April 3, 2012 10 years ago

CBC Radio is thriving… for now

RADIO IS NOT DEAD. Obituaries for the broadcast medium have been written and re-written over the past 10, 20, 30 and even 40 years and, yet, it lives on. Oddly,... Continue Reading

March 28, 2012 10 years ago

CBC’s five-year plan a prescription for the broadcaster to heal itself

LAST FALL, AROUND THE TIME of the CBC’s 75th anniversary, Edmonton MP Brent Rathgeber suggested the broadcaster become more commercially self-reliant. It couldn’t fulfill its mandate if “few people are... Continue Reading

March 13, 2012 10 years ago

Cartt.ca INVESTIGATES: CBC steels itself for 21st century media evolution

HAMILTON - CBC’s blog about its new Hamilton digital service makes much ado about its new home, a renovated 120-year-old building at 118 James St. N. The Corp’s Steeltown home... Continue Reading

August 3, 2011 11 years ago

Part IV: Cancon works in Quebec

THE QUEBEC MARKET is the country’s Bizarro World for Canadian content. Frame its borders with mirrors and the reflected image offers the opposite of everything we know, and believe, in... Continue Reading

July 26, 2011 11 years ago

The State of Cancon: The sugar that might help the medicine go down

CANCON’S RULES AND regulations are much like a series of bandages slapped onto the television industry - one here to cover a scrape, another there as salve on a slash.... Continue Reading

July 20, 2011 11 years ago

The State of Cancon: What began as a Band-Aid for broadcasters, now a harmful regulation for Cancom

THE YEAR 1972 saw the beginning of the Watergate scandal and the M.A.S.H. television series. It was also the year that the balm of simultaneous substitution (simsub) was handed to Canadian... Continue Reading

July 13, 2011 11 years ago

The State of Cancon: We’ve hit the flashpoint of Canadian TV and things must change, say creators

PLAY A GAME WITH THE average English-language Canadian: “Name a Canadian television show”. Exclude Hockey Night in Canada and news. Watch them furrow their brow. “Uh, Flashpoint?” says one friend,... Continue Reading

June 28, 2011 11 years ago

Cord-cutting: Either growing OTT players must pay, or the playing field’s lines must be redrawn

LESS THAN A DECADE AGO, the television landscape was a lucrative landscape of BDUs and broadcasters who understood the terrain. Laws were established. Rules followed. Peace (sort of) reigned.Then over-the-top... Continue Reading

June 22, 2011 11 years ago

Cord-Cutting: What are the solutions to surviving and thriving with OTT?

TECHNOLOGY HAS CREATED THIS vast crevasse. On one side is what consumers want. On the other is what the traditional TV industry says they can give them. Nestled in the... Continue Reading

June 15, 2011 11 years ago

Cord-Cutting: Are a new species of broadcaster threatening the survival of traditional TV?

LOOKED AT THROUGH A Darwinian lens, the current Canadian television industry is at an evolutionary crossroads.Changes in the ecosystem have resulted in a new species of TV-content provider: the non-Canadian,... Continue Reading