Chris Wilson named Interim Head of CBC Sports
TORONTO – CBC Sports chief Greg Stremlaw (right) is leaving the CBC this month to become the president and CEO of United Soccer League club Indy Eleven.
A CBC story says that Stremlaw's arrival in Indianapolis coincides with the club's proposal for a $550 million US mixed-use real estate district, a development project called Eleven Park anchored by a 20,000-seat world-class, soccer-specific stadium that meets the minimum requirement by Major League Soccer and is scheduled to be ready for the 2022 season opener.
Stremlaw says that he hopes to help bring a Major League Soccer expansion franchise…
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CBC debuts season three on January 8
VANCOUVER – Canadian hit comedy Kim’s Convenience is in pursuit of more international audiences after finalizing a distribution deal for the Asian market.
Producer Thunderbird Entertainment said that its new deal with Yoon & Company includes the show’s first three seasons, and that a cable TV release in Korea has been confirmed for early this year. Netflix already snapped up the global streaming rights to the show, and Amazon holds its VoD rights in the United States and United Kingdom.
Season three of Kim's Convenience is scheduled to premiere in Canada on CBC beginning January 8.
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By Denis Carmel
The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist; The Second Law of Economists: They’re both wrong…
An economist is someone who doesn’t know what he’s talking about — and make you feel it’s your fault…
AS WE NOTED EARLIER, ’tis the season of the Price Comparison Reports. We had mentioned the CRTC Telecommunications Monitoring Report (which was released Thursday), the OECD Digital Economy Outlook Data (not quite yet) and the price comparison report commissioned by Innovation, Science and Economic Development – which is now produced by…
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EDMONTON – Super Channel is offering subscribers a chance to catch up on the first season of Pure before the debut of the second season.
Premiering Tuesday, January 22 at 10:00 PM ET on Super Channel Fuse, each episode of the six-episode first season will also be available on Super Channel on Demand the day following its linear broadcast.
Season One of Pure introduces viewers to the insular world of the Mennonite community and the double life that one pastor must adopt to protect his family from a crime syndicate. Inspired by true events, Pure follows the journey of Noah Funk, a…
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TORONTO – Claude Galipeau is joining CBC/Radio-Canada as executive vice-president, corporate development, the public broadcaster announced Tuesday.
Galipeau (pictured) is currently chief revenue officer for the Torstar Corporation, and previously held senior leadership positions with Yahoo, Syncapse, Rogers Media and Astral Media.
He will be based in Toronto and will join the ‘pubcaster beginning January 7, 2019.
“I have asked Claude to take on this role because of his deep media and digital experience, his business savvy and his keen strategic insight”, said CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait, in the announcement. “At a time when our biggest competitors are powerful global digital…
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EDMONTON – Super Channel has named Jenny Hacker as director of programming and Marlene Lone to the newly created role of director of affiliate marketing.
Hacker (pictured right) was most recently VP of content at Diply, and held roles at CBC prior to that. In her new role, she will lead Super Channel’s domestic and foreign program acquisitions for three of its four channels (Fuse, Heart & Home and Vault) plus oversee development and production of the network's Canadian productions.
Lone (pictured below) joins Super Channel from Rogers Communications where she was executive producer of in-house productions for Citytv and OMNI. Prior…
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TORONTO – CBC news and current affairs isn't about to elbow aside Game of Thrones or The Crown in the Canadian over-the-top streaming arena.
But the pubcaster, as it unveiled details on its rebranded CBC Gem streaming platform Tuesday, has underlined how it will work with third party content providers to open up the long tail, in part with an ad-free, premium streaming option.
First up is the Toronto social storytelling startup Wattpad, which helps authors develop projects for film and TV.
"That (Wattpad) deal is more representative of the types of relationships we will continue to create,…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada is expanding the availability of some of its top podcasts by making them available through music streamer Spotify.
The public broadcaster said that the launch will include CBC favourites Someone Knows Something, Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, Finding Cleo, Alone: A Love Story, and Love Me, as well as new offers Tai Asks Why, The Secret Life of Canada, and daily news podcast FrontBurner. Radio-Canada titles will include Disparue(s), Corde sensible, Grand écart and Ça s’explique.
CBC podcasts are now available to free and premium Spotify users under the podcast hub and browse section. Information on the launch date for Radio-Canada’s podcasts will…
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THE CBC REACHES 20 million Canadians every month when counting its various platforms, be it TV, radio, online, apps, or podcasts.
It’s an impressive number, but not one Catherine Tait, who was hired as CEO of the CBC five months ago, wants to dwell upon for long – as she tells our Bill Roberts in the latest Cartt.ca podcast (click here to listen). Tait is more concerned about engagement, about fostering trust, and connecting Canadians in as many ways as possible.
She calls trust, especially now when we are all so swamped with information (not to mention…
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OTTAWA – Move over Netflix, Canadian Anglophones now regularly consume a number of over-the-top streaming services, says new research from the Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
Over the Top Services: Analysis of the Anglophone Market looks at the popularity of several OTT services among Anglophones, the demographics of different subscribers, and how they consume media as a whole.
Highlights from the report include:
– 65% of Anglophone households subscribe to an OTT service. In 2011, shortly following the launch of Netflix in Canada, only 12% of Anglophone households subscribed to OTT services;
– Among several OTT services measured by the MTM, including…
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