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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TORONTO – There’s a great radio gig coming open at the CBC in the coming months as the Corp’s radio chief Jane Chalmers, vice-president, CBC Radio, has decided to retire at the end of the year.
CBC president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch announced it to staff today. “It’s no exaggeration to say that Jane’s departure will be an incredible loss to the organization,” he wrote in a company-wide e-mail. “She embodies the values of public broadcasting to the core. Not only is Jane one of our most experienced and valued leaders, but she has also been a standard-setter in…
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MONTREAL – While things on the cable side of the ledger are clipping along nicely, Cogeco Inc. is now reviewing its options when it comes to Television Quatre Saisons, the Quebec broadcaster it owns with CTVglobemedia.
TQS is perennially the third-place network and compared to the company’s cable operations in Canada and Portugal, a small part of the Cogeco puzzle, but because of a challenging TV ad market in Quebec, its owners (Cogeco has 60%, CTVglobemedia, 40%) have retained CIBC World Markets “to assist in assessing the strategic options available to them in connection with TQS,” says the press…
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TORONTO – From now on, the award for best television news information program presented annually by RTNDA Canada – the Association of Electronic Journalists – will be named after Canadian industry legend Trina McQueen.
“To call Trina McQueen a trailblazer is an understatement,” says the RTNDA press release. “She was the first female reporter for CFTO News in Toronto, co-host of W5, the first female on-air reporter for The National, the first woman named executive producer of The National, at just 33.
“In 1992, McQueen became vice president of English television news and current affairs at CBC and CBC…
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GATINEAU – An airing of Radio-Canada’s "Fric show" which examined the porn industry – complete the nudity and frank language – at 7:30 p.m. was a poor decision, the CRTC told CBC this week.
In a decision released Tuesday, the Commission found that by airing the program on April 26 2007 before 9 p.m., the CBC did not meet the Canadian broadcasting policy objective set out in the Broadcasting Act that programming should be of high standard.
The Fric show is produced by the CBC and hosted by Marc Labrèche. It’s not a public affairs or news program but rather…
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