CBC NEWS NETWORK announced in an internal email today a number of host changes beginning Oct. 24.
Dwight Drummond (above), currently host of CBC Toronto News at 6 p.m. on the main CBC network, is joining CBC News Network to host Canada Tonight for one year.
“We are thrilled to welcome Dwight to the NN hosting family,” reads an email announcement sent to Cartt.ca. “He has a deep connection with audiences and communities, and will carry on the excellent work of Ginella Massa while she is on maternity leave.”
While Drummond hosts Canada Tonight, Marivel Taruc will be interim host of CBC Toronto…
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MONTREAL – Last week, CP24 host and personality Patricia Jaggernauth (above) filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against the channel’s owner Bell Media, which details allegations of systemic racism, sexism and discrimination.
Jaggernauth joined CP24 in June 2011 and has since worked in a variety of roles including as a weather specialist, remote reporter and CP24 Breakfast personality, according to her Linkedin page.
She told CBC in an exclusive interview she was “treated as a token and a commodity” during her 11 years there and was repeatedly passed over for promotions while her white colleagues advanced.
Jaggernauth, who…
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TORONTO and LONDON, U.K. — Blue Ant Studios and Catalyst, a Toronto-based development and funding company focusing on content created by women, announced today production has started on a new female-lead unscripted comedy series created by and starring Carolyn Taylor (above).
The six-episode, half-hour comedy, which is still untitled, was commissioned by Bell Media’s Crave and is slated to premiere on the streaming service in 2023. Blue Ant International is overseeing worldwide distribution.
The series is produced by Catalyst and Blue Ant Studios “as part of their strategic partnership to develop female-generated programming for the global marketplace,” a press release says.
Canadian…
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CBC NEWS’ CONSUMER AFFAIRS program Marketplace is marking its 50th anniversary this month and will kick off its new season on Friday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) with a special one-hour broadcast, Celebrating Marketplace’s 50th Season, on CBC TV and CBC Gem.
Known for its investigations of popular products and services, Marketplace first premiered on Oct. 5, 1972, with co-hosts Joan Watson and George Finstad exploring the rising cost of food in Canada, a topic familiar to today’s viewers.
“Using innovative testing and hidden cameras, a team of investigative journalists fights for transparency and change in industries across Canada,…
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TORONTO — Run With Us Productions announced today the classic animated series The Raccoons (above) is returning to the small screen with newly digitally remastered content, premiering on Crave in Canada on Oct. 8.
The restored content includes all 60 half-hour original episodes and four animated specials including The Christmas Raccoons, The Raccoons on Ice and The Raccoons and the Lost Star.
Seasons 1 and 2 drop on Crave this Saturday, while Seasons 3, 4 and 5 plus the animated specials will follow at a later date, according to a press release, which adds the remastered series will roll out in…
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By Howard Law
DESPITE THE SENATE’S singular focus on Bill C-11’s regulation of user generated content, today’s witnesses shed some light on other issues both important and neglected.
The biggest issue that has been mostly avoided in both the House and the Senate is what the post C-11 broadcasting world will look like when the US streamer/studios are placed under new obligations to make and/or finance CanCon, known in CRTC lingo as “Canadian Programming Expenditures (CPE).”
Debate over that issue immediately invokes a hot button issue: what counts as a certified “Canadian” program?
And debate over what is a Canadian program immediately poses…
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NEW YORK — Eurasia Group, a global political risk analysis firm, announced today Evan Solomon (above), known for hosting CTV News’ Power Play and Question Period programs, is joining the company’s management committee and becoming publisher of its subsidiary GZERO Media.
Solomon’s appointment is effective Oct. 17 and he will be based in Eurasia Group’s New York City office, says a press release announcing his appointment.
An emailed statement from CTV’s parent company Bell Media says “Solomon will continue to report regularly for CTV News as a Special Correspondent with a focus on Canadian politics and global affairs.”
A new host for…
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TORONTO – Amazon’s Prime Video today announced production has started on a new Canadian Amazon Original documentary on the life and career of Ernie Coombs (above) – or as he is more commonly known, Mr. Dressup.
The feature-length documentary, which is currently untitled, will celebrate “the origins and history of Canada’s favourite children’s show, Mr. Dressup, which built a legacy of kindness, patience, inclusiveness, and creativity in 4,000 episodes across 29 years on CBC in Canada,” a press release says.
“The documentary will combine never-before-seen archival footage, interviews with series puppeteers and musicians, the Coombs family, and other notable Canadians, all sharing the impact the series…
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CBC/RADIO-CANADA HAS responded to an open letter penned by Quebecor president and CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau, published here on Cartt.ca earlier today.
In his open letter, Péladeau expressed discontent with the direction of the national public broadcaster and the fact the government did not include any direction to the CRTC to consider “the advertising dollars the CBC/Radio-Canada is gobbling up” when it told the Commission to reconsider its decision on the renewal of CBC/Radio-Canada’s licences.
“Mr. Péladeau’s preoccupation with CBC/Radio-Canada is well known,” a CBC/Radio-Canada spokesperson said in an email to Cartt.ca. “He has, for years, repeated the claim…
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IN JUNE, THE CRTC renewed CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences on terms that caused widespread indignation. Dozens of organizations protested that the new conditions of licence constitute a major departure from the mission of a public broadcaster. Last Thursday, the Governor General in Council ordered the CRTC to reconsider its decision, bearing in mind that the national public broadcaster must continue to make “a significant contribution to the creation, presentation and dissemination of local news, children’s programming, original French-language programming and programming produced by independent producers.”
That order is good news for Canada’s production industry and we welcome it. However, there’s nothing…
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