VANCOUVER – CBC and Creative BC have struck a new funding partnership that will support the creation of short-form digital content developed by BC storytellers.
The two organizations will each contribute $150,000 to the new CBC + Creative BC Digital Production Fund, which aims to support the production of digital content from emerging creators, with a focus on “diverse talent” including female, Indigenous, and visible minority creators as well as creators with a disability. The fund aims for at least 50% of successful projects to be driven by female creators.
To be eligible, applicants must live in BC and…
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TORONTO – Sportsnet will produce and televise over 150 English-language national hockey games throughout the 2018-19 NHL season across Hockey Night in Canada on Saturdays, Rogers Hometown Hockey on Sundays and Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey on Wednesdays.
The network is also the exclusive English-language Canadian home of the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on January 1, 2019, the 2019 NHL All-Star Skills Competition and NHL All-Star Game on January 25 and 26, and the Coors Light NHL Stadium Series on February 23. Sportsnet’s national schedule also includes the 19th annual Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada on February 9, the 2019 Stanley…
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OTTAWA – One in seven Canadians (13%) have pirated TV content or movies in the past month, and those without a paid TV service are twice as likely to engage in this behaviour, according to new research from the Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
Key topics this year, according to its free Sneak Peek report, include e-sports, pirating TV, early technology adopters, Francophones watching English content, and smart speakers. The MTM Sneak Peek Report is being offered as well as the English- and French-language Media and Technology Adoption Reports and the most recent spring 2018 data set, available…
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WE’VE HEARD LOADS OF discussion and debate since the official launch of the review of the Broadcasting Act – along with the Telecom and Radiocommunication Act – and with another year of discussion and debate on the horizon, the best first course of action to solve the tricky and complex policy challenges ahead is to ask (and answer) the right questions in the right order – and right now.
I’ve thought of five important questions which should be answered first, ahead of anything else. I’d argue much of the discussion around proposals such as combining the two Acts should come far…
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"IT'S NOT OUR FAULT" doesn’t work as an explanation with a group of Mexican-Canadian soccer fans who want to watch their team take on the imposing Germans, reigning world champions, in their own language.
The last time I spoke up on this issue here, my trepidation that we would be penalized turned out to be unfounded. Instead the fine people leading CBC Sports reached out and the result was an announcement reported here that CBC/Radio-Canada has named Telelatino Network Inc. (TLN) as an official licensed broadcaster for coverage of the Olympic Winter…
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BANFF – I know HitTV is a youth oriented television network in Kazakhstan, and that in Anglo-Canada, "hit TV" – as reflected in the ratings – is pretty much something else that comes from away.
Not (yet) near-Asia, but certainly from the U.S.A.
With incredible exceptions such as Vikings and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, rarely does an English-language Canadian TV show make the weekly top 10 in ratings.
Moreover, even through the 1950s, when the CBC had a virtual monopoly on our market, two-thirds of the primetime viewership was generated by American fare like Ed Sullivan, I Love Lucy and Father Knows…
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TORONTO – Journalist and broadcast executive Trina McQueen was inducted into the CBC News Hall of Fame Friday afternoon at an event that included speakers such as CTV News president Wendy Freeman, CBC News editor in chief Jennifer McGuire, CBC executive vice-president of English services Heather Conway and McQueen herself.
The CBC News Hall of Fame was established four years ago to honour individuals who have "demonstrated a lasting impact on the CBC and Canadian journalism”, and includes Knowlton Nash, Joe Schlesinger and Barbara Frum.
A trailblazer who was one of the most powerful women in Canadian TV, McQueen had a career of…
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THE PROBLEMS START WITH the title.
Harnessing Change (the report on the future of programming and its distribution in Canada) reflects a long history of Canadian governments and the CRTC sticking fingers in holes in the dike of broadcasting policy and regulation, to keep out invading hordes, while communications technologies undermine the dike's foundations — from without and from within — because Canadians have consistently been early, eager and rapid, adopters.
Little wonder that it was Canadian Marshall McLuhan who coined the phrase "the medium is the message": Communications media influence societies more than the content that…
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OTTAWA – The Federal Government has ordered a public inquiry into the alleged high-pressure sales tactics used by the country’s biggest telecommunication companies.
Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, said Thursday that the Feds have directed the CRTC to conduct the inquiry and ensure that “Canadians have an opportunity to be heard and these issues are carefully considered”. The Commission will have until February 28, 2019 to complete the inquiry and file a report that must contain potential solutions to ensure Canadian consumers are treated fairly.
The Minister Bains also asked the Competition Bureau to assist the…
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BANFF – The internet is terrifying enough to me as an adult dealing with its underbelly of malice, lies, trolls, and subterfuge.
For unknowing children it’s too often a madhouse of horrors running the gamut from inappropriate content, to lurking strangers, to personality theft, to terribly wounding comments, to outright predators. Some times these web injuries even lead to suicide.
Yet from the minute they’re born, young ones are now exposed to digital surroundings that will inevitably be their way of life and since the World Wide Web plays an increasing role in our children’s and grandchildren’s lives, how do…
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