OTTAWA – This is the last week to register for the International Institute of Communications (IIC) Canada 2011 conference, which will take place November 28 – 29 at the Ottawa Convention Centre.
Themed ‘Competition, Innovation and Applications: Towards a Digital Economy for Canada’, the conference will feature speakers and panel discussions to engage communication business leaders and policy makers in topics affecting the Canadian communications sector from an international perspective. Cartt.ca is a media partner for the event.
New this year is a pre-conference on public broadcasting, presented in conjunction with CBC/Radio-Canada, on the morning of November 28.
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has sided with the CBC and dismissed a complaint from a viewer over a headline broadcast on The National hosted by Peter Mansbridge.
A viewer complained about a headline that aired on the May 5th episode of the show which introduced a report about the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The headline stated that bin Laden had “killed 3,000 people” during the September 11, 2001 attacks (the 9/11 attacks).
The CBC followed its standard complaint process in responding to the complaint. On June 6, Mark Harrison, executive producer for The National, responded that exhaustive United…
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LAST YEAR AT THIS time, Kevin Crull was into week three of his transition from long-time telecom executive to the leader of the largest Canadian broadcasting company.
Now president of Bell Media, the company which owns the CTV and CTV2 conventional TV networks, 29 specialty channels including market leader TSN, 33 radio stations and the Sympatico.ca portal, Crull came over from Bell Canada’s telco side, having run Bell Residential Services for five years. For a decade prior to that he was a senior executive with AT&T and US West.
One of his final projects at Bell Canada was writing the business…
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OTTAWA – The CBC has complied with an order by the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics to provide documents requested under Access to Information (ATI) by Quebecor Media and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. But the public broadcaster’s president, Hubert Lacroix, told an audience at the National Press Gallery Monday that the documents were given under protest, and some were sealed.
Lacroix later told reporters that the decision on whether to open the sealed documents is in the committee’s hands. He said it’s the first time the committee has ordered the public broadcaster to release documents that…
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada has handed over some, but not all, of the documents requested by the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. And some of them remain sealed.
The move follows an order by the Committee that the national broadcaster produce records requested under Access to Information by Quebecor Media and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. CBC said Monday that it is complying with the order “under protest and with strong reservations about the purpose for which the documents have been requested”.
"After serious consideration, we decided to provide the documents to the Committee this morning, but to seal some…
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MONTREAL – Veteran journalist Pierre Tourangeau has been named the new Ombudsman at Radio-Canada.
With more than three decades of experience in media, Tourangeau was most recently the senior director of content, news and current affairs information for Radio-Canada. He replaces Julie Miville-Dechene, who left the position at the end of July to become the president of the Quebec Council for the Status of Women.
"Pierre brings close to 35 years of journalistic experience to the role of ombudsman, having worked in almost every area of media, including television, radio and print," said president, Hubert T. Lacroix, in the announcement. "His…
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OTTAWA – There’s less than three weeks until the start of the International Institute of Communications (IIC) Canada conference, taking place November 28 – 29 at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa.
A highlight of this year's event will be the ‘executive suite’ featuring 'self-made' Canadian CEOs Eric Boyko, president, CEO and founder of Stingray Digital; Shan Chandrasekar, president and CEO of Asian Television Network International; Arlene Dickinson, CEO of Venture Communications, and co-star of CBC’s Dragons' Den; and Anthony Lacavera, chairman and CEO of Wind Mobile. The panel, which will be hosted by CBC national reporter Hannah Thibedeau, will also…
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TORONTO – The future of the TV business is near impossible to predict, no matter how many studies are done and consultants are paid to help guide media companies as they march into that future. That was a piece of the message delivered Tuesday at the Broadcast Executives Society luncheon by its featured speaker, Kirstine Stewart, the CBC’s executive vice-president of English services.
We all want to be able to predict the future, to accurately see where the media business is headed in the short and long term. “Consultants trade on their ability to tell us where we’re going next,…
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OTTAWA – CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix used the public broadcaster’s third annual public meeting and 75th anniversary to hammer home its commitment to accountability and transparency.
Speaking Wednesday afternoon at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Lacroix highlighted the Corp’s newly created website that details its executive expenses, information about audits and Board meetings, and includes a monthly bulletin reporting on its “progress” on Access to Information requests. He also stressed its accountability to Canadians through Parliament, the CRTC, the Auditor General and its government-appointed Board of Directors.
“We take accountability and transparency very seriously”, he said…
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TORONTO – CBC has announced plans to launch a new local digital service in Hamilton, ON starting in spring of 2012.
The ‘pub caster said Tuesday that the service will provide an up-to-the-minute, and ‘look ahead’ view of local news, weather, events and other information, and be accessible through smart phones, desktop/laptop computers and tablet devices.
"We've wanted to be a part of Hamilton for many years," said Jennifer McGuire, GM and editor in chief of CBC News, with responsibility for CBC Centres, in the announcement. "We've explored many options for how to best serve the community. We're happy that, beginning next…
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