OTTAWA – With almost nothing left to lose, CBC/Radio-Canada should take some risks on high impact dramatic programming, Michael Hennessy, president of the Canadian Media Production Association, suggested during an appearance before a Senate committee earlier this week.
Last week the Standing Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications kicked off a study of the challenges faced by CBC in relation to the changing broadcast and communications environment. The review came about after the public broadcaster lost the rights to Hockey Night in Canada (Ed note: Because if there’s one place where the world’s media challenges will be solved, it’s the…
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TORONTO – CBC is offering Canadians access to every hour of live sports at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games via digital and mobile platforms that include a “responsive” website, a CBC Olympic Games app for iOS, Android and Windows 8, and a primetime Olympic second-screen experience called ‘Primetime Plus’.
The CBC Olympic Games app, available now from the App Store on iTunes and Android Market on Google Play, lets Canadians customize their viewing by sport, set alerts for events, research athletes and delegate countries, check the medal count and stream live coverage. In addition, it will offer webcasts containing…
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TORONTO – With the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games now less than a week away, TSN and TSN2 say they will broadcast more than 250 hours of Olympic coverage from Sochi, Russia as part of the networks’ partnership with official broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada.
That coverage is highlighted by prime-time encores of all Team Canada hockey games, which will complement CBC’s live daytime coverage, as well as live coverage of Team Canada men’s and women’s curling and figure skating.
TSN Radio, the official affiliate radio broadcaster of the Games, will deliver live coverage of all Team Canada hockey games on TSN…
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OTTAWA – Canadian television viewers want more content choices and have mixed feelings about the way their television is currently delivered to them, according to the first phase of the CRTC’s Let's Talk TV: A Conversation with Canadians.
The Commission issued the Phase 1 report Wednesday, based on the 1,320 comments it received from October 24 – November 22, 2013. As Cartt.ca readers will recall, the initiative kicked off by asking Canadians the following three questions:
1. Programming: What do you think about what’s on television?2. Technology: What do you think about how you receive television programming?3….
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TORONTO – Change is afoot in the upper echelons of Rogers Media.
In the first of two announcements Thursday, Scott Moore (pictured) was named president of Sportsnet and NHL, effective immediately. In this new role, Moore will lead the two “priority sports portfolios” and serve on the Rogers Media Senior Leadership Team.
Previously, Moore was president of broadcast at Rogers Media, overseeing programming, production, regulatory, engineering and distribution of the company’s TV and radio assets. Prior to joining Rogers Media in 2010, he was executive director of CBC Sports and general manager of CBC’s media sales and marketing department.
Moore was quick to…
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OTTAWA – With mobile devices taking hold, more and more Canadians are watching TV on their smartphones and tablets, according to the Fall 2013 Media Technology Adoption report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
This tracking report takes a high level look at the penetration of technologies, including traditional, Internet and mobile platforms for audio and video. It organizes technologies based on their stage of consumer adoption: innovative, emerging, expanding, maturing and declining technologies.
Highlights from the report include:
– Two thirds of Anglophones have a smartphone and over 4 in 10 own tablets;
– Watching TV on smartphones and tablets continues to gain…
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A UNIQUE 30-SECOND spot began airing across most Canadian TV channels last week trumpeting how much Canadians love television, while promoting a new iOS and Google app which, it appears, will let some individual Canadians get on TV on February 6th.
While the whole industry has so far been pretty tight-lipped about the initiative, the ad and the app have been put together by the Television Bureau of Canada and its member companies. The raison d’etre of TVB (whose members count most of the channels available to Canadians, except for Corus Entertainment’s, Quebecor’s TVA and its…
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MONTREAL – A union representing CBC workers in Moncton, NB and Quebec wants Parliament to help it resolve an alleged wage disparity of more than 6% between its employees and those who do the same job for CBC in other parts of Canada.
The Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada (SCRC) represents 1,600 members in the province of Quebec and in Moncton. In a video unveiled Friday in both English and French, union president Alex Levasseur claims that the CBC and the SCRC signed a letter of understanding in 2009 that management would study plans to bring the wages of Quebec and…
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TORONTO – Renowned Canadian astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield will try his hand at broadcasting when he joins CBC News starting January 20, the public broadcaster announced Friday.
Hadfield will offer “regular contributions” on The National and CBC Radio One. In an upcoming segment focusing on the Olympics, for example, Col. Hadfield will “draw from his own experiences and explore what it takes to be at the top of your game and achieve ultimate success”, reads the announcement.
“Chris Hadfield will bring his legendary passion and drive for science, space, and life to CBC News,” said Jennifer McGuire, general manager…
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OTTAWA – While seniors have typically been slow to adopt new technology in this Internet connected world, that trend may be changing, according to a new report from Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
For the purposes of this report, the Senior Generation is defined as those aged 68 years and older. While they’ve seen the introduction and advancements of traditional television and radio, they’ve not grown up with publicly available Internet and wireless technologies. Seniors have been slow to adopt and find a place for these advancements in their daily lives.
Highlights from Seniors’ MediaTechnology Adoption and Use include:
– Seniors are heavy…
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