MICHAEL MACMILLAN HAS timed things pretty well in his career. A film and TV producer whose former company has an Academy Award to its credit (short film Boys and Girls,... Continue Reading
KONRAD VON FINCKENSTEIN made a lot of work for a lot of us. As he has noted since he first took the job of CRTC chair in January of 2007,... Continue Reading
LAST YEAR AT THIS time, Kevin Crull was into week three of his transition from long-time telecom executive to the leader of the largest Canadian broadcasting company.Now president of Bell... Continue Reading
ANTHONY LACAVERA CARRIES two BlackBerrys with him wherever he goes. One is a Wind Mobile handset, of course. The other, Rogers (with the logo scratched off).The Globalive chairman and Wind... Continue Reading
IN OUR EVER-MORE connected world, there are fewer secrets. People talk, they e-mail, they SMS, Facebook, tweet and YouTube.They often use those outlets to speculate, pontificate, fustigate, postulate and guesstimate.... Continue Reading
THERE ARE NO WALLS at Corus Quay. Not even in the CEO, John Cassaday’s office. Anyone working there and not in a board room or studio can stand up, look... Continue Reading
ONE THING BECAME CLEAR pretty quick when I sat down to with Phil Lind a not long ago. He wanted to talk about fee-for-carriage.The vice-chairman and executive vice-president, regulatory, at... Continue Reading
IT MAY BE 41 YEARS since he made the statement in that headline – during the famous first hearing into making Canadian radio and TV far more Canadian in content... Continue Reading
WHILE BRAD SHAW is now CEO of a much different Shaw Communications than the one his father JR and brother Jim built and ran, one aspect hasn’t changed.No handlers.As a... Continue Reading
“COME WITH ME. I’LL show you why I wanted to be president of the CBC.”Those were CBC president and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix’s first words to me last week as... Continue Reading
