OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada chief executive Hubert Lacroix shot back at those who think the public broadcaster should only be to Canadians what the privates are not.
“I do not believe that the answer is to become some kind of niche broadcaster limited to only doing what private broadcasters will not do or have no business incentive to do. No other public broadcaster in the world is put in that kind of a box,” he said during an appearance before the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications this week.
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TORONTO – More Canadians tuned in to CBC/Radio-Canada’s coverage of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games than any other Olympics in history, the broadcaster said this week.
From February 6 – 23, more than 33.35 million Canadians viewed at least some Sochi 2014 content in English or French across all platforms. Day 16 (Sunday, February 23) was the most-watched day of Sochi 2014 with a daily reach of 26.5 million viewers. The men’s ice hockey gold medal match was viewed by approximately 15 million Canadians (almost half the population), generating an average 2+ audience of more than 8.5 million over…
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TORONTO – Friday’s men's ice hockey semi-final game between Canada and the USA registered the highest online viewing audience ever to a CBC live event, with a (preliminary) average audience of more than 625,000 on CBC and Radio-Canada’s desktop and mobile devices combined.
That beats its previous record of 325,000, set during the women's ice hockey gold medal game on Thursday, a matchup that also featured Canada and the USA.
As of Saturday, 32.8 million Canadians (95% of the population) had tuned in to content from the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games on either a French or English platform, an increase of about 120,000 over…
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OTTAWA – “Subtle” and “organic” were words used to describe the manner in which a brand should be presented when it comes to branded video content, during a during a Friday session at the CMPA’s annual Prime Time event in Ottawa.
Sean Buckley, executive producer with Buck Productions, spoke about his experience making the McMorris and McMorris reality-based program with Red Bull which aired on MTV. Burton Boards and Oakley got on board as well. The show is about Mark and Craig McMorris, two snowboarding brothers from Regina, Saskatchewan. Mark McMorris won a bronze medal in the snowboard slopestyle at…
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OTTAWA – Bell Media has announced the recipients of its first Bell Media Producer Accelerator Lab, a two-part program designed to assist the career advancement of mid-level Canadian producers.
Eight participants will begin on March 10 with a six week broadcaster internship at Bell Media headquarters in Toronto. They will also attend an industry event or conference, as well as participate in case studies and coaching sessions. After the internship, two producers will be selected for a production apprenticeship with a top independent Canadian production company or Bell Media In-House Productions, in order for them to become more familiar with executive producer roles…
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TORONTO – Canadians have been consuming Olympic content online like never before, according to CBC.
As of Wednesday February 19, in advance of the men's ice hockey semi-finals and the women's ice hockey final, CBC/Radio-Canada had streamed more than 8.3 million hours of video on its website (excluding the mobile app). This is a record number for Canadians streaming Olympic Winter coverage online.
The Canada/Latvia men's ice hockey game on February 19 posted the highest online viewing audience ever for a CBC live event, with an average audience of more than 280,000 on CBC and Radio-Canada’s desktop and mobile devices combined. This beats…
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OTTAWA – Quebecor doesn't mince words in its complaint against the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund: "The decisions made by the board of directors of the Bell Fund in regard to three projects submitted in 2013 and set to be broadcast on TVA channels were not made in an objective manner and were discriminatory against TVA."
In a letter to the CRTC dated February 5 and made public on Monday, Quebecor's regulatory affairs director Peggy Tabet argues that the fund's decisions to refuse the three projects were made for "non-justified reasons" and concludes that they were made in a…
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TORONTO – Robert J. Ross has been tapped as the new president of the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), taking over from Robert Briskman, technical executive for Sirius XM Radio, who has served as NABA president since 2012.
Ross, who is CBS’ SVP of East Coast Operations, is also a longstanding member of the NABA Board of Directors and Executive. According to the announcement, he comes to the NABA presidency at a time of "ongoing change for the broadcasting industry and with it, an array of new challenges and opportunities regarding how broadcasting is distributed to a digital multi-platform world".
“Bob…
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TORONTO – Registration is now open for Content Industry Connect, a one day event that promises to bring together television, film and digital media leaders for a day of visionary keynotes, entertaining and informative discussions, facilitated networking, and face-to-face meeting opportunities.
Presented by the Banff World Media Festival, Content Industry Connect will take place March 6 at The Ritz-Carlton in downtown Toronto.
Confirmed speakers include executives at Google, Microsoft, AOL, Twitter, CBC, Bell Media, Corus Television, Rogers Media, Shaw Media, a special sneak peek from the creators and stars of Orphan Black and the advance premiere of Spun Out.
For more information or to…
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TORONTO – More than 31.1 million Canadians have tuned in to CBC’s TV or online coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympics since the Games began on Feb. 6, and more than 8.4 million Canadians watched the Canadian men's hockey team beat Norway on Day 6, CBC announced Saturday.
CBC’s ratings for Thursday, Feb. 13, Day 6 of the Games, have been the highest day of the Games to date, including the opening ceremonies on February 6, with 22.8 million viewers across all platforms.
Television ratings for the opening ceremony on Feb. 6 was at about 19 million Canadians, and includes ratings for the…
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