IT MAY BE 41 YEARS since he made the statement in that headline – during the famous first hearing into making Canadian radio and TV far more Canadian in content and ownership, but former CRTC chair and CBC CEO Pierre Juneau stands by it.
“All broadcasting should be Canadian, should be owned by Canadians, and should contain a percentage of Canadians,” he said just last week in an interview with Cartt.ca.
The Cancon argument dates back well past that historic 1970 hearing and has, amazingly, not abated or seemingly changed one bit as broadcasters this week freshly and further picked…
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TORONTO – Now that the largest Canadian broadcast and specialty networks are owned by the big four distributors, look for them to start to push harder at monetizing their online presences – while trying not to negatively impact their traditional TV advertising revenue and access provider programming fees – which totalled about $6.23 billion in 2010, says a new report from Convergence Consulting.
As it currently stands, online does little to improve broadcast and specialty networks’ bottom line, says the report, the latest instalment of the company’s ongoing “Battle for the North American Couch Potato” series. Most private Canadian broadcasters…
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MONTREAL – Bell wasted no time in consummating its marriage to CTV, adding some of the broadcaster’s top-rated programming to its Bell TV on-line portal and mobile TV service on Monday.
Bell said that its TV customers can now catch prime time favourites such as The Big Bang Theory, Castle, The Mentalist, Grey’s Anatomy and Criminal Minds anywhere in Canada that they have a high-speed Internet connection.
"With Bell TV Online, fans have newly expanded access to CTV’s top television lineup anytime and anywhere they have broadband Internet access," said Wade Oosterman, president of Bell residential services, Bell mobility, and chief brand officer,…
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OTTAWA – Canadian independent producers and the country’s major private broadcast groups reached an agreement in principle over terms in trade on Monday.
The framework deal, which is still subject to final approvals, will apply to the entire life cycle of a show – from first pitch, through to development, production and broadcast on all platforms, the Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA) said. Once fully executed, it will apply to all independently produced projects developed and commissioned by Astral, Corus, CTV, Rogers and Shaw Media.
“Terms of Trade will bring greater clarity and certainty for both broadcasters and independent producers in…
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OTTAWA – The Federal Liberals have proposed to use the proceeds (expected to be several billion dollars) from the upcoming auction of the 700 MHz and 2500 MHz bands to bring high-speed Internet connectivity (of just 1.5 Mbps) to every single household in Canada within three years.
“A Liberal government will publicly tender contracts for private companies to install broadband capacity for the hundreds of thousands of Canadians in rural, remote or northern areas who do not currently have access,” states the Liberal Party of Canada’s election platform, which was released Sunday morning (April 3). “To make those contracts…
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CALGARY and EDMONTON – CBC broadcasts on its Calgary and Edmonton affiliates shift to high definition starting Friday, the ‘pubcaster said.
Viewers in the two Alberta centres will be able to watch HD CBC programs on Shaw Cable channel 209 starting April 1st, while Telus TV subscribers will have access on May 27 through channel 600 in Calgary and channel 621 in Edmonton.
“With Calgary and Edmonton as Canada’s third and fourth largest English TV markets respectively, we’re really pleased to be adding these important members to Canada’s CBC HD family,” said Alan Dark, CBC’s executive director of media sales and…
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OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has once again been excluded from the country’s televised national leadership debates.
The broadcast consortium of CBC, Radio-Canada, CTV, Global and TVA, which is in charge of organizing the two televised debates, confirmed Tuesday that it has invited only the Conservative, Liberal, Bloc Quebecois and New Democrat leaders to participate, citing the Green Party’s lack of representation in the House of Commons.
The television broadcasters initially excluded May from the debates during the 2008 federal election as well, saying three of the leaders had threatened to boycott if she participated. But that decision was Continue Reading
BANFF – Media leaders from five of Canada’s major broadcast media companies will come together to kick off this year’s Banff World Media Festival.
Phil Lind, vice chairman of Rogers Communications; Paul Robertson, group vice president, broadcasting and president of Shaw Media; Kevin Crull, COO at CTVglobemedia; Kirstine Stewart, executive vice president of English services at CBC; and John Riley, president of Astral Television Networks, have been confirmed for the event’s Media Leaders panel.
Moderated by Gordon Pitts, senior reporter for The Globe and Mail, the executives will speak to the issues they find most pressing for today’s media ecosystem, plus…
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TORONTO – Industry veteran Claude Galipeau is joining social media management company Syncapse Corp. in the newly created role of chief service officer.
Galipeau was most recently SVP and GM of digital media at Rogers before departing abruptly in February. He has also held senior leadership positions at Astral Media, Alliance Atlantis and the CBC. Starting April 1st, Galipeau will be responsible for building and managing a team capable of meeting intellectual and delivery demands across Syncapse’s strategic, technical, measurement and professional services teams. Syncapse delivers solutions that empower brands and agencies to build, manage and measure their digital customer…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from CBC to add a post-transition digital transmitter to its English-language conventional television station CBAT-TV Fredericton/Saint John.
Noting that the proposal would result in a loss of over-the-air TV service to the residents of Saint John, the Commission cited its Revised licensing framework for over-the-air digital television services policy whereby broadcasters are encouraged to provide digital coverage that matches their current analog coverage.
“The Commission notes that the proposed digital transmitter would be located such that it would provide service to only one of the two markets served by the…
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