North of North, the hit Arctic comedy series, will have its global premiere on Netflix this Thursday.
Produced by Red Marrow Media and Northwood Entertainment, the Nunavut-shot series — commissioned by the CBC and Netflix in partnership with APTN — stars Anna Lambe (True Detective: Night Country, Trickster) as Siaja, a young Inuk mother trying to reinvent herself in her tiny community of Ice Cove.
North of North had its Canadian debut in January on CBC and APTN, and all episodes will continue to be available to stream on CBC Gem and Continue Reading
Follows Pascale St-Onge pledge
By Ahmad Hathout
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday pledged $150 million to shore up the CBC/Radio-Canada and enshrine funding for the public broadcaster in the law if elected.
“Canada’s institutions and identity are under attack from foreign interference,” Carney said during a campaign stop in Montreal. “If elected, my government will take action to enshrine and protect and strengthen CBC/Radio-Canada for generations to come.
“We will not only increase CBC/Radio-Canada’s funding by $150 million, but we will also make this funding statutory, meaning Parliament as a whole will need to approve any future changes to its funding, not…
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Rogers and the National Hockey League announced Wednesday an $11-billion, 12-year agreement for the national media rights to NHL games on all platforms in Canada through the 2037-38 season.
Worth more than double the current $5.2-billion, 12-year media rights deal the two organizations signed in 2013, the new agreement will start with the 2026-27 NHL season.
The deal was first reported on Monday by Sportico.com, based on information from sources familiar with the details, the sports news website said.
Under the new agreement, NHL fans in Canada will have access…
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CBC News announced Monday it is providing extensive and in-depth reporting and analysis of Canada’s 45th federal election across all of its platforms, leading up to and including election day on Monday, April 28.
With an emphasis on live and local coverage reflecting voters’ questions and concerns, CBC News’s coverage will see several of its programs, including The National, The Current and At Issue, travelling to communities across the country to hear directly from Canadians about the issues that matter most to them.
CBC News flagship newscast The National’s host and chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault will be in Brampton, Ont., on March…
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By Connie Thiessen
Skywild Pictures is the new Toronto-based scripted television and film prodco, founded by writer and executive producer Travis Farncombe and TV executive/producer Angela Jennings.
Jennings, who’ll serve as president, will oversee the company’s stakeholder relations and corporate development, in addition to managing creative, financial and legal strategies, and daily operations. The veteran executive has produced over 700 hours of content, including series like MasterChef Canada, Canada’s Got Talent, and Luxe Listings Toronto. For the past decade, she’s been with Scott McGillivray’s MEM, most recently as president.
Farncombe (A Translator, 13 Minutes) will hold the title of CEO. Rounding out…
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CBC, BIPOC TV & Film and the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) announced Wednesday the three participants for the third year of the CBC-BIPOC TV & Film Showrunner Catalyst program.
This program is “the only accelerator program in Canada that is focused on elevating senior writers who identify as Indigenous, Black or People of Colour to showrunner status through hands-on and personally tailored experiences in prep, on-set and post that empower and elevate skills and knowledge base,” reads a CBC press release.
The participants for the third and final year of the program, now…
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Rogers says the complaint is ‘completely without merit’
By Ahmad Hathout
A national news channel is alleging Rogers is unjustly keeping it from distribution to a broader cable audience, but the cable giant is calling the complaint meritless.
The News Forum, which was granted mandatory distribution on cable in 2022, alleges that, unlike its competitors, it has been denied equal access by being excluded from Rogers’s legacy or grandfathered cable packages.
Before it received mandatory distribution under the Broadcasting Act’s 9.1(1)(h) rule, the independent news service negotiated its current distribution agreement with Rogers as an exempt undertaking the year before. But while it…
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TV5 Québec Canada’s board of directors on Monday announced the appointment of Yann Paquet as president and CEO, effective April 14.
Paquet will succeed Marie-Philippe Bouchard to the helm of the non-profit media company, which includes French-language specialty channels TV5 and Unis TV as well as the TV5Unis platform.
With more than 25 years of experience in the media industry, Paquet most recently held the position of vice president at Quebecor Content, where he oversaw foreign television program acquisitions and the financing of productions aired on TVA Group’s networks and Videotron’s platforms. He also contributed to the development of Quebec cinema…
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Just the latest company to request a bump up in carriage fee
By Ahmad Hathout
Vues & Voix is asking the CRTC to add three cents to the monthly wholesale carriage fee commanded by its 24-hour radio station Canal M to maintain programming and avoid laying off much-needed paid staff, according to an application made public Thursday.
The company says the station, which creates content for visual- and hearing-impaired Canadians, is facing a “perfect storm” of lower revenues from cord cutting, a higher cost of living, aging digital infrastructure that needs an upgrade, and an increasing population of vulnerable people who have…
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The federal government last week reappointed Sandra Mason and William (Bill) Tam to CBC/Radio-Canada’s board of directors and also appointed former Numeris CEO Neil McEneaney to the board as a replacement for Sandra Singh, whose term has expired.
All three appointees will serve a five-year term. Mason and Tam’s reappointments are effective June 1, while McEneaney’s term started Feb. 17.
Based in Toronto, Mason is a chartered professional accountant with more than 20 years of financial experience in the Canadian media industry, including seven years as chief financial officer at The Globe and…
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