The Growth of the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2016 A PDF version of this report is available here, while previous versions can be found for 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011. Executive Summary Every year the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project puts out a series of reports on the state [...]
Growth of the Network Media Economy in Canada, 1984-2015 Introduction Every year for the past five years the CMCR Project has put out a series of reports on the state of the telecoms-internet and media industries in Canada. This report is the first installment in this year’s series. [...]
CMCR Project Releases Entire Data Set Under Creative Commons License The whole purpose of the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project is to offer an independent academic, theoretically-informed, empirical and data-driven analysis of a deceptively simple yet profoundly important question: have telecom, media and internet markets become more concentrated [...]
Media and Internet Concentration in Canada Report, 1984 – 2014 Introduction This is the second report in an annual series that reviews current developments and long-term trends in the media, internet and telecoms industries in Canada. Building on last week’s effort, it addresses two simple but important questions: [...]
Media and Internet Concentration in Canada, 1984-2013 This is the second post in a series. Building on last week’s post that analyzed the growth of the media economy between 1984 and 2013, this post addresses the same timeframe and another deceptively simple yet profoundly important question: have telecom, [...]
CMCR Project Preliminary 2012 Data Release: Concentration Trends in the Broadcast Industries in Canada Highlights The CMCR analyzed the financial results for Canada’s biggest TV providers, radio broadcasters, specialty, pay and video-on-demand services as well as cable, satellite TV and IPTV providers released by the CRTC in early [...]
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 [...]
Dwayne Winseck, the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project's (CMCRP) principle investigator, recently spoke with the CBC’s Lang and O’Leary Exchange about how Bell’s bid to take over Astral Media would change the Canadian media landscape, if the CRTC gives it the greenlight. You can see more commentary on his blog, Mediamorphis. A clip from the Lang and O'Leary Exchange [...]
