Is the fate of CanCon worse than imagined?
Two weeks ago, American media giant CBS announced it was launching its new video streaming service “All Access” in both the US and Canada...
The ISP Levy is a No-Brainer
In a sea of American TV news and entertainment, airing our own local news and Canadian programs preserves a little corner of Canadian...
Andrew Coyne, Canadian Journalism, and the Great Unwashed
You know that a public policy idea’s time has come when it can take the best punch from the smartest critics without any harm. Such is...
FAREWELL JEAN-PIERRE BLAIS
The adieu of a prematurely exiting senior bureaucrat is not a pretty sight. Take the case of Jean-Pierre Blais, the departing Chair of...
Bell’s Alt TV has one Foot in broadcasting, the other in the Internet
Bell pulled the curtain back on its new Alt TV service last week. As advertised, it’s a cheaper version of its “Fibe TV” broadcast...
TV is Everywhere, Where is our Government?
Coincidence can be sweetly ironic if not downright disturbing. April 26th was such a day in Canadian media. In Toronto, CEO George Cope...
Feds Must Save Postmedia Newsrooms to Save Journalism
Canada has a new media mogul, Mark Lever. The publisher of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald just bought Transcontinental’s 28 newspapers in...
Saving Local TV News
Saving Local TV News Local television news is no longer a sustainable business venture. The big media companies who own most of the TV...
Why the CRTC Blew It on the Super Bowl
Last week the debate raged on over the CRTC’s confiscation of Bell Media’s exclusive Canadian broadcasting rights for the 2017, 2018 and...
Canadian Journalism is Going Broke
Recently I received the most startling news from Open Media: “It’s official: 70 per cent of Canadians hate the Internet Tax, according to...