Showing posts with label CRTC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CRTC. Show all posts
Friday, July 2, 2021

What Bill C-10 is really about.

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The letter to the editor I sent to the Hill times was too long, so Kate Malloy (Editor) did her magic and published: We need to move ‘broadc...
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Imperialism of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Whether it is SNC-Lavalin , CGI Inc ,  BCE Inc.  (which owns Bell Canada) , or CBC , there is always a lot of flag-waving from lobbiests an...
Saturday, January 5, 2019

Re: Bell Media and BBC Worldwide North America Sign Exclusive Multi-Platform Deal for DOCTOR WHO

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The following was sent to the contacts listed on the Bell Media press release from 2016 . Ever since this deal it has been harder to leg...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Budget 2018 Investment in Canadian Content a missed opportunity

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I checked Federal Budget 2018 for new support of Canadian content creators.  What I found under the title of "INVESTING IN CANADIAN CO...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Intervention in opposition of the Bell Coalition's "Fairplay" site blocking proposal.

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I have made an intervention to the CRTC in opposition to FairPlay Canada's so-called "application to disable on-line access to pira...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Yes, CBC, I'm waiting for Alias Grace to be on Netflix.

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CBC runs InCanada , an "online" Canadian Media Panel. I put "online" in quotations because while the panel is online, th...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

OSI model layered approach to CRTC policy required to get quality of service

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Re: Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2017-49 : Review of the competitor quality of service regime While the consultation is in the for...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Defend #DigiCanCon through Modern Management of Communications Convergence

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The Canadian content in a digital world consultations are underway, and the Minister of Canadian Heritage has indicated that everything is o...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Canadian Subsidies to HBO's Game of Thrones #DigiCanCon

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Despite Bell Canada's desire for me to not watch Game of Thrones unless I was a cable subscriber or willing to infringe copyright , I c...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

CraveTV: Your devices are not supported. CanCon unavailable to Canadians

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After the cast functionality stopped working with CraveTV after a browser upgrade, I tried contacting CraveTV for support.  As I wanted to ...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

CraveTV not competitive with Netflix, or even DVD's

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In early April I subscribed to CraveTV to evaluate it, and 6 months later I'm less happy with it. Technical I wrote in the earlier a...
Sunday, April 3, 2016

First look at Bell's CraveTV

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While I am not a fan of Bell as a company or their harmful politics, I decided to give CraveTV as a technology a quick look given they un-ti...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Works of cultural industry are nothing like "Happy Meal" toys.

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When discussing cultural policy you will sometimes bump into individuals who seek to diminish the value of culture by comparing it to consum...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Broken Broadcaster streaming websites

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If you haven't tried to use them, you might wonder why the websites that Canadian broadcasters (or most often, the BDUs that own them) o...