REGINA – RTNDA, the association of electronic journalists handed out its Prairie region awards for 2006 this weekend at the annual Prairie Regional Professional Development Seminar.
This year RTNDA Canada created five new award categories to recognize outstanding videography, use of sound, new media, information programming and diversity.
The RTNDA "Diversity Tool Kit" which was released across the country in January offers practical solutions to bring diversity to our stories and to our newsrooms. To acknowledge those accomplishments RTNDA created a new Diversity Award this year. Global Calgary and CBC Saskatchewan won the inaugural awards in the Prairie region….
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OTTAWA – The CRTC should immediately regulate monthly contributions to the Canadian Television Fund (CTF) and establish an arms length dispute resolution mechanism to deal with any concerns raised about the fund, recommended the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications in its report released Thursday.
The second recommendation of the report, The Challenges Ahead for the Canadian Television Fund, is that the government re-examine the CTF’s spending envelopes, especially with respect to the CBC/Radio-Canada.
One of the complaints of Shaw and Quebecor when they withdrew their monthly contributions earlier this year was that 37% of the CTF went…
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OTTAWA – Auditor-General Sheila Fraser isn’t as worried about the appointment process at the CBC as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Corp. or the unions, which complain it’s too political.
Asked repeatedly by Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage Committee members on Tuesday about the appointment process for the CBC’s chair, other board members and president, Fraser would not criticize the government.
“You have to recognize that the CBC is a Crown corporation and the government is the shareholder of the CBC and it is usually the shareholder who appoints the president,” she said. “The real issue is to make sure you…
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TORONTO – Wanda Bradley, manager of sales operation at NBC/Universal, and Michelle Marion, director of Canadian independent production at Astral Television Networks have been elected to the 2007 board of directors of Women in Film and Television – Toronto (WIFT-T).
Board members continuing for the 2007 term are Karen King, production executive of original programming, drama at CanWest MediaWorks; Kirstine Layfield, executive director of network programming at CBC Television; Leesa Levinson, actress and disabilities advocate; Wendy MacKeigan, executive producer of SK Films Inc.; Marcia Martin, vice-president of production at CHUM Television; Gabriella Martinelli, president and CEO of Capri Films;…
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By Laurel Hyatt
GATINEAU – The Citytv stations are “failing” and need CTV’s injection of cash to stay afloat, so the CRTC should make an exception to its ban on owning two conventional TV stations in a market, says Ivan Fecan, president and CEO of CTVglobemedia.
Allowing CTV to keep City stations in Toronto/Hamilton, Vancouver/Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg is in the public interest because “the City stations are teetering at the financial edge,” Fecan told commissioners Monday at the start of a two-day hearing into the $1.365 billion CTV buyout of CHUM Limited.
The CRTC’s…
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TORONTO – The best in radio and television reporting was honoured by the Radio Television News Directors Association of Canada this weekend in Toronto.
This year RTNDA Canada created five new award categories to recognize outstanding videography, use of sound, new media, information programming and diversity. The RTNDA "Diversity Tool Kit" was added to Canadian newsrooms after its release in January. It offers solutions aimed at bringing increased diversity to newsrooms and the stories electronic journalists tell.
To acknowledge those accomplishments RTNDA created a new Diversity Award, won this year A-Channel Barrie and CBC. Eight television and eleven radio…
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OTTAWA – Seven months after former CBC chairman Guy Fournier "flushed himself" out of the job, the Corp. has a new chairman of the board.
Heritage Minister Bev Oda announced the appointment of Timothy W. Casgrain on Friday afternoon. It’s fair to say he is a complete outsider.
"The credentials Mr. Casgrain brings to the CBC will provide strong leadership," said Minister Oda in her release. "I am confident that his experience and sound judgement will greatly benefit the CBC."
Casgrain (pictured) is currently chair of charter airline Skyservice Investments. Prior to that position, he served as executive vice-president…
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TORONTO – An original member of the YTV management team and the founding general manager of TreehouseTV, Susan Ross spent almost two decades in kids TV.
On May 31 at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio, Ross will receive the Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) Outstanding Achievement Award for 2007.
Ross "has enjoyed an exceptional career in children’s programming in Canada," says the ACT press release. "ACT’s board of directors is recognizing her for her commitment to excellence in children’s programming, as well as her leadership and guidance in developing Treehouse TV into one of the world’s best preschool…
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OTTAWA – Calling the CBC the most important outlet for Canadian programming, representatives from the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) urged the government to provide the public broadcaster with long-term stable funding.
Appearing Thursday before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, CFTPA president and CEO Guy Mayson complained though that the CBC was asking for unduly long periods for the rights to programs under the its broadcast licences. He also noted multiple-platform rights were being sought, sometimes indefinitely, without fair compensation.
He added though that the CBC is not the only one seeking these kinds of deals;…
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STREAMING THE TORONTO MAPLE Leafs online seems like a no-brainer. The team seems to have an insatiable, unlimited fan base.
But, there is much to consider when turning a sports team to the web, especially one that is limited to its own region. Just like LeafsTV is limited to Ontario (except Ottawa), so must any games carried on line be limited to viewing in the same geographic area.
Plus, the web experience can’t be just a rebroadcast of the televised game, otherwise, what’s the point, asks Chris Hebb, Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment’s senior vice-president of broadcast.
Hebb oversees…
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