TORONTO – Twitter Canada is making it easier for Canadians to follow events from the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.
Live streams from Para alpine, Para ice hockey, Para nordic, Para snowboard, and wheelchair curling, as well as a daily Canadian recap show from CBC, will be available exclusively to Twitter users in Canada.
In addition, Canada can visit greatnessisrare.ca to sign up to become a broadcaster of the Paralympic Games on their Twitter or Facebook account. Users can choose the events they wish to share and their selections will automatically appear in their feeds as a…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Alibi Entertainment has named Heidi Schorn as director of development, effective immediately.
Schorn (pictured) comes from eOne where she was director of development. With experience in all phases of development, her talents have contributed to a range of programming including access pieces, format adaptations such as This Is Highschool (CBC) and original co-productions such as Food Truck Face Off (Food Network Canada/US).
Reporting to executive producer of development Nick Crowe, Schorn will take on a leadership role on the factual content team.
“We are excited to welcome Heidi to Alibi as we continue to expand and strengthen our factual and…
Continue Reading
Sportsnet, AMI-tv also contributing
PYEONGCHANG – CBC/Radio-Canada announced Monday it will offer over 600 hours of coverage of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games across all broadcast partners and digital platforms.
Broadcast coverage will be available daily on CBC and Radio-Canada with digital live-streams available on cbcsports.ca/paralympics and Radio-Canada.ca/jeuxparalympiques, as well as the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android. Broadcast partners Sportsnet and AMI-tv will also offer regular coverage of key competitions, says the press release.
“As Canada’s Paralympic Network, we are dedicated to providing extensive, in-depth coverage of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games across multiple platforms to keep audiences at…
Continue Reading
GATINEAU – In a complaint filed with the CRTC last week, the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance says Rogers Media is violating a number of CRTC policies in refusing to let its members launch or re-package channels as contract negotiations drag on.
The CCSA represents over 115 independent broadband and video carriers which collectively serve approximately 350,000 Canadians, in areas which compete with one or more of the bigger providers, or in more rural regions.
In the complaint, filed February 22nd and posted to the Commission’s website Wednesday, the CCSA says Rogers Media Inc. is now refusing to permit CCSA members to…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Team Canada’s record-setting performance at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 helped to drive viewing audiences for CBC/Radio-Canada, the public broadcaster said Tuesday.
Between the Opening Ceremony on February 9 and the Closing Ceremony on February 25, 31 million Canadians (more than 85% of the population) tuned in to watch CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the PyeongChang 2018 across all English and French television network partners, digital platforms and the CBC/Radio-Canada Olympics apps.
CBC’s English-language primetime coverage across all broadcast networks throughout the Games garnered a 2+ average minute audience of over 3 million viewers, with CBC alone capturing a 24% primetime…
Continue Reading
FOR MANY DECADES, THE Canadian TV market had the luxury of being a walled garden protected by the limits of technology. We even carved out a national production industry and nurtured significant cultural achievements next door to the world’s largest content market.
Now, however, digitalized content has climbed over the garden’s walls and caused content markets to globalize and flatten.
We responded to this change with the defensive strategy of vertical integration. We tried to create barriers, concentrating our domestic market, but the problem was this just deepened our dependence on our domestic market and made us less competitive globally. We’ve…
Continue Reading
Part V in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom Acts. An exclusive interview
BACK IN 1999, WHEN Pierre Karl Péladeau was the CEO of the world’s largest printer and a significant Canadian newspaper publisher, he didn’t know or care about the CRTC’s New Media Exemption Order, released that year. Why would he?
Back then, cell phones were still-new devices that primarily just made phone calls – which only about one in five of us owned.* Everyone got their TV off-air or via cable and just over a quarter of Canadians reported a home internet connection – upon which precious…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Hunter Communications has won a contract to provide CBC/Radio-Canada with satellite space segment services.
Using a powerful Ku-band beam that Hunter designed to service Canada and specifically the far north, Hunter said that it will provide the public broadcaster with more transmission throughput and the ability to use smaller antennas that are easier to move to remote transmission sites.
CBC/Radio-Canada broadcast signals and bi-directional IP communication services will be carried on the 54 MHz Ku-band and 36 MHz C-band capacity they have contracted, continues Hunter’s news release. The satellite service will complement CBC’s terrestrial fibre network and further support…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Some 29 million Canadians (or 82% of the population) have watched some part of CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 across all English and French television networks and platforms during the first 10 days, says CBC.
Quoting Numeris data, the public broadcaster said that its English-language primetime coverage across all broadcast networks has garnered a 2+ average minute audience of more than 3 million viewers to date, with CBC alone delivering a 24% primetime audience share since the start of the Games. These numbers are sure to rise as the men's and women's hockey tournaments conclude.
The most-watched…
Continue Reading
Part IV in our series on rewriting the Broadcasting and Telecom Acts
THE CANADIAN TV INDUSTRY faces a growing crisis. Financial contributions from the broadcast distributors to support the production of Canadian stories are on the decline. This is combined with the fact that online TV providers, namely Netflix, aren’t required to pay into the Canadian system like their Canadian competitors.
Since Netflix has emerged as a major competitor to traditional broadcasting services, many have called for the U.S. company to being paying into the Canadian system. Some have suggested taxing internet service providers is the best approach. Others have simply…
Continue Reading
