Media and Internet Concentration in Canada, 1984-2016 Today, the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project is releasing the second of its two-part annual series on the state of telecoms-internet and media concentration in Canada. A downloadable PDF of the report can be found here. The report examines the state of competition in [...]
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 [...]
As my last post explained, the media economy in Canada has grown immensely and become far more complex in the past twenty-five years with the rise of the Internet and digital media. In this post, I ask whether the media have become more or less concentrated amidst all these changes? While opinions are rife on the [...]
