TORONTO – Bristow Global Media Inc. (BGM) has signed a partnership with the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) to produce the 2015 CCMA Awards Show for broadcast partners CBC-TV and CMT.
This year, the 2015 CCMA Awards Show will take place in Halifax and air on CBC-TV at 8:00 PM local time (8:30 PM NT) with an encore airing on CMT (Canada) at 10:00 PM ET/7:00 PM PT on September 13. In addition to the live production of the television awards show, BGM and the CCMA will work together on creating sponsorship opportunities around CCMA media properties, reads the news release.
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TORONTO – Former Curling Canada exec Greg Stremlaw has been named head of CBC Sports effective September 15th, the national broadcaster announced Friday.
As CEO of Curling Canada, Stremlaw (pictured) led negotiations to secure the sport’s long-term television success with TSN and RDS and oversaw a now sold-out national sponsorship portfolio. Previously he was CEO of the Chicopee Ski & Summer Resort and before that, director of sport services and bobsleigh/luge at the Calgary Olympic Development Association. He has also served in many sport leadership roles, including as Canadian Winter Sport caucus chair, chair of the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance Board…
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WINNIPEG – Local TV – the place where many Canadians turn to for news about their community and country – may cease to exist inside of a decade, thanks to the unending growth and development of technology and the opportunities and challenges that development fosters.
A new discussion paper from Winnipeg consultancy Communications Management Inc. entitled Canada's Digital Divides paints a grim picture of the near future of both local TV and newspapers – and tries to make sense of what that means for journalism and democracy. Ubiquitous broadband, argues the paper “continues to enhance news-gathering and distribution,…
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A BRIDGE IS A musical term meaning a bit of a song which gets you from the verse back to the chorus. We thought the term was a good one to characterize Peter Bissonnette, an accomplished musician, as well as the outgoing president of Shaw Communications (his official last day was yesterday).
Bissonnette has worked in cable for more than 30 years, the last 25 of which for Shaw Communications. He’s been president of the company since 2000, working under company founder JR, and then both his sons, Jim and Brad Shaw – and has much prior experience working for…
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TORONTO – Three of Corus' local television channels in Eastern Ontario looked a little different Monday after ditching their long time CBC affiliation in favour of programming from Bell Media’s CTV.
CHEX-TV in Peterborough, Channel 12 in Oshawa, and CKWS-TV in Kingston are now offering CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme, sports, and big series like The Amazing Race Canada and Saving Hope as part of a program supply arrangement between the broadcasters announced in May.
“We are thrilled that the new Bell Media agreement will give us the flexibility to expand our top-rated local programming and bolster it with…
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OTTAWA – Post it, tweet it, pin it, snap it or put it up on Reddit – Canadians are using all of these distinct social networks, though their users differ from the average social networker, says a new series of reports from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
MTM says that Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat and Reddit each offers distinct features that attract, engage and retain networkers within their rapidly growing communities. Utilizing the large samples sizes of its combined 2014-2015 surveys, MTM says that its Social Networking Series released this week promises to provide insight into each network.
Highlights from the MTM’s Social Networking Series reports…
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VANCOUVER – Veteran broadcaster Bill Good is coming out of retirement and will join Rogers-owned News 1130 in Vancouver next month.
The editorial feature A Minute with Bill Good will air daily beginning September 8. The feature bills itself as “a no-holds-barred editorial commentary, focusing on current hot button issues, the inner workings of B.C. politics, and the influential movers and shakers who make the decisions that affect the public.”
During a television and radio career that has spanned 50 years, Good anchored primetime newscasts for more than 27 years at CBC, BCTV and CTV.
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OTTAWA – With more ways to connect to the Internet than ever, which screen do Canadians use to consume media when they have multiple screens?
According to a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM), the answer is all of them, depending on what specifically it is they wish to do. 4-Screen Anglophones: A Glimpse into Multi-Screen Media Behaviour says that portable media devices like smartphones and tablets are used most often for streaming music and social networking, while the TV screen is a key device for watching online TV and Netflix. The computer remains the go-to device for online…
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OTTAWA – The five main federal political parties have agreed to take part in a French-language debate televised by Canada’s largest broadcasters next month, but plans for an English-language debate are still up in the air.
According to the Broadcast Consortium of Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec, CBC News, CTV News and Global News, in partnership with La Presse, the 2015 French-language Leaders Debate will take place on September 24 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET in Radio-Canada's studios in Montreal, and be moderated by Quebec TV host Anne-Marie Dussault. The leaders of the Conservative Party of Canada, the New Democratic Party…
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TORONTO – The CBC is refusing to air two advertisements sponsored by watchdog group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting which challenge the government’s budget cuts to the national public broadcaster, saying it could imply endorsement of the group’s campaign.
The ads "are intended to hold the Harper government to account for the damage it has done to the CBC”, claims Friends in a statement. The first ad features person-in-the-street comments from non-actors about why the CBC is important to them, and to Canada.
The second ad, according to Friends, relies on satire to make a point. In the ad, a…
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