TORONTO – The CBC’s Jeffrey Orridge is adding the Olympics portfolio to his current responsibilities, and will oversee all aspects of Olympic related business for CBC/Radio-Canada effective immediately.
Orridge, CBC’s Executive Director, Sports Properties, will continue to manage CBC’s sports properties including the NHL, FIFA and 2015 Pan Am Games. He’s scheduled to participate on a panel this week at Sportel (Int’l Sports Marketing Conference) addressing the impact of the London 2012 Olympic Games on the sports media industry.
“Jeffrey was instrumental in bringing the Games home to CBC. Building on his long standing, strong…
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TORONTO – In the interest of “confused” hockey fans across the nation, CTV says its freezing plans to run its new promo campaign for TV show The Big Bang Theory.
CTV says it has agreed to the CBC’s request that it cease all promotion and publicity for its broadcast plans for Big Bang Night in Canada as previously reported by Cartt.ca. The promotion highlighted its plans to run a two-hour block featuring back-to-back episodes of The Big Bang Theory, Saturdays from 8-10 p.m. ET/PT beginning October 13.
CTV said the shows were “aimed squarely…
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GATINEAU – A monthly per subscriber compensation regime proposed by CBC/Radio-Canada is being panned by its private sector opponents while the corporation’s foray into the digital arena is also being questioned by interveners to its licence renewal.
In its application, CBC said that it needs to be compensated for its signals because the broadcast distribution undertakings (cable, satellite and telco TV companies) are free riding and making money off the back of the corporation’s content. In essence, the public broadcaster is seeking a value for signal, or fee-for-carriage, regime. (The CRTC’s authority to implement such a model was Continue Reading
TORONTO – Ad sales and marketing veteran Jack Tomik has jumped from the CBC to join Rogers Media. Tomik will fill the newly-created position of Chief Sales Officer effective November 1. Rogers also promoted Dale Hooper to Senior Vice-President, Marketing & Consumer Insights. Both Tomik and Hooper will report to Keith Pelley, President of Rogers Media Inc., and serve as key members of Rogers Media’s Senior leadership team.
“Jack’s time at CBC has covered an eventful period in our history, and throughout, his talents and experience have helped us to meet many financial challenges and positioned…
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OTTAWA – Rogers Communications bid to extend Citytv into the Maritimes through simultaneous substitution of the broadcast feeds from bordering U.S. stations has been denied by the CRTC.
Bell Media, the CBC and several individuals argued that the proposal does not adhere to the simultaneous substitution policy, which grants simultaneous substitution privileges to only local and regional stations. The group also contended approval of the application would grant Rogers the benefits of having a local station in Atlantic Canada without investments in service to the region. The CBC added that Rogers had not substantiated its claim…
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GATINEAU – CBC/Radio-Canada is hearing static over plans for additional revenue generation on two of its radio properties. Interveners to the corporation’s licence renewal are telling the CRTC that it must deny a proposal from the public broadcaster to have national advertising on Radio 2 and Espace Musique.
In its licence renewal application, CBC says that because it received fewer federal dollars under its Parliamentary appropriation it needs to bolster revenue on the radio side so it can maintain existing levels of service. Several interveners argue that’s simply not true with Corus Entertainment saying it’s “a self-made problem.” Corus and…
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OTTAWA – Facing a slashed federal budget and an NHL lockout that could freeze out Hockey Night in Canada, Hubert Lacroix learned today he will continue on as head of CBC/Radio-Canada for another five years as the government reappointed him president and CEO for a second term. But it doesn’t get any easier for Lacroix as the CBC faces its first CRTC license renewal hearing in 13 years on November 19.
Cartt.ca had heard the rumours of his reappointment last month but the executives we had talked with were sure M Lacroix would be…
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OTTAWA – In his first public appearance as chair of the CRTC where he was the one answering and not asking the questions, Jean-Pierre Blais gave the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage a brief look at the direction and the future he envisions for the Regulator so many Canadians (including some MPs) misunderstand.
Chairman Blais has already put his stamp on the CRTC by signalling rather overtly that under his watch the Commission will be consumer, or citizen-focused like never before. He has already hired a chief consumer officer, Barbara Motzney and during the hearing into…
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MONTRÉAL – A major contingent of Canadian talent will be descending upon MIPCOM, the world’s leading entertainment content market across all platforms, in Cannes, France from October 8 to 11.
The Canadian stars will be on hand to celebrate and support the promotion of Canadian productions featured in the Canada Country of Honour event, organized by Reed MIDEM in partnership with the Canada Media Fund and Telefilm Canada. The industry’s dynamism and Canadian creativity will also be in the spotlight at programmed talks and events during both MIPJunior and MIPCOM. In addition, the Canada…
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PETER AND TONY VINER are a rare pair in the world of business, let alone broadcasting. The two brothers, separated by two years, each and on their own rose to the top of major, multi-billion dollar broadcasting businesses headed by two of Canada’s most celebrated entrepreneurs.
Peter, 67, helped the late Izzy Asper build Canwest Global into a multi-billion-dollar international media powerhouse before the company fell on hard, debt-burdened, times. Tony, 65, built Rogers Media from two Toronto radio stations (Ted Rogers’ famous first media asset, CHFI-FM, and CFTR-AM, now 680News) when he came on board in 1982 to a…
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