TORONTO – CBC Television announced this week it has hired David Scapillati as its new general manager of media sales and marketing.
In this position, Scapillati will oversee the Media Sales and Marketing team, "and will hold a key strategic and leadership role within CBC Television," said a memo from CBC TV EVP Richard Stursberg.
"Dave has a superb track record as a dynamic senior marketing and sales executive with a strong reputation for leading change, building successful brands and growing profitable sales," said Stursberg.
In his previous position as senior vice-president of brand and marketing for Prime Restaurants…
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BANFF – Canadian industry execs filling the halls at the Banff World Television Festival told Cartt.ca they welcome CRTC review of conventional television and the request from the Heritage Minister Beverley Oda to study the technological changes facing the broadcast industry.
“We want a little freedom,” says Phil Lind, vice-chairman, Rogers Communications.
“We have been shackled to death with regulation over the years, and we want to break out of that somehow. We’ve got to realize that people just don’t really understand all of these arcane rules and regulations that have been developed in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s,…
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THE WORLD CUP IS THE most popular sporting event on the globe. Certain ethnic sections in towns and cities across Canada shut down during their games. Monday in Toronto’s Little Italy, everything ground to a standstill for the Italians’ World Cup opener against Ghana.
People there happily took to the streets after the 2-0 win by Italy. Against Ghana. In the opening round. Similar sights could be seen in the Portuguese section of town during its opener – and just wait until Brazil starts play.
As a TV rights holder, how could you not show every minute of every…
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BANFF – The rolling stone found its way home…to Martin Scorsese.
Scorses’s nearly-four-hour documentary on Bob Dylan "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" picked up the Grand Prize and the prize for Arts Documentary at the 27th Banff World Television Awards Monday night.
The film was produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, Grey Water Park Productions, Spitfire Pictures, Cappa/DeFina Productions in co-production with Vulcan Productions and BBC/Arena, NHK. The American broadcaster is PBS.
Special Jury Prize winners include Y in Vyborg by Of Course My Films Ltd. in association with YLE-Finnish Broadcasting Company; and The Rise and Fall of the Russian Oligarchs, produced…
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BANFF – Wendy Mesley, CBC broadcaster and co-host of Marketplace, accepted the ACTRA John Drainie Award today at the 27th Banff World Television Festival’s Annual Awards Luncheon on Monday.
A multiple Gemini Award winner, Mesley has an extensive journalism career spanning 30 years. Her work includes stints as a CBC radio reporter, parliamentary correspondent for The National, anchor of Sunday Report and host of both Undercurrents and CBC News: Marketplace.
Past recipients of the John Drainie Award include, among others, David Suzuki, Pierre Berton and Wesley’s mentor, Barbara Frum. Touched by the opening clip showcasing her career, Mesley joked…
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BANFF – In her speech launching the 2006 Banff International Television Conference on Sunday, Bev Oda, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, announced the government will ask the CRTC to study the technological changes facing the broadcast industry and throws her support behind sustaining our public broadcaster.
“Other nations began to build the policy framework for the new digital world decades ago,” says the Minister. “Unfortunately, Canada did not.”
“Without a doubt,” she adds, “there are challenges.”
“With the arrival of new technologies, the growth of the private sector and the virtual explosion of choice on our…
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BANFF – Fire up the consultants, it’s going to be a hot summer of TV policythink.
As expected, CRTC chair Charles Dalfen announced a review of the TV broadcasting industry today at the Banff World Television Festival this morning.
In light of narrowing profit margins for conventional broadcasters by two percent since 2001, not the kind of showing seen by the growing revenue line of pay and specialty networks, and the limited spending on Canadian drama, among many other issues presented by new and emerging technology, the CRTC has decided to take a step back and re-evaluate the entire…
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ST. JOHN’s – The Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada handed out its coveted RTNDA National and Network Awards last week at the 2006 RTNDA National Conference in St. John’s.
The 2005 NATIONAL RADIO winners are:
Byron MacGregor Award – Best Newscast
* KG Country in Red Deer for KG Country Newscast – RCMP Funerals March 11/2005 – (Small Market) * Sun FM Vernon for 8 am News – (Small Market – Honourable Mention) * 980 CJME News Talk Radio in Regina for CJME 7:00 REPORT – (Medium Market) * AM 800 CKLW in Windsor for 7 am News…
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TORONTO-BORN BRAD SCHWARTZ’s task looks to be a programmers dream.
To establish a new, analog channel with 4.5 million pre-existing paying customers using one of the world’s best-known media brands among the highly coveted young set: MTV.
The man knows his television. His first job in the industry was as assistant to Saturday Night Live founder and executive producer Lorne Michaels. From there, Schwartz hung around the music and media industries, working his way onto MTV and up the ladder there to director of global marketing in New York, before returning to Toronto as senior vice-president and general manager…
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TORONTO – The TV host who’s been synonymous with CBC Sports – especially the Olympics – for 30 years, Brian Williams, will start work for CTV this December.
In a day filled with announcements from the country’s largest private broadcaster surrounding its fall upfront presentation in downtown Toronto today (click here to see all the shows), this one was the biggest surprise. It’s pretty rare when a talent move like this happens.
Williams was introduced by Bell Globemedia president and CEO Ivan Fecan and CTV Inc. president Rick Brace. The two added Williams will play a leading role…
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