MONT-TREMBLANT – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance’s annual Connect 2017 conference kicks off next week with TVA Group as its presenting sponsor and Fox Sports Racing as its platinum sponsor. The deadline for online registrations is Wednesday.
Set for September 25-27 at the Fairmont Tremblant Resort in Mont-Tremblant, QC, the conference starts Sunday and Monday with several members-or-board-only meetings, but Monday concludes with The Social – a cocktail evening for all delegates starting at 6:30 pm.
Tuesday will feature keynote speakers Terry O’Reilly, marketing guru and host of CBC Radio’s Under the Influence, who will speak about The Power of Storytelling; and…
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TORONTO – CBC said Monday that it has ended the collection of both profit participation and retransmission royalties on all projects that it has pre-licensed from Canadian independent producers, regardless of its level of investment, effective immediately.
The brief statement says that the change comes as a result of the ongoing efforts by CBC and the Canadian Media Producers Association to ensure business terms better reflect the needs of creators and producers, balanced with the needs of the public broadcaster. CBC added that it will apply the change retroactively to all deals signed after April 1, 2017, and that confirmation…
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TORONTO and CALGARY – CBC Sports will continue to be the home of championship show jumping competitions through the 2020 season thanks to a renewal of the network’s agreement with renowned Calgary equestrian event venue Spruce Meadows.
The renewed agreement will see CBC Sports continue to offer coverage of Spruce Meadows-hosted events, including ‘The National,’ ‘The North American,’ and ‘The Masters’ – part of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping – over the next three years. In addition, CBC Sports will continue to provide broadcast and live-streaming coverage of the three other events from the Rolex Grand Slam of Show…
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TORONTO – Three new feature films have been selected as recipients of CBC’s Breaking Barriers Film Fund for underrepresented Canadian creators.
The projects are An Audience Of Chairs from Deanne Foley and Rosemary House, an unflinching look at a woman’s struggle with mental illness; Level 16 by Danishka Esterhazy, a sci-fi thriller that uncovers the dark side of the beauty business; and Red Snow by Marie Clements, an epic international love story following a Gwich’in soldier in Afghanistan. These films join the first three projects announced by the Fund last February.
“Response to the CBC Breaking…
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ABU DHABI, UAE – The Canadian Paralympic Broadcast Media Consortium has won the 2017 Paralympic Media Award in the broadcast category for its coverage of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
The prize is awarded by the International Paralympic Committee to the TV or radio broadcaster that presented the highest quality and most dynamic coverage of Rio 2016.
The unique Consortium model saw the Canadian Paralympic Committee acquire the domestic broadcast and digital rights to the Paralympic Games. The Consortium, which included CBC/Radio-Canada, Sportsnet, Yahoo! Sports, AMI, SendtoNews, Videogami and Facebook Canada, provided over 1,200 hours of coverage over the course of…
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TORONTO – Multilingual media company Telelatino has announced the appointment of industry veteran Errol Da-Ré to the newly created position of chief revenue officer.
Da-Ré will lead Telelatino’s efforts to leverage corporate assets and strengths and align them with customer needs and desires, says the company’s announcement. “He will oversee client direct and national agency sales functions and provide input and advice on other revenue generating activities,” reads the release.
He most recently headed the Olympic sales team for CBC and Radio-Canada, and was previously the longtime senior head of sales for Shaw Media, and prior to that, Alliance Atlantis…
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OTTAWA – While the majority of Canadians say that they are aware of skinny basic TV packages and pick and pay TV, only a fraction have actually subscribed to these options, according to a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
Skinny Basic and Pick & Pay: Analysis of the Canadian Market explores awareness, interest and adoption of the $25 Starter TV packages, also called Skinny Basic TV packages, and the pick and pay TV option which enables the purchase of standalone TV channels on a per basis cost.
Highlights from the report include:
– Over half of Canadians report being…
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OTTAWA – Protection for Canadian broadcasting and publishing are among a list of key demands for a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as talks begin in Washington this week.
A CBC report says that Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will include cultural exemptions among Canada's 10 NAFTA demands.
Canada insisted on protections in the old agreement for cultural industries, such as publishing and broadcasting, though the U.S.'s annual report on international trade barriers lists this as an irritant, continues the report.
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MONDAY, IT WAS ANNOUNCED CBS All Access, the over-the-top VOD service from the American television network, would launch in Canada next year. Leslie Moonves, chairman and CEO, CBS Corporation, was quoted as saying, “By going direct-to-consumer around the world, we will facilitate new connections between the global audience and our industry-leading premium content.”
So where does this leave Canada’s private broadcasters?
Canadian private, English-language broadcasters have had a long and profitable run being middlemen for American content producers. For decades, their core business strategy was to purchase popular foreign programming, primarily from U.S. networks, and resell it into the Canadian marketplace,…
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OTTAWA — The Government of Canada announced Wednesday it is seeking input into proposed legislative and regulatory changes to the Copyright Board of Canada’s decision-making processes.
The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), and the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage, jointly with the Copyright Board of Canada, launched consultations to allow interested parties to share their views on proposed reforms to the Board.
The government has made available a discussion paper that presents 13 possible options for legislative and regulatory reforms. In addition, the government said it will consider any other reform options…
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