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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GATINEAU – The CRTC has asked CTV, Corus, Rogers and Canwest to explain how MTV Canada, Viva, G4 and TVTropolis do not violate their nature of service conditions of license.
Letters sent to the broadcasters in July (except in the case of Viva, which has been in a regulatory back-and-forth with the Commission on this issue dating back to its 2008 rebrand from Canadian Learning Television) by the CRTC’s executive director of broadcasting, Scott Hutton, ask each of them basically the same question.
To paraphrase, the CRTC wants to know how – given the programming on the channels and the way…
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TORONTO – The CBC Sports Hall of Fame will induct broadcasting legends Terry Leibel, Alan Clark, Don E. Brown and Fred Sgambati at its fourth annual ceremony which this year is scheduled for November 18.
Terry Leibel became of one of the first women to anchor a network sports program on CBC Sports Weekend and TSN SportsDesk and, in Atlanta in 1996, was the first woman to co-anchor network Olympic Games coverage. She continued in this role for the next five Olympic Games with CBC. Leibel, a member of Canada’s equestrian team from 1975 to 1980, was also highly respected member of CBC’s renowned…
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TORONTO – The CBC was named ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ for the fourth time, while a number of CBC Radio programs took home medals and other honours at the 2010 New York Festivals International Radio Awards in New York City on Friday night.
A total of 17 CBC Radio programs were awarded medals at the event, including the grand award gold medal, which went to The Current for its documentary "Twice Lost" about a brother and sister’s fractious relationship. Another six CBC programs received finalist honours.
“With the recent pick up of Q with Jian Ghomeshi on American public radio network PRI…
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