TORONTO – The public broadcaster’s ongoing transformation in the way it serves Canadians hasn’t been easy, but “the need for a Canadian public space” is more important than ever, according to CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Hubert Lacroix.
In an address to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Thursday, Lacroix talked up the Corp’s recent successes as a result of its strategic plan 2020: A Space For Us All, including the 15 million Canadians that use its digital sites for news and information, a number that has increased by 3 million in the last year, and its new podcast series…
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OTTAWA–GATINEAU – Despite a decrease in expenses, Canadian conventional television stations saw profits continue their downward slide in 2015, according to the CRTC’s latest statistical and financial report for this sector released Wednesday.
According to Conventional Television – Statistical and Financial Summaries 2011-2015, profits before interest and taxes (PBIT) for private local TV stations declined from -$138.7 million to -$140.9 million, and the PBIT margin decreased from -7.7% to -8%.
Revenues fell by 2.6% (or $46.6 million) from $1.8 billion in 2014 to $1.76 billion for the broadcast year ended August 31, 2015. While revenues from the sale of local advertising…
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TORONTO – With the Rio 2016 Olympic Games fast approaching, CBC/Radio-Canada revealed more details of its multiplatform programming which will include, for the first time in Canadian Olympic Games history, 100 hours of immersive virtual reality and 360 video programming.
In partnership with Visa and the IOC, CBC Virtual Reality will provide viewers with both a 360-degree motion-sensitive stream as well as an immersive virtual reality stream for use with compatible headset technology, allowing Canadians to get closer to the Games than ever before through more than 100 hours of event coverage, reads Wednesday’s news release.
Along with primary broadcast partner TSN, as…
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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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