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Media Beat, Aug. 10, 2023

Media Beat, Aug. 10, 2023

By David Farrell

Telus letting go 6,000 workers

'We have actioned meaningful cost efficiency efforts… to align our support costs with current demand to drive improvements to our bottom line'. – Human Resources Director


CRTC extends hundreds of TV broadcast licenses

The regulator is seeking more time to modernize its licensing framework as it implements the Online Streaming Act. – Josh Kolm, Media in Canada

News publishers and broadcasters call for competition bureau investigation into news blocking

The applicants ask the Competition Bureau to use its investigative and prosecutorial tools to protect competition and prohibit Meta from continuing to block Canadians’ access to news content. The applicants also request that Meta refrain from discriminating, by algorithm or by any other means, against content from Canadian news organizations on its digital platforms accessible in Canada. - BusinessWire

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Broadcasters in U.S. and Canada slam Meta for pulling down news north of the border

The National Association of Broadcasters and Canadian Association of Broadcasters support the legislation they say enables news providers to negotiate with dominant digital platforms for fair terms and conditions when broadcaster content appears on their platforms. –InsideRadio

‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban

The retaliatory move against Online News Act is an ‘epic miscalculation’ that will promote the spread of misinformation, analysts say. – Tracy Lindeman, The Guardian

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Rosalie Trombley commemorative sculpture set for Windsor, ONFacebook

The AI rules that US policymakers are considering, explainedVox

‘So glad I’m not Canadian,’ Piers Morgan mocks Justin Trudeau after PM shares photo with his son at the ‘Barbie’ movieToronto Star

Stingray sells karaoke tech to Chinese EV makerChinaTechNews

After trying for three years, Paramount finally unloads Simon & Schuster for $1.6 billionCNN

How AI will transform electionsZDNet

Gravitas: Rise of AI and E-commerce to steal millions of jobs

 

 

Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt outThe Guardian

Survey: 59% willing to watch ads to cut streaming coststvtech

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Justin Bieber's New Album 'Swag' Is Here

The Canadian pop star's seventh album dropped as a surprise today. Others releasing new music this week include Canadian/Kiwi roots star Tami Neilson, Toronto indie rock outfit Long Branch and Montreal indie rockers Karma Glider.

The Biebs is back!

A day after teasing a surprise album with an Instagram photo, pop superstar Justin Bieber has released Swag, his first album since Justice in 2021, via Def Jam Recordings.The 21-song opus, his seventh studio album, features collaborations with such songwriters and producers as Carter Lang, Dylan Wiggins, Dijon, mk.gee, Daniel Chetrit, Eddie Benjamin, Knox Fortune and more. Canadian R&B star Daniel Caesar, who was featured on the 2021 No. 1 hit "Peaches," is also credited as a writer and producer on the song "Devotion." Some of the album was recorded in Iceland in April. Streaming links here.

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