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The partnership provides Muse Entertainment with exclusive early access to unpublished stories slated for future publication in The Walrus, as well as a first right of negotiation to adapt select reporting into documentary and unscripted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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By Connie Thiessen
Golden West Broadcasting CEO Elmer Hildebrand is among the private broadcast executives who aren’t happy with the CBC’s recent bureau expansion.
The public broadcaster announced in January it was expanding its footprint, with plans to create 11 new local bureaus and hire 33 journalists, increasing its presence to 77 bureaus and stations, including three additional locations in Saskatchewan, and two each in the Yukon, Manitoba and Quebec.
Among the new communities it’s hired reporters in are Swift Current and Moose Jaw, SK, cities in which Golden West already operates a total of six radio stations between them, as well as SwiftCurrentOnline.com and DiscoverMooseJaw.com that already…
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By Connie Thiessen
Vista Radio has named Joe Gabor as company president, effective today.
Gabor succeeds Bryan Edwards, who had held the role since the fall of 2019, when Vista released four of its senior executives, including President Geoff Poulton. Prior to that, Edwards had been in the role of senior vice president of business development.
Bryan Edwards
Gabor is promoted from the position of vice president of business development. He has been with Vista since…
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Hawco Productions announced Tuesday its police procedural drama Saint-Pierre has been greenlit by the CBC for a third season, with filming in Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon set to begin in July.
Co-starring Canadian actor Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle) and French actress Joséphine Jobert (Death in Paradise), the series follows Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Inspector Donald “Fitz” Fitzpatrick (Hawco), who has been exiled to work in the French territory of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon and is partnered with Deputy Chief Geneviève “Arch” Archambault (Jobert), a Parisian transplant there for her own intriguing reason. Other cast members include Benz Antoine…
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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)
The other shoe dropped last week when the CRTC delivered two rulings that nearly complete its new regulatory framework for Netflix and the rest of the Hollywood streamers, as well as Canadian television broadcasters.
The reaction to the rulings from the Hollywood streamers and their Canadian enablers offered more heat than light. Media reports played them as a trade story and some breathlessly speculated on Culture & Identity Minister Marc…
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CBC announced Wednesday veteran CBC journalist Chris Glover is the new host of CBC Radio’s Toronto morning show, Metro Morning.
Glover has worked for CBC for nearly 17 years, as an anchor, reporter and producer for CBC News. Born and raised in Whitby, Ont., Glover’s time at CBC has included stints as a legislative correspondent in Winnipeg and as a news reporter and anchor for CBC Toronto and CBC News Network. He has also had frequent deployments to CBC’s news bureau in Washington, D.C., where he reported from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on the day…
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