TORONTO – Scott Moore, director of CBC Sports and general manager of the CBC Revenue Group, is leaving CBC effective immediately.
Tuesday’s surprise announcement did not include details on Moore’s next steps, though Cartt.ca has learned that announcement is scheduled to be made on Wednesday. Responsibility for CBC Sports will be assumed on an interim basis by its senior director David Masse, while broadcast industry veteran Jack Tomik will lead the CBC Revenue Group, responsible for marketing, sales and business development.
"Scott’s tenure covered an eventful period in the Canadian broadcasting industry generally and at CBC as well," said Kirstine Stewart,…
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GATINEAU – Since all of the country’s biggest broadcasters (save CBC) will soon all be owned by Canada’s biggest carriers, the CRTC has announced a new proceeding to examine safeguards to prevent anti-competitive behaviour.
The proceeding will include a public hearing starting on May 9, 2011, in Gatineau, Que.
“The broadcasting industry is being significantly reshaped by a series of major transactions,” said Konrad von Finckenstein, chairman of the CRTC, in the press release. “As a regulator, it’s only prudent that we study the implications to ensure we have the right tools to deal with competitive concerns as they arise….
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TORONTO – CBC announced the appointment of veteran journalist Kirk LaPointe as its new ombudsman, effective November 1.
LaPointe replaces Vince Carlin, whose mandate will officially expire December 31, 2010.
The CBC ombudsman acts as an appeal authority for members of the public who are dissatisfied with the public broadcaster’s journalistic and information programming. The office is independent of CBC program staff and management and reports directly to the president and, through the president’s office, the CBC’s board of directors.
LaPointe will be based in CBC’s Vancouver office, where he lives, but will work from other CBC locations regularly as part of…
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OTTAWA – "We successfully overcame many challenges and managed to come out of the year stronger, more focused and more financially sound than we were at the outset," said CBC/Radio-Canada board chairman Tim Casgrain in kicking off the Corp’s second Annual Public Meeting held Wednesday morning in Ottawa.
Canadians from across the country participated via live webcast as Casgrain, president and CEO Hubert Lacroix, and VP and CFO Suzanne Morris reviewed the highlights of 2009–2010, provided an overview of the next year and took some questions.
Lacroix focused on the myriad changes in the media industry globally – and locally as…
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NEW ORLEANS – Traditional cable television services won’t be swept away by an Internet storm anytime soon. Rather, Internet-connected TV services can be supplemental to, and not a replacement for, cable TV.
That was the consensus of a panel discussion Tuesday at the CTAM Summit in New Orleans called ‘IP video and the realm of possibility’. After a look at rumoured cable killers such as Apple TV, Roku, Google TV and Boxee, panelists agreed that the new gadgets could actually serve to enhance their traditional linear offering.
“Linear content in the package that cable operators bring to subscribers today is still very compelling”, said…
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TORONTO – Bell Satellite TV has added three new local OTA signals to its channel lineup: CTV Ottawa, CBC Edmonton and CBC Regina.
“Bell Satellite TV subscribers in eastern Ontario and western Quebec, as well as across the country, can now access the region’s leading local news broadcasts from CTV Ottawa,” said Louis Douville, CTV Ottawa VP and GM, in a release.
“We are responding to our customers in Ottawa-Gatineau who have told us they want to see their #1 local channel on Canada’s premier satellite television service,” added Heather Tulk, Bell’s SVP, residential products. Bell Satellite TV has 1.9 million…
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ROBERT RABINOVITCH guided the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for seven years, seeing it through a period of unprecedented change in the media business while enduring the apathy, if not utter disdain from the body which holds its purse strings: the federal government.
Running the CBC hasn’t gotten any easier since he left in early 2008. The CBC still faces disdain, if not now open hostility from the government in power and critical funding shortfalls amid global, ongoing media transformations that make even the most flexible organization dizzy and its employees fearful.
We wanted to know what the former CBC CEO thinks of…
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WATCH YOUR IN-BOX Friday morning for a new feature from Cartt.ca: Cartt.ca In-Depth.
Appearing once a month for the next 12 months, Cartt.ca In-Depth will provide something that’s gone missing from many media outlets: Long-form journalism.
So, every third Friday of the month – and many thanks to the sponsorship of Fasken Martineau’s Communications Law practice, widely recognized as one of the leaders in the Telecommunications and Broadcasting sector (Lexpert ranks it as a “most frequently recommended” firm) – Cartt.ca will publish a feature interview with a notable senior industry person: someone who has been through a few of the industry…
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WATCH YOUR IN-BOX Friday morning for a new feature from Cartt.ca: Cartt.ca In-Depth.
Appearing once a month for the next 12 months, Cartt.ca In-Depth will provide something that’s gone missing from many media outlets: Long-form journalism.
So, every third Friday of the month – and many thanks to the sponsorship of Fasken Martineau’s Communications Law practice, widely recognized as one of the leaders in the Telecommunications and Broadcasting sector (Lexpert ranks it as a “most frequently recommended” firm) – Cartt.ca will publish a feature interview with a notable senior industry person: someone who has been through a few of the industry…
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OTTAWA – Quebecor Media Inc. surprisingly revealed yesterday that the company was no longer going to seek “must carry” status for its Category 2 English language all news specialty channel Sun TV News.
The revelation marks a stunning reversal from previous statements that the channel required must carry status to be able to compete with the other specialty news stations, CTV Newsnet and CBC Newsworld (the company’s last application to the CRTC said without must-carry, the business case couldn’t work). Now the company says it will work within current CRTC rules, which will require Quebecor to negotiate carriage…
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