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Canadian digital media companies tend to be small and face problems finding private-sector financing, but new opportunities like TV app development continue to arise, new consultants’ reports released by the Canada Media Fund said.

Wind Mobile is preparing to court Canadian businesses as it moves into the next phase of its push to become a fourth national wireless carrier, Anthony Lacavera, Wind’s chairman and CEO, told The Wire Report this week.

Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. reinstated a “medium term notes” program and issued a $1 billion public offering of the notes partly to help pay for its $3.38-billlion acquisition of Astral Media Inc.

Canada’s cellphone tower siting regulations make communities believe they have the power to decide where a tower can be built even if those powers reside exclusively with the federal government, said Edward Hachey, vice president of tower operator SBA Canada.

Broadcasters and telecom providers will watch upcoming CRTC decisions for any indications of what direction its new chair will take towards industry regulation, industry insiders told The Wire Report on Monday.

Telus Corp. will spend about $30 million a year for at least the next three years to bolster its fibre-based Internet protocol television (IPTV) service in parts of eastern Quebec where it operates as the incumbent telco, Clement Audet, the company’s vice-president of the consumer market in Quebec, said in an interview.

Canada’s six largest private broadcasters' specialty channel revenues collectively rose by $193.8 million in 2011, or 8.53 per cent, as pre-tax profits fell by $40 million, an analysis of aggregated CRTC data shows.

BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. will provide Canadian viewers with more than 5,500 hours of Olympic coverage during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London this summer, Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium said in a release last Friday.

Canadian conventional broadcasters are “under threat” from heavy-handed regulation and “lost eyeballs” that aren’t being monetized, Kevin Crull, president of BCE Inc. subsidiary Bell Media, said Wednesday at the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto.

TORONTO—MTS Allstream Inc. and Telus Corp. are leading in the rollout of broadband for remote communities under a 2010 CRTC directive while BCE Inc. subsidiaries Bell Canada and Bell Aliant are falling behind, Len Katz, acting chair of the CRTC, told The Wire Report Tuesday at the 2012 Canadian Telecom Summit.

BCE Inc. has lost more than $2 billion on its Bell Satellite TV service since its launch in 1997, the company said in a brief filed with the CRTC Monday.

Telus Communications Co. added 194,802 TV subscribers during 2011, the most of all the major Canadian TV distributors, according to a year-end analysis of TV subscriber numbers by The Wire Report.

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NorthwesTel plan would kill competition, competitor says

Bell Aliant grows IPTV subs to 95,100

Bell loses satellite piracy lawsuit to Quebecor, must pay $600,000 in damages

Bell to showcase Olympics on mobile TV with exclusive rights

Bell, distributors, resolve carriage dispute; CRTC decision introduces more channel package flexibility

Block Bell-Astral deal, Quebec consumer group says

With Astral, Bell to auction off 10 radio stations by Sept. 10 hearing

Bell, Rogers, propose changes to Cancon overspending rules

Bell-CIDG decision by July 18, CRTC says

Telus-Bell spectrum sharing unfair, leads to larger, superior 700 MHz blocks: Rogers

Bell, CBC, back away from joint Olympics bid

MLSE deal gives Bell, Rogers, unfair leverage to hike carriage rates, independents say

TV app development a new opportunity for media companies: Report

Wind targets business market with aim to become new national carrier

BCE issues notes to support Astral acquisition

Tower siting regulations must change to alleviate local political pressure, builder says

Companies, groups, to watch Blais in early days for indications of regulatory approach

Telus to expand Optik footprint in eastern Quebec

Revenues up, profits down at large broadcasters’ specialty channels

Bell, Rogers to broadcast 5,500 hours of Olympic coverage

Conventional TV broadcasting too heavily regulated, Bell says

Telus, MTS so far met 30-60% of rural broadband obligations, Bell lagging, Katz says

Bell has lost $2B on satellite TV distribution

Telus tops TV subscriber growth in 2011; Shaw, Rogers, lose subs

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