TORONTO – CBC said Wednesday that it will celebrate the holiday season by ditching the commercials during its slate of family-friendly programming planned for December 25.
The Corp, with the support of TBooth, will air limited commercial breaks starting at noon on Christmas Day for the first time ever.
Its schedule will be as follows:
12:00 p.m. The Queen’s Christmas Message
12:07 p.m. Disney Parade
1:59 p.m. Forgotten Toys
2:24 p.m. Mr. Magoo’s Christmas
3:17 p.m. Booky And The Secret Santa
4:48 p.m. Lassie
6:24 p.m. Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
7:56 p.m. The Queen’s Christmas Message
8:05 p.m. Frosty Returns
8:29 p.m. A Heartland Christmas
www.cbc.ca
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WE’LL CONTINUE TO cover industry news as it happens on Cartt.ca over the next two weeks, but our newsletters are taking a holiday break. Today's edition will be the final regular newsletter until January 10th as those of us at Cartt.ca pause to celebrate Christmas and the New Year.
If there's REALLY BIG news over the holidays, we'll be on it of course, but the whole industry gets a bit quiet between now and the back-to-school week, so that’s when we schedule our break, too.
We'll be pretty busy right away in the new year as Cartt.ca consumer electronics editor John…
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TORONTO – If CBC felt left out of the new Bell, Rogers and MLSE alliance, it didn’t let it show.
"I would like to congratulate Bell, Rogers and Larry Tanenbaum on their deal announced today. To know the ownership of Canadian teams will be kept in Canadian hands is great news," said Kirstine Stewart, EVP of CBC English Services in a statement Friday. "Increasingly, sports rights deals are dependent on strong partnerships. We are proud of our partnerships with Rogers on the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2014 and with Bell as we prepare our joint Olympic 2014/2016 bid".
www.cbcsports.ca
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TORONTO – CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada in Punjabi is returning for its third season starting December 10.
Thanks to sponsorship support from Chevrolet Canada, two games will be available every Saturday night during the regular season, as well as one series per round during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Punjabi play-by-play voice Harnarayan Singh will once again call the action.
“We’re thrilled to bring back our Punjabi broadcasts with Harnarayan Singh for another season as a part of CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada thanks to our new presenting sponsor, Chevrolet,” said Julie Bristow, CBC’s executive director of studio and unscripted programming,…
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OTTAWA – The CBC will receive the funding it needs to fulfill its five-year strategic plan, says Heritage Minister James Moore.
According to a report in The Toronto Star, Minister Moore affirmed the government’s commitment to the national broadcaster during a Commons committee on Thursday.
“CBC, through their board of directors, has approved their 2015 plan. This is a plan that we support and that we have been pushing for and hoping that the CBC would implement for a long time – staying in the regions, (enhancing) digital technology and protecting their mandate to ensure that it’s all-Canadian programming,” Moore…
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OTTAWA – “It’s a very important time for public broadcasters,” CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Hubert Lacroix told an audience during his opening keynote at the International Institute of Communications Canada (IIC) conference earlier this week.
This is perhaps an understatement as the national public broadcaster is faced with the prospect of having to cut 5% to 10% of its budget. But it’s not only the CBC, which is facing some hard decisions, public broadcasters around the world are in an equally financial precarious situation as government’s grapple with the requirement to tighten the fiscal belt as a result of tough…
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OTTAWA – Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore on Tuesday delivered a hearty endorsement of the industry his ministry oversees as well as the CBC during his appearance at the International Institute of Communications Canadian conference.
During his breakfast speech, Moore dipped into history to show how far the Canadian cultural sector has come, from a pipsqueak in the 1950s, scrambling for an identity, to a robust $46 billion annual industry now boasting over 630,000 employees, many of whom “do it for the love of the craft.” Those figures are “three times the size of the Canadian insurance industry and twice…
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MONTREAL – Videotron is launching an enhanced HD channel lineup featuring new channels in the Outaouais region of Quebec on Wednesday.
The 20 new channels, which include the likes of APTN, CBC News Network, CNN, Oasis, and RDS2, can launch now that Videotron has completed changes to its analog service in the area, the company said.
"We completed the changes to our analog offerings at the end of September and we are now able to more fully meet the needs of our customers in the region and provide them with the best possible television experience," said Myrianne Collin, VP of marketing and product development,…
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OTTAWA – Banning advertising from CBC/Radio-Canada would not just be bad public policy, it would result in serious ramifications for advertisers and the country’s independent production sector, says a new study from Nordicity Group Ltd.
The study, released Monday by CBC/Radio-Canada at the IIC Canada’s pre-conference on public broadcasting, seeks to quell the debate around whether the public broadcaster should rely on airtime advertising as a source of revenue to finance its operations.
Called ‘Why Advertising On CBC/Radio-Canada Is Good Public Policy’, the study estimates that the elimination of advertising from the Corp’s television services would result in a net financial…
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OTTAWA – Appearing at a Parliamentary committee earlier today to talk about the impact of the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision granting the Information Commissioner access to certain CBC/Radio-Canada documents, the national public broadcaster instead found itself having to defend its accountability and transparency practices.
While the House of Commons Standing Commission on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics began in a rather cordial manner with Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro lauding the CBC for releasing information regarding money spent on its fleet of vehicles, the mood changed when he seemed to accuse the corporation of hiding hospitality and entertainment…
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