Craig and CHUM are embracing expansion plans, but await a CRTC decision that will determine whether Canada can support two more national private television networks.
Canadians should be outraged that despite years of subsidies and regulatory protection, the means of producing Canadian television drama have all but collapsed.
CanWest nominates two new directors to its board: former Sun Media CEO Paul Godfrey, and University of Toronto law school dean Ron Daniels.
The absence of founder and controlling shareholder Allan Waters from CHUM's annual meeting is fueling speculation the company may be sold.
CHUM responds to increased competition from new Toronto-area stations Toronto 1, CTS and Omni 2.
Alliance Atlantis blames "permanent downturn" in global demand for downsizing of its Canadian film and television business.
Alliance Atlantis plans to downsize its film and TV production business.
New owner says the problems with Pride Vision are "not a lack of audience, not a lack of programming, not a lack of interest, it's distribution."
Former owner of Internet broadcaster ICraveTV acquires money-losing digital specialty channel PrideVision.
India and Canada have signed a letter of intent to create a co-production arrangement for film and television.
SOCAN has asked the Supreme Court of Canada to require Internet service providers to collect royalty payments for music downloads.
Statscan reports that Canadian content on pay and specialty channels has increased in all genres except Canadian music and dance.
Between 1998 and 2002, the proportion of Canadian content on pay and specialty channels grew, while the proportion on conventional television declined.
Columnist believes plan to replace the U.S. ads with Canadian ads on direct-feed U.S. cable channels deserves another hearing at the CRTC.
Columnist argues that if giving U.S. cable companies access to Canadian advertising can be used to fund Canadian programming, it is worth another look by the CRTC.
Broadcasters deride Allan Rock for failing to ensure that new satellite signal theft legislation was passed before the end of the last session of Parliament.
Broadcasters assert that cable industry plans to allow HBO, ESPN and other banned American channels into Canada could seriously damage their Canadian counterparts, such as TSN and The Movie Network.
The CCTA is lobbying the CRTC to allow cable companies to import Fox News' signal from the U.S.
Columnist says the CBC would get more sympathy and support if its words matched its deeds.
Bell Globemedia revenues increase, bolstered by popular programming and "healthy" advertising.
Craig Media wins regulatory battle against CHUM for more programming flexibility on MTV2, but CRTC decision still imposes restrictions.
A US court has upheld an FCC decision requiring TVs in the US to be capable of receiving digital TV signals by July 2007.
Personal video recorders are expected to fuel a showdown between advertisers and broadcasters over increasing ad rates for shrinking audiences.
Al Gore and his partners plan to buy Newsworld International and create an all-news network for Americans under 25.
Al Gore is reported to be exploring the purchase of Newsworld International to create a new US media venture.
Quebecor accuses BCE of pumping money into Bell ExpressVu with intention of financially damaging cable rivals so they cannot compete in local telephone market.
Government introduces bill containing tough new measures to stem satellite signal piracy in Canada.
Izzy Asper was wrong about the CBC, and should have had to give more support to Canadian content in exchange for the right to use public airwaves.
Feschuk gives CTV and Global "Best American Network in Canada" award.
Asper says McKenna "completely familiar with the company" and "a key participant" in company decisions made since 1999.
CanWest board member and former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna appointed to succeed Izzy Asper as interim chairman.
The Tax Act's arcane definition of 'charity' limits advocacy and freedom of expression for many non-profit organizations.
Globe & Mail editor recalls Asper's wit, litigiousness.
Ted Rogers' succession planning is several years behind Izzy Asper's.
CanWest likely to undergo changes following founder's death.
CBC reporter unlikely to receive apology from CanWest head.
CanWest CEO Leonard Asper outlines 'personal' views on media bias in Middle East reporting, including that journalists often hold left-leaning views and are often socialists.
Personal video recorders, which allow viewers to skip commercials, could result in higher subscriber fees to offset the diminishing impact of advertising.
The Canadian Cable Television Association is asking the federal regulator to allow its 90-member companies to offer 17 new U.S. channels through their digital cable service
Videotron has lost its final appeal in a dispute over the use of its cables by satellite rival Bell ExpressVu.
A multitude of channels, rising costs and fading interest are threatening future of Canada's sports broadcasters.
"Celebritization” and hype over the film festivals has resulted in a blurring of entertainment and news.
Craig launches ’s newest television station, Toronto One, on September 19.
Shaw Communications Inc. has signed a deal to buy cable systems serving 35,000 subscribers in Alberta and British Columbia for $90-million.
Shaw Communications Inc. has signed a deal to buy cable systems serving 35,000 subscribers in Alberta and British Columbia for $90-million.
Craig Broadcasting plans “new vision” of for local television viewers.
The Toronto Star newspaper and Toronto's newest television station, Toronto 1 have founded a strategic alliance on advertising, marketing and promotional campaigns.
The demise of WTSN due to high production costs and a lack of a definable audience should serve as a warning to other digital sports channels.
Astral Media has sold the Quebec radio stations the Competition Bureau ordered it to divest.
William Houston argues that CTV's women's sports network had too many strikes against it to succeed.
New Global television series, Train 48, will carry an array of embedded product placements.
Digital TV channels are still less popular than older analogue specialty channels.
Arabic news network Al-Jazeera should be permitted to broadcast in Canada.
CHUM Ltd. is negotiating a deal that would allow it to launch three television channels in major urban centres in Britain by the end of next year.
The CRTC wants more competition in the local telephone business, but new companies would still face huge risks.
Telephone companies intend to provide television programming through the use of high-speed networks created for internet access.
Telephone companies are poised to enter into the Canadian television market.
Canada's cable companies are poised to enter the local telephone business, and intend to offer a "triple play" of communications services, including TV, phone and Internet.
Although AM radio may be ailing it is still useful and should not be allowed to die.
Cable companies say they need to be allowed to sell popular American pay TV channels in order to combat satellite signal piracy.
Increasing competition among Toronto's networks has resulted in the exchange of several high-profile TV personalities.
The battle over Ontario TV news anchor Beverly Thomson between CanWest and CTV has been settled out of court.
Antonia Zerbisias cites our appetite for media as one of the biggest drains on energy.
CanWest going to court after one of its star anchors was hired away by CTV is a sign that competition is getting hotter in the country's television industry.
Rogers to consider adopting pay-per-view technology used by the National Football League in the US.
Bill Roberts reports on the impact of international trade negotiations on Canada's TV industry.
Fox News sues comedian and writer, claiming trademark to the expression "fair and balanced".
Bell Canada's ExpressVu satellite division has announced new technology to remotely deactivate illegal program decoders.
Beginning on September 9, new broadcaster Toronto 1 will take the place of NBC on Toronto Channel 15.
Response by the head of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters to an op-ed by the Canadian Cable Television Association.
Bell Globemedia's sales and operating profits have exceeded analysts' expectations due to strong results from CTV television and cost cutting.
Bell Expressvu has filed a complaint with the CRTC accusing Rogers of sabotage and anti-competitive behaviour in the fight for television subscribers.
Bell Expressvu has filed a complaint with the CRTC accusing Rogers of sabotage and anti-competitive behaviour in the fight for television subscribers.
Bell Expressvu has filed a complaint with the CRTC accusing Rogers of sabotage and anti-competitive behaviour in the fight for television subscribers.
Bell Expressvu has filed a complaint with the CRTC accusing Rogers of sabotage and anti-competitive behaviour in the fight for television subscribers.
Rogers Cable decision to move PBS from channel 18 to 61 on the cable dial has resulted in a loss of 26% of the channel's Canadian viewership.
Globe article describes Britain's BBC as "state-funded".
CanWest's Cool FM 99.1 makes format change likely to lower popularity.
Michael Higgins queries whether the media's 'dumbing down' is irreversible.
Despite owning the Canadian broadcast rights, CanWest Global carried a US broadcast of the Molson Indy in Toronto instead of producing its own.
WTSN, Bell Globemedia's women's sports digital television channel, is in unknown financial trouble.
Owner of major-league sports clubs has broadcasting interests that give the impression of a conflict of interest.
CanWest Global sold its stake in European broadcaster to pay down corporate debt.
Statistics Canada confirms Canadian cultural imports far exceed exports.
Robert Fulford criticizes timing of Peter Jennings U.S. citizenship.
US model of convergence between sports teams and specialty channels being considered in Canada.
Federally regulated industries contribute to Liberal leadership bids.
Shaw Cable sold its U.S. cable operations to pay down corporate debt.
Expatriate Canadian journalist and anchor Peter Jennings has become an American citizen.
Craig Broadcasting's new Toronto TV station, Toronto 1, recruits news anchors from CBC, but relies heavily on American programming in its program line-up.
Interactive television is taking root as the popularity of digital television systems grows.
Hollywood's leading studios may have to revise deals with European pay television companies to address concerns film prices are being kept artificially high.
SARS and funding cuts have helped lead to a significant decline in television production in Toronto.
Global B.C. continues to lead local news ratings by a wide margin, despite increased competition and new stations in the market.
The rejection of Quebecor's bid to acquire radio stations from Astral is the latest round in a jurisdictional fight between the CRTC and the Competition Bureau.
Statistics Canada survey of the radio business reports private FM radio broadcasters are outperforming private conventional television broadcasters.
Statistics Canada survey of the radio business reports private FM radio broadcasters are outperforming private conventional television broadcasters.
Increased advertising revenues have boosted CanWest's profits in Australia.
High school essay contest winner Dan Smith laments that Canadians have come to trust television more than print as a source of information.
Vancouver's successful bid for the 2010 Winter Games has sparked a bidding race for the rights to televise the Games in Canada.
The CRTC has rejected a bid by Astral Media to sell radio stations to Quebecor, citing concerns about concentration of media ownership and media cross-ownership in Quebec.
The CRTC has rejected a bid by Astral Media to sell radio stations to Quebecor, citing concerns about concentration of media ownership and media cross-ownership in Quebec.
The CRTC has rejected a bid by Astral Media to sell radio stations to Quebecor, citing concerns about concentration of media ownership and media cross-ownership in Quebec.
CTV and Global have in the past contended CBC's access to public money gives it an unfair advantage in bidding for Olympic broadcasting rights. CBC says the Olympics are a net money-earner.
News that CTV and Global are unlikely to bid for broadcasting rights to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics may lower the cost to CBC.
A Rogers executive is leaving for Bell Canada, alleging that only members of the Rogers family are appointed to top positions.
Expatriate journalist Keith Morrison says CBC "sets the standard in news coverage and no one else in North America can match them".
The idea that media concentration leads to lesser-quality news is founded on a very little research. There is no reason to think increased media regulation translates to better news.
The National Post's 'CBC Watch', a forum for complaints about the public broadcaster, would be more at home on "the lunatic fringe of the Internet" than "a daily newspaper owned by a broadcaster who competes with the CBC for viewers".
Bill Roberts writes that Canada needs a clearer vision for its broadcast industry if programming content is to improve.
The CRTC has rejected a bid by Astral Media to sell radio stations to Quebecor, citing concerns about concentration of media ownership and media cross-ownership in Quebec.
CHUM and Global compete to expand their Alberta presence.
John Doyle reports on Clifford Lincoln's commitment to the ideal of a Canadian broadcasting system and his ideas for reforming it.
Antonia Zerbisias analyzes a new CanWest Global documentary about last September's student demonstration against a speech by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Shaw says subscriber growth is down and it will need to cut jobs and other costs.
Quebecor appoints former ketchup executive as the new president and CEO of its cable division.
William Houston speculates that if Vancouver-Whistler is awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics, the cost of Canadian television rights will skyrocket. CBC will bear this cost, as CTV and Global have stated their networks will likely not bid.
Entertainment producers are relying more on concepts, less on costly stars, to sell entertainment.
CRTC Commissioners asked hard questions of applicants wishing to start Edmonton's first urban music station.
Canadian broadcasters are bickering over the Canadian Cable Television Association's CRTC application to add new U.S. channels to the digital dial.
Alliance Atlantis Communications laid out two year growth projections that impressed analysts, but did not detail how much is attributable to an accounting change.
Alliance Atlantis has revised its financial statements twice in the last two years.
Canadian broadcasters are hypocritical to criticize a plan by the cable industry to increase profits by directly importing U.S. specialty channels.
A report on the Heritage Committee's 872-page study of the Canadian broadcasting system, including reactions from broadcasters and from Trina McQueen, author of a recent study on Canadian drama.
Company run by former president of Global television has applied to CRTC to substitute U.S. with Canadian ads on five U.S. specialty channels seen in Canada.
Walter Kirn laments the growing homogenization of radio, where the music and the announcers all sound alike.
Canadians should have access to American stations in order to fight the illegal satellite dish industry.
David Asper hosts CanWest table at Canadian Alliance fundraiser.
Parliamentary committee told many of Canada's major daily newspapers lack sufficient editorial independence, an appropriate commitment to foreign affairs reporting and a devotion to the improvement of their staff.
Proposal by the country's largest cable companies to open the door to 17 high-profile U.S. channels is opposed by Canadian broadcasters, who call it a "cynical cash grab".
The Cable Television Association has filed an application to bring popular U.S. cable channels into the Canada, causing conflict between Canadian broadcasters and cable companies.
Bad management decisions at BCE have cost consumers.
Private broadcasters CHUM and CanWest Global came under close scrutiny at hearings into proposals to increase their coverage areas.
The CBC aside, Canada's television networks aren't interested in broadcasting sports during prime time.
CanWest was required to make $500,000 donation to UBC as part of public benefits package arising from WIC takeover.
Charles Gordon chronicles recent setbacks in Canada's news media.
Statistics Canada reports that Pay TV was the most profitable segment of the television industry in 2002, while conventional private broadcasters were hardest hit by a sluggish market.
CHUM and CanWest Global came under tough questioning from the CRTC as they sought approval to increase their share of the broadcasting landscape.
Canadian broadcasters fight CHUM's application to enter the Alberta television market.
Media moguls are disappointed with heritage committee's recommendations for Canadian broadcasting.
Rogers Media board member claims no conflict of interest in sitting on Senate committee studying media concentration.
New Toronto broadcaster, Toronto/One, owned by Craig Broadcast Systems Inc., will be airing nightly movies rather than conventional television programs.
Canada's major television networks are increasing the fees they charge advertisers to place spots on their prime shows.
Bell ExpressVu Inc. wants its conditions of licence relaxed so it can sell pay-per-view services to telephone companies entering the television distribution business.
The president of CHUM Ltd. has called for tax breaks for advertisers to encourage them to spend their ad dollars on Canadian programs.
Keynote speaker at the opening of the Banff Television Festival tells an audience of TV producers, programmers and Canadian broadcasters that media moguls in the U.S. and Canada have much in common.
Sales officials with CTV, the CBC and other Canadian television networks will spend June and early July courting advertisers to sell between two-thirds and three-quarters of their prime-time ads.
New president of CHUM Ltd. tells crowd at the Banff Television Festival that it's time to stop complaining about the state of Canadian-made drama, and start making changes to fix it.
The president of CHUM Ltd. has called for tax breaks for advertisers to encourage them to spend their ad dollars on Canadian programs.
The country's TV ad and media buyers hedge bets and gamble on what shows might be hits.
The Banff Television Festival is hosting a tribute to American television this week, yet not one of the big four American networks will be in attendance.
Antonia Zerbisias writes that based on promotional material, there's nothing groundbreaking, nothing risky and nothing new scheduled for the 2003-2004 television season.
Rogers Sportsnet and The Score are receiving a cool reception to their request for rate increases. FRIENDS is among those opposed to the increases.
Three new Canadian series and four U.S. imports will be added to the fall prime-time lineup of CTV which boasts that 2003-2004 will be its "most ambitious homegrown bundle ever."
CanWest Global Communications took another step toward integrating its print operations by rationalizing its domestic and foreign news bureaus.
Canadian broadcaster Craig Media has announced a 2003-04 TV schedule dominated by U.S. celebrity talk shows by day and homegrown fare and Hollywood movies in primetime.
Canadian private broadcasters are unveiling 2003-04 primetime schedules that closely resemble U.S. network schedules.
John Doyle says the Canadianness of CTV's fall schedule was "off-kilter, kind of sideways and a matter of piggybacking on the glamorous American stuff."
CTV announced its new television season, introducing three new Canadian series and five new American shows for 2003-04.
Craig Broadcasting's new Toronto television station, Toronto One, is the first new local over-the-air channel since Citytv. Craig intends to "steal a little bit [of audience] from everybody".
Despite boasting "Canadian Television" as it's slogan, CTV's schedule still contains a large number of American programs.
Walt Disney Television International president believes the market for American programming in foreign territories will rebound.
Friends asks John Manley to advocate steps to redress imbalance between private broadcasters' input of public funds, commitment to Canadian content
Friends asks Sheila Copps to advocate steps to redress imbalance between private broadcasters’ input of public funds, commitment to Canadian content
Friends asks Paul Martin to advocate steps to redress imbalance between private broadcasters’ input of public funds, commitment to Canadian content
TV networks that stand to benefit from new FCC rules on media ownership have coincidentally not reported on the debate surrounding media consolidation.
The popularity of US cultural exports contributes to Canadian insecurity, a root cause of anti-Americanism.
