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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WEDNESDAY, THE CRTC released a report by EKOS Research as part of its so-called Talk Broadband initiative.
“EKOS Research Associates conducted two types of public opinion research on telecommunication services in Canada and prepared a report for the CRTC. The first part of the report presents results gathered through a questionnaire that was completed by more than 30,000 Canadians. Between January 14 and February 29, 2016, close to 29,000 individuals completed the questionnaire. EKOS also administered the questionnaire with a separate sample group of over 1,600 Canadians representative of the population as…
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TORONTO – CBC Sports will join the world’s best figure skaters in Boston, MA, this week for exclusive live Canadian coverage of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships.
From March 30 through April 3, viewers may select how and when to watch with afternoon and primetime coverage on CBC-TV, and live streaming at cbcsports.ca and via the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices.
Canada will be well represented in Boston with two skaters or teams competing in each discipline, including reigning pairs World Champions Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford and 2015 ice dance bronze medallists Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje. Three-time…
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Digital strategy, broadband for urban poor, not addressed
OTTAWA – After years of neglect, outright disdain and budget cuts from the previous government, CBC/Radio-Canada is getting what some consider a much needed infusion of cash. The Liberals’ Budget 2016 is injecting $675 million over the next five years into the national public broadcaster.
The money – $75 million this fiscal year and $150 million in each of the four subsequent years – will be used “to disseminate and support world-class Canadian content and to provide Canadians with better access to programs and services in the digital era,” said the budget.
Critical to…
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