TORONTO – CBC has become the first Canadian broadcaster to partner with Facebook to utilize its new tools for broadcast media outlets.
The Corp said Thursday that it will incorporate Facebook's Keyword Insights API and Public Feed API into its primetime skating competition series Battle Of The Blades. The integration involves using the Facebook data to show audience support for individual competitors on a map of Canada, during the show.
Pictures and videos from fans on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have also been incorporated into the programming….
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SASKATOON – CBC Saskatoon is hosting an open house on Thursday, October 24 to show off its new station and celebrate the on-air launch of CBC Radio One's Saskatoon Morning, the city's newest morning radio show.
From 6:00 to 9:00am, listeners and viewers are invited to join Saskatoon Morning hosts Leisha Grebinski and Matt Kruchak; Jill Morgan, the new host of CBC News: Saskatchewan at 5, 5:30 & 6; Craig Lederhouse, host of The Afternoon Edition, and Blue Sky host Garth Materie for a first look at the new station, a live broadcast of Saskatoon Morning, behind…
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OTTAWA – Canadians who have eschewed their landlines for cell phones only are also more likely to watch video and listen to audio on their devices, according to a new study from Media Technology Monitor.
With the CRTC projecting that approximately 20% of Canadian households will be Cell Phone Only (CPO) by 2015, the MTM incorporated a CPO household sample into its annual survey to learn more about this unique group of people for the first time. This new report provides an overview of the CPO individual with respect to demographics, technology ownership and media use and compares…
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TORONTO – Sirius XM Canada Holdings Inc., parent of SiriusXM Canada Inc., has appointed Timothy Casgrain to the company's board of directors. He replaces Suzanne Morris as CBC/Radio-Canada's nominee to SiriusXM Canada's board of directors, following her resignation from her position as Director.
Casgrain is currently consultant to Skyservice Investments Inc., a wholly owned Canadian aviation company, and has been involved since 1997. From 2007 to 2012 he was chairman of CBC/Radio Canada. Previously, he served as executive vice president of Brookfield Asset Management and from 1988 to 1995 he was seconded to NBS Technologies Inc. as president and chief…
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CANNES – Abbie Cornish doesn't take kindly to be called a gold-digger.
"She sets up services in Dawson City," the Australian Robocop star said of the female lead, Belinda Mulroney, she plays in Discovery Channel's first scripted mini-series Klondike, which shoots in Alberta. "She's also a real warrior, a survivor, someone driven by her heart and soul and instincts," Cornish adds about her character and others in Klondike that are drawn from the Charlotte Gray novel Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike.
Cornish isn't the only foreign actor that stars in the U.S. cable drama co-produced by Discovery, Entertainment…
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CANNES – With CTV giving Shaftesbury's The Listener a 13-hour fifth season order, the homegrown drama will now get to 65 episodes. You'd think that would be enough for Shaftesbury CEO Christina Jennings to talk syndication, as 65 episodes allows a show to rerun five days a week and go 13 weeks before repeating.
But 65 episodes is not the magic number in today's increasingly global TV world, the veteran TV producer told Cartt.ca at the MIPCOM market in Cannes. "65 is only the U.S. number," Jennings said Monday while promoting The Listener to foreign buyers here.
The international market now…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s regional diversity extends to technology, according to a new series of reports by Media Technology Monitor.
The Canadian Market Report Series consists of 11 reports that compiles data on media technology ownership and usage and compares the similarities and differences across regions, provinces and major cities. Highlights from this series include:
– Vancouver has the highest penetration of tablets in Canada;
– Albertans lead the nation in the ownership of smartphones, particularly iPhones;
– Torontonians are more likely to watch Internet TV and less likely to subscribe to a digital TV service;
– Quebecers are the most likely to…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Network Operators Consortium has filed an application with the CRTC asking that a number of new regulations be applied to cable company ISPs who are not fairly treating its members acting as third party internet access providers.
The independent TPIAs (such as Teksavvy, Primus and Telnet) who provide internet service to their customers by purchasing wholesale high speed access service from the likes of Cogeco, Rogers, Shaw and Videotron say that either through malice or indifference their businesses are being seriously harmed by the cable companies and the CRTC must step in.
“This is necessary because ISPs,…
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TORONTO – Just in time for holiday gift giving, CBC/Radio-Canada has re-launched its e-commerce websites CBCShop.ca and boutique.radio-canada.ca plus secured licensing agreements with Canadian retailers including Indigo/Chapters and Sears.
Both websites will feature new products as well as returning favourites such as the Hockey Night in Canada, Gem and Retro Collections. In addition, products from the CBC Retro Collection will soon be available at Indigo/Chapters nationally, The Drake General Store, redcanoebrands.com and other specialty/boutique retailers in Ontario.
Hockey Night in Canada merchandise will be available at The Hockey Hall of Fame, Sears…
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TORONTO – With the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia some five months away, Canada’s official broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada has revealed 17 confirmed Olympic media partnerships.
That list includes heavyweights Visa, Samsung, P&G, Coca-Cola, Bell, Canadian Tire Corporation (parent company of Canadian Tire and Sport Chek), Air Canada, Suncor Energy and their retail brand Petro-Canada, Panasonic, and Mondel?z Canada (makers of brands such as Oreo, Dentyne, and Cadbury). Additional media partnerships will be announced closer to the start of the Games.
Monday’s announcement detailed that CBC’s coverage will integrate Canadian Tire, Sport Chek and P&G’s athlete relationships into its broadcast and digital content…
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