TORONTO – Just ahead of its Discoverability Summit next month, the CRTC and NFB announced plans to co-host a youth edition on Monday at the CBC Atrium in Toronto.
The event will feature discussions with millennials on how they consume and discover content, and the ideas and strategies generated from the Youth Summit will not only help experts and leaders better understand this generation, but directly be embedded into the program for the Discoverability Summit on May 10 – 11, 2016.
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will be a guest of honour at the event,…
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OTTAWA – More and more Canadians now share content online, and streaming video is now the norm, not the exception, according to two new reports from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
With TV content, movies, sports, news and YouTube videos available anytime, anywhere from any device, it’s no wonder streaming video has become one of the top Internet activities among Anglophones, says the Streaming Video: Analysis of the English-Language Market report. The MTM draws on this popularity to outline the trends of streaming video and TV while examining the overall impact on traditional TV viewing.
Highlights from the report include:
– Online…
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TORONTO – CBC will use some of its funds from the recent federal budget to launch a new digital service centred in London, ON and to digitize more content from its archives.
At a town hall meeting for employees on Monday, CBC brass unveiled plans to create and enhance the broadcaster's digital presence in southwestern Ontario with a new morning radio show, a full digital service, and an online hub for local information of interest to readers, viewers and listeners in the London area.
A CBC News report quoted Jennifer McGuire, GM and editor in chief for CBC News and Centres, as saying that the…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canada’s commercial radio stations held their own in the face of competition from satellite, online and mobile services, with revenues dipping slightly for the 2015 broadcast year, according to the CRTC’s statistical and financial results for this sector released Monday.
Commercial Radio 2011 – 2015 National Statistics, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Markets said that total revenues for the country’s 704 commercial radio stations decreased 0.7% to hold steady at $1.6 billion for the broadcast year ending August 31, 2015. These revenues enable commercial radio stations to offer a variety of programming to Canadians, to support established and emerging…
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OTTAWA – Bell Media Radio has promoted Evan Solomon to its first-ever national affairs specialist.
Effective immediately, this new appointment broadens Solomon’s current role as host and executive producer of Ottawa Now on Bell Media’s 580 CFRA News Talk Radio to include daily morning news hits on Bell Media Radio news/talk stations in Toronto, Montréal, and Ottawa, and weekly news hits across the company’s news/talk stations in Victoria and Kelowna, BC, as well as in Windsor, London, and St. Catharines in Ontario.
Additionally, Solomon (pictured) will host a regular syndicated weekend program called Real Talk that will…
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Looks like everything Cancon is on the table
OTTAWA – Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages Mélanie Joly has instigated public consultations into the feds’ support of Canada’s cultural and creative industries that could result in sweeping changes to Canadian content rules and regulations.
The Department of Canadian Heritage said Saturday that it, along with the help of an expert advisory group, will lead public, stakeholder and online consultations beginning this summer to strengthen Canadian content creation, discovery and export in a digital world. The consultations will encompass information and entertainment content as presented in television, radio, film, digital…
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LAS VEGAS – The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) and the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) unveiled two new technical specifications for the delivery of finished air-ready programs for North America.
Nine major North American broadcasters – including Bell Media, CBC/Radio-Canada, ABC/Disney, Fox, HBO, NBCUniversal, PBS, TimeWarner and Turner, have agreed on a common file format, structure and wrapper based on the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) AS-11 UK DPP specification implemented in the UK in 2014.
“The announcement of these new specifications represents notice to the industry that will enable production and post-production companies and equipment manufacturers to ready themselves for…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media has parted ways with top original programming production executive Carol Commisso, whose resume includes This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Young Drunk Punk, the broadcaster confirmed Friday to Cartt.ca.
A company spokesperson said Commisso is no longer with Rogers Media. Her departure is part of the wider company restructuring unveiled at the end of January. At the time, the TV, radio, digital and magazine publishing company talked about trimming around 200 jobs, or 4% of its workforce.
The cost-cutting at Rogers Media, thought…
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TORONTO – A growing number of Canadians would just rather watch TV on their laps or in their hands and don’t even have a TV set, says two new reports from Media Technology Monitor.
While most consumers receive television from cable, satellite or IPTV, a small number of them are taking advantage of getting their TV without a TV.
Highlights of the company’s TV My Way report include:
Living without a paid TV service is nothing new, however, the incidence of those living without a paid TV service has grown over the recent years. Currently 20% of Canadians live without…
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GATINEAU/MONTREAL – Canadians wishing to attend next month’s Discoverability Summit in Toronto may now register to receive tickets.
Co-hosted by the CRTC and the NFB, the Discoverability Summit is scheduled for May 10 and 11 at the Thompson Hotel in Toronto. Guest speakers include Jeremy Singer of Entertainment Tonight Canada, Amy Terrill of Music Canada and Louis Lalande, EVP of CBC/Radio-Canada French Services. Other major players from the digital media sector are also expected to participate, and will be revealed in the coming weeks.
The two-day affair will enable participants to discuss strategies, tools and approaches to improve the…
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