TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada has been awarded the Canadian broadcast rights for the the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and the 2024 Olympic Games, making it the official broadcaster for the next five Olympic Games including Rio 2016, Pyeongchang 2018, and Tokyo 2020.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As lead broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada said it will be working once again with its primary Olympic broadcast partner Bell Media along with Rogers Media.
CBC/Radio-Canada will also be a broadcast partner, from 2016 until at least 2023, for the International Olympic Committee’s new global digital Olympic Channel. The public broadcaster will provide…
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WHEN JUSTIN TRUDEAU is sworn in as Prime Minister his Liberal party will face a number of key telecommunications issues in the next 12 months.
These include meeting the challenge of an increasingly digital world, innovation, privacy regulations, wireless competition, dealing with the rural-urban broadband divide and increasing access to our digital future with poor Canadians.
One of the most obvious problems with trying to read how the new government might deal with these issues is that telecom and broadcast policies didn't figure largely in the leaders' debates or their major speeches.
Still, the Liberal platform makes a few promises:
Repeal of "problematic…
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TORONTO – CBC has named Chris Harris as executive producer, digital, scripted, effective immediately.
Harris, pictured, returns to CBC from his most recent position as VP strategy and business development with content studio Secret Location, a position he held since 2013. He previously spent more than seven years with CBC, from 1999–2006, as an award-winning interactive producer and journalist, working in Sports, News, Kids, and Television. In 2006 he joined Alliance Atlantis/Canwest where he led the digital content teams at Shaw Media and Canwest as both director and head of oine content, plus was Shaw Media’s first ever head of social media.
In his new role,…
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OTTAWA – Francophones are often surrounded with English content both from the U.S. and from within Canada itself, but do they consume it, and if so, in what language?
Anew report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM) entitled Francophone’s Use of English Language TV and Film examines Francophones who consume English content, their technology ownership, and their media viewing habits.
Highlights from the report include:
– Three in five Francophones report watching English-language content on a regular basis;
– Age and location are factors in whether or not Francophones watch English content – younger Francophones and those living outside of the province…
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TORONTO – Business journalist Amanda Lang is leaving the CBC this week to produce and host a show for Bloomberg TV Canada that will begin airing early next year.
Channel Zero made the announcement Thursday, just days after confirming that the Canadian business and financial news television channel will launch on November 16.
Lang’s new show, entitled Bloomberg North, will dissect local and global business news with Canadian heavyweights, reads the announcement. The 30 minute show will air weekdays at 6:00 PM ET and debut in the first quarter of 2016.
Lang (pictured) was CBC’s senior business correspondent for six years, reporting for…
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OTTAWA – Radio-Canada ombudsman Pierre Tourangeau will retire next March after 24 years with the national public broadcaster.
Tourangeau (pictured), began his career as an assignment editor and reporter on the business and investigative desks, before going on to head up the parliamentary bureau in Quebec City. He later returned to Montreal to become chief editor of the Téléjournal, then newsroom director and, ultimately, ombudsman for the last four and half years.
“During his time as an award-winning journalist, Pierre always strove to shed light on the issues that mattered to Canadians”, reads a post from CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Hubert…
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OTTAWA – A look ahead at Canada’s broadcast industry is just one of the sessions confirmed for the upcoming Prime Time In Ottawa conference.
Shaw EVP and Shaw Media president Barbara Williams and CBC English services EVP Heather Conway will share what impact the recent changes to Canada’s TV industry have had and will continue to have on their businesses, plus detail what’s next in programming strategies for multiple broadcast and digital platforms in the session entitled ‘Broadcast – A Look Ahead’. Other confirmed sessions include ‘Digital Buyers’, ‘Accessing the Global Marketplace’, ‘Brand Funded Entertainment’ and ‘Evolution of Advertising’.
Scheduled for February 3-5, 2016…
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TORONTO – CBC has named Tara Ellis as executive director of scripted content effective October 19.
Ellis, (pictured), was most recently senior director of original drama content for Shaw Media. Prior to that, she was Alliance Atlantis's VP of content for Showcase, and executive in charge of production for CBC.
In her new role, Ellis will lead CBC's scripted content teams as they continue to raise the bar in comedy and drama, kids programming and digital originals, reads the announcement. Ellis will report to programming GM Sally Catto and reporting to her will be the senior directors of drama, comedy and…
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TORONTO – CBC is making all of its digital display advertising inventory available programmatically in order to offer advertisers deep targeting combined with reach and scale.
The move makes CBC the first Canadian media publisher to make 100% percent of their display inventory available to private buyers through Index Exchange’s header tag technology. With access to a larger pool of inventory along with real time insights and optimization, marketers will deliver the right message, at the right time to the right audience, reads the news release.
“At CBC we’re in a fortunate position where we have an incredibly strong audience…
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WINNIPEG – It’s only been 15 months, but CBC/Radio-Canada said its new strategy ‘A Space For Us All’ is beginning to pay off.
At its annual public meeting Tuesday in Winnipeg, president and CEO Hubert Lacroix told employees that the public broadcaster was able to reinvest $23 million from savings into Canadian programs this year, the first time that it has been able to reinvest in its schedules since 2009.
“We’ve continued to improve our financial stability despite the industry-wide weakening of television advertising”, Lacroix said in his remarks. “We’ve done this by reducing our expenses by $105 million dollars,…
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