Leading Telecom, Media and Internet Companies in Canada, 2004, 2010 and 2011. Today’s release of data on the top telecom-media-internet (TMI) companies in Canada complements the “big 10 Canadian media companies” table that we released last week. Last week’s chart identified the big 10 Canadian media companies based [...]
At the CMCR Project we open our data sets to anyone who wants to use them for free and without restrictions because there’s more insights buried in them than we will ever discover on our own. We think ‘real world’ events such as the current efforts by Bell to consummate its take-over of Astral [...]
The Big 10 Canadian Media Companies by Revenue & Market Share, 2011 The Big 10 Canadian Media Companies by Revenue & Market Share, 2011* 2011 Ownership Market Share Total Rev. Cable & Sat Dist. Internet Access Total TV Radio Press/Mags** Bell/CTV Diversified 15.3 5373.1 1830 1525 1857.6 160.5 [...]
On Thursday this week, the CRTC killed the Bell Astral deal (news release, full decision). The decision was entirely unexpected by anyone, including me, although all along I have argued that Bell’s bid to acquire Astral Media, the 8th largest media company in Canada, gave the CRTC ample ground to do exactly what it [...]
Last month we launched the CMCR project with a goal of making available a systematic, comprehensive and long-term body of data covering more than a dozen sectors of the telecom, media and internet (TMI) industries in Canada for the period from 1984 to the present. The launch coincided with the start of the CRTC’s [...]
