BURLINGTON, ON – Crossroads Christian Communications Inc., parent of Crossroads Television System, has named Dr. John D. Hull as Global Chief Executive Officer of the Crossroads Family of Ministries.
Dr. Hull joins the organization from the grassroots leadership/personal growth and development organization EQUIP, where he was president and CEO for 13 years. Previously, he served as the third pastor in the history of Peoples Church Toronto from 1993 to 2000, has appeared on 100 Huntley Street numerous times, and made media appearances on CBC and CFTO.
“To return to Canada and serve as the Global CEO of the country's leading faith and values broadcaster…
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TORONTO – The CBC the Toronto International Film Festival announced a new content partnership Thursday that will see some of TIFF’s top industry and public events held at the Corp’s Glenn Gould Studio and hosted by CBC on-air personalities including George Stroumboulopoulos and Anna Maria Tremonti.
The venue will host TIFF’s Industry Moguls series, Keynote Conversation, Doc Conference, telefilms Canada PITCH THIS! and Master Class as part of the festival’s broader conversation series.
CBC is also co-host and broadcast partner of TIFF’s annual inivitation-only Canada Party event to be held at the CBC Broadcast Centre…
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TORONTO – Julie Bristow, former CBC executive director of studio and unscripted programming, has launched her own content creation company, Bristow Global Media Inc.
BGM will specialize in and produce multiplatform content across all genres including scripted, lifestyle, reality, documentary and sports. Media companies GroupM Entertainment and Fresh One Productions have joined BGM as partners.
Bristow, who left the CBC in May, says BGM represents a new business model for a global production company and…
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TORONTO – For thousands of southern Ontario cottagers, Webers Burgers is an institution that’s part of many families’ trek up Hwy 11 to cottage country.
On Friday, September 6, the first 5,000 people to visit the popular restaurant will be treated to a free burger courtesy of specialty channel Cottage Life, which is marking its launch with the free hamburger giveaway.
The Cottage Life channel officially launches September 4 with a national free preview in 9.2 million homes.
The Webers promotion is part of a national multimedia campaign designed to highlight the broad appeal of Cottage…
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INDUSTRY MINISTER JAMES MOORE has fair sized reservoir of stamina. After two full days of going west to east talking wireless with just about everyone who’ll ask for his time – and with three days of that still lying ahead – he sounded fresh and combative when it was our turn Tuesday afternoon to talk with him.
For readers not vacationing incommunicado for the past two months, Minister Moore has taken this week to tour the country to talk up the federal government’s wireless policies in the face of an all-out onslaught of sustained criticism from…
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MONTREAL — Vincent Geracitano runs the gamut of emotions describing the future of his television channel: pride, enjoyment, worry, but mostly anger about how it's being taken away from him. More than once during an interview with Cartt.ca, he's brought to tears.
When the CRTC made its decisions on mandatory carriage public August 8, it denied most of the applications from existing or proposed channels seeking the status for the first time, and approved most of the applications for renewal. Géracitano's channel, Avis de recherche, was the only service with mandatory carriage that had its renewal denied. And he doesn't…
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TORONTO – The CBC will begin airing advertisements on CBC Radio 2 and Espace musique this fall, as the Corp announced a deal today with Canadian Broadcast Sales to represent advertising sales for both properties.
The radio sales organization will work with CBC and Radio-Canada's sales and marketing teams. In Quebec, Espace musique will be represented by Groupe Force Radio, a CBS partner.
"?I?'m confident that by working closely with our team at CBC and through their unmatched experience in radio advertising sales, together we will deliver to our clients a streamlined and effective way to access…
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MONTREAL – Bell announced today it has expanded its recently launched mobile TV app by adding livestreaming capability of live and on-demand channels that are viewable on tablets and smartphones.
With Bell Mobile TV, Bell TV customers now have access to more than 100 live and on-demand channels. Bell Fibe TV customers can also stop and resume on-demand programming between their TV at home and their mobile device.
The company said current Bell Mobile TV customers will be automatically upgraded to the Bell TV app, however some customers may need to do…
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HAMILTON – The CBC’s new local digital setup isn’t good enough to serve the Steel City, says city councillor Brian McHattie, who insists Hamilton needs its own CBC radio station.
The councillor (who serves the ward where Cartt.ca is based) has sent a letter to CBC CEO Hubert Lacroix as well as all of the local MPs saying that since there are no available frequencies for another radio station in Hamilton, the CBC should instead purchase one of the Toronto stations which Bell Media has promised to divest as part of its purchase of Astral Media.
The Toronto stations put on…
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MARKHAM, ON – Raj Shoan, Ontario Commissioner at the CRTC, will be the luncheon keynote speaker at Connection 2013, the Ontario Association of Broadcasters announced Friday.
Shoan was appointed to the Ontario Commissioner position in June and has broad public and private sector experience in communications law and regulatory affairs.
He previously served as the CBC/Radio Canada's director of regulatory affairs, where he led the Corp's…
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