TORONTO – On Friday, Newstalk 1010 CFRB’s morning host Ted Woloshyn announced his retirement from morning radio.
He made the surprise announcement during the final few minutes of his show that day. Woloshyn had the morning slot at Standard Radio’s AM flagship for 10 years. “Thanks to Alan and Gary Slaight for the chance to be part of something so special," said Woloshyn in a release. "I’ve really enjoyed working with the staff here and I will miss them a lot. I’m also looking forward to some different challenges and what the future holds.”
Woloshyn started his career in…
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WINNIPEG – The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network has named a new board chair and added five new members to the board of directors.
Former APTN vice-chair and member-appointed NNBY Director, Shirley Adamson, will serve as incoming APTN Chair. Adamson replaces the outgoing Judy Gingell, who has served on the APTN board since 2001.
"I look forward to using my years of training by Aboriginal leaders in the Yukon and Canada, as well as the years spent as a journalist and broadcaster, to advance the commitment of the APTN Board to continue building Canada¹s premier aboriginal television network so that…
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SOME THOUGHTS ON the TV Policy Review hearings that one day, could grow up to be full-sized columns. ********** ONE OF THE MOST interesting questions at the hearing came late in the day on Monday, December 4th, when Media Awareness Network faced the five-person panel.
MNet, as it calls itself, is a non-profit organization with the laudable goal of boosting media literacy among children. The group promotes media and Internet education through its online programs and resources, working with a number of organizations in Canada and elsewhere. Its sponsors include Bell, Shaw, CTV, CHUM, Rogers, Telus and CanWest Global….
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GATINEAU – Airing a show called Sex Traffic prior to the watershed hour of 9 p.m. is a no-no, the CRTC told the CBC today.
The Commission actually ruled on two complaints today (the first of which concerned a broadcast from April 2005) and said that "by airing Sex Traffic and Old School at 8:00 p.m., the licensee did not meet the Canadian broadcasting policy objective set out in the Broadcasting Act that programming should be of high standard," reads the decision.
"The Commission further finds that the broadcast of Sex Traffic at 8:00 p.m. was a violation of…
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GATINEAU – As the seventh and final day of the 2006 CRTC TV Policy Review hearing wound down yesterday, a frustrated group got very wound up, and a broadcasting legend weighed in.
In a process that has sometimes gone into excruciating detail about how much more we may pay for our TV universe, how we’ll receive programs, how big a role advertising will play and what we’ll see between the ads – a big problem should have been hard to overlook. But on this day, James Roots, executive director of the Canadian Association of the Deaf, made a passionate…
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OTTAWA – A trio of up-and-coming broadcasters have been presented with Ruth Hancock Foundation Scholarships.
Awarded to applicants who demonstrate strong character and leadership qualities, a willingness to assist others and a genuine interest in pursuing a broadcasting career, the students’ commitment is reflected through involvement in extra-curricular activities related to broadcasting or broadcast sales and marketing, or through self-initiated undertakings.
Laranna Cameo Androsoff, Sarah Boothroyd, and Leanna Di Benedetto are this year’s recipients, and have each received a $1,500 scholarship.
Sponsored by the Broadcast Executives Society (BES), the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) and the Canadian Association of…
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OTTAWA – It took three years to produce and then five months to decide that the Senate Committee’s Final Report on Canadian News Media will, in essence, be shelved.
As reported in June by Cartt.ca, Senators made a number of recommendations to government on how to improve news and information getting to Canadians – not to mention the CRTC and CBC (come to think of it, some of those topics have been front-and-centre at the TV Policy Review hearings that began November 27th, but we digress…).
For example, to stem the effects of mega-mergers, the Competition Bureau should…
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TORONTO – The fall 2006 BBM ratings book (officially called S4 2006) came out Monday and one of the more notable stories in Canada’s largest market is the boost in ratings at CHFI to a 9.1 share this fall, compared to an 8.6 in the S3 book and a 9.0 in S4 2005. All numbers are A12+.
The difference between the top line shares between periods isn’t all that large, but the talking point is that the Rogers-owned station is now at the top of the Toronto heap. It jumped over CHUM FM in Toronto, which recorded an S4…
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TORONTO – Saying it wants to try different things, CBC is canceling its early evening national newscast, Canada Now.
Canada Now is anchored out of Vancouver by Ian Hanomansing but will be replaced in early February by a new show in that city. Other markets will see an expansion of local news shows from 30 minutes to a full hour. Until now, the CBC’s suppertime news hour consisted of a 30-minute Canada Now and the local newscast. Ratings are poor.
Staff were informed by CBC executives Thursday afternoon in a conference call.
No jobs will be lost due to the…
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GATINEAU – If the CCTA was still around, it wouldn’t have been able to find consensus among its members for the CRTC’s TV Policy Review either.
While the schisms among the Canadian Association of Broadcasters members meant that association was unable to come up with a submission containing any consensus among its members, some of whom want large carriage fees for broadcasters, some who want small ones and some who oppose them altogether, fractures of opinion exist in the distributor world, too.
Two of the former Canadian Cable Television Association‘s largest members faced the Commission yesterday with diametrically…
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