OTTAWA – RTNDA Canada (The Association of Electronic Journalists) unveiled the winners of awards for the best in electronic journalism in its central region on Thursday evening. These winners will go on to compete for RTNDA national awards, which will be announced June 21 at the association’s national conference in Ottawa on June 21.
The 2007 central regional winners are:
Television
Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast A-Channel Barrie for A-Channel News At 6- (Medium Market) Global Television Quebec for Transit Strike Day! – (Large Market)
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News Citytv Toronto for Weekend CityNews at 6…
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OTTAWA – CBC is broadcasting the 46664 concert honouring South African leader Nelson Mandela in a multitude of platforms – on CBC Television, its specialty channel bold, its radio network and on its website at CBC.ca/Mandela.
The CBC is the exclusive Canadian broadcaster of the Will Smith-hosted event featuring bands live from Hyde Park in London, England, on June 27.
CBC Television will air concert highlights on June 27 at 7:30 p.m. ET, with shared coverage on CBC Radio 2 and streaming on CBC.ca/mandela. The concert will air in its entirety on bold on June 28, at 1 p.m….
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WINNIPEG – Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) CEO Jean LaRose praises the CRTC for seeking to “strike a fair middle ground” in its recommendations on how to fix the Canadian Television Fund (CTF).
He added that he’s pleased that the regulator recognized the “special place” that APTN has in meeting the goal of the Broadcasting Act of reflecting the country’s Aboriginal people.
The CRTC recommended that APTN be permitted to tap into both the public sector and private sector streams it is suggesting be created. The CRTC’s suggests APTN get one-third of its funding from the public sector side…
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WINNIPEG – CoolTV, the first TV channel in Canada devoted to jazz, will cease broadcasting on July 21, according to a notice to subscribers on its website.
The note states: “Canwest Broadcasting continually reviews its assets and determines which have the most potential for growth, profitability and warrant investment. It is through our analysis, we as broadcasters are sometimes left with difficult choices. With the decision to discontinue CoolTV, we can now invest more in the channels that have the greatest potential and look forward to bringing our viewers more great specialty programming in the future.”
CoolTV subscribers are…
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TORONTO – After adding more than 250,000 subscribers since October 2007, Sirius Canada reported Thursday it now has surpassed the 750,000 mark.
"Sirius has experienced a surge of growth in the past eight months from both the automotive and retail channel," said Mark Redmond, president and CEO of Sirius Canada, which is co-owned by Sirius, CBC and the Slaight Family.
"The last eight months were the strongest period of subscriber growth since launch (December 2005) and our success to-date has surpassed the expectations of the company’s management and shareholders,” added Redmond.
Sirius also announced that later this month it…
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TORONTO – CBC Radio has announced the new hosts for programs slated to begin airing this fall as part of the new schedule for Radio 2.
“While classical music remains central to the schedule, there is now room for more excellent Canadian music in a mix of genres. These additions will complete the transformation of CBC Radio 2 into a high quality, inclusive and commercial-free Canadian adult music service,” says this week’s press release.
Monday to Friday from 6 to 10 a.m., Tom Allen will host CBC Radio 2’s new morning show, which will serve as the gateway to…
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BANFF – Twentieth Century Fox Studios will be remaking the CBC sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie for broadcast in the U.S. market on the Fox network, the Canadian producer announced Monday.
Mary Darling, head of Westwind Pictures, told Cartt.ca the two parties have an agreement in principle and a deal will be signed in the next few days. She said Westwind will be working closely with Twentieth Century Fox on the adaptation of the half-hour series about a community of Muslims living in a small prairie town. The U.S. studio, which is bankrolling the remake, is currently getting…
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TORONTO – “Dunt-da-dunt-da-dunt…” is now part of the CTVglobemedia empire.
It was a battle that has raged for the better part of a week and when CBC couldn’t come to an agreement to continue to license the Hockey Night In Canada theme song, CTVglobemedia crashed the net hard yesterday and scored, buying it outright.
CBC, to the surprise of many, didn’t actually own the iconic theme music to the program and had simply been paying a license fee to composer Dolores Claman ($500 a game) for the past four decades.
However, she had a pending lawsuit against the CBC…
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BANFF – The 2008 Canadian New Media Award finalists were unveiled Sunday at the nextMEDIA conference, with four firms from across Canada vying for Company of the Year.
Moment Factory, of Montreal; Big Blue Bubble, of London, Ontario; Marble Media, of Toronto; and Vision Critical, of Vancouver, BC were chosen from about 50 entries as the nominees for Company of the Year following an extensive process, including interviews with each.
Nominated in the Most Promising Company of the Year category were b5 Media, Filemobile and Viigo, all from Toronto.
The awards ceremony will be combined with a new media…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC said today that while many things should change about the Canadian Television Fund, Shaw Communications and Quebecor Media still have to pay into it – and in a timely manner.
And, while the Commission also said it would alter the BDU regs to make monthly contributions to the CTF mandatory, the report says it won’t make that move until the federal government has dealt with the substantive issues covered by the report.
That means distributors could still choose to withhold monthly payments in favour of quarterly or annual ones until Heritage Minister Josee Verner and…
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