OTTAWA – With its two Discoverability Summit pre-events set for next week, the CRTC has unveiled the expert participants tapped for the ‘En route to the Discoverability Summit’ confabs in Vancouver and Montreal.
The event in Vancouver, scheduled for December 1st at The Chan Centre for Performing Arts from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM, will be moderated by CBC Radio Spark host and creator Nora Young, and feature Tony Chapman, founder and CEO of Tony Chapman Reactions, as the keynote speaker.
Discussions will focus on English-language markets, and expert participants include Sara Diamond, President and Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University; Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, CEO…
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TORONTO – CBC and Insight Productions are partnering on a new drama series based on the novel Tempting Faith DiNapoli by Canadian author Lisa Gabriele.
Set in Windsor's Little Italy and the francophone enclave of Belle River, ON, Tempting Faith DiNapoli tells the story of what it means to grow up in a broke, blue-collar, loving, dysfunctional, God-fearing, yet increasingly faithless family. After Nancy DiNapoli’s marriage falls apart and their immigrant community turns its back on the family, this scrappy single mother and her four unruly teens must start all over again. Faith tries to keep it together, even while everything around…
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TORONTO – Broadcast audience measurement company Numeris has named Neil McEneaney as its new president and CEO, effective January 11, 2016.
McEneaney, pictured, has been with CBC for the last 15 years, most recently as its chief business officer, reads Tuesday’s announcement. Prior to this, he spent nine years in print where he held various senior leadership roles at the National Post and The Gazette as part of Southam Inc.
McEneaney will be replacing outgoing president and CEO Jim MacLeod who announced his retirement from Numeris in April of this year.
“The Numeris Board feels that Neil’s extensive leadership experience and knowledge…
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TWO OUT OF EVERY THREE Canadian households can stream over-the-top video services via their television sets using a dedicated streaming device or a game console or a laptop/PC, according to new research from Toronto’s Solutions Research Group.
The fall edition of the company’s syndicated Digital Life survey, which is based on 1,000 interviews in September 2015, took a close look at OTT video and TVE among other subjects and found:
The percentage of online households connecting a dedicated OTT streaming device (Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, etc.) to their TV nearly doubled from 12% to 22% since 2013.
Adding TVs connected…
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OTTAWA – The newly minted ministers of Prime Minister Trudeau’s first cabinet received their ministerial mandate letters this week, detailing his expectations and their priorities.
Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Singh Bains’ letter said that his “overarching goal will be to help Canadian businesses grow, innovate and export so that they can create good quality jobs and wealth for Canadians”.
His top priorities, as they pertain to the Canadian communications industry, include:
– Improve the quality of publicly available data in Canada. This will require working with Statistics Canada, the President of the Treasury Board and other departments…
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TORONTO – NextMedia crowned the 2015 Digi Award winners Tuesday night, recognizing remarkable digital content in the fields of video, marketing, advertising, mobile, and gaming from Canadian companies.
The 50 finalists were determined by a group of community leaders, influencers, technology experts, and content programmers from across the country.
And the winners are:
Branded ContentCarmillaBy Smokebomb EntertainmentIn association with U by Kotex
Digital Series FictionConvos With My Two-Year-OldBy CocoMilk Productions
Digital Series NonfictionDo Not TrackBy Upian, Arte France, National Film Board of Canada, and BRIn association with Akufen and with assistance from…
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TORONTO – CBC has created emoji stickers in the likeness of more than 60 current and “vintage” CBC characters, personalities, and symbols.
The CBC Emoji Keyboard app allows users to insert the CBC-themed emoji stickers almost anywhere they can type, with a selection that includes everything from Casey and Finnegan’s treehouse and Mary Walsh’s character Marg Delahunty, to Anne of Green Gables, a curling stone and Peter Mansbridge.
The app is available for free download via iOS and Android devices.
www.cbc.ca/emojis/
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OTTAWA – Former Société Radio-Canada exec Catherine Cano has been named as the new president and general manager of CPAC, effective January 11, 2016.
Cano, pictured, replaces Colette Watson who earlier this year was promoted to VP of TV and broadcast operations at Rogers Media.
With more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in broadcasting across all platforms, Cano began her career on Parliament Hill before turning her sights to media where, over the next two decades, she held an array of positions at the CBC/SRC. These include senior news producer of the Parliamentary Ottawa Bureau, editorial producer of Le Point, editor-in-chief…
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OTTAWA – YouTube has become one of the biggest online video sharing platforms ever, with nearly two thirds of Canadians now using it. But who’s watching YouTube and how are they watching?
A new Media Technology Monitoring (MTM) report called YouTube: An Analysis of the Canadian Market found that YouTube is most popular among students and Canadians under 35, though viewership is also closely related to education and household income.
Highlights from the report include:
– Nearly 7 in 10 of Canadians watch content on YouTube monthly, with 1 in 3 YouTubers viewing content at least once a week;
– The computer is the device…
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LOS ANGELES – Retired NBA all-star Steve Nash and Insight Productions are teaming up on a new drama series for CBC that will be set in the world of youth basketball.
With a working title of Hardwood, the series will follow a flashy, big-city entrepreneur who opens an elite youth basketball academy in a sleepy farming town outside of Toronto. Skander Halim (Pretty Persuasion, 18 To Life) created the series and is writing the pilot. Nash (pictured), through his company Meathawk Productions, has been named as an executive producers on the series.
“I see our young basketball stars having to navigate…
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