TORONTO – CBC is about to become platform-agnostic, as they say, as the Corp. announced today the integration of all its English language platforms, including television, radio and CBC.ca.
“CBC/Radio-Canada recognizes that in order to keep pace with emerging trends in media usage, it needs to transform from a collection of individual platform-specific networks into an integrated provider of content,” said outgoing president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch, in a statement. “Increasingly, Canadians are consuming their news, information and entertainment programs through the technological platform of their choice.”
“If our audiences are to maintain access to quality Canadian content,…
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TORONTO – CBC Television on Wednesday announced its lineup of new shows for the winter season, including three dramatic series, a new half-hour comedy, a daily daytime lifestyle show and a new reality TV series.
The shows are: The Border, a new drama series focused on border-security issues centered around what happens along the “world’s longest undefended border” (debuts Monday, January 7 at 9 p.m.); MVP, a drama about some fictitious professional NHL hockey players, their wives, lovers and puck bunnies (debuts Friday, January 11 at 9 p.m.); Sophie, a comedy series about a modern woman making her way…
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OTTAWA – CBC Radio’s “The Sunday Edition” is planning a special taping to mark its 500th episode with a program featuring Giller Prize winner Elizabeth Hay, actors R.H. Thomson and Yanna McIntosh and musician Guido Basso with host Michael Enright.
It will also include historian Michael Bliss, Montreal journalist Francine Pelletier, jazz sensation Sophie Milman, and regular contributors Risa Shuman and Robert Enright, along with the show’s jazz trio Mark Eisenman, Terry Clarke and Neil Swainson.
The episode will be taped on Tuesday, November 20 at 7 p.m. in the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Free tickets can be…
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TORONTO – Women in Film and Televison – Toronto (WIFT-Toronto) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. announced Monday that Jennifer Liao has been named as the winner of the 2007 CBC Business of Broadcasting Mentorship Award. Liao will receive her award at the 2007 Crystal Awards Gala luncheon on December 3 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
The CBC will work with Liao to help her develop a wide-range of skills, from creative development to business, technical and overall project management.
She recently wrote and directed her first short, Pride War. She’s also an actor, who made her…
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TORONTO – Broadcasters will take centre stage during one of the sessions at nextMEDIA, to be held in a couple of weeks in Toronto.
Globe and Mail columnist Mathew Ingram will moderate a panel that looks at the threats and opportunities coming out of the digital media space and examines the divergent strategies being adopted by Canadian and U.S. broadcasters in response to a changing business environment.
Ingram will be joined on stage by Leonard Brody, CEO of Vancouver-based Now Public, Jonathan Dube, Director of Digital Programming for CBC News, and Mark Lukasiewicz, Vice President, NBC News, Digital Media…
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MONTREAL – CBC/Radio-Canada has opened five CBC Shop locations for the holiday season, including two kiosks in the Montréal area – one at Promenades Saint-Bruno and the other at Fairview Pointe-Claire.
These new sites in prominent shopping centres complement existing stores in the offices of CBC/Radio-Canada in Toronto, Montréal and Ottawa, and the online shop at www.cbcshop.ca.
The kiosk at Promenades Saint-Bruno is back for a second year, while the Fairview Pointe-Claire location is brand new. The other stores include a CBC Shop in Edmonton’s Kingsway Garden Mall and a kiosk at Mississauga’s Square One Shopping Centre in the Greater…
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TORONTO – CBC Sports has signed a four-year broadcast agreement with Woodbine Entertainment Group for the rights to the legendary Queen’s Plate, the oldest continuously run horse race in North America.
Beginning next June and continuing through to 2011, CBC will provide live coverage of the first jewel in Canada’s Triple Crown series, and it will be broadcast in HD for the first time.
“We’re thrilled to announce the Queen’s Plate is returning to CBC,” said Scott Moore, executive director, CBC Sports. “The Queen’s Plate is a Canadian institution that has both a great history and an exciting future,…
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TORONTO – The world’s most popular video-sharing site, the Google-owned YouTube, launched a Canadian site Tuesday, bringing to 15 the number of country-specific YouTube sites.
YouTube.ca will feature material from Canadian users though seekers of worldwide video craziness can still go to the international site, the company said.
What’s different, said Luis Garcia, YouTube’s international product manager, “is that this is just a Canadian lens into content, so if a user wants to get the Canada point of view into that global body of content, then they’re able to do that.”
The biggest beneficiaries of a Canadian YouTube may…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) recognized some of its members Monday for their outstanding news, information, documentary, and diversity programming.
The Gold Ribbon Awards, selected from 544 submissions, were presented at the CAB’s 81st Annual Convention.
In radio, the award winners were:
Aboriginal Programming: CJNB, North Battleford (Cree Ways) Northwestern Radio Partnership Information Program: CHED, Edmonton (Remembering the Fallen Four) CORUS Entertainment Inc. Breaking News: CJAD, Montreal (Dawson College Shooting) Astral Media Inc. Diversity in News and Information Programming: CKOM, Saskatoon (Seeds of Success) Rawlco Radio Ltd.
In television, the winners were:
Documentaries: CIII-TV, Toronto (Final…
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OTTAWA – The federal government has found a new President and CEO for CBC – Radio Canada.
He’s Hubert T. Lacroix, a Montreal lawyer, former private broadcasting executive and former Radio-Canada basketball colour commentator.
The announcement was made Monday by Heritage Minister Josée Verner, who said Lacroix “possesses the necessary experience and skills to lead Canada’s national public broadcaster”.
“I am confident CBC/Radio-Canada will be well-served by the leadership of Mr. Lacroix,” Verner said in a short statement.
Over at the federally-funded CBC, the news was “welcomed” by CBC Board Chair Tim Casgrain, who, anticipating criticism of the appointment,…
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