BANFF – CBC has promoted Sally Catto to general manager of programming for CBC Television, the national broadcaster announced Monday from the Banff World Media Festival. Her appointment is effective immediately.
Catto (pictured) returned to CBC from the independent sector two years ago as executive director, commissioned & scripted programming where she's been overseeing drama, comedy, children's and certain documentary programming. Her history at CBC dates back to 2001 when she was executive in charge of production, drama before taking on subsequent positions as creative head, drama and executive director, arts & entertainment. Prior to her time at CBC, Catto…
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BANFF – Bell Media said Monday from the Banff World Media Festival that Jessie Gabe is this year's recipient of the Bell Media National Fellowship Award of Distinction.
The award is part of the Bell Media National Fellowship Program, which encourages professional development in the television industry by enabling emerging creative talent the opportunity to attend Banff, known as one of the most prestigious television festivals in the world. The award was presented Monday at the Rockies Award luncheon by Corrie Coe, senior vice-president, independent production at Bell Media.
"Congratulations to Jessie on this achievement and for all of her…
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IN THIS CONVERSATION WITH our crack interviewer, former Vision TV CEO Bill Roberts, Hubert T. Lacroix quickly answered one of the questions we recently posed to him in print: Whether he believes it is his good fortune – or misfortune – to be leading the CBC at this particular moment in history.
His answer? “It’s the most important and the greatest job in culture in this country,” he said. “I feel very fortunate to have the job that I have.”
Good thing, because Lacroix will be facing his board of directors the week…
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TORONTO – Budget-strained CBC unveiled its 2014–15 television broadcast schedule Thursday, which includes a number of new series, six returning hits, and perhaps its last crack at big time sports with next month’s 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.
The public broadcaster is bringing back primetime favourites such as Dragons’ Den, Mr. D., Murdoch Mysteries and Heartland, but said that the Newfoundland-shot Republic Of Doyle will wrap up after this season. Original series Rick Mercer Report, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Marketplace, The Fifth Estate and Doc Zone are also returning.
New programming includes:
– Miniseries The Book of Negroes, based on the…
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TORONTO – Independent broadcaster CHCH is celebrating its 60th birthday with the country’s first TV viewer loyalty programming.
Known as CH-CHing!, the free program allows viewers in Southern Ontario to earn and redeem points for rewards such as gift cards, discounts, special offers, experiences and various goods from CHCH and its broadcast partners. Points may be earned by interacting with the CHCH brand on air and online, for example, by entering keywords from select television programs, and watching and sharing news clips online.
To further mark the milestone, CHCH will air a 60-minute retrospective on its history, entitled 60 Years…
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TORONTO – With the 70th anniversary of D-Day just over a week away, the CBC is offering Canadians the chance to go back in time and relieve the historic events in real time.
Through a multiplatform project known as D-DAY LIVE, CBC News is re-creating the events of this pivotal World War II event in an interactive breaking news timeline, online and on CBC News Network, CBC Radio, and during CBC Television live special programming on June 5 and 6. CBC journalists have pieced together crucial moments from archives, as well as documented new stories, anecdotes and never-before-seen artifacts and images.
“D-DAY LIVE is a…
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TORONTO – Veteran CBC broadcaster Knowlton Nash passed away Saturday night at the age of 86 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease more than a decade ago.
Best known as the long-time anchor of The National, Nash spent 37 years at the public broadcaster. CBC's chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge followed in Nash's footsteps, assuming the anchor role for The National back in 1992.
"Knowlton was unquestionably a giant of Canadian journalism but he was so much more to so many”, Mansbridge said in a statement issued by CBC. “To his colleagues he was a true friend and a valued mentor, and to…
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OTTAWA – Friends of Canadian Broadcasting (FCB) has launched a new social media campaign designed to head off a new round of programming and service cuts at CBC.
According to the self-proclaimed independent watchdog of Canadian programming, CBC executives will present a plan to the board on June 17 and 18 that will recommend pulling the plug on CBC Radio 2 in favour of distributing music exclusively online, and propose further cuts to CBC TV’s primetime and children’s programming. FCB credits unnamed sources within the CBC for the information.
The campaign, called ‘Free the CBC’, is highlighted by a satirical video that…
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TORONTO – Channel Zero-owned CHCH is gearing up to offer Southern Ontario viewers extensive on air and online coverage of the upcoming provincial election.
The channel will air the Ontario Leaders’ Debate on June 3 from 8:00-9:30 PM ET commercial free, providing viewers with an alternate timeslot to the currently scheduled 6:30 PM slot on CBC, CTV and Global. The Leaders’ Debate will be followed by Your Home Your Vote: The Leaders’ Debate, a 30-minute CHCH exclusive post-analysis.
Election Night coverage will begin at 8:00 PM ET on June 12 and include up-to-the-minute news from across the province with reduced commercial breaks,…
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OTTAWA – The Copyright Board of Canada has set the royalties that Internet music streaming services must pay for their use of sound recordings between2009 to 2012, an amount estimated at close to $500,000 per year.
Friday’s decision authorizes Canadian collective society Re:Sound Music Licensing Company to collect the royalties payable under Tariff 8 and distribute them equally (50/50) between performers (singers, musicians) and makers (record labels).
The tariff rate for commercial webcasters was set at 10.2 cents per 1,000 plays, which according to Board estimates, means that a large music streaming service with annual revenues of about $130,000 will…
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