OTTAWA – Kirstine Stewart, CBC/Radio-Canada’s executive vice-president English services, is leaving the public broadcaster after seven years to become Twitter Canada’s managing director.
“Kirstine really understands the role of the public broadcaster and has been a fierce proponent of its distinctive place. She has been instrumental in establishing CBC as a modern public broadcaster and I want to thank her for all she has done to put us in a place of strength from which to renew ourselves,” said CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix in a statement. “For me, the achievement that stands-out most…
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OTTAWA – Canadians are hooked on social networking, and our country’s younger demographic spends the equivalent of a full day online each week, according to two new reports from Media Technology Monitor.
The reports look at how Canadians spending more time using the Internet in their homes and while on-the-go, as well as the widespread use of social networking among Canadians. Internet use in Canada continues to rise and is nearly ubiquitous among certain demographic groups. Almost 90% of Canadians have an Internet connection in the home and the majority have high-speed.
According…
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OTTAWA and KITCHENER-WATERLOO, ON – CBC Radio’s Waterloo Region morning show will resume its broadcast Friday morning after receiving CRTC approval of its broadcast license Thursday afternoon – which it didn’t have when it first launched the station last month.
CBC Radio called the mistake an “operational error,” and suspended the show late Tuesday following a complaint filed with the CRTC by the Ontario Association of Broadcaster’s government committee that the station had launched without CRTC approval.
The Kitchener-Waterloo Record quoted CBC spokesperson Angus McKinnon, who said, “This was a very regrettable…
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OTTAWA – CBC Radio pulled its new Waterloo Region local morning show it launched just over five weeks ago off the air yesterday because the CRTC has not yet approved the service.
The public broadcaster says it anticipates the shutdown of The Morning Edition show will be temporary as it awaits for final approval from the Commission of its broadcast application. Listeners in the Waterloo Region will continue to be able to tune in to the 89.1 FM frequency or online at www.cbc.ca/kitchener-waterloo for their favourite CBC Radio programs.
CBC filed its application for…
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GATINEAU – Quebecor Media’s Sun News compared itself to a wireless new entrant Tuesday saying it needs to benefit from a regulatory mechanism in order for it to compete against the established news players, company executives argued before the CRTC on the first day of the Commission’s 9(1)(h) hearing.
Kory Teneycke, vice-president of Sun News, told the commissioners under questioning that the news service is suffering from a market he believes isn’t functioning properly and is open to abuse by some of its competitors. He referred to the 2008 advanced wireless spectrum auction as an instance where the government recognized…
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MONTREAL – Radio-Canada Revenue Group has appointed Michele McEnery to the position of director, national and multiplatform sales in Toronto.
McEnery takes over from Jerôme Leys, who left the CBC in February. She will report directly to executive director Jean Mongeau, while continuing to serve as director, corporate affairs development for CBC/Radio-Canada, a position she has held since September 2010. “Michele has in-depth knowledge of the needs and realities of the national advertising market in Toronto, where she’s worked for many years. She’s the perfect person to help our clients maximize the impact of our distinctive…
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IF CRTC CHAIR Jean-Pierre Blais is putting the Canadian consumer back into the CRTC driver's seat, as he has stated repeatedly, then surely the Commission must say no to most of the broadcasters and postulant broadcasters arriving cap-in-hand this week to ask that they be given mandatory spots (and the mandatory dollars that would come with it) in the TV channel lineups of Canadian subscription TV customers.
While there’s a long history of forcing Canadian cable subscribers to pay for channels they may or may not have wanted, back in the day, we just accepted it. Sometimes, begrudgingly. Sometimes we…
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MONTREAL – Bell today announced that CBC and Radio-Canada TV programming is now live and on-demand with Bell Mobile TV, in addition to the CBC News Network and RDI news content already available.
“CBC and Radio-Canada join the growing range of world-class content available in English and French on Bell Mobile TV,” said Wade Oosterman, president of Bell Mobility and Bell’s chief brand officer. “Building Canada's leading mobile TV service is part of Bell's commitment to make the best content available across every screen.”
Included in popular rate plans or as a standalone feature for…
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TORONTO – Rogers announced today the launch of a new on-demand app for LG Smart TVs that lets customers log in to their Rogers account via their Smart TVs and access more than 1,000 hours of content.
Rogers postpaid wireless, home phone and internet customers can log into the Rogers Anyplace TV application on their LG Smart TV by creating a profile on RogersAnyplaceTV.com and catch up on shows from City, Global and CBC. Rogers Cable customers have access to premium programming that they subscribe to through their existing TV package such…
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TORONTO – The CBC, Bell Media and Shaw Media are the top three English broadcaster recipients of Performance Envelope allocations for 2013-2014 as announced today by the Canada Media Fund.
Of the CMF’s program budget of $360.7 million, $173.3 million has been allotted in Performance Envelopes for 21 English broadcasters. CBC will receive $58.1 million, Bell Media $32.6 million and Shaw Media will receive $27.3 million. Thirteen French broadcasters will share $85.7 million, of which Radio-Canada will receive $32,7million, Groupe TVA $22 million and Astral (French) $16.4 million.
CMF’s envelope system was designed to…
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