TORONTO – CBC is readying a new original documentary series that promises to take Canadians on an intimate and story-driven journey inside the creative process of Canada’s leading artists.
In The Making (8×30) is created and hosted by Sean O’Neill (pictured) who visits artists at home, in studio, backstage, and in the field, giving viewers rare access to intimate creative spaces and inspiring moments of realization. The inaugural season follows eight artists working across the artistic spectrum – in dance, theatre, visual art, and music – in Canada and around the world as they face challenges, realize new works, and…
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TORONTO – CBC has promoted Gave Lindo to executive director of OTT programming.
Prior to rejoining CBC in December 2017, Lindo (pictured) was executive director of the Reelworld Film Festival and Foundation. From 2009–2015, he worked with CBC’s Business and Rights team, and was named deputy director in 2013. He also chaired the CBC/Radio-Canada Inclusion and Diversity Advisory Committee between 2011–2015.
In his new role, Lindo will lead and evolve OTT content strategies and partner with all internal teams to ensure the continued growth and expansion of CBC's over-the-top streaming service, including the CBC TV streaming app for iOs and Android and cbc.ca/watch, as well as…
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OTTAWA – Registration is now open for the ‘Canadian Communications Policy and Legislation: Time for a Review’ presented by the Canadian Chapter of the International Institute of Communications.
Scheduled for October 31 and November 1, 2018 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, the event promises to bring together communications regulators, policy makers and lawyers from Canada and the U.S. to debate the key issues affecting broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet today.
Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien will moderate the opening morning plenaries, and confirmed speakers include CRTC chair Ian Scott, CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait, and U.S. FCC Commissioner…
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LAST WEEK, CARTT.CA's Greg O’Brien published an edited version of a presentation he gave as a “provocateur” at a roundtable session about the future of Canadian television production at Ryerson University. The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) was, in the best spirit of intellectual engagement and discussion, indeed provoked!
To begin with, the WGC wholeheartedly agrees with O’Brien’s acknowledgement that Canadian film and television production is an important driver of economic activity in Canada. We also agree that the Canadian creative industries need and deserve government support in order to survive and thrive. And we particularly…
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TORONTO – All four of Canada's English-language network broadcasters will once again simultaneously air a Canadian-inclusive Stand Up To Cancer special next month.
For the third time, Stand Up To Cancer Canada will simultaneously broadcast a Canada-inclusive telecast across CBC, Citytv, CTV, and Global, as well as Canadian services AMI, A.Side, BBC Earth, CHCH, CHEK, Cottage Life, Fight Network, Game TV, HIFI, Hollywood Suite, Love Nature, Makeful, NTV, OUTtv, Smithsonian Channel Canada, T+E, YES TV, in addition to streaming live on the CBC TV App, cbc.ca/watch, CBS All Access, CTV GO and CTV.ca, Global GO and GlobalTV.com, and available on-demand on Telus…
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OTTAWA – CBC has partnered with the Canadian Paralympic Committee to provide live streaming coverage of the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships starting August 17 through August 26 from Hamburg, Germany.
All of Canada's games from the men's and women's teams at the world championships will be livestreamed on cbcsports.ca, via the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices, the CBC TV app and cbc.ca/watch, as well as the Canadian Paralympic Committee and Wheelchair Basketball Canada's Facebook pages.
The Canadian men are one of 16 teams vying…
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TORONTO – CBC and Netflix have renewed the award-winning series Anne With An E from Northwood Entertainment for a third, 10 episode season.
Inspired by the Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the third season of Anne With An E will continue to tell the coming-of-age story of an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for acceptance, for her place in the world, and for love.
The renewal comes just after the U.S. and international debut of the series’ second season on Netflix in July, and just ahead of the Canadian premiere of season two…
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WINNIPEG — APTN’s fall 2018 TV schedule will see some favourite shows returning alongside new original series and documentaries, with the new season scheduled to kick off September 3.
Returning favourites on Canada’s only independent Indigenous network include Longmire, Wentworth and Taken. In season five of Longmire, Sheriff Longmire finds himself caught in the cross-hairs of a wrongful death civil suit. New mysteries and cases are weighing down on the sheriff and his team.
Following Wentworth’s season five jaw-dropping finale, season six picks up the action with almost all of Wentworth’s inmates and officers stunned by the apparent joint escape of…
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OTTAWA — Canada’s largest, vertically integrated BDUs have a little over a year to start providing set-top box data to a national STB-based audience measurement system — a new condition of licence imposed by the CRTC when it announced August 2 the collective renewal of soon-to-expire licences for various terrestrial BDUs.
As it renews their respective licences for a new term starting September 1, 2018, the CRTC is imposing a condition of licence on Bell, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron that will require them to provide the set-top box (STB) data they collect regarding programming services they distribute to a national…
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OTTAWA –The responses filed to ISED’s consultations on the 3500 MHz and 3800 MHz band pit incumbent fixed wireless service providers against mobile operators eager to deploy 5G services. The terrestrial operators, however, face opposition from satellite operators eager to protect the C-band. Caught up in the cross-fire are customers and communities who are reliant on existing services – both terrestrial and satellite.
Comments by a number of parties have been posted in response to Gazette Notice SLPB-004-18 — Consultation on Revisions to the 3500 MHz Band to Accommodate Flexible Use and Preliminary Consultation on Changes to the…
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