OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Despite competition from satellite, online and mobile services, revenues at Canada’s 695 commercial radio stations held firm for the 2014 broadcast year, according to the CRTC’s statistical and financial results for this sector released Monday.
Commercial Radio 2010–2014: National Statistics, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Markets said that total revenues for AM and FM stations dipped 0.52%, from $1.623 billion in 2013 to $1.614 billion for the broadcast year ending August 31, 2014. These revenues enable commercial radio stations to offer a variety of programming to Canadians, to support established and emerging Canadian talent, and to provide employment to…
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TORONTO – Former National Post reporter Natalie Alcoba has been named as managing editor of Vice News Canada, the latest Vice territory to establish a dedicated news team following launch of Vice News in the U.S, the U.K, France and Spain.
Alcoba will report for Vice News and oversee the editorial content, managing a team of staff and freelance writers across Canada.
In addition, Allya Davidson was named producer of Vice News Canada. Previously an associate producer at CBC’s The Fifth Estate and film production company Clover Films, she will work closely with the Canadian production and editorial teams to produce original…
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TORONTO – CBC News Network has been honoured with a prestigious international award for its coverage of last year's shootings in Ottawa.
The news service won the Golden Nymph Award at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo in the category of Best 24-Hour News Program. The award recognizes the coverage provided by CBC Chief Correspondent Peter Mansbridge and the CBC News teams in Toronto and Ottawa, who delivered immediate news and informed analysis while guiding viewers through a confusing and chaotic situation and separating rumour from fact.
CBC was the only Canadian network nominated in the 24-Hour News Program category and faced strong…
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OTTAWA – Quebec educational network Télé-Québec has joined CBC News, CTV News, Global News and ICI Radio-Canada in the Broadcast Consortium organizing debates for the upcoming 2015 Federal Election.
The broadcasters also announced that CPAC will broadcast the 2015 Leaders' Debates in French and English.
The 2015 Leaders' Debates organized by the broadcasters will be offered across all platforms with closed captioning and simultaneous translation, and will be made available for other media outlets to distribute, reads the announcement. Together with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Vine, Google and YouTube, the debates will reach millions of Canadians across the country and abroad,…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media's TV ratings for the overall NHL Stanley Cup playoff rounds fell this season, compared to the 2014 championship rounds, due in part to Canadians viewing live game action on digital platforms.
Rogers Media, which has just ended the first year of a 12-year, $5.2 billion national broadcast and multimedia contract with the NHL, told Cartt.ca that the overall Stanley Cup playoff round on the flagship Sportsnet channel and CBC Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts pulled in an average audience of 1.5 million viewers, down 2% from the 1.53 million average audience for the 2014…
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I LOVE TIMOTHY DENTON’s diatribes. I love them every time he writes them, such as the one Cartt.ca ran on Tuesday
(Maybe that’s because I write them too. It’s just that mine tend to be less frequent and in the form of 40 page reports). Timothy’s blogs (diatribes) are witty, succinct and often bang on. Except when it comes to regulating the internet.
When it comes to regulating the Internet, Timothy Denton is prophet. A prophet of the doom that will become mankind if we were ever to regulate the internet. The firestorm and maelstrom. It will…
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BANFF – Telling trends from fads is too often a mugs game. A peek at Amazon suggests that a book on trends seems to be written every 15 minutes and at times, here in Banff, it was frequently difficult to parse true trends from professional aspiration or wishful thinking.
But we did get some glimpses.
Canadians have over 600 television services to choose from, and one in four of us is a four screen consumer (TV, tablet, PC, phone) and the emerging bias to enhanced pick-and-pay was viewed by many as heralding more investment in programming to survive in a world…
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OTTAWA – With mobile technology allowing Internet access in different ways, Canadians are increasingly using TV and the Internet simultaneously, says a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
Multitasking – TV and the Internet examines how Anglophone Canadians use the Internet while they are watching television. It found that three-quarters of Anglophones multitask online while they watch TV, more than three times the rate from a decade ago.
Highlights from the report include:
– Close to two-fifths of Anglophones are considered heavy multitaskers who report using the Internet “always” or “often” while watching TV;
– Heavy multitaskers tend to be young, students, and…
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BANFF – Ireland (the republic), has a population of roughly 4.5 million folks, and yet it was one of the first countries to create a tax relief program for independent producers back in 1987.
That original approach is now much like the U.K. tax credit scheme. Although it still retains a penchant for encouraging doctors and dentists to invest, an approach Canada found illusory and awkward in our salad days of tax credits, it has succeeded – the Canada-Ireland co-pro Vikings series being a powerful case in point. The show has won eight major awards and been nominated for another…
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TORONTO – CBC is teaming up with distributor Banijay International on a project designed to foster original factual format development in the independent production community in Canada.
Format Incubator is on the hunt for new unscripted concepts that have strong domestic and international appeal, and break new ground in factual programming. Canadian producers are invited to submit their original, non-derivative prime time unscripted formats in the following programming areas:
– Field-based factual: These formats take people on a journey of knowledge; have interesting characters, strong narrative, stylistic production and editing, and a unique point of view.
– Studio-based entertainment: For…
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