THE START OF GOOGLE’S submission to the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review panel may be just be a boilerplate presentation of what they do (“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”), but when it gets to the subject at hand, boing!
The digital giant’s submission calls out the discrepancy between the Creative Canada Policy Framework (former Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly’s pet project) and the policy objectives in Broadcasting Act (the Principles).
“Most of the policy objectives articulated in the Broadcasting Act are primarily focussed on cultural policy, namely the protection and preservation of…
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OTTAWA – A new report by the Media Technology Monitor (MTM) seeks to understand how different audiences connect with media content.
The Canadian Viewing Profiles report examines the different viewing profiles of Canadians based on self-reported MTM TV/video viewing data. It identifies and describes the following five different viewing profiles based on their demographics, their viewing habits, and their subscription to various services: Traditionals, Testers, Hybrids, Have It Alls and Online First.
Key findings from the Segmentation Analysis report include:
– The Traditionals spend 90% or more of their time viewing TV and video content on a TV set through a…
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THE BROADCAST AND TELECOM Legislative Review panel has received some 2,000 interventions and they had decided to make them public.
The news release on September 24th read “These written submissions will be publicly available after the deadline for submissions on November 30, 2018.”
That was before it was decided the deadline for those submissions would be pushed to Friday, January 11th. However, they won’t yet be made public. In fact, it won’t be for a while. “These inputs will form the backbone of the panel's What We've Heard Report which will be published no later than June 30th. At that time,…
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TORONTO – Blue Ant Media production company Saloon Media has begun production on a new feature length documentary about a unique group of Americans: the 16 children from a Florida elementary school who were with President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Commissioned by the CBC's documentary Channel, 9/11 Kids (1×78’; 4K and HD) includes the actual footage of a group of second graders reading My Pet Goat to the President when all of a sudden White House Chief of Staff Andy Card hurries over and whispers to Bush: “America is under attack.” Never…
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Panel won’t make them public until June
CARTT.CA HAS BEEN TOLD Navdeep Bains, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Minister, has decided to keep the public submissions made to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislation Review secret for now. So, Cartt.ca will continue to report on the ones made available to us.
PIAC
As usual, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre has a submission full of good quotes.
For example, on 5G, they say that it “is not so revolutionary that it should require legislative changes that favour the technology’s deployment beyond the powers currently granted to the CRTC,” and so the group proposes an…
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WE DON’T YET KNOW what public process the expert panel reviewing Canada’s Broadcasting, Telecom and Radiocommunication Acts, headed by Janet Yale, will follow as this year unfolds.
So, when the deadline for written submissions to the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review (BTLR) panel came on Friday, January 11, we asked various companies and groups for their submissions. Most gladly sent them. Some sent excerpts. Others decided to keep them private for now, since the panel itself has not yet told us, or anyone, definitively, what the plan is for making them public.
Because of the volume, we have decided to begin…
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OTTAWA – Canada needs a strong public broadcaster to support Canadian culture and democracy in the digital world, says CBC/Radio-Canada in its submission to the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel.
“CBC/Radio-Canada remains a cornerstone of Canada’s cultural and creative sector,” said president and CEO Catherine Tait, in a statement. “We want to ensure it can help strengthen homegrown culture. Like public broadcasters around the world, we have a crucial role to play in reflecting diversity; in providing more trusted news and stronger links with local communities; in being a destination for future generations of children; and in providing a…
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OTTAWA – A growing number of options for accessing TV and video content has given rise to “cord jumping”, where consumers hop on and off of services to ensure they get what they want when they want, says the Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
With service providers, especially OTTs, making it easier than ever before to join at will (i.e. no cancellation fees or start up charges), 1 in 8 Canadians have suspended their TV or paid video streaming service with the plan to re-subscribe later, according to the research.
The main reasons for cord jumping include: To save money; My favourite…
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OTTAWA and TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada will be live streaming a package of Paralympic sport competitions, allowing viewers to cheer on Canada's top para athletes as they compete at key events between Paralympic Games.
Known as the Paralympic Super Series, the package of Paralympic sport competitions will be available as live streams via the CBC Gem app and cbcgem.ca, as well as on the CPC Facebook page, with select events available on the Radio-Canada Sports app and radio-canada.ca/sports.
The Super Series will offer over 50 hours of Paralympic sport coverage throughout the year, the most Canadian coverage ever offered outside of…
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BANFF – The Banff World Media Festival has unveiled its 2019 content advisory board as it prepares to mark its 40th anniversary this year.
The board, which will work with the confab’s content team to help guide programming, consists of:
– Jeff Alpern: president, The Alpern Group;
– Shirley Bowers: VP of sales & acquisitions, Red Arrow Studios International;
– Tassie Cameron: executive producer, Cameron Pictures;
– Tecca Crosby: SVP creative affairs, eOne Television;
– Gave Lindo: executive director of OTT programming, CBC;
– Ben Noot: director global acquisitions, National Geographic Channel;
– Chris Regina: director scripted co-license and original TV, Netflix;
– Victoria Valius: executive director content…
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