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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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No set rates means decision will require a lot of work and time to implement, CEO says
By Amanda OYE
OTTAWA – Last week, when renewing independent broadcaster OUTtv’s licence for a five-year term, the CRTC also granted the service dedicated to the LGBTQ2 community, “must-offer” status for three and a half years in the English-language market starting next March.
Noting that with the decision the CRTC has recognized the distinctiveness and vulnerability of the LGBTQ2 community, OUTtv CEO Brad Danks said in an interview with Cartt.ca the decision was also an indication the Commission recognizes that without regulatory support, OUTtv…
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OTTAWA – Federal minister of diversity Ahmed Hussen announced today in a statement posted on Twitter the government has cut the funding it awarded to the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) to develop an anti-racism strategy for Canadian broadcasting after concerns were raised about a consultant on the project.
The project, which was awarded $133,822 by the federal government, has also now been suspended, according to the statement.
In April, CMAC launched a series of consultations as part of the project, which aim “to develop and disseminate an Anti-Racism Strategy that will reduce barriers to participation in media and broadcasting…
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By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – The CRTC’s renewal of the CBC/SRC’s licences on June 22, was met with dissenting voices within the Commission where the decision was approved by three commissioners over two dissents, as well as outside voices who have issues with some segments of the decision.
Several groups have now filed petitions to Cabinet to have the decision set aside or referred back to the CRTC, including Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and the National Pensioners Federation (NPF), the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB), FRIENDS, l’Association québécoise de la production médiatique (AQPM) and the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA),…
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MONTREAL – TVA Group, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media, announced yesterday its financial results for the second quarter of 2022, which show revenues decreased by $12 million year-over-year to $147.5 million.
TVA also reported consolidated adjusted EBITDA was $3.2 million, a $10.7 million unfavourable variance compared to Q2 2021.
In its broadcasting segment, TVA reported $149,000 in negative adjusted EBITDA. This is “a $6,433,000 unfavourable variance resulting largely from the decreased profitability of TVA Network, which continued its strategy of increasing investment in content, partially offset by the improved profitability of “TVA Sports,” which had to absorb significant content cost in…
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Mostly francophones from Québec
By Denis Carmel
OTTAWA – After a group of 60 people, including Radio-Canada personalities, sent an open letter to the CBC/Radio-Canada asking it to refuse to comply to the sanctions imposed by the CRTC on the use of the “N-word” on-air, more people and groups came out against the decision.
Some are asking the public broadcaster to pushback, some are demanding the Minister of Canadian Heritage or the Prime Minister to take a stand.
The Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, representing journalists in Québec, said through its president “All dialogue is healthy for a society, the…
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