Tag: Streaming

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

Online & Digital Media News – ‘Regulatory and financial uncertainty’ leads...

Nordstar Capital, owner of Torstar (the Toronto Star and Metroland Media Group), and Postmedia Network have terminated discussions regarding a potential merger. The companies...

Luminate beta launches new user platform

Luminate has beta launched its new platform which promises to expand the company’s global data capabilities across music sales, streaming and airplay data, while...

YouTube reaching 85 per cent of Canadians monthly, says Vividata report

YouTube is reaching over three times as many Canadians, 18+, as Netflix, according to Vividata's Digital Consumer Update for Winter 2023. Vividata says 85% of...

More than half of Canadians binge-viewing monthly, says MTM

Media Technology Monitor (MTM) has released new data indicating more than half of Canadians are binge-viewing television monthly. Fifty-eight per cent of Canadians, 18+, say...

Ad-supported streaming continues to grow, according to Roku VOD study

The popularity of ad-supported streaming continues to grow in Canada, according to Roku’s 2023 Video on Demand (VOD) Evolution study. According to the streaming software...

Radio & Podcast News – On-demand song streaming grew 14% in...

Luminate’s 2022 Year-End Music Report indicates streaming continued to grow in Canada in 2022, with on-demand audio streams hitting the 100 billion mark for...

Radio & Podcast News – Third-party investigation into ‘Derringer in the...

Corus Entertainment says a third-party investigation into former Q107 (CILQ-FM) Toronto morning show Derringer in the Morning has concluded, but it will not publicly...

CBC launches ‘CBC News Explore’ FAST channel

CBC News Explore has launched, the public broadcaster's new free ad-supported streaming (FAST) news channel, available on digital and connected TV platforms. The channel will...

U.S. music streams surpass one trillion in a single year

Music audio streams in the U.S. crossed the one trillion mark this past Saturday, according to new data from Luminate, marking the first time...

OPINION: Distribution Issues – The Hole in Bill C-11

Submitted by: Brad Danks, CEO OUTtv Monika Ille, CEO APTN Luc Perreault, Strategic Advisor, Stingray Group The Senate Transport Committee is starting its clause-by-clause review of Bill C-11,...