CBC News announced Tuesday the appointment of Prasanna Rajagopalan as the new senior managing director for CBC’s Ontario region.
Most recently the director of journalism and programming for CBC Toronto, Rajagopalan will begin his new role on Monday, March 10. As senior managing director for Ontario, he will work closely with managing editors and the next (yet-to-be-announced) CBC Toronto leader to oversee all strategy, programs, teams and stations across the province in Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Kitchener, Waterloo and Windsor, as well as community locations and future operations in St. Catharines, Oshawa and Sault…
Continue Reading
By Christopher Guly
OTTAWA – As the CRTC continues its consultations and public hearings on implementing the Online Streaming Act, which seeks in part to encourage investment in Canadian content from global streamers, France is creating domestic content through partnerships with major digital platforms.
Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ are investing between 20 per cent and 25 per cent of their French revenues in creating French content, Amanda Borghino, deputy general delegate of the Union Syndicale de la Production Audiovisuelle – which represents nearly 200 audiovisual production companies in France – told a panel on global regulatory approaches…
Continue Reading
Public broadcaster says it will hire up to 30 new journalists
CBC News announced Wednesday it will hire up to 30 new permanent journalists in 22 underserved communities across Canada, following the CRTC’s approval of Google’s plan to compensate Canadian news organization for use of their content.
Google has committed to providing a $100-million fund to host news content from news organizations across Canada, allowing it to be exempted under the Online News Act. CBC, which obtains funding from both private and public sources, is allowed to draw up to a maximum of seven per…
Continue Reading
CBC News announced Wednesday the launch of Welcome to Canada, a new series offering an in-depth look at the experiences and perspectives of newcomers to Canada.
A CBC press release says the stories featured in the series will bring context and analysis to the results of a new CBC-commissioned survey of 1,507 newcomers, conducted by market research firm Pollara Strategic Insights, and will roll out throughout January across all CBC platforms, including online at cbcnews.ca/welcometocanada.
The first segment in the Welcome to Canada series, “Experience not wanted”, examines underemployment among newcomers. Nearly nine in 10…
Continue Reading
CBC on Tuesday announced award-winning journalist Ioanna Roumeliotis is joining CBC News’ flagship investigative program The Fifth Estate as full-time host alongside current hosts Mark Kelley and Steven D’Souza.
A past guest host of The Fifth Estate and most recently a senior reporter with CBC’s The National, Roumeliotis’s first episode in her new position will air Friday, March 7 at 9 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. NT) on CBC and CBC Gem, offering a deeper look at the dark world of online extremism, a topic she previously reported on as guest host of the investigative documentary program.
“In her nearly 30 years with…
Continue Reading
CBC and BBC World Service announced Wednesday their latest collaboration — a new true crime podcast, The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby, launching Jan. 14.
Part of the The Con podcast strand exploring international scam stories, Kaitlyn’s Baby follows a pregnant young woman in crisis who “takes dozens of birth workers through a series of disasters — rape, baby loss, and even a coma,” explains a CBC press release. “One by one, the doulas struggle to support her, to grieve with her, and even to save her life as they are led down a devastating path. Then the truth comes out — it’s all…
Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout
The House committee on Industry is calling on the CRTC to launch a “full review of the matter of price certainty and the issue of surprise fees increasing during fixed term contracts” and to take regulatory action on it, according to a report that was delivered to the House floor last week.
The report also urges Industry Minister Francois Philippe-Champagne to “use his available powers in the interim to correct these unfair practices,” expresses “disappointment in Rogers Communications Inc. for not proactively disclosing the true costs of their products and services to consumers,” and “notes the detrimental impact…
Continue Reading
By Ahmad Hathout
Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri on Monday defended a $7-per month price hike on the company’s TV set top boxes in front of House’s committee on industry, saying it’s the result of increased investments the company makes to improve software and functionality to the device it considers a premium product.
The cable giant’s head also said the majority of customers are not impacted by the hike on the Ignite boxes first revealed by a CBC/Radio-Canada investigation – stemming from consumer complaints that promises of fixed-rate contracts were allegedly broken – and that customers who were affected,…
Continue Reading
CBC/Radio-Canada last week announced its broadcast and streaming schedule for the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) 2024/2025 season, offering fans live coverage of 17 games in English and six in French.
CBC’s English coverage began on CBC TV and CBC Gem on Saturday, Nov. 30 with the season opening game between the Toronto Sceptres and the Boston Fleet. (Host Toronto won 3-1.)
Radio-Canada’s live French coverage of the PWHL season will begin Saturday, Dec. 21 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT on ICI Télé and ICI TOU.TV with the Toronto Sceptres hosting the Montreal Victoire.
The complete schedules…
Continue Reading
CBC last week announced the streaming and broadcast premiere dates for its winter 2025 lineup of new and returning programming on CBC Gem and CBC TV, including more than 30 original series from Canadian creators, producers and storytellers.
New Canadian original series unveiled earlier this year include Saint-Pierre (10 episodes x 60 minutes), a police procedural starring Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle) and Joséphine Jobert (Death in Paradise) set in the French territory of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, just off the coast of Newfoundland. Fitz (Hawco) and Arch (Jobert) are two seasoned officers with very different policing…
Continue Reading
