{"id":597378,"date":"2026-05-22T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:15:10","slug":"canadian-regulator-triples-us-streamers-financial-contributions-to-canadian-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597378\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian regulator triples US streamers’ financial contributions to Canadian content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) \u2014 Large online streaming services must contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content<\/a>, the country’s federal broadcast regulator said Thursday.<\/p>\n

That figure is three times the 5% initial contribution requirement the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, CRTC, set out in 2024, which is being challenged in court by U.S.-based major streamers, including Apple<\/a>, Amazon and Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The CRTC made the decision as part of its implementation of the Online Streaming Act, which the U.S. has identified as a trade irritant ahead of trade negotiations with Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contribution requirements for traditional broadcasters in Canada, which currently pay between 30% and 45%, will be lowered to 25%.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe total contributions are expected to stabilize the funding at more than $2 billion in support of Canadian and Indigenous content, such as French-language content and news,\u201d the regulator said in a press release.<\/p>\n

The CRTC also set out rules on how the money must be spent for both streamers and broadcasters, including contributions toward production funds and direct spending on Canadian content.<\/p>\n

Most of the streamers\u2019 financial contribution can go toward content, though the CRTC is imposing rules on how that money must be spent for the largest streamers.<\/p>\n

For instance, streamers with Canadian revenues of more than $100 million Canadian ($73 million) annually must direct 30% of spending toward partnerships with Canadian broadcasters and independent producers.<\/p>\n

The new financial contribution rules apply to streamers and broadcasters with at least $25 million Canadian ($18 million) in annual Canadian broadcasting revenues.<\/p>\n

The CRTC is also establishing a new fund to support specific TV channels, including CPAC, the Canadian service that provides direct coverage of political events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) \u2014 Large online streaming services must contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[204137,204134,204132,204133,55219,1397,204136,90,204135,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-broadcast-regulator","tag-canadian-broadcasters","tag-canadian-content","tag-canadian-radio-television-and-telecommunications-commission","tag-crtc","tag-environment","tag-financial-contribution","tag-science","tag-streamers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}