CBC on Tuesday announced the launch of a new Q with Tom Power free ad-supported streaming (FAST) channel, which draws on Q’s library of more than 450 interviews with global stars and icons from the arts and entertainment world.
Available now on CBC Gem and the Q with Tom Power YouTube channel, the new FAST channel joins CBC’s entertainment portfolio of FAST channels, which includes CBC Comedy and dedicated Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries and Schitt’s Creek channels.
“Tom’s interviews already capture millions of viewers and listeners across CBC Radio, YouTube and podcast platforms, and engage millions more…
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CBC and Parks Canada announced Monday a partnership to bring indigenous films and series to national parks and national historic sites across Canada this summer.
Titled “Rooted: A CBC & Parks Canada Indigenous Stories Screening Series”, the free events “provide an opportunity for families and park enthusiasts to engage with and celebrate First Nations, Inuit and Métis stories, while immersed in the natural and cultural world,” reads a CBC press release.
Free screenings for Rooted are underway now until August 31, hosted by parks and historic sites including: Kluane National Park and Reserve in the Yukon; Gulf…
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Commonwealth Sport Canada on Monday announced CBC/Radio-Canada will be the broadcast and streaming home in Canada for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, taking place from July 23 to August 2 in Glasgow, Scotland.
CBC/Radio-Canada will provide coverage of the 12-day multi-sport event on CBC TV, CBC Gem and ICI TOU.TV, including live daily broadcast and streaming coverage starting with the opening ceremony on July 23, and up-to-the-minute news across CBC Sports and Radio-Canada Sports digital and social media platforms, according to a CBC press release.
“CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to following the…
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By Connie Thiessen
CBC/Radio-Canada is now a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), putting the public broadcaster in a position to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The federal government pushed to include Eurovision as an exploratory cultural initiative in the 2025 budget. The annual competition draws a global audience of 100 million.
Following a vote at the EBU’s 96th General Assembly in Prague, CBC/Radio-Canada’s full membership automatically grants the public broadcaster the right to broadcast Eurovision in Canada. It also gives CBC access to member-only networks for investigative journalism, verification, digital news and data, as well as the Eurovision…
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CBC/Radio-Canada has an opportunity to better serve small communities lacking media coverage and should have “the reflection of local communities and audiences” explicitly stated in its mandate, according to a report by the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications released Wednesday.
Having the national public broadcaster’s mandate officially amended in the Broadcasting Act was one of seven recommendations made by the senate committee in its report, which is the culmination of a study undertaken by the committee in 2024 and 2025 to examine the local services provided by CBC/Radio-Canada. More than 60 witnesses appeared at the committee’s public…
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CBC/Radio-Canada announced Tuesday it plans to significantly increase its commitment to sports coverage of Canada’s high-performance athletes, professional women’s sport, and major sporting events hosted in Canada and around the world, following record-breaking viewership of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.
Canada’s public broadcaster said in a press release its commitment across French and English-language programming and platforms will feature Canada’s athletes “on an unprecedented scale”.
“Across the country, we have witnessed the tremendous unifying power of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for people of all backgrounds and generations….
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Rogers Sportsnet and CBC announced Tuesday that Canada’s national public broadcaster will no longer carry NHL broadcasts.
As the national media rightsholder for NHL games, Rogers had been sub-licensing to CBC the rights to nationally televised regular season games on Saturday nights as well as playoff games, up until the end of the current season. That sub-licensing deal was initially signed in November 2013, as part of Rogers’s exclusive 12-year, $5.2-billion broadcast agreement with the NHL, which gave Rogers all of the national rights to NHL games starting with the 2014-15 season…
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CBC on Monday announced it will create two new documentary funds and is boosting support for filmmakers creating projects for the public broadcaster’s Absolutely Canadian documentary series.
The announcement, made at the Banff World Media Festival, follows CBC’s recently announced $7-million increase in its investment in documentaries.
The new CBC Creator Catalyst Fund will support new projects from emerging CBC Creator Network producers across Canada. The fund “aims to advance their career development and create a path for them to continue working with CBC, allowing for future growth and collaboration,” CBC said in a…
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Canadian film and TV production company Muse Entertainment and Toronto-based independent magazine The Walrus announced Monday a first-look development partnership to adapt original reporting and longform journalism into premium documentary and unscripted programming.
The partnership provides Muse Entertainment with exclusive early access to unpublished stories slated for future publication in The Walrus, as well as a first right of negotiation to adapt select reporting into documentary and unscripted projects. The collaboration spans a range of subject matter, including investigative journalism, social issues, culture, politics, science and business.
Development discussions on several potential projects are already underway, the companies said in a press release.
Montreal-headquartered Muse…
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By Howard Law, author of MediaPolicy.ca and Canada vs. California: How Ottawa took on Netflix and the streaming giants (Lorimer, 2024)
This week’s announcement by Culture Minister Marc Miller that the federal government is striking down the CRTC’s ruling on streamer contributions to Canadian content is perhaps more shocking in its timing than its substance.
After all, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has an appetite for jettisoning government policy that he considers unwanted baggage. Recall the climb down from the Digital Services Tax, the carbon tax, and the suite of Trudeau-era environmental policies.
Miller will be sending…
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