A long-anticipated three-digit suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline will come online in 2023, Canada’s telecommunications regulator said Wednesday.
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Bell blames CRTC ruling for 39% drop in Super Bowl ratings
Super Bowl ratings were down 39 per cent in Canada this year, a drop that national rights-holder Bell Media blamed on a CRTC decision mandating this year’s game feed from Fox not be substituted with a Canadian signal. The New England Patriots’ 34-28 overtime win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday night drew an average audience of […]
U.S. Super Bowl commercials test future of CRTC ad policy
It’s a long-standing Canadian Super Bowl tradition: tuning in to the big game, but being shut out from the big-budget, star-studded U.S. commercials. That changes this year as a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) policy banning the simultaneous substitution of Canadian ads over U.S. ones during the big game comes into play for the […]
