Goldbloom named new chair; three new board members added
OTTAWA – Long time film, television and digital content maker Catherine Tait has been named president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly announced this morning. She will be the first woman to hold the top job at Canada’s public broadcaster.
She replaces Hubert Lacroix, who has been CEO since 2008.
Tait has a long and successful track record in film, television and digital-content in Canada and beyond. She was a co-founder and has been president of independent content producer Duopoly for 15 years and in 2006, she also founded iThentic, an…
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OTTAWA – At 9:15 Tuesday morning, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will “make an important announcement about the future leadership of CBC/Radio-Canada.”
As readers will be aware, current president and CEO Hubert Lacroix’s contract expired at the end of 2017. However, he agreed to stay on as the federal government dithered on his replacement – saying in January that it wanted more time to look at candidates living abroad to replace Lacroix.
After doing interviews, the feds did have a short list of qualified candidates in the fall of 2017 (we heard some names which we won’t repeat…
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TORONTO – CBC Sports is teaming up with sports streaming service DAZN Canada on Canadian broadcast coverage of the XXI Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast from April 4 – 15.
CBC will have live coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and highlights of select events and performances by Canada’s athletes and para-athletes, from Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville. Through a sub-licensing agreement with the public broadcaster, DAZN Canada will stream more than 400 hours of live event coverage and competitions from the Gold Coast exclusively on its platform.
The XXI Commonwealth Games will welcome more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from…
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VANCOUVER – Corus Entertainment let go personalities from at least four of its radio stations this week in a move that it says will “further grow audiences across multi-platforms”.
A report in The Province said that restructuring at Vancouver talk radio station 980 CKNW saw three veteran hosts depart, while a CBC report said that radio personalities at London stations AM 980 CFPL, Country 104 and FM 96 were dismissed.
Both reports quote a Corus spokesperson who said that the changes are “designed to maximize our content delivery”.
“We believe our new structure will help further grow audiences across multi-platforms and position our…
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TORONTO – CBC Kids has greenlit a new 10 episode, three minute series from marblemedia that will keep children and their parents guessing.
Each episode of Holy Baloney features three kids who take time out of their lunch hour to answer a poignant question about everyday things, with each giving a different, often hilarious, response. The questions, and sometimes the answers, will be tricky for both kids and parents, but it’s up to the viewers to watch the convincing answers of all three schoolyard experts and decide which answer is right, and which two are complete baloney.
The kid friendly series…
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HALIFAX – Kalin Mitchell is joining CTV Atlantic as chief meteorologist for its locally focused evening newscasts, CTV News At Five and CTV News At Six.
Mitchell (pictured) has been tracking weather patterns for the last 10 years with Environment Canada and most recently with CBC Nova Scotia.
“Kalin is both a dedicated weather scientist and an engaging broadcaster,” said CTV Atlantic news director Dan Appleby, in the news release. “His first-rate reputation for accuracy and professionalism makes him the perfect fit to carry on CTV Atlantic’s longstanding legacy for the region’s best weather coverage.”
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is denouncing a Quebec Superior Court ruling that a Radio-Canada journalist reveal confidential sources.
Justice Jean-François Émond last week ordered investigative journalist Marie-Maude Denis to identify sources who came forward as part of her investigation into alleged collusion in the awarding of public contracts in Quebec.
In a statement Saturday, CAJ called the court’s decision “wrongheaded and damaging to constitutionally guaranteed press freedom”, a sentiment shared by the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, among other press-freedom groups.
"Just months after Canada introduced a press-shield law meant to protect confidential sources, a judge is…
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VANCOUVER – Sunday’s broadcast of the 2018 Juno Awards will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time.
A partnership between Twitter and CBC, the program will begin at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT on March 25 at Twitter.com/CBCMusic, with spots from sponsor TD running as pre-roll before the live stream.
In the lead-up and during the event, music fans can Tweet #JUNOS to unlock a custom emoji, Twitter added. In addition, this year’s award show includes a Juno Fan Choice Award, which is voted on by fans through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
According to Twitter Canada, 2018 Juno Awards performers…
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TORONTO – The Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games did a good job capturing imaginations this winter generating strong Canadian audiences for sponsors and advertisers on TV, digital and social channels according to a new report from Toronto’s Solutions Research Group.
According to the survey, three-in-four Canadians (75%) said they followed at least some of the Olympics on any platform (TV, digital, social or mobile sources). While this is a strong majority overall, it fell short of the 82% level who said they followed at least some of Sochi Winter Olympics based on a comparable SRG post-event survey of 1,000 Canadians…
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TORONTO – CBC Kids is readying the exclusive Canadian premiere of the new animated series Pablo, the first-ever children’s series to feature an autistic central character.
The series follows Pablo, a smart and artistic five-year-old boy who is on the autism spectrum. Using his magic crayons, his imaginative drawings come to life, enabling him to face the real world with confidence. Pablo bravely turns his life challenges into fantastic adventures with the help of his Art World friends, Llama, Noa, Mouse, Draff, Tang, and Wren. Co-written and voiced by young autistic talent, each story reflects the real-life experiences of children…
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