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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TORONTO – The CBC’s Jennifer Stewart has been appointed director of acquisitions, network programming, CBC Television, effective immediately.
Stewart (right) joined CBC in 1998 as a sales executive for Canada, and soon after became manager of broadcast sales for Australia, Canada and New Zealand. She was named acting director during a period of review of all business practices for international sales, and in 2001 was made director of international co-productions, sales and acquisitions, reporting jointly to business development and network programming.
"Program acquisitions is a very important source of programming for CBC Television’s schedule," said Kirstine…
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TORONTO – The CBC announced today it hired Fred Fuchs as executive director, arts and entertainment programming. Fuchs (right) is a 25-year veteran of the entertainment industry and has many successful film and television productions to his credit, including the classic children’s series Faerie Tale Theatre, the feature films Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Virgin Suicides, the Emmy-nominated mini-series The Odyssey and Moby Dick, and the CBC-TV animated series What It’s Like Being Alone.
Over the past five years, Fuchs established himself in the Canadian independent production community and his recent projects north of the border…
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TORONTO – Effective April 3, Anna Gecan becomes vice-president, content at HGTV while Emily Morgan will be the new vice-president, content, Food Network and Fine Living, Alliance Atlantis has announced. Gecan, left, brings 20 years of television leadership and production experience to her new role, most recently as director, original production for HGTV and Food Network. Over the past year, she oversaw the development and commissioning of more than 20 new titles and the production of over 50 titles for the two channels.
During her tenure, both networks achieved record audience gains, and a series she personally…
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MONTREAL – The Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada (SCRC) and CBC/Radio-Canada management announced today the signing of an agreement in principle for renewing the collective agreement with the SCRC’s 1,500 members in Quebec and Moncton, N.B.
The SCRC bargaining committee will recommend the agreement’s terms of settlement to union members as early as Saturday. No further details can be disclosed at this time, as the two sides agreed to keep the terms of the deal out of the media prior to voting.
"The parties are very satisfied with the way the bargaining process was conducted and concluded. Discussions were…
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