OTTAWA – A wholesale fee for carriage is something that not just private broadcasters are after.
The CBC/Radio-Canada submission to the CRTC’s TV policy review calls for a new way to deploy high definition and for the CBC to begin getting paid a subscriber fee from cable and satellite companies.
"CBC/Radio-Canada must be able to adapt to the realities of the fast-changing broadcasting environment," said Robert Rabinovitch, president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, in a press release.
The Commission has asked conventional broadcasters about the future of over-the-air reception in a digital environment. "Very few Canadians continue to rely on…
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VANCOUVER – In conjunction with the station’s first anniversary of its new branding and its diversity programming format, serving Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Greater Victoria, general manager Terry Mahoney of Rogers OMNI Television BC today announced the station’s new management structure.
Rogers purchased the station (which was once called NOW TV) from the Theissen family in 2005.
The new structure of the OMNI BC senior management team includes Jonathan D. Roth, senior producer of local content; Ken G. Stewart, production manager; Gary J. Milne, general sales manager and Suzanne A. Smith, director of…
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NOT EVEN A YEAR INTO HIS JOB as board chairman of CBC-Radio Canada, Guy Fournier scarcely had time to make an impact before resigning Tuesday, smothered (as reported by Cartt.ca) by ridicule for a succession of blunders about bestiality, bowel movements, and the lack of national unity cheerleading from the French-language service.
Appointed by then-Heritage Minister Liza Frulla in the dying days of the Liberal government last October, the 75-year old Quebec film producer, scriptwriter and author had only a few months to make an impression on his new political overseer, Bev Oda. Evidently, it wasn’t a good…
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AS WE MOVE INTO FALL, it’s getting closer and closer to the end of Charles Dalfen’s term as chairman of the CRTC.
His busy term expires at the end of the calendar year and he will apparently not be offered a second term.
According to a well-placed source in Ottawa, Dalfen was offered a one-year extension but he declined, asking the government to grant him another full five-year term or not at all.
So, who’s going to sit in the top chair at the Commission? Names that have been making the rounds among Ottawa communications types – and their…
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TORONTO — Toronto Maple Leaf tough guy Tie Domi is retiring to become a commentator on TSN.
The Leafs bought out his contract at the end of last season. Domi announced at an emotional news conference in Toronto this afternoon that while he had offers to play for other teams, “I just couldn’t put on another jersey…other than blue and white.”
Domi said he’ll be a regular hockey analyst on TSN’s Wednesday night NHL broadcasts. “The people at TSN have been incredible. I’ve never felt so wanted in my life.”
In a news release, TSN said that Domi called…
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OTTAWA – The CBC has won the rights to broadcast the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup and other soccer games in a seven-year deal.
CBC/Radio-Canada, in partnership with Telelatino, has the rights to show FIFA games from 2007 to 2014, including the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, the World Cup in 2014, the FIFA Women’s World Cup in China 2007, and the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2011. The networks will also act as host broadcaster for the FIFA Men’s U-20 World Cup, taking place in Victoria, Burnaby, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto in July 2007,…
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By Glenn Wanamaker
Quebec media columnists are openly wondering this week how long 75-year-old Guy Fournier, an award-winning film producer, scriptwriter, journalist, and author, can remain as Chairman of CBC-Radio-Canada’s board of directors.
In the 11 months since his appointment, Fournier has provoked one outcry after another, first over his musings about Radio-Canada’s role in promoting national unity, then over his radio comments about the joys of defecating, and finally last week, over his comments on how Lebanese law regards bestiality.
In his latest column for the popular French-language magazine “7 Jours”, a Quebecor-owned gossip/entertainment publication,…
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HORSESHOE VALLEY, Ont. – With well over 270 delegates last week, the Central Canada Broadcast Engineers 2006 conference saw a 20%-plus jump in attendance, say organizers.
Beginning Thursday with papers and seminars, the CCBE agenda was a full one as speakers covered topics from fibre optics system design for broadcast operations to high definition connectivity, media transport technologies to aspect ratio handling, HD radio/IBOC to ENG IP connectivity, audio processing to digital workflow.
The conference wrapped up today (Sunday).
Saturday morning, CBC Transmission’s Martin Marcotte detailed the 2005 installation of the terrestrial repeaters to make Sirius Canada’s satellite radio system work…
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THE CEOs ARE IN AGREEMENT. Canadian media companies must get bigger in order to still matter. The problem is that those companies also agree on one other thing: They’re all buyers.
With Bell Globemedia’s deal to acquire CHUM Limited now complete but for the opinion of the regulator, we’ve had a summer marked by an irresistible spasm of speculation of who might be next. The CTV-CHUM combination will be a big media company by Canadian standards – while remaining a pretty modest operation compared to the U.S. giants.
Will Astral Media buy Standard Broadcasting? Will Corus Entertainment and…
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TORONTO – Sue Sheridan’s position was made official today.
After serving as interim executive director of Women in Film and Television – Toronto for most of the year, Sheridan was given the full title. She joined WIFT-T in 2005 as director of programming development and was named acting managing director in 2006.
“We are more than delighted that someone with Sue’s exceptional leadership ability will be assuming the role of executive director,” said WIFT-T board chair Wendy MacKeigan. "With the launch of www.CanadianFilmmaker.com, the development of the Business Learning Initiative certificate program, and the upcoming Crystal Awards in…
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