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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Advocacy groups for Canadian film, TV and media production companies are applauding Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s recently released set of proposed changes to modernize the mandate, funding and governance of CBC/Radio-Canada.
The proposed amendments range from prohibiting advertising during CBC/Radio-Canada’s news and public affairs programming and ending subscription fees for its digital services to establishing predictable and stable funding via a statutory appropriation based on an annual per capita formula.
In a statement released Saturday, the Quebec English-language Production Council (QEPC), speaking on behalf of the official language minority community (OLMC) film and TV production industry…
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By Connie Thiessen
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge has released a set of proposed changes aimed at modernizing the objectives, governance and funding of CBC/Radio-Canada, ranging from banishing advertising during news and current affairs programming to ensuring more citizen participation in determining the public broadcaster’s priorities.
The proposed amendments to the Broadcasting Act were released Thursday, with a goal “to reinforce the accountability and reactivity of the Corporation toward Canadians, to ensure its journalistic, creative and programming independence, to strengthen its role as public broadcaster, and to provide it with predictable and stable funding so that it can face future challenges.”
Stable…
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CBC News announced Wednesday veteran broadcaster and award-winning journalist Ian Hanomansing will host a new daily primetime program, Hanomansing Tonight, live from CBC Vancouver beginning Tuesday, Feb. 18.
Airing weeknights from 7-9 p.m. ET (4-6 p.m. PT) on CBC News Network, Hanomansing Tonight will offer breaking and live news coverage from Western Canada. The program will also be available to stream anytime on CBC Gem with on-demand segments on YouTube.
“Of all the assignments I’ve had, my favourite has always been going live on a major, developing story. And we’ll be doing a lot…
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Secures licensing deals with Corus, Hollywood Suite and Paramount+ in Canada
Global film and TV studio Fifth Season announced Tuesday it has appointed former Wattpad Studios executive Muriel Rosilio to the newly created role of director of sales for Canada.
Rosilio will be responsible for monetizing Fifth Season’s content rights across all media and languages throughout Canada. She reports to Travis Webb, the studio’s senior vice president of sales for the Americas.
Fifth Season also announced new licensing deals across its slate of premium scripted and unscripted content with Corus, Hollywood Suite and Paramount+ in Canada.
A new multi-title deal with Corus includes Morimoto’s…
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By Connie Thiessen
CBC News has released audience insights indicating that the looming U.S.-Canada trade war boosted views on its mobile app to a level not seen since 2022.
The viewer bump began Saturday, Feb. 1 when U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on Canadian goods and energy, followed by the Canadian government response. Canadians continued to tune in through news of the late-breaking 30-day reprieve on Monday, Feb. 3.
CBC says 4.5 million Canadians tuned in to CBC News Network from Feb. 1-3, making it the most-watched English-language Canadian news network. According to Numeris TV data released by the public broadcaster, audiences spent more…
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