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New Media Project Initiative

In 2007, the Commission's New Media Project Initiative was established to examine the cultural, economic, and technological issues associated with new media broadcasting and what actions, if any, the CRTC should take to ensure that the Canadian new media broadcasting environment meets the objectives of the Broadcasting Act.

The purpose of this Initiative is to provide a solid basis for policy development in the new environment. It will build on the foundation of 14 December 2006 report entitled "The Future Environment Facing the Canadian Broadcasting System".

The Initiative commissioned research and solicited stakeholder views on the new media broadcasting environment from leaders in the Canadian broadcasting and telecom industry, academics, and policy-makers (nationally and internationally) and has compiled this information in Perspectives on Canadian Broadcasting in New Media.

The Commission released a public notice in May 2008 calling for comments on the scope of a future proceeding on Canadian new media broadcasting. The public notice also invited Canadians to participate in an online consultation to discuss issues and questions related to the public notice and assist in defining the scope of the new media broadcasting proceeding.

Related documents

• Regulating content on the Internet: A new technological perspective
  March 2008, A Report for Industy Canada
• TV or Not TV: Three Screens, One Regulation? [.htm] [.pdf]
• CRTC New Media Broadcasting eConsultation Report [.htm] [.pdf]
• Perspectives on Canadian Broadcasting in New Media [.htm] [.pdf]
• Changing channels: alternative distribution of television content [.htm] [.pdf]
• Access to News Sources (Decima Research, July 2007)
• An Overview of the Canadian Program Rights Market 2007 (Peter H. Miller)
• Report on 'Research on the New Media sector: International New Media Regulations Environmental Scan' (Nordicity Group Limited, November 2007)
• Study of Canadian OTA Local News Economic and Audience Trends (Nordicity Group Limited, May 2008)

Report on the Future Environment Facing the Canadian Broadcasting System

Call for comments on a request by the Governor in Council pursuant to section 15 of the Broadcasting Act to prepare a report examining the future environment facing the Canadian broadcasting system (Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-72)

The CRTC commissioned the following report related to this process:

• Fast Forward Trend Analysis (Solutions Research Group Consultants Inc, August 2006)

Comments received

The Future Environment Facing the Canadian Broadcasting System

October 1, 2007 New Media Invitational Session

• Background
• Agenda
• List of Participants
• Presentation - National Content on New Media (Peter S. Grant, Senior Counsel, McCarthy Tétrault LLP) (available in English only)