TORONTO – Look for Alliance Atlantis to begin making some serious moves into alternative distribution of its shows with its newest hire. Claude Galipeau (left) was announced today as senior vice-president digital media, content group at the broadcaster today. Galipeau’s appointment will be effective at the end of March.
He will oversee the development and implementation of the digital media strategy for Alliance Atlantis. He brings a wealth of experience to the company, most recently as the executive director, digital programming and business development for the CBC. He was the one behind getting the 2006 Winter Olympics…
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OTTAWA – CBC TV is making a bold, and some say scary, bid for bigger audiences by redefining the very foundations of its programming strategy, according to preliminary information presented last week by Richard Stursberg, EVP of English TV.
Stursberg was speaking to delegates at a national conference of film and TV producers held here Feb. 15-17.
In the past, he indicated via a slide presentation, programs, even entertainment programs, have tended to do well among viewers who like news and current affairs. This neglects the largest groups and heaviest TV viewers. While some of his predecessors worried more…
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OTTAWA – While CRTC chairman Charles Dalfen said little to surprise independent producers in his annual address at the CFTPA’s national conference, he did hint at something that could delight them.
With CBC up for licence renewal this year, followed by the major private ‘casters, and with handheld digital media starting to shift industry revenue streams, Dalfen told producers “a bigger TV policy review might be timely” and he’s welcoming suggestions.
Any re-think of the TV policy, cursed by almost all stakeholders except broadcasters since it took effect in the fall of 2000, would begin after the review of…
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OTTAWA – Once upon a time, the boys and girls in the content production and delivery business gathered for many huddles. They were figuring out how to pass film and video content to the receiver, the Internet, and score a business model for web content. The play action took the form of rights management issues, and the strategy was nearly intercepted by haggling over the ownership and dollar value of rights.
Today, as the Internet joins video MP3 players, cellphones, games and podcasting among the receivers of digital content, the players are huddling once again and again, the quarterbacks…
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OTTAWA – Knowing CBC-TV chief Richard Stursberg will meet some of the national media (including cartt.ca) in Ottawa today at the CFTPA’s Prime Time gathering to talk about the Ceeb’s future plans, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting and ACTRA released an hour-count it says shows CBC has "dropped the ball" on Canadian drama.
FOCB, a lobbying group, and ACTRA, the Canadian actors union, are still stinging from the announcement this week that the CBC has cancelled the critically praised, but low-rated This is Wonderland, The Tournament, and DaVinci City Hall. Both groups are still angry about the CBC lockout of…
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MONTREAL – The local digital transmission of the broadcast feed from Radio-Canada and CBC is being delivered by Videotron.
Throughout the duration of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Videotron Business Solutions and T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, are co-operating to transmit the feed. Under an agreement between Videotron and T-Systems, T-Systems is responsible for carrying the feed from Italy to its own network end points (points of presence) in Montreal and Toronto, while Videotron is responsible for local transmission of the fibre-optic signals to CBC headquarters in Toronto and Radio-Canada headquarters in Montréal.
Videotron Business Solutions routes…
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TORONTO – Karen Gelbart has been promoted to senior vice-president content, lifestyle channels at Alliance Atlantis.
It was the position vacated recently by Kirstine Layfield who, as previously reported, is joining CBC as executive director of network programming. "I think it is terrific that we have such a strong and proven leader and manager as Karen to fill this important position," said Norm Bolen, AA’s executive vice-president, content, in a memo to staff.
Gelbart (right) joined Alliance Atlantis in 1997, initially in charge of the company’s Cinevillage studio facilities. She was then vice-president of programming for the Food Network, then…
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MONTREAL – Subscribers to Videotron’s illico digital cable are able to access Olympic coverage from Radio-Canada, the French-language network of the CBC, via video on demand.
Under an agreement announced Friday, over 160 hours of programming will be available free of charge and without commercial interruption on VOD throughout the 2006 Winter Games in Torino.
Illico customers will be able to go to channel 900 to watch the competitions and the opening and closing ceremonies 24 hours after they are broadcast on Radio-Canada, which is the same as what Rogers is getting from CBC in its territories.
“We are…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Media Directors’ council has lined up a large, interesting, diverse slate of senior executives to speak at its upcoming conference.
The CMDC’s March 28 conference is called "Mining Growth – Discovering Potential in Media Mayhem" and will likely attract more than 800. The annual get-together is the Canadian marketing industry’s largest single-day event.
The keynote speakers include: Michael Grimaldi, president, General Motors Canada; Maurice Lévy, Paris-based CEO of Publicis Groupe SA; and Pierre Karl Péladeau, president and CEO, Quebecor Inc.
The outlook for growth from media outlets will be presented by five Canadian media leaders:…
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WHY IS GLOBAL NATIONAL the only Canadian content I can get from iTunes for my Video iPod?
Why is the sports content on the Samsung a920 from Bell Mobility I’ve just started testing (downloads are surprisingly speedy, by the way) from ESPN? Where’s Sportsnet or TSN?
Why is its business news a bland CP report and not from ROBTv or Newsnet, for example? Why isn’t FashionTelevision the feed for the "fashion" channel on this nifty multimedia wireless phone?
Where’s Treehouse On Demand for these devices – my kids would flip for it (actually, there’s no kids content offered at…
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