TORONTO – Two unions representing CBC employees are calling for CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix and the board of directors to step down, saying that employees have lost confidence in their leadership.
The Canadian Media Guild says that it has joined forces with the SCRC, which represents 3,000 Radio-Canada employees in Québec and New Brunswick, “to ask for an end to the leadership of a team that is implementing a plan to weaken the public broadcaster”.
“After much consideration and meetings with our elected union leaders across the country, we are forced to take this step, before the plans implemented by this leadership…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC will kick off the first part of its Discoverability Summit on December 1st in Vancouver.
Co-hosted by CRTC chair Jean-Pierre Blais and NFB Commissioner Claude Joli-Coeur, attendance at ‘En route to the Discoverability Summit: Content in the Age of Abundance’ is by invitation only, but the event will be live streamed on the CRTC’s YouTube channel.
The confab promises to feature international experts, thought leaders and high-profile innovators to explore how new tools and techniques can be used to help viewers find the content they want and help solve the global challenge of audiovisual content discoverability. CBC Radio Spark host…
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PEOPLE ARE ALREADY CALLING Justin Trudeau our first “selfie” Prime Minister. Images of him on the campaign trail – and the day after the election – mugging with various Canadians who have one arm outstretched and the other around our PM-to-be number in the hundreds of thousands. He’ll apparently even click it for you, if you like.
Of course, those snapshots are then uploaded to the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn or any other sharing platform to display to followers around the country and the world. Just Google “Justin Trudeau selfie”.
Invariably, those images ride…
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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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