TORONTO – CBC Television today announced the appointment of Scott Moore as executive director, CBC Sports, effective March 5.
"As a Gemini and Emmy award-winning producer with an international reputation for innovative sports production, Scott has a wealth of knowledge and experience which will provide a tremendous benefit to the CBC," said Richard Stursberg, executive vice-president of CBC Television, in a press release. "Sports are a key part of the CBC’s service to Canadians."
Most recently, Moore owned an independent production company, Vancouver-based Top Notch Studios, where he was involved in the Athens and Torino Olympic Games, the Melbourne…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Providing emergency alerts to TV viewers will continue to be a voluntary thing for the industry, the CRTC said today.
In a public notice, the Commission set out its approach for the establishment of emergency alert services in Canada, and in another decision also issued today, the Regulator allowed public authorities to use 911 databases in order to improve the effectiveness of telephony-based emergency public alerts.
"According to the Broadcasting Act, the Canadian broadcasting system should serve the needs of Canadians," said Michel Arpin, vice-chairman, broadcasting, of the CRTC, in a press release. "It is vitally…
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TORONTO – Inspired by Rosalie Tremblay, music director of CKLW-AM in Windsor from 1967-1984 “The Rosalie Award” honours Canadian women in broadcasting who have blazed new trails.
Next week, Jane Hawtin will be recognized and honoured for her achievements by friends and peers at the 3rd Annual Women in Broadcasting Breakfast, March 9, 2007.
A broadcaster, producer and entrepreneur, Hawtin began her career in radio in 1976 at CKLC in Kingston. She piled up a number of firsts including first female news director in private radio (Q107) and first female talk show host in private radio (CFRB 1010). When…
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OTTAWA – With two major crises reaching public climaxes just before Canadian film, TV and new media producers gathered here for their annual Prime Time conference last week, the event could easily have become two long days’ journey into denouement.
Instead, although frequent quips proved tensions still simmer following the ACTRA strike and the uncertain future for the Canadian Television Fund, PT’s agenda (which included a speech from new CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein) focused on improving industry performance amid some encouraging 2005-’06 news.
Volume up The Canadian Film and Television Production Association’s annual Profile report says…
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TORONTO – The Association of Electronic Journalists said Monday that nine people will be honoured with the 2007 RTNDA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards.
The awards will be presented at the RTNDA Regional Pro Dev Seminars in Toronto on April 28; Regina on May 12; Halifax on June 2; and at the BC Regional Awards Banquet on June 21, during the RTNDA National Conference being held in Vancouver.
The 2007 RTNDA Canada Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are:
Gord Martineau of CityTV Toronto. Gord Martineau has been the face of CityTV for 30 years. But he got his start in radio…
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WASHINGTON and NEW YORK – With both companies still awash in a sea of red ink, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio today announced they will merge in an all-stock merger with a combined value of approximately US$13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately US$1.6 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, XM shareholders will receive 4.6 shares of Sirius common stock for each share of XM they own. XM and Sirius shareholders will each own approximately 50% of the combined company.
There are no details as yet for what will happen with Sirius Canada and XM Canada….
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OTTAWA – Saying he is "sufficiently assured" that change is in the works with the Canadian Television Fund, Jim Shaw told the Standing Committee of Canadian Heritage this morning "we will restore our payments," to the CTF.
As reported by Cartt.ca, Shaw began withholding its $5 million a month in monthly payments to the $250 million annual fund, saying the fund is not accountable, pays for too few shows that are success stories and that too much money goes towards programs that appear on the CBC.
Shaw’s regulatory head Ken Stein said that the CTF funding, when established over…
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WASHINGTON and NEW YORK – With both companies still awash in a sea of red ink, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio today announced they will merge in an all-stock merger with a combined value of approximately US$13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately US$1.6 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, XM shareholders will receive 4.6 shares of Sirius common stock for each share of XM they own. XM and Sirius shareholders will each own approximately 50% of the combined company.
There are no details as yet for what will happen with Sirius Canada and XM Canada….
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MONTREAL – Quebecor Media has decided to pull in its horns over the funding of Canadian television productions and will resume monthly payments to the CTF, at least for now.
Quebecor president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau said late Tuesday he was encouraged by the commitment made earlier in the day by the new CRTC Chair, Konrad Von Finckenstein, to become involved in finding solutions to the issues raised by Quebecor and Shaw Communications.
Von Finckenstein said the two companies had highlighted “serious issues that need to be resolved”, and that Quebecor, with its funding proposal outlined Monday, had…
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BY THE MIDDLE OF this year, Canada’s largest satellite operator, Telesat, will be a much bigger company.
When Loral Space Communications and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board said in December it would pay about $3.4 billion for Bell Canada Enterprises-owned Telesat, it moved the Ottawa-based company into a larger playing field. Its seven satellites plus four from Loral and the four the companies currently have in the pipeline under construction or awaiting launch, will more than double Telesat’s size by the end of 2009, when the last bird on the drawing board right now is built.
However,…
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