TORONTO – Former CFL Commissioner and CBC exec Jeffery Orridge has been named chairman of Canadian esports company Tiidal Gaming.
Wednesday’s announcement said that Orridge will play a pivotal role in stewarding Tiidal Gaming by bringing the best practices of traditional sports and entertainment into the gaming and esports space while providing strategic and analytical guidance to the company.
“As the esports industry continues to develop, being able to attract and retain top talent remains crucial to our success both in competitive gaming as well as at the corporate level,” said Tiidal Gaming CEO Charlie Watson, in the announcement….
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SASKATOON – RTDNA Canada will recognize two individuals in the Prairie region with lifetime achievement awards on Saturday.
Geoff Currier and Cecil Rosner will be presented with their RTDNA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards during the Prairies Regional Meeting on April 6, 2019.
Geoff Currier (right) left Ottawa in 1986 to become the play-by-play man for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the people at CKRM took a chance on him. He spent the next 12 seasons calling Riders games and serving as CKRM's sports director. He was also TSN's Saskatchewan correspondent for that same period. In 1997 he made the move to CJOB…
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VANCOUVER – RTDNA Canada will recognize two individuals in the West region with lifetime achievement awards on Saturday.
Lynda Steele and Rob Germain will be presented with their RTDNA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards during the West Regional Meeting on April 6, 2019.
Lynda Steele (right) began her career at CKVU-TV in Vancouver, then moved to CITV-TV Edmonton, CBC Edmonton and Global Edmonton, where she was the 6:00 PM anchor for 17 years. After she moved back to BC in 2011, she became the popular host of the consumer/investigative segment Steele On Your Side on CTV Vancouver, before becoming a talk show…
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OTTAWA – While the majority of Canadians continue to subscribe to a paid TV service, a growing number of Anglophones are eschewing the traditional ‘cord’ in favour of watching their TV content via the Internet, according to two new reports from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
TV Distribution: Analysis of the English-Language Market examines the variety of ways consumers are accessing TV, what enhanced products and services they are using, and how they bundle their services. It also dives deeper in the user profiles for the various TV services.
Highlights include:
– Just over two-thirds of Anglophones continue to subscribe to a…
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HALIFAX – RTDNA Canada recognized the East Region winners of the RTDNA Awards of Excellence on Saturday, honouring the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital.
The East Region winners will now compete with winners from the West, Prairie and Central regions for the best of the best, the National Awards, which will be announced at the RTDNA Canada 2019 National Conference & Awards Gala scheduled for May 10-11, 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto.
The 2019 East Region winners are:
Digital
Best Podcast
CBC New Brunswick – The Hook, An Original Podcast Series
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards…
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OTTAWA – Catherine Cano is leaving her role atop CPAC to become administrator of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF).
In her new role as number two at the OIF, Cano will ensure the day-to-day management of the administrative and financial affairs of the organization as well as the implementation of the programming and decisions adopted by heads of state and government during summits of La Francophonie, reads the announcement from Global Affairs Canada.
Cano has held an array of positions at the CBC/ Société Radio-Canada over the last few decades, as well as stints in public relations. She…
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TORONTO – CBC kicked off Canadian Screen Week by unveiled its first batch of programming renewals for its 2019-20 season.
Spanning drama, comedy, factual, arts and documentary programming, the public broadcaster said that returning series confirmed to date include Anne With An E, Baroness Von Sketch Show, Burden of Truth, CBC Arts: Exhibitionist, CBC Docs POV, Coroner, The Detectives, Dragons’ Den, Frankie Drake Mysteries, The Great Canadian Baking Show, Heartland, In The Making, Kim’s Convenience, Murdoch Mysteries, The Nature of Things, Schitt’s Creek (pictured) and Still Standing.
Additional renewals across all genres and content areas will be announced later this…
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CUPERTINO, CA – Apple’s new video subscription service Apple TV+ will launch this fall in over 100 countries including Canada, the tech giant said Monday from a star-studded event at the Steve Jobs Theater.
The ad-free service will sit inside a revamped Apple TV app and become “the new home for the world’s most creative storytellers,” hopes the company, and include original shows, movies and documentaries from the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Octavia Spencer, J.J. Abrams, Jason Momoa, M. Night Shyamalan, Jon M. Chu and Sesame Street Workshop (whose first…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has decided against issuing a call for new radio stations to serve Timmins after finding that the market cannot sustain an additional commercial radio station at this time.
Located in northeastern Ontario approximately 280 kilometers north of Sudbury, the Timmins radio market is currently served by four commercial FM radio stations: the English-language stations CJQQ-FM and CKGB-FM, operated by Rogers Media; the English-language station CHMT-FM, operated by Vista; and the French-language station CHYK-FM, operated by LE5 Communications. It is also served by the Indigenous station CJWT-FM, operated by Wawatay Native Communications Society, as well as rebroadcasting…
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OTTAWA – A new report by the Media Technology Monitor (MTM) seeks to understand how mediums like OTT services and the dominance of smartphones has had a broader impact on media usage in families.
Modern Families and Modern Technologies: An Overview of Canadian Households profiles Anglophone families and their ownership of media technology.
Key findings from the Families Report include:
– There is a notable difference between different family composition groups in terms of household TV reception. Households with children under 7 are more likely to be getting their TV content online. On the other hand, households with teens are more…
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