The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) had mandated that by March 1, cable companies must offer a "skinny" basic TV package for $25 or less. According to the CRTC ...

Pick-and-pay channels would cost more on top of that. It's a far cry from the original $24.95 price tag for basic cable TV. Telus' $25 basic Optik TV "Lite" package can also add up.

Cogeco is allowing customers to build their own packages of 10, 20, 30 or 40 channels to add on to the basic bundle (in Quebec, the choices are 10, 15, 20 or 30 channels) for $38 to $59 each a ...

The so-called “skinny basic” TV packages were mandated March 1, along with channel bundles of 10 channels or less, or a-la-carte programming.

Welcome to the new era of paying for TV. More than 28 months after the federal government announced it wanted to give consumers more choice in their TV packages, and the Canadian Radio-television ...

Subscribers can continue with their existing packages of channels, the CRTC said. Meanwhile, the $25-a-month price does not include tax, nor the cost of renting or buying a cable or satellite set-top ...

Rogers flirted with entry-level pricing when it test-marketed a digital basic package in the London, Ont., area from Nov. 2011 until Feb. 2012, at a cost of $19.99 a month.

The CRTC is giving the cable industry some time to adjust to the new rules, introducing them gradually over the next year and a half before they become mandatory in December 2016. News channels from ...