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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MONTREAL – Quebecor Media has created a new section on its corporate website that it says will explain the company’s position on various issues and “correct false statements” (translation).
Called ‘Quebecor Tells You’ (Quebecor vous informe), the area already contains letters and editorials penned by the company’s executive team, including some that it claims “the press refused to publish” (translation). The section is available in French only.
Nothing there yet on the company's ongoing spat with CBC/Radio-Canada, but one expects that can’t be far behind.
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TORONTO – With subscriber additions at Wind Mobile, Public Mobile and Mobilicity well below what many had hoped, is the model failing?
That’s what Canaccord Genuity telecom analyst Dvai Ghose asked on Monday in a research note to clients. Noting the departure of Mobilicity CEO Dave Dobbin is the second new entrant CEO to leave over the past six months, Ghose wrote what many have been saying for some time now: This isn’t how is was supposed to be.
“Independent new entrant subscriber growth has been weak — WIND only added 41k net subscribers in Q3/11, down from 45k…
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OTTAWA – Industry Minister Christian Paradis has been added to the slate of speakers at the International Institute of Communications (IIC) Canada 2011 conference.
Minister Paradis will provide a keynote address at the event, and join other luminaries such as Heritage Minister James Moore, CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Hubert Lacroix, and CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein.
In addition, on the heels of the CRTC's recent decision on usage based billing, Bryan Tramont, managing partner at Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer LLP and former chief of staff for the Federal Communications Commission, and John Lawford, Counsel for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, will engage…
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