TORONTO – The new Board of the Canadian Communications Foundation (CCF) said it’s moving to address the need for new funding so that it can continue. CCF provides the definitive history of broadcasting in Canada on its website and was originally funded by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, and later supported through CRTC-approved Benefits Package grants from BCE and Astral. A registered non-profit charitable organization, CCF has also benefitted from private donors in the past.
This past Thursday the CCF elected its 2012-2013 Board at the Foundation’s Annual General Meeting at Ryerson University in Toronto.
Pip Wedge, former CTV programming VP and more recently Vice President of the Foundation, moves into the President’s chair. Fil Fraser, O.C., former broadcaster, film producer and author and currently Adjunct Professor of Communications Studies at Athabasca University becomes Vice-President, while former CTV executive Peter O’Neill remains as Treasurer.
The other members of the Board, all former broadcasters or industry-related executives, are Ross McCreath, Jon Keeble, Jack Ruttle, Bruce Hogle, Ted Barris, Evelyn Ellerman and Craig Roskin.
