TORONTO – Canadian broadcaster George Stroumboulopoulos will lead Rogers’ “dream team of broadcasters” anchoring its NHL national coverage across all Rogers properties, as well as Hockey Night in Canada beginning this fall, Rogers announced Monday.
Together with hockey talent Don Cherry, Ron MacLean, Daren Millard and Jeff Marek, the team will deliver more than 500 regular season games across 13 networks and seven platforms, including up to seven games every Saturday night, plus Hometown Hockey every Sunday hosted from communities across Canada, and every game of the NHL Playoffs and Stanley Cup Final. The announcement comes as Rogers gears up…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s public broadcaster is not immune to the impacts of new viewing habits and Internet-based platforms, but rather than trying to turn back the clock, CBC/Radio-Canada is embracing new devices and technologies to remain relevant to Canadians, according to the CRTC.
Scott Hutton, executive director of broadcasting at the Regulator, noted during an appearance before the Senate Standing Committee on Transportation and Communications that one only needs to look at CBC’s coverage of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics (and its multi-platform efforts), its content licensing agreements with Netflix and its Tou.tv French-language online video on-demand…
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TORONTO – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) has chosen Jean Freeman as its 2014 Woman of the Year.
Each year ACTRA’s Women’s Committee bestows this honour on a woman who has shone both in her artistic and advocacy achievements. Freeman is the fifth recipient of the award, and joins past winners Shirley Douglas, Tantoo Cardinal, Sandi Ross and Mary Walsh.
Freeman may best known to Canadian television audiences as the Mayor’s grandmother on the hit CTV series Corner Gas, a role she played for six years. She was the first actor to join the Saskatchewan branch…
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OTTAWA – While most consumers still receive their television service from cable, satellite or telco TV providers, the rise of new and evolving platforms have effectively fragmented the Canadian TV distribution market, says a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
The Fall 2013 TV Distribution report evaluates trends in the way consumers access TV, what enhanced products/services they are using, and how they bundle their services. It also outlines user profiles for the various television services.
Highlights from the report include:
– Telco TV service continues to grow at the expense of cable and satellite, and 18% of Anglophones now subscribe;
-…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada is readying more than 90 hours of fully accessible TV broadcasts and more than 250 hours of online coverage of the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
Coverage begins Friday, March 7 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT with the opening ceremony, and continues with daily coverage through to the closing ceremony on Sunday, March 16. Other members of the Canadian Paralympic Committee’s (CPC) broadcast and digital media consortium include Sportsnet, Accessible Media Inc. (AMI), Yahoo Sports Canada and SendtoNews.
CBC/Radio-Canada will lead the creation of broadcast content for the consortium which will air on Sportsnet and AMI, while Yahoo…
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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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