRTC seeking approval for its $3.4-billion takeover of Astral Media.
May 7, 2013 — Globe & Mail: Is the CBC in crisis, or is Canada in crisis? by John Doyle
Columnist suggests that a vast, disengaged population represents a crisis more authentic than the matter of ad dollars and hockey on CBC.
May 7, 2013 — Toronto Star: Tories vulnerable in several francophone ridings by Chantal Hébert
Columnist says that to go after the CBC is also to go after its French-language counterpart and Radio-Canada is an essential part of the cultural food chain of the country’s francophone minorities.
