Internet grows more popular in Canada

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released its annual Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report, showing that new media is becoming an increasingly important part of Canadians’ lives.

Among the findings:

* The percentage of Canadian adults reporting having watched or downloaded television, videos or movies from the Internet increased in 2006 compared to 2005.
* The types of programming watched on the Internet are television shows (40%), news (38%), sports (21%), music videos (21%), movies (20%), weather (10%) and comedy (10%).
* 70% of Canadian households subscribed to the Internet in 2006, which is 6% more than in 2005. The percentage of Canadian households with high speed Internet subscriptions also continued to increase, from 51% in 2005 to 60% in 2006.
* 22% of Canadians listened to radio over the Internet in 2006 and 6% watched television.
* In 2006, 58% of Canadians used a cellphone to access the Internet, 14% an MP3 player, 9% a Webcam, 7% an iPod, 5% a personal digital assistant (PDA), and finally, 4% used a BlackBerry.
* Advertising on the Internet totalled $1 billion in 2006, almost double from the $562 million in 2005.

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