TORONTO – Kids’ CBC wants to get Canadian children and their families moving with a new live-action interactive musical adventure series called The Moblees.
Designed for kids aged 3 – 5 years, the 30 x 11-minutes series integrates a holistic approach to healthy active living, including non-sedentary behaviours, physical activity and nutrition. The Moblees will begin on December 22 on CBC Monday to Friday at 8:00 AM (8:30 NT).
Each episode features a movement-centric, song-driven adventure that culminates in the awarding of a Moblee Medal, rewarding preschoolers’ newfound expertise in doing ordinary things in extraordinary ways with movement. The series stars five loveable characters who – along with do-ers at home – overcome obstacles through…
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada is trimming its supper news shows in favour of offering more local news and information throughout the day on mobile, web, radio and TV.
Starting in fall 2015, CBC/Radio-Canada said that it will reduce supper hour newscasts from 90 minutes to either 30 or 60 minutes starting at 6:00 PM (local time) in all of its existing English-language television markets. Television broadcasts of local Radio One morning shows (6 – 7 AM) will begin airing in all existing TV markets except the North.
Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Windsor, Montreal, and Fredericton will receive 30 minute supper hour programs, while…
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OTTAWA – Albertans lead the nation in the ownership of smartphones and HDTVs, while Quebecers are the most likely to subscribe to digital cable. Residents of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are most likely to subscribe to Netflix and to be Social TV users, while Torontonians are more likely to use LinkedIn. These are just a few highlights from the new market reports available now from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
This series of reports compiles data on media technology ownership and usage in a number of markets highlighting the similarities and differences across regions, provinces and major cities. The reports provide readers…
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TORONTO – When the Xbox 360 app for Rogers/Shaw’s shomi subscription video-on-demand service is launched next week, it will be thanks largely to Digiflare, a Toronto-based TV Everywhere app developer.
Digiflare has been working with the shomi project team for the last several months on the design and implementation of the shomi Xbox 360 application, expected to be officially launched on Dec. 2. Digiflare also contributed previously to the front-end design and implementation of the shomi.com website launched in early November and is working currently on a Chromecast app, which as of yet has no announced release date.
“From our standpoint,…
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OTTAWA – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) wants the federal government to make support for Canada’s $85 billion cultural industries a key issue in the upcoming federal election.
ACTRA national president Ferne Downey, accompanied by Canadian performers Tantoo Cardinal, Benjamin Ayres, Tristan D. Lalla, Angelica Lisk-Hann, Mark McKinney, Peter MacNeill, Julian Richings, Adamo Ruggiero, Salvatore Antonio and Jamie Spilchuk, will be in Ottawa Wednesday asking all MPs and federal parties to support the call for ‘More Canada on ALL Our Screens – big, small and mobile'.
The national union said its wish-list for this lobby trip includes…
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TORONTO – Registration is now open for DM@X: Digital Media at the Crossroads Conference, a high level conference on the future of content in digital media.
Scheduled for January 24, 2015 at Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, the one-day event promises to address trends in digital media, including subscription streaming, niche content, social media metrics, and dragon’s-den-style presentations of alternative business models for Canada’s cultural industries.
Keynote Speakers include CBC/Radio-Canada’s Mark Allen, Blue Ant Media’s Raja Khanna, Corus’ Gary Maavara and former CBC head of English services Richard Stursberg, among others.
Regular registration…
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TORONTO – Once viewers are convinced to try the various TV Everywhere platforms being made available by carriers and broadcasters, keeping them engaged with great content and a seamless user experience reduces subscriber churn and leads towards making a profit from the significant investments that broadcasters have made in TVE apps and services.
A panel moderated by Cartt.ca’s Greg O’Brien at the CTAM Canada Broadcaster Forum held Wednesday at Toronto's Sony Centre saw experts from Vidéotron, Corus Entertainment and the CBC offered insight into their organizations’ current TVE services, while TVE platform experts from U.S. technology providers Accedo…
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MONTREAL – Coming just three days after a protest just outside the building, the Annual Public Meeting of CBC/Radio-Canada held Wednesday at its Montreal HQ was expected to be difficult.
Though there were hecklers and tough questions for president and CEO Hubert Lacroix — one member of the crowd even handed him a pre-written resignation letter and asked him to sign it — the event did not degenerate into complete chaos.
In his speech, Lacroix took pains to explain that he wasn’t a secret agent of the Conservative Party put in place to dismantle the public broadcaster,…
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TORONTO – CBC has launched testing of a new pilot project for its series Let’s Get Hitched, allowing Canadians to offer their input on elements of the program’s content that will help to shape the future television pilot.
The online project signifies a new version of dial testing and is the first of its kind for the public broadcaster. Viewers may visit cbc.ca/canadacreateshere/ now through November 28 to review content options and provide feedback for the wedding-themed program. Responses will be analyzed and used to help determine how the pilot will be crafted, which will then…
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TORONTO – CBC recently appointed Jenna Bourdeau as its new senior director, acquisitions.
Reporting to programming GM Sally Catto, Bourdeau will oversee the acquisition of distinct, bold and engaging Canadian and international content that will find its way on to CBC’s platforms, reads the announcement.
She brings over 15 years of experience navigating the international film and television content market, most recently as VP of Distribution at Proper Rights. Prior to that, Bourdeau co-founded and served as co-president of Buzz Taxi Communications (acquired by Proper Rights in 2013), during which time she built a catalogue that boasted over 500 hours of…
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