TORONTO – One of the applicants vying for a spot in the Toronto radio market has launched a grassroots campaign designed to elicit support from its future listeners.
Biz88 FM, the all-talk business news and information station proposed by independent broadcaster Channel Zero, launched the campaign on Monday encouraging supporters to visit its website and send a letter of support to the CRTC on its behalf.
“The CRTC takes your comments seriously – please show them your support for Business News in Toronto”, reads the web page which requests participation prior to April 2, 2012. The CRTC has confirmed…
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HAMILTON – CBC’s blog about its new Hamilton digital service makes much ado about its new home, a renovated 120-year-old building at 118 James St. N. The Corp’s Steeltown home is in the middle of an area home to artists, coffee shops and some of the ethnic restaurants, stores and businesses that built Hamilton and are together working hard to lead the revitalization of Hamilton’s bedraggled downtown core.
The rough-cut maple floors, tin ceilings and decorative, 20-metre-long beveled glass transom from the 1920s all nod to a more prosperous time in the city’s history. Whether it’s just filler or a…
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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 15.8% share, according to the Winter 2012 portable people meter (PPM) report released by BBM Canada.
For the 13 week period from for November 28, 2011 through February 26, 2012, Toronto’s second spot went to CBC Radio One (CBLA-FM) with an 11% share. Bell Media’s CHUM-FM rounded out the market’s top three stations with a 9.8% share.
Soft rock station CHQM-FM, also owned by Bell Media, ranked first in Vancouver with a 12.4% share, followed by CBC Radio One (CBU) with…
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IN NOVEMBER, THEN-MACLEAN’S magazine national columnist Andrew Coyne added his voice to the cacophony of critics carping about the CBC, saying the TV portion should become a pay channel, a-la HBO.
Oy, where to begin with that one? How about starting with the Broadcasting Act, a law which mandates the CBC’s existence, carriage and programming goals. According to the Part 1 of the Act, section 3(1)(l & m), the overall programming provided by the Corp. should be that which “informs, enlightens and entertains” and should:
(i) be predominantly and distinctively Canadian, (ii) reflect Canada and its regions…
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SLAMMING THE CBC has become a too-easy sport for many Canadians (second only, perhaps, to slamming the CRTC). That harsh, hot criticism should be expected, however.
The CBC gets more than a billion dollars a year from Canadians (an amount that is likely to take a hit, come the March 29th federal budget), has to be made available to all of us everywhere and serve a mandate written into law – to be all things to all Canadians. Satisfying that mandate has been nearly impossible to fulfill for most of the CBC’s lifetime. So coast-to-coast-criticism, as those who work at…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has received 22 applications for the coveted 88.1 FM slot in Toronto which vary from a $12 million CanCon promise from Newcap, to an all-business news station from Channel Zero, to a student-supported bid by Ryerson University to reclaim the frequency it lost last year when The school’s CKLN Radio was stripped of its licence.
CKLN Radio Inc had been broadcasting its community-based campus radio station at Ryerson University for 27 years until its licence was revoked in January, 2011 after it repeatedly failed to comply with federal broadcasting regulations over a number of years. But…
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TORONTO – CBC broadcaster George Stroumboulopoulos is one of three Canadians named Young Global Leaders for 2012 on Tuesday by the World Economic Forum.
Stroumboulopoulos (pictured) is joined by fellow Canadians Kaliya Hamlin, executive director, Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, and Tim Wu, senior advisor for the Federal Trade Commission.
"I would like to extend heartfelt congratulations to George on being selected as a Young Global Leader," said Kirstine Stewart, executive vice-president of English Services for CBC, in a statement. "George continues to inspire, educate and entertain Canadians on a…
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MONTREAL – Frosty relations between Quebecor Media and CBC/Radio-Canada may be thawing after the two companies finalized a number of agreements aimed at “re-establishing their commercial relationships over the years to come”.
In a statement on Monday, Quebecor Media said that the agreements include distribution deals with its Videotron subsidiary for “the specialized channels and the other broadcasting vehicles of Société Radio-Canada”, plus ad buys on Quebecor-owned Sun Media’s francophone digital and print platforms.
Quebecor's media outlets have been openly critical of the CBC for an alleged lack of transparency after submitting hundreds of requests under the Access To Information regulations, as Cartt.ca…
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OTTAWA – Establishing a carriage relationship with Netflix, YouTube, Google, Yahoo! and others as well as reworking how money is distributed to fund online entertainment are two ways to ensure Canadian content will secure a space for itself on the Internet, Canadian Media Production Association’s (CMPA) annual Prime Time conference in Ottawa, heard Friday.
Online entertainment is growing leaps and bounds with the help of some major players such as Google and Yahoo, but what can be done to ensure that Canadian productions have a place? Richard Stursberg, senior advisor on media and entertainment with Telus (and former head of…
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OTTAWA – The biggest challenge the Canadian broadcasting industry is facing is a subset of distributors who are seeking lower rates for specialty services, Kevin Crull, president of Bell Media, told the Canadian Media Production Association’s annual Prime Time 2012 conference in Ottawa on Friday morning.
Crull spoke about this issue and other challenges Bell Media is facing in a interview style session with former CTV president, former head of CBC News and current professor, MBA program in arts and media administration, Schulich School of Business, Trina McQueen. Crull said this issue is more important than the group licensing regime…
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