Canadian public broadcaster, CBC has launched an (Over-the-Top) OTT video service, that offers live content and other original series on digital devices. The service also comes in an ad-free version at $4.99 per month, to compete against Netflix and other streaming giants. AS reported by Hollywood Reporter, CBC Executive VP English Services, Heather Conway said, …
Canada has the largest share of ultra binge-watchers on Netflix anywhere in the world. They complete full seasons of TV shows within 24 hours of their release. Other countries in the race are US, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, Mexico, Australia, Sweden, Brazil. Netflix calls these countries, “binge-racers.” Since 2012, 8.4 million Netflix members have watched …
Cord cutting, combined with more consumer-friendly rules from the CRTC, will send Canada’s telecoms into a TV-services “bloodbath” from which they will recover by raising prices for internet services, market observers say. The latest signs that cord-cutting is beginning to damage telcos’ bottom lines came this week with a new report showing that Canadians ditched …
A new report says more Canadians are choosing to cancel their cable TV and satellite packages and there’s no sign of the migration slowing down. The Convergence Consulting Group says about 95,000 fewer households had a cable TV or satellite subscription in 2014. That’s a dramatic increase in the number of people without TV cable packages. …
Canada’s large cable and satellite providers have had another year of declining subscriber numbers. The seven largest cable, satellite and IPTV providers lost a total of over 24,000 subscribers between Aug. 31, 2013 and Aug. 31, 2014, according to disclosures filed to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and released last week. Only IPTV & VoD …
Like in the U.S., the Canadian cable industry is grappling with a shift to VoD platforms. Some customers are shutting off their traditional pay-TV services and watching video exclusively online – the so-called cord-cutters. Canada’s communications regulator will require cable companies to let customers choose the channels they want, one of the first countries in the …
A new category of ”hybrid” video-on-demand (VOD) services will be exempt from licensing. These hybrid services would be available both over the closed facilities of a broadcasting distribution undertaking (BDU), and also delivered and accessed over the Internet. Such VOD platforms would be able to offer exclusive content – just as exempt online-only services can do – as long as that content …
Canada’s broadcast regulator is relaxing the rules that govern the programming Canadian television stations can air in a bid to help them compete with the unlimited choice offered by online video. In a speech to Ottawa’s Canadian Club Thursday, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission chairman Jean-Pierre Blais announced several decisions that came out of a …
The Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters (CAFDE) and one of its members, Elevation Pictures, told a House of Commons committee Monday that there is a role for the CRTC to play to spur demand for Canadian feature films, possibly through a quota system imposed on broadcasters or by bringing so-called over-the-top (OTT) video …
Nearly one in 10 anglophone Canadians say they no longer watch any TV shows the old-fashioned way and only stream or download content online, according to a new study. In a telephone poll with 4,002 Canadians conducted late last year on behalf of the Media Technology Monitor, nine per cent of the respondents said they had …
