TORONTO – The gala evening celebrating women in communications is Wednesday in Ottawa, but Canadian Women in Communications has announced who the award winners will be.
Woman of the Year: Sarah Crawford, vice-president, Public Affairs, CHUM Television, Toronto
Employer of the Year: Alliance Atlantis Communications
Chapter Leader of the Year: Diane Johnson, president, Descriptive Video Works, Vancouver
Trailblazer of the Year: Sandy Larson, manager of customer service and operations, SaskTel and Mayor of Swift Current, Saskatchewan
Mentor of the Year: Cindy Chatwell, acting marketing manager, Aboriginal Peoples’ Television Network (APTN), Winnipeg
The CWC Jeanne Sauvé Program winners are: *…
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OTTAWA – While CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen said little to surprise independent producers in his annual address at the CFTPA’s national conference, he did hint at something that could delight them.
With CBC up for licence renewal this year, followed by the major private ‘casters, and with handheld digital media starting to shift industry revenue streams, Dalfen told producers “a bigger TV policy review might be timely” and he’s welcoming suggestions.
Any re-think of the TV policy, cursed by almost all stakeholders except broadcasters since it took effect in the fall of 2000, would begin after the review of…
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AS EXPECTED, FORMER BROADCASTER (TVO and CTV) and CRTC Commissioner, Durham (Ont.) MP Bev Oda, was made Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women this morning when new Prime Minister Stephen Harper was sworn in and announced his new cabinet.
What wasn’t expected was former Liberal Industry Minister David Emerson crossing the floor to become a Conservative and remain in cabinet and in power as Minister for International Trade.
Beauce (Que.) MP Maxime Bernier, a former Standard Life vice-president, has been named Industry Minister.
Industry and Heritage both oversee the CRTC, the regulatory arbiter of the Canadian cable,…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame today announced the launch of www.telecomhall.ca, the new web site which celebrates Canada’s legacy of success and achievement in the telecommunications industry.
The site pays homage to the technological, scientific, policy, business and entrepreneurial genius of Canada’s telecommunications sector, and honors the inventors and innovators, the business pioneers and builders, the unsung heroes and the success stories of this remarkable and vibrant Canadian industry.
The web site features:
The Hall of Fame Virtual Tour: Explore and discover some of the greatest contributors to Canadian telecommunications. View photos, videos and biographies of…
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AFTER A DOZEN OR SO years of lobbying the Liberal Party power establishment, the Canadian cable, radio, television and telecom industries will have to start over beginning today.
No matter how long this new Conservative minority government lasts (we sorely hope it’s longer than Joe Clark’s eight months in 1979), those at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association, as well as Canada’s large telcos, have brand new friends to make – and influence.
Issues like foreign ownership of telecom and cable companies, or even broadcasters, might get a more friendly hearing under the Conservatives…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Media Guild said Monday it’s worried that culture, and the CBC specifically, is so low on the priority lists of the federal parties.
Only the Conservative and Green parties mention the CBC in their platforms, despite the fact that the public broadcaster faces a license renewal before the end of 2006.
“But there are more questions about the vague position of the front-running Conservatives than answers,” says the Guild release, ominously.
"I recognize that this election campaign has been fought on a handful of core issues. But it is troubling that the future of Canada’s…
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IT IS NOW AS IT WAS in the beginning: If you’re involved in producing programming or commercials in the high definition format, you’re most likely still trying to make video look like film.
But today, almost exactly 16 years after Toronto’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre was on the receiving end of the first major, mainstream HD broadcast seen in Canada – a fight transmitted from Las Vegas pitting Sugar Ray Leonard against Roberto Duran – the momentum in the battle for TV screens here is beginning to favour video.
Producers are becoming accustomed to the idea of originating content on…
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TORONTO – To help mark Human Rights Week, CTV’s Hunt For Justice: The Louise Arbour Story will be screened at the United Nations in New York on Monday. CTV and Galafilm Inc. announced today that Ambassador Allan Rock, Canada’s United Nations representative, Wayne Clarkson, executive director of Telefilm Canada; Hunt for Justice star Wendy Crewson (right) and Louise Arbour, the High Commissioner of Human Rights at the United Nations, will attend the event.
This will be the second pre-broadcast screening for the CTV movie. In October, Bell Globemedia and CTV CEO Ivan Fecan, together with Minister…
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OTTAWA – Charles Boyer, vice-president, external and governmental relations at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters left the association this month.
He will be joining Videotron help lead the company’s regulatory team in Ottawa, cartt.ca has learned.
Prior to his role at the CAB, which he joined in 2003, Boyer was executive assistant to former Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps.
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OTTAWA – After hearing from CBC executives on October 27th, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has told Parliament it should appoint a task force to examine the nation’s public broadcaster.
The five-paragraph report from committee chair, MP Marlene Catterall says, “the government should undertake to establish an independent task force to review the mandate role and services of the CBC-SRC; to establish the role the public broadcaster must have and the services it must provide in light of the new media environment and technological advances.
And, the review should “be commenced immediately so the task force report can…
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