TORONTO – Rogers Media and CBC have inked a new seven-year sub-licensing agreement for English-language broadcasts of Hockey Night in Canada and the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The new deal, announced Tuesday, will begin with the NHL's 2019-20 season and run through the end of the 2025-26 season which is when Rogers’s 12-year, $5.2 billion national broadcast rights deal with the NHL is due to expire. It follows a previous four-year sub-licensing deal and one-year extension.
As part of the new deal, CBC will continue to air nationally-televised regular season games on Saturday night plus all four rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Hockey…
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GATINEAU – Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly named five new directors to the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors on Tuesday.
The new members are:
− Harley Finkelstein (Ontario), mandate effective immediately
Mr. Finkelstein is an entrepreneur, lawyer and chief of operations for Shopify. He is a member of C100's board of directors and advises Felicis Ventures, which makes him involved in two organizations that promote innovation. He was also one of the dragons on CBC's Next Gen Den. Mr. Finkelstein was a recipient of the Order of Ottawa in 2016 and recently received Canada's Top 40 Under 40 award.
− René…
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada has doubled its digital reach two and a half years ahead of schedule.
Quoting comScore data, the public broadcaster said Monday that it received an average of 18 million unique visitors to its digital sites each month between April and October 2017, a target that it had forecasted to hit in 2019-20. In addition, three-quarters of these visitors are now reaching the Corp through their mobile devices.
“This shows that programs and services on our digital platforms are resonating with Canadians,” said CBC/Radio-Canada’s president and CEO Hubert Lacroix, in a statement. “We will keep building on this success….
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MONTREAL — “I’ve gotten such great press lately,” Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly joked to break the ice in a speech Friday to Montreal’s board of trade. But despite mounting pressure, especially in Quebec, to impose sales taxes on foreign over-the-top services like Netflix, Joly had no new announcements to make, sticking to repeating the promises made in the Creative Canada plan released in September.
“I hear you,” she told the crowd present, including board president Michel Leblanc, who said during his introduction that he expected Joly to explain the government’s position on this issue. She repeated several times that she’s…
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TORONTO – CBC Sports and Rugby Canada today announced a multi-year partnership agreement this week which will make the broadcaster the home for Rugby Canada games as the men’s and women’s side progress and pursue berths at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
The partnership began last weekend with full coverage of the HSBC World Rugby Series tournament in Dubai at cbcsports.ca and on CBC and will continue with coverage from the second event in the Series from Cape Town, South Africa, Dec. 9–10, says the press release.
In addition, as part of the agreement, CBC Sports will deliver multi-platform annual…
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TORONTO – Radioplayer Canada, the radio streaming app that features more than 500 Canadian radio stations (most of the big and small chains, except Bell Media and Evanov, who joined iHeartRadio), announced this week its streaming service is available with Amazon Echo, powered by Alexa.
Amazon Echo users may now simply ask Alexa to play their favourite radio station on Radioplayer Canada, once the skill is enabled by the listener.
"This integration with Amazon Alexa is great for Canadian radio," said Julie Adam, senior vice president, Rogers Radio, and board chair of Radioplayer Canada. "The integration echoes the mission of…
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Now more than 1,000
TORONTO – iHeartRadio Canada (a partnership with Bell Media and iHeartRadio) launched an enhanced app Monday which now features more than 1,000 live radio stations of every genre from across North America.
The app also added Canadian stations from Evanov Communications, “with more broadcasters set to join in the coming weeks,” says the press release. Most other Canadian stations cast their lots with RadioPlayer, however, which counts 400 Canadian stations in that fold.
iHeartRadio Canada has recorded an average of 1.8 million active listeners each month since its launch in October 2016, says…
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TORONTO – Starting Tuesday, December 5, each of CBC’s 14 regional linear TV channels will be live-streamed along side a whole host of additional CBC content which will be made available direct to consumers in ways the public broadcaster’s content has not before as it takes the lid off of an upgraded app and web portal.
CBC executive vice-president of English services, Heather Conway, told employees in a memo Monday that in order to keep up with the Netflixes of the world, CBC content has to be available on all platforms at all times to all Canadians.
“When we first introduced…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Paralympic Committee announced their first-ever multi-Games partnership renewal that will see the national public broadcaster remain Canada’s Paralympic Network through the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
The extended partnership begins with CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games scheduled for March 9 – 18, 2018.
CBC/Radio-Canada pledged to deliver more broadcast and live-streaming coverage than ever before throughout the 2018 and 2020 Paralympic Games. English-language coverage of PyeongChang 2018 will include daily television broadcasts throughout the 10-day event, including live coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well as multiple live competition streams…
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TORONTO – Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) is readying the broadcast premiere of an original documentary detailing one of the worst manmade explosions in history and how it forever changed the lives of Canadians with sight loss.
The Halifax Explosion will air December 3 at 5:00 PM ET, just a few days ahead of the 100th anniversary of the event. On December 6, 1917, two ships – one laden with high explosives – collided in the Halifax Harbour, causing a massive explosion that killed thousands of people and injured more than 9,000. Many people of all ages and from all walks…
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