OTTAWA – On Wednesday, the CRTC said Canadian cable companies should be allowed eliminate most of the radio stations they currently carry on their systems.
Section 22 of the Broadcasting Distribution Regulations says that Class 1 and 2 cable companies must offer all local radio signals over their cable systems to subscribers. Trouble is, said the cable industry in its CRTC filing last year, hardly anyone listens to the radio on cable.
The now-defunct Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association told the CRTC it needed the additional capacity to add channels, specifically, HDTV services, as reported by www.cartt.ca.
The Canadian Association…
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TORONTO – A total of 79 employees who worked on CBC set design, studio and remote production, post-production, and network presentation got layoff notices this morning, a CBC spokesperson told www.cartt.ca.
CBC was one of very few remaining broadcasters with an in-house set building crew and these functions will now be contracted out or handled by independent producers.
In addition, 20 more positions will not be filled.
A note to staff from executive director of regional programming and television production and resources, Fred Mattocks, and Doug Broadfoot, director, Toronto Production Centre, said the move is part of a broader…
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TORONTO – Mark Starowicz has been appointed to the new position of executive director of documentary programming for CBC Television, the Corp announced today. In his new role, Starowicz (left), an acclaimed documentarian (he made Canada: A People’s History) will have overall responsibility for the development, commissioning, production and co-production of documentary programming, including science programming. CBC Television will continue to offer a mix of independent and in-house documentaries on all of its platforms.
“We have seen in recent years an exponential growth of interest in documentary and factual programming among television audiences,” said Richard Stursberg, executive…
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TORONTO – Global Television’s Peter Kent will be presented with the Radio-Television News Directors Association Canada president’s award at the group’s annual gathering in June in St. John’s, NL.
The deputy editor of Global Television News, Kent began his broadcast career in the 1960’s in talk radio in Vancouver. Soon he moved to television as a foreign correspondent for CBC, CTV and NBC. He has reported on major world events including the evacuation of Saigon and the fall of the Berlin Wall and has been on assignments that took him to Uganda, Cambodia and Vietnam.
He also anchored CBC’s…
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THIS TV POLICY REVIEW will not be an easy thing.
The new Conservative government certainly wants a say. The CBC’s TV licenses are up for renewal at the same time. Private broadcasters are demanding a fee for the carriage of their signals, a way to deal with distant signals, more ad time per hour and since the high definition conversion is under way and very expensive, maybe the right to abandon tower transmission. Televised dramatic programming is resurgent Stateside but there are few new Canadian-made dramas and not enough money in the current system to make enough of them….
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TORONTO – Women in Film and Television – Toronto today announced its 2006 board of directors
New directors elected to the Board are: Leesa Levinson – Actress and Disabilities Advocate Gabriella Martinelli – President and CEO, Capri Films Sara Moore – Senior Vice President, Marketing and Publicity, Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting Susan Ross – Executive Vice President and General Manager of Specialty Television, Corus Entertainment Karen King, Production Executive, Original Programming, Drama, CanWest MediaWorks, was re-elected for a second term.
The following Board Members will continue for the 2006 term: Kirstine Layfield – Executive Director, Network Programming, CBC Television Wendy…
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TORONTO – Today, radio stations across the country are gloating, breathing a sigh of relief, or wondering about changes as the latest ratings came out today.
Check out www.cartt.ca’s Press Release page for the gloaters (and, CBC has good reason to gloat as their audience re-joined them this period).
Please click on the cities below for charts prepared by David Bray, senior vice-president of Hennessy & Bray Communications. Phone: (416) 431-5792; Fax: (416) 431-0168; E-mail: davidbray@sympatico.ca; Web site: www.hennessyandbray.com.
BBM itself also now releases top line data. Click here for that link.
Vancouver Calgary…
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VICTORIA – RTNDA Canada presented its regional awards Saturday evening during the association’s annual British Columbia regional professional development seminar in Victoria.
The 2005 TELEVISION winners are: Bert Cannings Award – Best Newscast
* CFJC TV7 Newscentre Kamloops for T.R.U. Beginning – (Small Market) * CH Vancouver Island for CH News at 5: Air India Verdict – (Medium Market) * CTV British Columbia for CTV News at Six – (Large Market)
Charlie Edwards Award – Spot News
* CTV British Columbia for Mudslide * CFJC TV7 Newscentre Kamloops for CAZA, High Risk Predator – (Honourable Mention)
Dan McArthur Award…
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SHOULD BROADCASTERS RECEIVE a wholesale fee for their signals from BDUs?
That will be one of the key questions for the industry and the Commission to answer in the coming months because while the CRTC’s radio review is well under way – with public hearings in May – we can likely expect a TV policy review to begin late this year with hearings in 2007, sources told www.cartt.ca this week.
The desire by broadcasters to be paid a fee for carriage, or for retransmission, is about as old as the cable industry itself. In the 1950s, broadcasters called nascent…
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I THINK WE ALL KNOW people with media rooms in their homes. Secretly or perhaps not-so-secretly, we all want one.
A 100-inch screen that drops from the ceiling with an HD projector, surround sound, subwoofers in the floor, popcorn machine and beer tap… Okay now I’m getting carried away.
But if the consumer has all this high tech gear (and the stats say more are moving in this direction), what is he sitting down to watch? Broadcast TV? Maybe, maybe not. What if what’s on TV isn’t good enough to maximize the abilities of the media room? Does he…
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