TORONTO – "Once you do 19 hits in one day, that becomes the expectation," Global National anchor Dawna Friesen lamented Saturday morning in Toronto during the network news anchors session at the RTDNA Annual Conference.
The relentlessly hungry news beast that is our 24/7/365 world demands more and more from reporters and anchors all the time said Friesen, who appeared on the panel with CTV National News Anchor Lisa LaFlamme, CBC TV’s Diana Swain and moderator Seamus O’Regan, CTV National News correspondent.
All three said that because work never ends, sheer exhaustion is a real issue along with “just the inability…
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OTTAWA – Rémi Racine has been appointed as chairperson of the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors for a five year term.
Racine, who was first appointed as a member of the CBC/Radio-Canada board of directors in 2007, was re-appointed for a second four-year term last December. He also holds the role of chairperson of the board, president and executive producer of independent video game developer Behaviour Interactive (formerly A2M).
"I am pleased that Mr. Racine has accepted to serve as Chairperson of the Board of Directors," said Industry Minister James Moore, in Tuesday’s announcement. "His service as a member of this board…
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TORONTO – RTNDA Canada, The Association of Electronic Journalists, celebrated its national and network award winners on Saturday night in Toronto, honouring the best programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in both radio and television.
The winners are as follows:
National Television Winners:
Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast
– CBC North for Northbeat (Small Market)
– CTV Barrie for CTV News at Six (Medium Market)
– CTV Edmonton for Slave Lake Disaster (Large Market)
Adrienne Clarkson Award – Diversity
– Global Saskatoon for Accessible Saskatoon, Not!
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News
– CP24 for In The Line Of Duty
Dan McArthur Award – In-depth/Investigative
– CTV Montreal for Dirty Little…
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TORONTO – Bell Media and CBC/Radio Canada have ended their Olympic bid partnership after two failed bids for the exclusive Canadian media rights for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
During their partnership, the organizations submitted two bids for the Canadian broadcast rights that were turned down flat by the IOC. The duo said in a joint statement on Monday afternoon that they will formally dissolve their bid partnership as a result.
"We presented not one, but two fiscally responsible bids that are reflective of the Canadian marketplace," said Phil King, president of CTV programming and…
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LAS VEGAS – The National Hockey League has given its blessing to Rogers Communications' and Bell Canada’s acquisition of the Toronto Maple Leafs, as part of the companies' majority ownership purchase of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE).
The League issued a brief statement from its annual Board of Governors meeting saying that its approval of the sale of the Leafs, the anchor of the $1.32 billion deal, was unanimous. It also approved a subsequent restructuring of the ownership of MLSE.
However, a report in the Globe and Mail says the league also told the team's about-to-be-owners…
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MONTREAL – More than a hundred people demonstrated in front of the Radio-Canada/CBC building in Montreal Wednesday in solidarity with the RCI Action Committee, a union-supported lobby of Radio Canada International employees.
At the rally, the Committee called on the federal government to stop the budget cuts at the international radio service, and to give RCI financial autonomy from Radio-Canada-CBC. As Cartt.ca reported, CBC/Radio-Canada plans to shut down RCI’s newsroom on June 24 after 67 years on the international airwaves, in favour of a web-only presence, as part of its massive budget cuts.
But supporters maintain that limiting RCI’s presence to the Internet…
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HALIFAX – Veteran broadcast executive Jim Haskins has been named station manager/news director for Global Maritimes.
Haskins, who began his career as a reporter and anchor for CJIC TV and CKCY radio in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, was most recently at CBC Television and CBC.ca where he was responsible for media sales and marketing across Alberta. He was also VP and GM with Craig Media (later CHUM Ltd.) and served as president and GM of the Grand Prix of Edmonton.
In his new role, Haskins will oversee all editorial and station operations for Global Maritimes, and will help the station transition…
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BANFF – The questions have been delivered in almost every conference room, certainly every hallway of the Banff World Media Festival this year. It has also been postured in many forms: How will Google, Apple and Netflix influence the Canadian broadcast industry? Is the CRTC’s present policies helping or hindering the equation? What about vertical integration?
Times, They Are A-Changin’, so what should we do?
At the Canadian Media Leader session late Sunday afternoon, there was some consensus on the state of affairs in the industry and the direction of video production and development in the country.
For starters, Bell Media president…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) has awarded CBC Radio One's The Current with the Excellence in Journalism Award in the large media category, while the Vancouver Observer won in the small/local media category at the organization's annual awards gala.
Additional Excellence in Journalism Award finalists included The Canadian Press-Ottawa Bureau, The Huffington Post Canada and past recipients Toronto Star and Winnipeg Free Press.
Other award winners include:
– The Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, worth up to $100,000, was given to Michael Valpy, former Globe and Mail writer and columnist and now a senior fellow at Massey College at the…
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TORONTO – Rogers-owned easy-listening pop music station CHFI-FM held on to top spot in the Toronto radio market with a 13.1% share, down slightly from the winter period’s first place 15.8% share, according to the Spring 2012 portable people meter (PPM) report released by BBM Canada.
For the 13 week period from February 27 through May 27, 2012, Toronto’s second spot went to CBC Radio One (CBLA-FM) with a 10.1% share, while Bell Media’s CHUM-FM rounded out the market’s top three stations with a 9.7% share.
CBC Radio One (CBU) moved into first place in Vancouver with a 10.9% share, followed…
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