OTTAWA – With Canada’s paid TV subscriptions in decline, fibre optic (IPTV) TV service subscriptions continue to grow and have overtaken satellite for second place behind cable distribution, says a new report from Media Technology Monitoring (MTM).
The report TV Distribution Fall 2015: An Analysis of the English-Language Market looks at trends in the way consumers access TV, what products/services they are using, how they bundle their services, and outlines user profiles for the various TV services.
Highlights from the report include:
– Cable’s market share in the multi-channel TV distribution environment declined from 43% to 40%, and satellite experienced a…
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TORONTO – CBC Sports will continue its hold on rights to the World Cup and World Championship Alpine, Nordic, Freestyle, Snowboard, Bobsleigh and Skeleton events after inking a new agreement with Infront Sports & Media.
The new media rights agreement includes live, delayed, repeat and video-on-demand coverage of up to 250 International Ski Federation (FIS) and International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) events across CBC Sports’ TV, online and mobile platforms over the next five years.
CBC Sports said that it will showcase the sport properties as part of its weekly Road To The Olympic Games TV broadcasts and via live streaming coverage…
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OTTAWA – Former Société Radio-Canada parliamentary correspondent Joyce Napier has joined CTV News as its Ottawa bureau chief.
Napier, (pictured), began her career as a print journalist, working as a Montréal correspondent for The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press, before becoming a reporter for La Presse. She joined CBC as a television reporter in Montréal in 1989 and moved to Radio-Canada in 1992, which included roles as its Middle East correspondent and Washington bureau chief. In August, 2015, Napier returned to Canada after 17 years abroad, becoming Radio-Canada’s senior political correspondent for the network’s parliamentary bureau.
In her new role,…
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TORONTO – CBC Radio One is launching an original and compelling investigative podcast series that will explore unsolved Canadian cases of the missing or murdered.
Hosted by award-winning filmmaker and writer David Ridgen (pictured), Someone Knows Something probes theories, debunks rumours and aims to uncover new information in unsolved crimes, while unravelling the visceral ripple effects these events have on families and communities across the country.
Each season, the series will focus on a single Canadian cold case that draws listeners deep into a mystery. As each case is brought back to life, audiences will hear evidence and first-hand accounts from those closest to the investigation, including the family, law enforcement…
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GATINEAU – The arrival of skinny basic TV programming packages and pick-and-pay options on Tuesday mark a “new era of choice for Canadian television viewers”, according to the CRTC.
Effective immediately, all licensed television service providers must offer an affordable basic package (a.k.a skinny basic) costing no more than $25 per month, not including equipment. The package must include local and regional television stations such as CBC, CTV and Global, channels of public interest like the Cable Public Affairs Channel (CPAC) and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), educational channels, community channels, and services operated by provincial legislatures, where available.
The basic…
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OTTAWA – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) wants the federal government to force Internet broadcasters like Netflix to pay “their fair share when it comes to supporting Canadian culture”.
ACTRA national president Ferne Downey, accompanied by Canadian performers including Sarah Gadon, Benz Antoine, Nigel Bennett, Ellen David, Art Hindle, Shannon Kook, Tristan D. Lalla, Huse Madhavji, Michelle Nolden and Rick Roberts, will attend a reception on Parliament Hill Wednesday evening to ask the new government to support Canada's creative economy.
The organization said that its other strategic priorities for this lobby trip are to ensure that…
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TORONTO and AUCKLAND – It’s Canada versus New Zealand in The Nations!, a new co-production featuring homegrown comedians Seán Cullen and Jarred Christmas competing for bragging rights to claim his country as the best.
The entire ten-part, five-minute digital series will begin streaming February 29 on CBC’s digital comedy portal Punchline and March 1 on TVNZ OnDemand. The webisodes feature hosts Seán and Jarred in a series of good-natured competitions highlighting challenges – from taste tests to a comedy matchup, from white water rafting to glamping – and themes – from music to politics, and romance to wildlife. The…
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TORONTO – With less than six months to go before Rio 2016, CBC & Radio-Canada Media Solutions has named industry veteran Errol Da-Ré to its Olympic Games sales efforts as the head of the Olympic games sales team.
Da-Ré (pictured) was previously EVP/SVP of sales at Shaw Media, and also worked in sales at Alliance Atlantis, Canwest and CTV. In his new role, which took effect this week, he will work closely with interested corporate partners, negotiating and bringing on board sponsorship and participation sales opportunities for CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of Rio 2016.
“We are extremely pleased to have Errol join our…
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I WANT TO BELIEVE in the CBC Etan Vlessing sees, which he wrote about here last week. I want the public broadcaster’s recent risk-taking with more cable-like shows to pay off with solid ratings and meaningful buzz. But the truth is, the “smarter, funnier, edgier” shows are what critics like to talk about, while the “comfort food” shows like Murdoch Mysteries and Heartland (pictured) are what CBC audiences like to watch.
I like the bold new CBC. I want them to stay the course and continue with their vision for a mix of…
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OTTAWA – Despite pressure from new competitors and online TV services, the majority of Anglophones still subscribe to television services, according to a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
The Media Technology Adoption for Fall 2015 is a summary of penetration trends for many of the technologies measured by the MTM, including audio and video technologies delivered over traditional, Internet and mobile platforms. The technologies are presented in relation to the different stages of technology adoption, starting with the innovation stage and ending with the decline stage.
Highlights from the report include:
– Mobile devices have taken hold with over…
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