Tag: CRTC

All things CRTC from Broadcast Dialogue, Canada’s broadcast industry publication of record.

Regulatory, Telecom & Media News – Conventional TV revenue grew in...

The CRTC's recently-released 2019 Broadcasting Financial Summaries reveal growth in annual conventional television revenue for the first time in eight years, while commercial radio...

Conventional TV revenue grew in 2019, while radio reported biggest decline...

The CRTC's recently-released 2019 Broadcasting Financial Summaries reveal growth in annual conventional television revenue for the first time in eight years, while commercial radio...

Weekly Briefing

REVOLVING DOOR: Crossroads Christian Communications, the parent company of independent religious station, YES TV, has named Reverend Kevin Shepherd as its news CEO, effective Sept....

Weekly Briefing

REVOLVING DOOR: Nirmala Naidoo, former CBC and Global Calgary anchor, and New Brunswick lawyer Ellen C. Desmond have been named to the two vacant commissioner...

Sign Offs

Don Jackson, on July 12 of cancer. Jackson was a longtime broadcaster and host of syndicated evening radio show "Lovers and Other Strangers" which...

Radio & Podcast News – Numeris Fall Radio Diary to move...

Numeris has announced it won’t be producing a Fall 2020 TV Diary, with its Fall Radio Diary to move solely online and focus on...

ANALYSIS: Why we must act now on the Yale report (Part...

I was a young entertainment lawyer in the late 1990s when the Internet changed the course of my career. My practice ranged from artists to...

Evanov Radio Group announces sale of Halifax stations to Acadia Broadcasting

Acadia Broadcasting has entered into an agreement to acquire Halifax radio stations Hot Country 103.5 (CKHZ-FM) and Jewel 105 (CKHY-FM) from Evanov Radio Group-owned...

ANALYSIS: The critics are wrong; it’s time to regulate the internet

In a number of recent articles, the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel Report (or “Yale Report”) has been criticized for one of its...

Nirmala Naidoo, Ellen C. Desmond named to vacant CRTC seats

Former Calgary TV news anchor Nirmala Naidoo and New Brunswick lawyer Ellen C. Desmond have been named to the two vacant commissioner seats on...