OTTAWA – Next month in Vancouver, nine broadcasting veterans will be inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
A special luncheon ceremony on Monday, November 6, 2006 will honour:
* Doug Allen, Broadcast engineer, Winnipeg * Vicki Gabereau, Radio and Television talk show host, Vancouver * Alain Gourd, Broadcast executive, Gatineau * Frank Lewis, Broadcast executive, Charlottetown * Gary Miles, Broadcast executive, Toronto * Pierre Morrissette, Broadcast executive, Montreal * Bill Stephenson, Sportscaster, Toronto * Sophie Thibault, News Anchor, Montreal * Philip (Pip) Wedge, Broadcast executive, Toronto
“This year’s inductees are innovators and leaders in the…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) on Friday announced the election of two independent directors to its board: Michel J. Carter and Anne-Marie Jean.
Jean is a former television producer and currently serves as executive director for Culture Montréal. Carter is an experienced finance and broadcasting executive and former president and CEO of TQS Inc. and Cogeco Radio-Télévision Inc.
As part of its commitment to accountability and governance best practices, the CTF board screens all independent candidates to ensure they pass the CTF independence test, including Carter and Jean. In accordance with the corporation’s bylaws, the process includes…
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CANADIANS NEED TO PAY MORE for their TV, according to additional submissions to the CRTC on its conventional television policy review.
Filed last Wednesday three months ahead of the November 27th hearing, we could only plough through a few submissions at first, but having had a bit more time to read some more, it’s clear that TV distributors are in tough against many players who want to see wholesale subscriber fees paid to conventional broadcasters.
CTV, Quebecor Media (owners of TVA and Videotron), the Canadian Media Guild, ACTRA, and the Canadian Coalition of Audio-visual Unions all said they were…
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HAVING WORKED IN ALL SECTORS of the TV industry over a number of years, one of the trends that was always in the back of Mitch Nadon’s mind was employee and executive training, recruitment and skill development.
The founder of MediaINTELLIGENCE has worked in production and post production, animation (Nelvana), and broadcast (CTV and TVOntario) in various roles, from management to production to regulatory. She has experienced how excellent companies, bosses and employees work and how lesser ones don’t work as well.
It’s a company’s employees who have the most direct effect on the bottom line and Nadon (pictured…
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IT’S NO WONDER THERE couldn’t be a CAB submission to the CRTC on the TV policy review.
While there is some agreement on what must be done to alter the course of conventional television in Canada, along side the regularly substantial chasms in opinion between the usual suspects – distributors and broadcasters – there are also substantial variances between fellow broadcasters on what must be done to secure the future of conventional television stations and companies.
So, for this most important of policy reviews, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters had to step aside and tell its members that since…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters today announced the finalists for its annual Gold Ribbon Awards, honouring excellence in private broadcasting.
The awards will be presented during New Realities, New Rules the CAB’s 2006 Convention in Vancouver, November 5-7, 2006.
The Gold Ribbon Awards honour achievement in broadcasting in various categories including community service, breaking news, humour, public affairs, and promotion of Canadian talent. The CAB received a record number of Gold Ribbon entries this year, with a total of 518 – an increase of more than 10% over 2005. All three sectors submitted a record number of…
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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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