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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TORONTO — Evan Solomon is back hosting a political talk program with the announcement Wednesday by SiriusXM that the recently fired CBC personality will host its new Everything is Political: Campaign 2015 radio program.
The one-hour daily political talk program will cover all angles of Canada’s federal election campaign, and will break news as well as feature key players in the election, including members of Parliament, leaders, strategists and pollsters, SiriusXM said in a press release.
The show will premiere Thursday, August 6 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. (ET) on SiriusXM’s Canada Talks (channel 167), ahead of the first…
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TORONTO — CBC/Radio-Canada announced today that long-time executive producer Mark Starowicz is leaving the public broadcaster to launch a new career as an independent producer.
In an email circulated to CBC/Radio-Canada employees this morning, Heather Conway, executive vice-president of English services, said Starowicz had informed CBC of his decision several weeks ago but stayed on until the transition of CBC’s documentary unit was completed.
“Over almost five decades at CBC, Mark has become a giant on the Canadian documentary landscape. His vision and talent have guided generations of reporters and documentary producers to deliver award-winning shows,” Conway wrote.
“The programs Mark created…
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JOIN BILL ROBERTS (former president and CEO of VisionTV) in an exclusive Cartt.ca podcast with Conway as she talks about CBC host firings, the effect of the CRTC’s Let's Talk TV policies, staff cuts, the future of streaming content, CBC Radio 2, ad sales, NHL hockey and more. To get right to the 32-minute interview done at the CBC headquarters, click here.
(Ed note: As a busy executive, Conway doesn’t have a ton of free time for media, so our preamble you’ll read below is taken from a post-podcast interview Roberts did with her to finish…
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TORONTO — The audience numbers are in, and CBC/Radio-Canada says almost two-thirds of Canadians tuned into its Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games coverage from July 10 to 26. Overall, more than 22 million Canadians, or 63% of the population, watched at least some part of CBC/Radio-Canada’s Pan Am Games coverage.
In addition, the closing ceremony aired on Sunday, July 26 drew an average audience of almost 2.2 million Canadians to CBC-TV and ICI Radio-Canada Télé, according to a CBC/Radio-Canada press release. CBC-TV’s Pan Am Prime evening broadcast with host Scott Russell had its highest viewership on Thursday, July 23,…
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TORONTO – As the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games moves into its final week, CBC-TV is boosting its daily coverage starting Monday, the second time it has pushed aside regular programming to show live and extended packages of the sporting event.
The broadcaster confirmed that an extra hour will be added during the weekdays, on top of the already expanded network coverage announced last week just after the games began. That boosts weekday coverage to seven hours a day, up from the scheduled five hours, plus the added weekend coverage.
The public broadcaster appeared to have been caught off-guard by the…
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OTTAWA – Bell Mobility has lost another bid to overturn a ruling holding it liable for charging customers in the northern territories a 911 fee without actually offering the emergency-call service.
According to a Canadian Press report, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear the company's challenge of a Northwest Territories Court of Appeal ruling. A trial judge had previously ruled that Bell Mobility had breached its contractual obligations, a decision that was upheld by the appeal court.
There is no 911 service in most of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon and Nunavut, however, continues the report, monthly bills have included…
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OTTAWA – French-language newspaper La Presse will team up with the Broadcast Consortium to produce and distribute the French-language 2015 Leaders' Debate.
As a partner to Consortium members CBC News, CTV News, Global News, Radio-Canada, and Télé-Québec, La Presse will help determine the format, provide a representative to co-moderate, and distribute the French-language debate digitally to its readership.
"With La Presse+, La Presse is the first tablet-based news organization to join the leaders' debate broadcast consortium," said La Presse's Éric Trottier, VP of news and editor in chief, in the news release. "It's a major first for us, but it also reflects a larger shift in the…
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