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Radio / Television News September 29, 2022 3 years ago

CBC/Radio-Canada responds to Quebecor CEO’s open letter: “his claim is unfounded and untrue”

CBC/RADIO-CANADA HAS responded to an open letter penned by Quebecor president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau, published here on Cartt.ca earlier today. In his open letter, Péladeau expressed discontent with the direction of the national public broadcaster and the fact the government did not include any direction to the CRTC to consider “the advertising dollars the CBC/Radio-Canada is gobbling up” when it told the Commission to reconsider its decision on the renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s licences. “Mr. Péladeau’s preoccupation with CBC/Radio-Canada is well known,” a CBC/Radio-Canada spokesperson said in an email to Cartt.ca. “He has, for years, repeated the claim… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News September 29, 2022 3 years ago

Open letter from Quebecor CEO: CBC/Radio-Canada moves from one fiasco to another

IN JUNE, THE CRTC renewed CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences on terms that caused widespread indignation. Dozens of organizations protested that the new conditions of licence constitute a major departure from the mission of a public broadcaster. Last Thursday, the Governor General in Council ordered the CRTC to reconsider its decision, bearing in mind that the national public broadcaster must continue to make “a significant contribution to the creation, presentation and dissemination of local news, children’s programming, original French-language programming and programming produced by independent producers.” That order is good news for Canada’s production industry and we welcome it. However, there’s nothing… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News September 23, 2022 3 years ago

News organizations in Australia seeing over $200M/year from Big Tech, standing committee told

CBC criticized for “competing with private enterprises” and “pilfering” journalistic talent By Amanda Oye OTTAWA – Australia’s news media bargaining code has changed the country’s journalism landscape from one of pessimism to one of optimism, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage heard today during the first meeting of its study on Bill C-18, the Online News Act. “It’s transformed the journalism landscape,” said Rod Sims (above), a professor with the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. Sims, who appeared before the committee via videoconference to talk about Australia’s bargaining code, which C-18 is based… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News September 21, 2022 3 years ago

APTN, NCTR to host national live event from Ottawa to commemorate National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

TREATY 1 TERRITORY, WINNIPEG — Indigenous broadcaster APTN and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) earlier this month announced they are coming together to produce a one-hour commemorative gathering at LeBreton Flats Park in Ottawa on Sept. 30 in honour of the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Called Remembering the Children, the event will air live starting at 1 p.m. ET across all APTN channels and “a wide network of other Canadian broadcasters from coast to coast to coast,” says a press release. The broadcast will be available for streaming on APTN lumi from… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News September 21, 2022 3 years ago

COMMENTARY (part three): C-11 must ensure Canadian screenwriters aren’t left behind

This is the final installment of a three-part series. For part one, please click here and for part two, please click here. By Neal McDougall IN THE FIRST part of this series, I described the foundationally important role of screenwriters in the creation of serialized scripted television, and how Canadian screenwriters must be central to the definition of Canadian content. In the second part, I explored three common arguments on the definition of Canadian content that miss the mark. In this third and final part, I will describe how all of this links to Bill C-11 and the… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News September 21, 2022 3 years ago

COMMENTARY: The Online Streaming Act is trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist

Canadians don’t want government interference in our online experience. Simple surgery on Bill C-11 would help our creative economy keep flourishing. By Irene Berkowitz PUBLIC DEBATE ON Bill C-11, The Online Streaming Act, is nearing completion. In June, the bill passed the House of Commons. It’s being studied by the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications; testimony concludes on Wednesday. This bill impacts all Canadian content creators, both new and legacy media; the stakes are high to get this right. Some simple surgery on C-11 would go far toward allowing our burgeoning creative economy to continue flourishing. At a C-11 conference last… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News September 20, 2022 3 years ago

Federal government honours national historic significance of early commercial radio

MONTRÉAL — Early commercial radio broadcasting in Canada, during the period from 1918-1932, has been commemorated as a national historic event today by Steven Guilbeault, minister of environment and climate change and minister responsible for Parks Canada. “Commercial radio in Canada got its start with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada in 1918,” explains a Parks Canada press release. “From its rudimentary Montréal facility, this company experimented with wireless broadcasting and received a licence for station XWA in December 1919. A year later, the station started a regular schedule of transmissions.”

From that first station, Canada’s commercial radio industry grew to 39 radio stations by… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News, Radio / Television News September 19, 2022 3 years ago

Rogers/Shaw: Heritage minister expresses confidence local news will be fine if merger approved

OTTAWA – In a response last week to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage’s May 2022 report on the impact of the proposed merger of Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications on local news, heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez suggested there is enough being done already to mitigate the potential negative impacts highlighted in the report. The minister acknowledged the Canadian broadcasting system is facing a time of “significant transformation”. “Canadians’ viewing habits are shifting online, and service providers are adapting to compete within Canada and with service providers from around the world,” his response reads. “The proposed transaction is taking place against… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News September 19, 2022 3 years ago

COMMENTARY (part two): What doesn’t make content “Canadian”

This is the second in a three-part series. For part one, please click here. By Neal McDougall IN THE FIRST PART of this series, I described the foundationally important role of screenwriters in the creation of serialized television, and how Canadian screenwriters must be central to the definition of Canadian content. Yet when it comes to the debates about broadcasting policy in Canada, and how to define Canadian content under it, there have been a number of arguments that would have us look elsewhere. These arguments typically misunderstand how such content is made, can be self-contradictory, and ignore the unique… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News August 24, 2022 3 years ago

Bill Evanov to be posthumously inducted into OAB Hall of Fame

By Connie Thiessen BILL EVANOV WILL be posthumously inducted into the Ontario Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame this October. The Evanov Communications founder and president (above) passed away in March 2020 at age 77. Nominated by the board, the Ontario Hall of Fame award is annually presented to individuals who’ve demonstrated a commitment to the highest standards of broadcast excellence. The son of Bulgarian immigrants, whose work ethic he carried with him throughout his career, Evanov started in radio in sales in the late 1960s at Johnny Lombardi’s CHIN-FM in Toronto. Within 18 months he’d been named VP of sales, going on to spend 13 years with the company. In 1980, he left… Continue Reading

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