CRTC to broadcasters: Stop trying to game the system by Michael Geist
Columnist says the courts and the CRTC have sent a clear signal that broadcasters should focus on marketplace success, not manipulating the regulatory system.
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Quebecor wins court ruling over Bell by Bertrand Marotte
Quebecor Media Inc. has won a court battle against rival Bell TV over 10-year-old allegations that the latter failed to protect its satellite television signal against piracy in Quebec.
Quebecor wins court ruling over Bell by Bertrand Marotte
Quebecor Media Inc. has won a court battle against rival Bell TV over 10-year-old allegations that the latter failed to protect its satellite television signal against piracy in Quebec.
Huffington Post: Broadband Data Caps Could Get Review from U.S. Lawmakers
The US Justice Department is investigating whether cable operators are improperly suppressing competition through data caps (or metered billing). The data caps are being labeled as ‘anticompetitive’, suggesting that their…
The TPP Negotiating Table is Missing a Seat: Ours
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The Globe and Mail: Where are Bell’s ‘tangible benefits’?
For whom does Bell toll? The Canadian consumer, apparently. More details have emerged on Bell’s avoidance of paying obligatory ‘tangible benefits’ in their takeover of Astral. These tangible benefits are…
Building a Global Platform: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Reilly, replacing Lindsey, with your (slightly lower-tech!) update: read more
Bell says axing fee will hurt stations by Terry Pedwell
Columnist says the CRTC is doing away with a controversial fee charged by many cable and satellite companies to help improve local TV programming – and forcing them to stop…
The CBC should refocus its mandate on information and culture
News release says the CBC president’s recent declaration that “Canadian content and culture would be the single ‘biggest failed promise’ of a purely free market broadcast model” represents a point…
Campaign update: From its inception the Internet has been about us
From its inception the Internet has been about us: the users. Yet time and time again old government and industry bureaucracies have tried to restrict our connection to each other…
Consumers’ gain is TV stations’ loss as CRTC cuts local programming fund by Ora Morison
Columnist says a decision to scrap a fund that helps pay for local television programming will save cable and satellite TV subscribers about the cost of a coffee a month,…
You’re needed
We got their attention. We hand-delivered your 90,000+ Stop The Trap petition signatures to TPP negotiators. Now they’ve said they might make their secrets public!1 Let’s not give them any…
Michael Geist – Canada Excluded From Next Round of TPP Negotiations
The next round of TPP negotiations will again have a distinct lack of Canadian input. What this means is that decisions that are made during the coming TPP negotiations won’t…
Ars Technica: Censorship has no borders
Why is the open Internet so important worldwide? Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have shown that censorship has no borders—if one country blocks content, then that block…
Huffington Post: OpenMedia op-ed on the TPP’s Internet trap
Our very own Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson write about how the TPP’s Internet trap would create a “world where you could receive a fine, and possibly be dragged before…
Louis Audet: Speaks six languages, measures every word by Rita Trichur
Columnist says Cogeco Cable’s largely rural footprint has traditionally shielded it from cutthroat competition, but the growing popularity of advanced TV services from its phone company rivals is starting to…
Applications by the CBC to renew broadcasting licences for radio, television, and specialty television as per Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2011-379-2 and your letter to the CBC dated 18 May 2012
FRIENDS recommends that as part of the CBC licence renewal process, the CRTC carefully examine the importance of hockey rights to the overall CBC English Television commercial revenue model.
The Movement Gets Legs in San Diego: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your update: read more
Covenant puts Postmedia’s back against the wall by Steve Ladurantaye
CEO Paul Godfrey says that Postmedia won’t likely be saved by rising revenue, but by changes that would see the company make a profit on a much smaller revenue base.