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A column about media and the regulatory environment within and beyond Canada's borders.
Canada’s telecom watchdog has released its annual Communications Monitoring Report that tracks the listening and viewing habits of Canadians, and reports on trends and revenues for radio, TV and television service providers.
The Canadian independent music sector needs to be aware that the gravy-train days of funding from Canada's commercial radio sector are over and this fact will impact FACTOR and many local initiatives.
Ian Scott, the chairman of the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission, delivered his first public address yesterday at Shaw Centre in Ottawa yesterday, at the International Institute of Communications’ annual Law and Policy Conference. What follows is a transcript of that speech.
Building a sense of personal, one-on-one connection with individual listeners has always been the cornerstone of radio’s success. Creating this connection has enabled radio to overcome an ongoing series of new technologies, such as LPs, tapes and MP3 players.
TV viewing time, cable subscriptions and radio listenership are showing marginal declines, but IPTV providers are showing double-digit growth, and online video services in Canada reached almost $2 billion in revenues. Collectively, broadcasters and television service providers invested $3.1 billion in the production of Canadian programming in 2016.
A column about media and the regulatory environment within and beyond Canada's borders.
The conference will be the first public address since Simard started her five-year term as vice-chair of Broadcasting at the CRTC in September.
A column about media and the regulatory environment within and beyond Canada's borders.
A column about media and the regulatory environment inside and beyond Canada's borders.
A column about media and the regulatory environment within and beyond Canada's borders.