MONCTON, EDMONTON, and VANCOUVER – The Radio and Television News Directors’ Association (RTNDA) has announced its 2008 winners of the best in electronic journalism.
For the Atlantic region, the winners are:
Television: Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast – CBC Newfoundland & Labrador for CBC News: Here & Now – (Medium Market) – CBAT for Flood Coverage – (Medium Market – Honourable Mention)
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News – CBC TV Nova Scotia for Porter’s Lake Fire
Dan McArthur Award – In-depth/Investigative – CBC TV St. John’s for Bankrupt Developer – Telejournal Acadie for Heritage Toxique Aux Iles…
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BANFF – Rescue Toya!, from Japan’s public broadcaster NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), picked up the Interactive Grand Prize and the Immersive Entertainment award on Saturday night at nextMEDIA.
Gaza-Sderot: life in spite of everything, a production from France by Bo Travail in association with Alma Films, Trabelsi Productions, Ramattan Studio and Upian.com was named best Original Online Program.
www.bitchinlifestyle.tv was named the Best Canadian Emerging Digital Brand. Bitchinlifestyle TV is a web destination for the cooking, décor and lifestyle interests of a new media savvy 18-35 demo.
Organizers dubbed it the “first annual nextMEDIA Interactive awards, but prizes were…
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TORONTO – Bell TV will add six new high definition channels to its lineup next week, boosting its HD offering to an “industry-leading” 86 channels, with 41 of them available at no additional charge.
Beginning June 10, Bell TV subscribers will be able to watch CBC Montreal HD, CTV Calgary HD, Global Calgary HD, SRC Ottawa HD, Sun TV HD and TV5 HD at no additional charge. SRC Ottawa in standard definition will also join Bell’s lineup.
"The addition of these six new HD channels is another demonstration of Bell TV’s commitment to bring Canadians the HD programming they…
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TORONTO and BANFF – Monday’s opening keynote session at the Banff World Television Festival will see Lionsgate Studio co-chairman and CEO Jon Feltheimer interview Richard Stursberg, CBC/Radio-Canada’s EVP of English Services – and Cartt.ca will be there too.
The two industry leaders will provide “critical insights into the major issues currently shaping the direction of television production, distribution and digital media”, and will discuss what it takes to make great television, the announcement read.
Feltheimer will also accept an Outstanding Achievement Award on behalf of Lionsgate Television at a luncheon later that day.
The 30th Banff World Television Festival…
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ACCORDING TO A POLL commissioned by broadcast industry watchdog Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, most Canadians believe that the CBC is “being starved of funds by a government with a vendetta against it”.
The group hired public opinion research firm Pollara to survey Canadians’ attitudes about and expectations for the CBC, and apparently found that most Canadians believe “that Prime Minister Harper is intent on hobbling the CBC”.
The press release also stated that:
– 63% of respondents agreed that "Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative government are hostile to the CBC and would like to diminish public broadcasting in Canada";…
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TORONTO – CBC Radio One ranked first in Toronto and Vancouver between March 2 and April 26, 2009, according to BBM’s S2 2009 top-line results.
Its share of listening increased from 8.9% in S1 to 10% in the competitive Toronto market, and CBLA’s Metro Morning with Andy Barrie remains the city’s top morning show with a record 14.2% share of listening. In Vancouver, CBU captured a 12.4% share for the March through April period, up from 11.0% in S1, and its morning show, The Early Edition with Rick Cluff, also ranked first with an18.2% share.
When coupled with Radio 2’s…
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TORONTO – In recognition of National Access Awareness Week running May 31 through June 6, The Accessible Channel (TACtv) is promoting media access for the more than 6.6 million Canadians who are blind, vision-impaired, deaf or hard of hearing.
The Accessible Channel, which has been on the air for almost six months, is a must carry for all BDUs as part of their basic digital service. Viewers who cannot see the television screen do not require additional equipment in order to access TACtv.
In partnership with content distributors such as CBS International, CBC, CTS, Rogers-Citytv, CTV, Canwest, Movieola, and…
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TORONTO – One of Canada’s best-known broadcast executives and “industry trailblazer”, Trina McQueen, will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Banff Television Festival on June 8, 2009.
The Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledges outstanding and unique contributions to the broadcasting industry throughout an individual’s career. McQueen’s career of achievements extends to both private and public television as president and COO of CTV, founding president of the Discovery Channel Canada, and head of news, current affairs and Newsworld at CBC.
McQueen is currently on the board of the CBC and is an adjunct professor of broadcast management at the Schulich School…
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TORONTO – CBC union Canadian Media Guild said today that 350 jobs are to be cut in French and English services outside of Quebec.
Of these, 100 are due to non-renewal of contract employees, 158 are due to layoffs of permanent employees, and 19 are vacant jobs being abolished. In addition, 73 employees are taking retirement incentives.
The cuts look to be smaller than the Corp predicted earlier this year.
“We are losing very experienced people who have devoted years to the CBC and we’re also losing people who were beginning what should have been long and bright careers…
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TORONTO – nextMEDIA Banff and the 30th edition of the Banff World Television Festival both begin next week at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel – and Cartt.ca will be there too.
New this year is the Telefilm Canada TV 360 program, established to provide cross-platform development opportunities for Canadian producers, writers and directors to successfully pitch and market projects to Canadian and international broadcasters and funders. Participants will also receive coaching on social media, mobile, gaming, design and technology to help steer the projects from TV series to the dot-com world.
Organizers have also announced the nominees for the interactive…
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