TORONTO – Canadian Women in Communications has named their annual award winners for 2010.
Kirstine Stewart, GM of CBC Television, has been named the CWC 2010 Woman Of The Year. This award recognizes an outstanding woman who has made a significant contribution to the communications industry throughout her career, and who has contributed materially to the advancement of women within the industry.
The CWC Leadership Excellence Awards celebrate women of achievement who have distinguished themselves in any sector of the communications industry and have, in recent years, contributed to the industry through their achievements.
This year’s winners are:– Change Leader: Valerie…
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QUEBEC CITY – Radio-Canada has launched a new Internet site, TOU.TV, the first in Canada offering free access to a well-stocked library of old and current French-language television dramas, variety shows, and current affairs productions.
The launch of the new site, enriched by the content from 20 other broadcasters and production companies, puts the public broadcaster firmly in a leadership position, said Radio-Canada vice-president Sylvain Lafrance, because viewers are quickly adopting the web as the place to get their television fix and they have nothing else quite like it, in English or in French.
Already, more than 2,000 hours of…
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TORONTO – Radio veteran Andy Barrie is leaving CBC Radio One’s Toronto morning program after 15 years.
He will host the show until March 1st, and will “continue to be a member of the CBC family in a re-imagined capacity”, the CBC said in an announcement on Monday. A new host will be named later this month.
Barrie, 65, began hosting Metro Morning on 99.1FM in 1995. The show, which airs weekdays from 5:30 – 8:30 a.m., was often Toronto’s top rated morning radio program.
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TORONTO – Okay, I’m going to take Paul Robertson’s advice and resist the urge to get all cynical about what I heard Thursday at TV Day.
A panel of five senior Canadian broadcasters (Corus Entertainment’s TV head Robertson, Rogers Media Television’s Leslie Sole, TVA’s Pierre Dion, CBC’s Richard Stursberg and Canwest Global’s Leonard Asper) gathered in front of a crowd of mostly advertisers and agencies – plus some of their broadcast peers – to give their visions of the future during a panel at the Television Bureau of Canada’s TV Day, moderated by journalist Michael Vaughan.
The message that came through? It’s…
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TORONTO – The primary headline will be the $40 million raised by Canada’s broadcasters via a pair of telethons on Friday (one in Toronto and another in French in Montreal), but there are a lot of other stories out there of companies from our industry rallying their employees or their customers to the cause.
Canada For Haiti, Friday’s one-hour, commercial-free special produced collaboratively between CBC Television, CTV and Global Television and also aired on Citytv, has raised more than $13.5 million to date for relief efforts in Haiti, it was confirmed today. (Citytv also aired its own “Help for Haiti”…
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TORONTO – Coast to coast, the cable, radio, television and telecom industries are raising millions to help those people devastated by the earthquake which has destroyed Port Au Prince, Haiti, killed tens of thousands and left hundreds of thousands injured and homeless.
Besides these many examples of help already happened/happening, the aid continues with efforts below.
Rawlco radio stations News Talk 980 CJME (Regina) and News Talk 650 CKOM (Saskatoon) Wednesday raised $620,000 during the company’s “Day of Caring for Haiti”, which was matched dollar-for-dollar by the federal government, which announced early on it would…
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TORONTO – Television production company Proper TV Inc. has tapped Cathie James as its creative director.
In this new position for Proper TV, James will be responsible for diversifying the company’s production portfolio and forging new network partnerships.
James was most recently executive in charge of production at CBC Factual Entertainment. She also has worked as a production executive at Alliance Atlantis and was head of development for Red Apple Entertainment.
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TORONTO – Canada’s biggest television networks have united in their support for Haiti.
CBC Television, CTV and Global Television are collaborating to produce Canada For Haiti, a one-hour, commercial-free special leading up to actor George Clooney’s Hope For Haiti Now special on January 22.
Hosted by Cheryl Hickey, Ben Mulroney and George Stroumboulopoulos, Canada For Haiti will kick off at 7 p.m. ET/PT (8 p.m. AT) featuring performances from “top Canadian musicians”. Full details will be announced shortly.
Donations accepted during the broadcast will go towards the Canadian Red Cross Society, Care Canada, Free the Children, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam Quebec, Plan Canada,…
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TORONTO – CBC/Radio-Canada may be able to improve the way that electricity is consumed.
As consumers warm up to their utility companies’ “smart grid” technologies as ways to manage power consumption, a company called e-Radio Inc. has taken the process one step further. Its made-in-Canada technology harnesses the power of FM radio to wirelessly and securely activate smart grid-enabled devices and appliances such as thermostats, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, and in-home displays.
And that’s where CBC/Radio-Canada comes in. With its FM signals reaching close to 99% of the Canadian population, tapping into that infrastructure could mean that almost every household from coast-to-coast-to-coast could…
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OTTAWA – The new year is shaping up to be a busy one for broadcasters and the CRTC alike.
In addition to reviewing Mediadenovo’s request to sell ad time on US specialty channels’ local avails, the CRTC will consider a number of other applications at its hearing scheduled for February 22.
Astral Media has applied for three new broadcasting licences for national, English-language Category 2 specialty television networks. Adrenaline would air action movies and series “primarily driven by a fast-paced fictional plot featuring car chases, explosions, special effects, or martial arts” according to its application, whileSuperstar will be devoted…
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