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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A new way for Canadian broadcasters to go direct-to-consumer
TORONTO – Roku is moving into ad-supported streaming in a big way with the launch today of The Roku Channel in Canada. The over-the-top streaming channel, which launched last September in the U.S., is targeted at cord-cutters looking for an easy way to find free movies, TV shows and more on the Roku platform.
Saratoga, California-based Roku expects the channel to be a hit with customers since it requires no subscriptions, fees or logins. It also will average about 30% less advertising per programming hour than conventional TV in Canada and won’t…
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada is taking steps to improve the inclusivity of its workplace culture through the addition of new internal programs as well as new metrics to monitor its diversity and inclusion track record.
The public broadcaster said that its online career section Working With Us now has details on employee initiatives and memberships with business networks like IndigenousLink, Catalyst, and SenseAbility in an effort to foster greater inclusiveness. It also detailed new initiatives such as Developing Emerging Leaders Program, unconscious bias…
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IT’S NO SECRET that the lack of readily available high-speed internet has long been a headache for people who live in rural Manitoba. “Lack of access to reliable high-speed internet is hurting economic growth in rural and remote areas,” the agricultural weekly The Western Producer reported in 2017 in an exposé called Out of Touch.
“Frustrated farmers, rural businesses and homeowners have said they have inadequate and expensive internet service…and for some producers without reliable data, the age of autonomous machines is stalled.” A 2016 study by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority…
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CE N’EST PAS UNE SURPRISE pour personne vivant au milieu rural: les difficultés d’accéder à une connexion internet à haut débit sont une casse-tête depuis longtemps. Les résidents et commerçants des communautés rurales au Manitoba en souffrent. “Le manque d’accès à une connexion internet rapide et fiable nuit à la croissance économique dans les communautés rurales et éloignées,” est-il écrit dans l’hebdo agriculturel The Western Producer, dans un exposé de 2017 intitulé “Out of Touch” (Hors Contact).
“Des fermiers, des entrepreneurs et des résidents en milieu rural ont dénoncé le service…
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OTTAWA – Total broadcasting revenues dropped 3.3% from 2016 to 2017 as television service providers (BDUs) posted negative growth for the third consecutive year, according to the CRTC’s statistical and financial results for the industry released Monday.
The Commission's 2017 Broadcasting Financial Summaries Highlights reported that overall BDU revenues dropped by 2.3% (or $202 million), falling from $8.74 billion in 2016 to $8.54 billion for the broadcast year ended August 31, 2017. IPTV revenues grew by over 10% to $2 billion in 2017, outperforming satellite for the first time since its introduction into the Canadian marketplace. Satellite (DTH) service providers…
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OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT promised a review of the Broadcasting and Telecommunication Acts in its 2017 budget and last week the CRTC took the first step down this path when it issued: Harnessing Change: The Future of Programming Distribution in Canada.
While it floated a number of interesting, innovative and controversial ideas, we’re all anxious to hear what Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will have to say about it this weekend when she addresses the Banff International Media Fest. There, we hear she is likely to announce the appointment of a worthy and carefully chosen panel of experts to undertake a year-long project…
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