OTTAWA – Nearly 7,000 Canadians have told the CRTC that television commercials are too loud, and, that they want the Regulator to do something about it.
The Commission got an earful after asking for comments back in February on measures to control the loudness of commercial messages. It launched the public consultation after receiving hundreds of complaints, and comments were due last week.
“It is highly annoying the number of times we need to adjust the volume from commercials back to programming”, wrote Mark Dostie from Richmond, B.C., in his submission to the CRTC. “In fact we will often ‘pause’…
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THERE’S JUST TWO WEEKS left before Canada 3.0 2011 digital media forum kicks off for a third straight year.
Scheduled for May 2 – 4, 2011 in Stratford, ON, the forum is dedicated to advancing Canada’s digital media industry. Some of this year’s panellists and keynote speakers include:
– Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner;– Mark Allen, Director of Strategic Analysis for CBC/Radio-Canada;– Juliette Powell and 3rd Wave Gaming: the future of financial transactions; and– Alan Saxe, SVP of Business and Legal Affairs for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
And Cartt.ca will be there, too.
Registration includes access to the main plenary sessions, breakout sessions, access…
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TORONTO – RTNDA Canada, The Association of Electronic Journalists, has named its British Columbia region award winners honouring the best programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in both radio and television.
The annual awards will be presented in Vancouver on May 28, 2011.
The Television winners are:
Trina McQueen Award – News Information Program• CTV British Columbia for Black Blood
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News• /A\ Vancouver Island for Migrant Ship Approaches
Hugh Haugland Award – Creative Use of Video• CTV British Columbia for Irish Pride
Ron Laidlaw Award – Continuing Coverage• Global BC for Surrey Six
Dave…
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LAS VEGAS – The Canadian Suite held annually at the Flamingo (excellently organized and hosted by Applied Electronics and supported by dozens of companies – including Cartt.ca – every year) isn’t the only place to find Canadians.
In fact, there are thousands of Canucks among the 92,000-plus who attended NAB this year. Broadcasters (CBC, CTV, Global, CHCH, CHEK, on the TV side and just abour every radio company), students, vendors, manufacturers all make the pilgrimage every year. We even saw former Canwest Global CEO and now CEO of Fight Network, Leonard Asper, working the floor.
You can’t walk far on the exhibit…
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TORONTO – On the eve of the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, CBC has a new marketing campaign primed and ready, plus has re-vamped the hockey section of its website.
The new site design offers various custom and integrated opportunities including branded content, social media integration, and mobile platform extensions. New this year, the site also offers PushDown ads, wallpapers and site takeovers.
Refreshed iPhone and iPad applications, live streaming of every game including the Coach’s Corner segment and pre-game show Hockey Night Online will launch this weekend as part of the broadcaster’s “It Doesn’t Get Any Bigger Than This” marketing campaign in…
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MONTREAL – U.S. MSO Insight Communications will add the Galaxie Digital Music Service for its digital cable customers, announced Stingray Digital, the Montreal-based music provider.
Galaxie, Your Musical Universe, is 50 uninterrupted and commercial-free digital music channels delivered by cable, satellite or IPTV directly to consumers’ homes.
"The Galaxie music service has been distributed in the US for over one year and is enjoyed by customers of more than 50 TV operators from coast to coast," said Eric Boyko, president and CEO of Stingray Digital in the press release. "We are very happy to be partnering with Insight Communications to offer…
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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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