Jan 30, 2012 — News Article: The Biggest Risk to the Economy in 2012, and What’s the Economy For Anyway? by Robert Reich
Columnist says the crisis of capitalism marks the triumph of consumers and investors over workers and citizens and the increasing efficiency by which all of us as consumers can get great deals with our declining capacity as citizens.
Dec 24, 2011 — News Article: New Rules for the Ways We Watch
Columnist says cable has had a great year, and media giants like Time Warner and News Corporation continue to find plenty of profits.
Dec 2, 2011 — News Article: With Verizon’s $3.6 Billion Spectrum Deal, Cable and Wireless Inch Closer by Brian Stelter
The sale of spectrum licenses, which give the rights to airwaves, is part of a “complete reordering of the competitive universe as we know it today,” says cable analyst Craig Moffet.
Oct 19, 2011 — News Article: Postmedia accepts offer for newspapers in B.C.
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., has accepted an unsolicited offer for its community newspaper operations in British Columbia and one of its big-city dailies, the Victoria Times Colonist.
Sep 22, 2011 — News Article: Vertical Integration: There's some love for the CRTC decision, but Bell calls for full system reboot by Greg O’Brien
Bell Canada’s regulatory chief says due to the CRTC’s new vertical integration policy, he wants to start over when it comes to our broadcasting laws and its regulation.
Sep 21, 2011 — News Article: Vertical Integration policy mandates safeguards, some exclusive content, programming flexibility
Columnist says the CRTC’s policy on vertical integration tries hard to balance the wants of Canadian television viewers with the commercial demands of the country’s largest vertically integrated broadcasters and television distributors, and the needs of the smaller and independent ones.
Sep 21, 2011 — News Article: CRTC rewrites rules for mobile broadcasting by Susan Krashinsky
The CRTC has introduced a new set of controls on how television content can be sold, in a move that will curb BCE Inc.’s plans to use programming to boost its wireless business.
Sep 21, 2011 — News Article: CRTC sets rules on exclusive mobile video deals
The CRTC has ruled that companies such as Bell can't offer streamed hockey games or TV shows exclusively to their own mobile and internet customers — such content must also be available to competitors "under fair and reasonable terms."
Sep 21, 2011 — News Article: CRTC Rules Against Exclusive TV Rights Deals by Etan Vlessing
The CRTC is forcing vertically integrated media groups to make all TV shows, including premium sporting events, available to competitors under fair and reasonable terms.
Sep 21, 2011 — News Article: Canada regulator tightens mobile, Internet rules
The CRTC says Canadian companies that own both television content and the means to distribute it will face tighter rules for selling programming rights to rivals.
Aug 7, 2011 — News Article: Digital divide: DTV switch leaving some in dark by Peter Hadzipetros
As of August 31, 2011 the CRTC is requiring all broadcasters to go digital in 30 markets, including all provincial capitals and cities with a population of 300,000 or greater.
Jul 6, 2011 — News Article: Newad reveals the results of a pan-Canadian survey on the habits of 18-to-34 year-old adults
A survey conducted by Newad in collaboration with TNS Canada reveals that 18-to-34 year-old Canadians surpass the total Canadian adult population in their use of the web, mobiles and social networks.
May 31, 2011 — News Release: Dalton Camp Award returns home
Nine years after its creation, the Dalton Camp Award returns to Fredericton this week with the presentation of the 2011 DCA Award at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
May 3, 2011 — News Article: Why did we ignore Obama’s social media lesson? by Don Tapscott
Columnist says that after watching how Barack Obama revolutionized campaigning for the digital age, it’s bizarre that the parties in our election all ran old-style campaigns of the broadcast era.
Feb 17, 2011 — News Article: International Media Concentration Research Project
The International Media Concentration Research Project's goal is to go beyond the rhetoric to an academic, empirical, dispassionate, and data-driven analysis of trends and their drivers.
Feb 12, 2011 — News Article: Media Concentration in Canada and the Internet by Dwayne Winseck
Columnist says while Bell and other large internet providers throw obstacles in the path of others, their own services get a free ride.
Feb 7, 2011 — News Article: BCE defends CTV deal to CRTC by Jamie Sturgeon
BCE Inc. chief executive defended the telecom giant's bid for the CTV television network on the grounds that its biggest competitors already operate under the same model.
Feb 1, 2011 — News Article: Media merger debate ignores key issue by Michael Geist
Columnist says the implications a merger between BCE Inc. and CTVglobemedia Inc. are enormous, yet competition concerns will take a back seat to the "benefits package" BCE must pay to the Canadian cultural community.
Feb 1, 2011 — News Article: Bell's purchase of CTV a conflict: group by Jason Magder
With hearings set to begin today on the proposal by Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. to purchase television network CTV, several advocates are concerned the issue of net neutrality will get short shrift.
Jan 27, 2011 — News Article: Quebecor Told to Stop Offering VOD Content Exclusively to Subscribers by Etan Vlessing
Canada’s broadcast regulator has told Montreal-based Quebecor to end an arrangement that gave cable operator Videotron Ltd. exclusive access to content from over-the-air network TVA Group, both of which are owned by the Quebec media player.
