TORONTO – Rogers and Vice Media have begun to flesh out their $100 million joint venture Vice Canada, announcing a number of senior production hires on Monday.
Production veteran Michael Kronish, previously an executive producer at Zone3, has been tapped as EVP television and online, to oversee all Canadian-produced content intended for distribution on television, mobile and online. In addition, Vice Canada has hired Jason Ford as VP production from Red Bull Media House; Andrea Schmidt joins as an executive producer from Al Jazeera’s current affairs documentary show; and Tania Natcheff, previously an executive producer at the CBC, joins the…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC continued to remake the Canadian broadcasting system in its latest Let’s Talk TV decision. Broadcasting Regulatory Policy 2015-96 forces TV distributors to offer a $25 entry-level package along with pick and pay and small bundles for discretionary services.
The highly anticipated decision is the second-in-a-series that have ushered in considerable changes to the domestic broadcasting ecosystem, one that has seen the dramatic rise of on-demand viewing to the detriment of appointment linear TV. This latest decision focuses to a much greater extent on consumers and how they will interact with TV programming and their TV servcie…
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TORONTO – Former CBC Sports head Jeffrey Orridge has been named as the new commissioner of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Orridge, pictured, was most recently the executive director of sports and general manager of Olympics for the CBC where he oversaw rights acquisitions, partnership management, revenue initiatives and program execution involving the Corp’s sports properties and digital opportunities, including securing the rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games, the 2015 Pan Am/ Parapan Games, and the 2018 and 2020 Olympics.
Previously, Orridge was COO and head of global business development for the charity Right to Play International, served as…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada has named Catherine Patry as director, marketing and business-to-business communications for its Media Solutions Group.
Patry, pictured, previously held various management roles in marketing and communications at Telus for nearly eight years. Prior to that, she worked for the advertising agencies Bleublancrouge and Taxi.
Reporting directly to Media Solutions’ general manager and chief revenue officer Jean Mongeau, Patry’s mandate is to elaborate marketing, commercialization and B2B communications strategies aimed at CBC/Radio-Canada’s clients and business partners in the advertising sales and distribution areas.
“Catherine is a seasoned marketer with a strong knowledge of our business environment,” said Mongeau in Tuesday’s…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s broadcasters aren’t about to give up spectrum and go through another digital upgrade again without being paid for moving – and believe some of the funds coming from the next big wireless auction must be re-directed towards a new local television production fund.
First comments were due into Industry Canada Wednesday on its consultation into repurposing the 600 MHz band – the slice of spectrum upon which much of the country’s TV signals ride.
While most agree that harmonizing our bandwidth plan framework with the United States is a good idea, independent broadcasters and vertically integrated media and…
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OTTAWA – A group representing distributors of Canadian feature films believes Canada’s broadcast regulator should do more to help foster the growth of Canada’s movie industry.
The Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters (CAFDE) and one of its members, Elevation Pictures, told a House of Commons committee Monday that there is a role for the CRTC to play to spur demand for Canadian feature films, possibly through a quota system imposed on broadcasters or by bringing so-called over-the-top (OTT) content providers under the regulator’s jurisdiction.
“One of the most difficult challenges we face is that these OTT services…
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OTTAWA – More flexible deal making, predictable and long-term funding for CBC/Radio-Canada and a light hand from the broadcast regulator are key to ensure Canadian content can be successful, achieve scale and make it on the international market, according to a panel of broadcast industry executives at the Canadian Media Production Association’s annual Prime Time conference.
In the opening panel session called Getting Ahead of Change, Bell Media president Kevin Crull noted that getting international success for Canadian content and the financing of big expensive projects will only come from having a solid domestic market, which is being destabilized by…
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TORONTO – Faced with an increasing number of streaming audio services and mobile radio apps competing for space on the dashboards of modern cars (not like the one on the right!), traditional radio broadcasters need to aggressively promote their AM/FM stations as the first choice for their listeners’ in-car entertainment.
That was the advice of digital radio experts and one automotive technology planner who spoke about the opportunity that the connected car has for radio broadcasters at last week’s Future of Radio & Audio Symposium, organized by the North American Broadcasters Association and held in downtown Toronto’s Glenn…
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OTTAWA – Nearly four in ten Canadian Anglophones now connect their TV to the Internet, a trend that continues to grow, says a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
The Media Adoption Report for Fall 2014 provides an overview of the latest trends in media technology adoption and use, offering a high-level look at the penetration of technologies, including traditional, Internet and mobile platforms for audio and video. This tracking report also organizes technologies based on their stage of consumer adoption, from innovative, emerging, expanding, maturing and declining technologies.
Highlights from the report include:
– Mobile devices…
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TORONTO – DHX Television has joined Canadian publishers Post Media, Yellow Pages and The Chronicle Herald as the newest members of Canada's Premium Audience Exchange (CPAX).
CPAX bills itself as the premier access point to top tier real time English and French digital inventory in Canada. Established by CBC/Radio-Canada, Rogers and Shaw in 2011, its automated platform delivers scalable reach and granular targeting from one convenient touch-point and now boasts more than 100 premium sites on the exchange. CPAX is powered by Index Exchange, a neutral and transparent exchange layer that enables publishers to sell their ad impressions in real-time.
"Since…
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