Analysis – Page 2

It Was A Brutal Week For Newspapers. It Doesn’t Need To Happen Again

What is needed is a call to action for our federal government to respond to this crisis. This has been one of the most brutal weeks yet in the Canadian newspaper industry. More than 30 newspapers are closing down, and …

The Day the Liberals Walked Away from Canadian Journalism

There is probably one thing about Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s re-boot of Canadian media regulation that few anticipated: her September 28th announcement did not make the slightest effort to save Canadian journalism. Canadian journalism is built on a foundation, namely …

The Day the Liberals Walked Away from Canadian Journalism

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 in 2018. More pointedly, CBS gave notice it would phase out the time-honoured practice of big …

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 life. This has been a Canadian fact of life since television was invented: two national audiences that …

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 the case of the $350M government aid proposal tabled last week by News Media …

Why shouldn’t a small levy help update our support for Canadian culture?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/why-shouldnt-a-small-levy-help-update-our-support-for-canadian-culture/article35349435/

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 product. It’s aimed at the cord-cutting, cord-shaving and cord-nevering customers that cable TV is increasingly losing …

Rogers has chance to make Local News comeback

Last week’s CRTC licensing decision has set the stage for Rogers to reintroduce daily local news on CITY in western Canada for the first time in over a decade and daily multicultural regional news on OMNI since it was taken …

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 announced Bell Canada’s forthcoming CTV app for cordcutters who prefer to buy internet data from George instead …

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