TORONTO – CBC’s digital music service and TD are joining forces on a new music portal to help keep music fans up to date on the Canadian live music scene, whether at home or on the go, via desktop, mobile and tablet.
Visitors to CBCMusic.ca -TD Live Music will be able to explore and enjoy Canadian live music through hundreds of videos of in-studio and in concert recordings, weekly concert listings, music news and reviews, photo galleries and more. CBC Music will curate all of the content on the site with frequent updates on the latest music news.
The portal is being promoting…
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TORONTO – CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada wants to get fans even closer to the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs by providing near-instant video highlights through Twitter Canada.
Throughout the NHL playoffs, CBC’s official @hockeynight account is posting sponsored clips from the live TV broadcasts using SnappyTV, a cloud-based social video publishing and distribution platform. SnappyTV’s platform features a suite of tools allowing CBC to edit and share video clips of any length instantly.
Using the Twitter Amplify platform, fans are also able to watch and share highlights during and after every CBC broadcast from wherever they are.
This partnership is a first…
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OTTAWA – Canadians are spending an increasing amount of time online, both in their homes and while on-the-go, and Netflix subscribers watch more video content than those who do not have the service, according to two new reports from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
The report Internet Use in the Home and On the Go focusses on how Anglophones are utilizing the Internet in their homes, tracking the type of Internet connections they subscribe to, and delving deeper into data on hours spent online, with a focus on demographic trends.
Highlights from the report include:
– Internet use in Canada continues to rise and…
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ANOTHER ROUND OF LAYOFFS has led inexorably to another spasm of handwringing, navel gazing and a week of “what are we going to do about the CBC?” The reactions have largely been predictable, eye-rolling and boring – generally a waste of everyone’s time.
It was shocking when last Thursday’s big town hall meeting called by CBC leadership turned out to be, for the most part, just about cutting the public broadcaster’s head count yet again – with a vague promise about a new vision for the pubcaster to come sometime before the summer. Many honestly believed…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and Bell Media have unveiled the four participants selected for the 2014 Bell Media Showrunner Bootcamp.
The participants are:
– Sherry White, a Canadian-based screenwriter and filmmaker who is currently writing and producing for CTV’s hit series Saving Hope, and is the co-executive producer on the ABC/Global series Rookie Blue. Sherry has also written for Rookie Blue for five seasons. Previously, she has written for series such as MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives, 18 to Life, and Hatching, Matching & Dispatching. Sherry is currently developing series for both ABC Studios and Warner…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has denied requests from the CBC and Bell Media to average their respective weekly local programming requirements on a quarterly basis, rather than weekly, throughout the broadcast year.
Bell asked the Commission last October to amend the standard conditions of licence applicable to its English-language conventional television stations, whose licences were renewed as part of the Commission’s group-based licence renewals in 2011, to average their weekly local programming obligations quarterly throughout the broadcast year.
That prompted the CBC to file an application to amend the condition of licence applicable to its English-language conventional television network and stations to…
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OTTAWA – CBC will eliminate the equivalent of 657 positions as part of $130 million in budget cuts over the next two fiscal years, the national broadcaster announced Thursday. It will also incur one-time severance costs of $33.5 million.
The cuts are necessary to balance its current budget, said president and CEO Hubert Lacroix, in a press release. He blamed the loss of the NHL, an industry-wide softening of the advertising market, disappointing schedule performance in key demographics on CBC Television, and lower-than-expected ad revenues from Espace musique and CBC Radio 2.
Lacroix also said that CBC and Radio-Canada will no…
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LOSING THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE rights (and revenues) will move from the realm of “what if” to real, tangible cuts which will be felt directly by many CBC staffers today (Thursday) when senior management hosts a series of town hall meetings to address the Corporation’s future.
We don’t know what, exactly, will happen but given the massive revenue hit the broadcaster will take next season – when it will still air games, but earn no revenue from hockey at all, while still being on the hook for Saturday night’s game productions – not to mention the very soft ad market…
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OTTAWA – Various parties continued to question the level to which Rogers Media will use its recently acquired NHL hockey content as a component of its Canadian programming expenditures (CPE) commitments at the company’s licence renewal hearing before the CRTC while Rogers said they need not worry.
The Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA), in its opening remarks on Wednesday fretted that Canadian content will suffer because Rogers will use the NHL to account for its CPE commitments, particularly if the Commission approves Rogers request to be treated under the group licensing framework (GLF).
“We have to wonder if hockey fans will…
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TORONTO – This is why big events like the Olympics are very important to mutliplatform media providers.
According to research conducted right after the Sochi Winter Olympics, 81% of Canadians who followed the Games were able to name at least one Olympic sponsor, with an average of 1.8 brands mentioned top-of-mind according to the independent survey of viewers by Solutions Research Group.
Among the key findings of the research:
TV was the leading source of coverage reaching 79% of those who followed on any platform, but digital made a very big showing: Online, mobile and social media reached 59%, combined.
17% of all…
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