TORONTO – The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday launched a redesigned website featuring some of its past shows and programs at cbc.ca/archives.
Some 12,000 historic radio and television clips, including some that were never broadcast, can be viewed for free on the website.
For the first time, the new website includes full-length versions of some CBC radio and television shows, including This Hour Has Seven Days, Man Alive, Close Up, Howie Meeker Hockey School along with David Suzuki’s 1975 debut on Quirks and Quarks and Kate Aitken’s eclectic blend of homemaking and interviews with international leaders.
New interactive features…
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LET US BEGIN BY making our position utterly clear. We do not believe that Bill C-327 is either necessary or even moderately useful in dealing with the issue of violence on television.
We have filed a written presentation with the Committee Clerk that will hopefully provide a useful tour d’horizon of the issue. I will try to limit this oral presentation to the clarification of matters raised by witnesses and Hon. Members of this Committee.
First, the nature and extent of the problem, namely, the exposure of our children to violence in the media. Is problematic violent content increasing…
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OTTAWA – CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein has rejected the primary thrust of a private member’s bill to reduce violence on television, saying there is no need for the CRTC to have new powers to regulate the broadcasting of violent acts.
Appearing before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage Tuesday, von Finckenstein said the existing system, which relies on industry self-regulation backed up by the CRTC as the final arbiter, “does provide an effective means to achieve the desired purpose”.
“We therefore cannot support the provisions of Bill C-327 that call for prescriptive regulation in lieu of industry self-regulation…
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TORONTO – The Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) issued a strongly-worded letter
Thursday, calling upon Canadian Heritage Minister Josée Verner to revoke part of an
omnibus bill now before the Senate that would only allow tax credit support for a film or
television production if the production is not “contrary to public policy”.
“This provision is open to such a wide array of interpretations that it would have a
dampening effect on artistic expression and, of equal if not greater importance, would
discourage investment in an already under-resourced Canadian Film and television
production sector,” said Brian Anthony, the Guild’s…
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TORONTO – ACTRA has blasted the Conservative government over amendments to the omnibus bill C-10 which it says would allow the Canadian Heritage Minister to deny tax credits to film and television products it doesn’t like.
ACTRA National Executive Director Stephen Waddell suggested the Conservative government wants to set itself up “as the country’s morality police” through the proposed measures that would allow it to pull financial aid for any film or television show it believes is not in the public interest. The bill is now before the Senate.
“The government is overstepping its bounds and interfering in an…
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OTTAWA – The CBC has welcomed a report from the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that recognizes the role of the public broadcaster as an essential institution that requires long-term support and reinforcement.
But there were mixed reviews from ACTRA and words of warning from the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
ACTRA said the government already missed a chance in this week’s budget to back up the Committee’s words with money, while the Friends pointed to the dissenting opinion from the Committee’s Conservative minority which it said sets the CBC up to fail.
The majority report, CBC/Radio-Canada: Defining Distinctiveness in…
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OTTAWA – Linda Black, Mary McNeil, and Brian Mitchell have been added to the board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada announced Josee Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages.
"The varied backgrounds and experiences of these three individuals will be great assets," said Minister Verner in a release. None of the new board members are broadcasters.
Black has worked in various senior executive government roles and served as the founding general counsel at the University of Calgary. She is currently a member of the Alberta Secretariat for Action on Homelessness, a member of the Law Enforcement…
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OTTAWA – CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein didn’t touch much on the Canadian Television Fund (CTF), but did announce Thursday morning that the Commission would hold a hearing on new media in the fall or winter.
“I have nothing to say on that subject today, except that our decision and recommendations will be released in a timely manner,” von Finckenstein told a room of producers and other delegates at the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA)’s Prime Time annual conference in Ottawa.
Canadian Heritage minister Josee Verner in a speech Friday night that kicked off the conference…
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OTTAWA – The answer to the question of what’s going to happen to the Canadian Television Fund won’t be coming from the CRTC after all.
Less than two weeks after hearings into the fund and a CRTC task force report written on it late last year, the federal government announced late Wednesday it will decide what to do.
In her speech marking the opening of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association 2008 Conference, “Prime Time” Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, Josee Verner said that while it wants recommendations from the CRTC, which took…
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OTTAWA – Minister of Industry Jim Prentice has been “about to” introduce new copyright legislation for about three months now at least, according to Ottawa sources.
Perhaps March will be the month it happens…
In the meantime, the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright has submitted a position paper to the minister “urging the government to strike a balance in copyright reform that reflects the needs of users and creators,” says its letter.
Besides the members in the headline, the BCBC also includes smaller stakeholders like EastLink, Cogeco Cable, SaskTel, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and the Retail Council of…
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