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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Telus, Shaw, say no licence should be granted, and especially not to Bell or Rogers
GATINEAU – On Wednesday, phase II and III of the hearing into a mandatory carriage licence for a national, news oriented multilingual and multi-ethnic television service was the opportunity for the applicants and then outside intervenors to tell commissioners why they believe certain applications are not special enough to warrant a license under section 9(1)(h) of the Broadcasting Act.
Four of the eight applicants chose not to make any presentations Wednesday (perhaps keeping their powder dry for Thursday’s final public reply day) but each of Rogers…
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OTTAWA – Michel Bissonnette will be working double-duty for a while.
CBC CEO Catherine Tait announced Wednesday the current executive vice-president of Radio-Canada would be taking over as interim EVP of CBC, following the departure of Heather Conway next week.
Conway’s permanent successor will be chosen in the new year and Bissonnette (pictured) will take on his new role starting December 8.
“Michel is an accomplished leader with deep knowledge of the organization,” said Tait in a press release. “Since joining the corporation, he has demonstrated the ability to mobilize his teams to achieve great things—the success of ICI TOU.TV being…
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London, UK – CBC is among a number of broadcasters that have picked up adult animation series Gary and His Demons from Blue Ant International.
The series is created by Blue Ant Media’s animation studio Look Mom! Productions. Other licences include ABC Comedy (ABC) for Australia and Comedy Central in the UK and Republic of Ireland for their prime time slot. The show premiered in the U.S. on the Mondo Channel on VRV earlier this year.
Gary and His Demons is an animated comedy about a cantankerous, aging demon slayer who has nothing left to lose. Burdened by his “chosen…
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Ethnic license now held by OMNI up for grabs next week
SECTION 9(1)(h) OF THE Broadcasting Act says the CRTC can “require any licensee who is authorized to carry on a distribution undertaking to carry, on such terms and conditions as the Commission deems appropriate, programming services specified by the Commission.”
It’s commonly known in the industry as the must-carry clause, the one applied to certain TV channels in which cable, satellite and IPTV are forced to offer in their entry packages. They include the main local broadcasters and a handful of other channels which the Regulator believes fills an “exceptional…
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