REGINA – RTDNA Canada will recognize two individuals in the Prairie region with lifetime achievement awards this weekend.
Sheila Coles and Geoff Stickle will be presented with their RTDNA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards during the Prairie Regional Meeting on April 21, 2018.
Born in England, Sheila Coles (right) moved to Canada before her third birthday, living in many countries and parts of Canada before landing in Regina, Saskatchewan, a place she has called home for more than 30 years. After starting at CBC 34 years ago, first as a reporter and then host of CBC Saskatchewan’s Morning Edition in 1993, Coles is known for…
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TORONTO – CBC must stop destroying its “irreplaceable” original radio and television programming after digitizing them, says the Canadian Broadcast Museum Foundation (CBMF).
According to the charitable foundation, CBC’s English Services has trashed almost a million acetate transcriptions, audio and video tapes, and other legacy master-recordings – or eight decades of Canada’s English-language radio and television history – since the beginning of April, despite pleas from stakeholders such as ACTRA, Actra Fraternal Benefits Society, and Friends of Canadian Broadcasting seeking to preserve them.
The CBMF says the move flies in the face of internationally accepted standards and best practices of audiovisual…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada ranked first among Canadians’ most trusted brands, says a new study by Proof Inc. (formerly Environics Communications).
The third annual CanTrust Index is an online sample of 1,560 Canadians conducted between January 18 and February 5, 2018, and is nationally representative by region, age and gender. It found continuing strong levels of trust among Canadians in their institutions, leaders, media and information sources.
The study said that the public sector continues to lead the trust race versus the private sector, as Canadians continue to express trust in their government services, led by hospitals and universities/colleges which are tied at 63%.
At…
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DARTMOUTH – RTDNA Canada will recognize two individuals in the East region with lifetime achievement awards next week.
Lynn Burry and Terry Seguin will be presented with their RTDNA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards during the East Regional Meeting on April 21, 2018.
Lynn Burry (right) is not only a dedicated and respected journalist, but a broadcasting icon in her home of Newfoundland and Labrador. After beginning her career at CJYQ Radio in the early 1980's, she moved to NTV in 1983 and quickly became the network’s legislative reporter. Burry was promoted to the anchor desk of NTV’s flagship newscast, NTV Evening Newshour,…
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TORONTO – Peter Mansbridge, the longtime anchor of CBC's The National, will receive The Canadian Journalism Foundation's (CJF) Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual CJF Awards on June 14 in Toronto.
Past recipients of the award include Jean Pelletier, Lloyd Robertson, Michel Auger, Peter Bregg, Jack Sigvaldason, Lise Bissonnette, Joe Schlesinger, Sally Armstrong, Knowlton Nash, June Callwood, Trina McQueen, Mark Starowicz, Bernard Derome, Peter Gzowski and Robert Fulford.
During his award-winning career, which began in 1968 in Fort Churchill, MB where he helped develop CBC Radio's news service to Northern Canada, Mansbridge (pictured) has anchored coverage of major Canadian…
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TORONTO – CBC’s award-winning and popular series Rick Mercer Report will wrap up its 15-season run with an hour-long series finale on Tuesday, April 10 at 8:00 PM ET (8:30 NT) on CBC and cbc.ca/watch.
Since its debut in 2004, the public broadcaster has aired 277 episodes of the half-hour comedy that saw comedian and political satirist Rick Mercer travel the country from coast-to-coast-to-coast for his unique perspective on all things Canadian and the top news of the week.
Highlights from the finale include clips from his visits with the many Canadians who’ve shared their work place expertise, and a look back at special guest…
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VANCOUVER – RTDNA Canada will recognize three individuals in the West region with lifetime achievement awards next week.
Rick Cluff, Hudson Mack and Wayne Williams will be presented with their RTDNA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards during the West Regional Meeting on April 21, 2018.
Rick Cluff (right) was the host of CBC’s Radio One’s top-rated morning show The Early Edition from September 1997 until he retired in December 2017. His award-winning career with CBC began in Ontario in 1976 as a sports commentator and reporter, and he went on to cover eight Olympic games, five Commonwealth Games, Super Bowls, Stanley Cup runs…
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EDMONTON – Super Channel has commissioned the second season of Canadian Mennonite drug drama Pure.
Inspired by actual events, Pure tells the story of a newly-elected pastor trapped into working for a cocaine-smuggling ring that operates within his closed Mennonite community. CBC aired the first season of the Canadian Screen Award nominated series.
The six-part Super Channel Original Production will tell the continuing story of Noah and Anna Funk, Mennonites trying to protect their family and preserve their faith while battling drug trafficking within their community. The second season is scheduled to begin production in Nova Scotia later this spring and…
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WINNIPEG – As long as the federal government and their provincial counterparts keep allowing Netflix to do business in Canada without at least collecting sales taxes, they are perpetuating a structural imbalance in favour of the big U.S. streamer (and others) over Canadian competitors.
That deduction is part of an enlightening new discussion paper called Netflix in Canada released Wednesday by Winnipeg’s Communications Management Inc., which takes a deep dive into the numbers.
CMI’s paper references research from the likes of CBC’s Media Technology Monitor and Solutions Research Group, but it relies most heavily on a large 2016 Statistics Canada survey…
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OTTAWA – A radio personality who suggested that drivers run down cyclists breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics, says the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC).
On March 27, 2017, the hosts of talk show 100% Normandeau on CFEL-FM (BLVD 102.1, Quebec City) discussed current events with another BLVD host at that time, André Arthur. In light of that day’s snowstorm, they talked about cyclists who ride their bicycles in inclement winter weather. Arthur said, Today, someone on a bike, hit them, relieve them,…
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