TORONTO — CBC announced today Swin Chang (above) has joined CBC Kids’ content team as executive in charge of development and production.
In this role, Chang will work with the independent production community “to seek out, create and curate preschool and tween content for CBC TV and CBC Gem,” explains a press release.
She will focus on development and acquisitions, and will oversee production of selected projects with independent producers and of in-house preschool series, the release says.
Chang will report to Marie McCann, senior director of children’s content at CBC Kids, whose content team also includes executives in charge of…
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OTTAWA – Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez confirmed last week government legislation seeking to level the playing field between digital platforms and Canadian news outlets will include broadcasters.
The announcement was made at a Canada 2020 event on the future of news.
“News outlets support an informed citizenry and a healthy democracy. Canadians need access to news and information to fully benefit and participate in democratic society,” a spokesperson for Canadian Heritage said in an emailed statement to Cartt.ca.
The minister’s mandate calls on him to “Swiftly introduce legislation to require digital platforms that generate revenues from the publication of news…
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TORONTO – The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (the Canadian Academy) announced yesterday it is launching an eight-month Executive Residency Program, which will match working professionals who are Black, Indigenous, or a person of colour with high-level executives.
This new initiative is designed “to break down the barriers that currently exist for the next generation of creative executives and business leaders,” a press release explains.
A cohort of five to eight participants will be selected for the inaugural year.
This national program includes “job shadowing at an executive level, monthly meetings with the cohort led by the community partners, bi-weekly…
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Report highlights trends in content discoverability and media consumption among diverse Canadians
OTTAWA — Media Technology Monitor (MTM), a product of CBC/Radio-Canada, today released its Fall 2021 Sneak Peek report, which provides an overview of the top five highlights of MTM’s recent analysis regarding Canadians’ media habits, including among the country’s diverse populations.
“The majority of Canadians (70%) continue to subscribe to a traditional TV service; however, SVODs now also hold a large piece of the market with 77% of Canadians subscribing,” reads a press release highlighting the report’s findings.
“That same trend is seen among diverse Canadians who are less likely…
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TORONTO — Saloon Media, a Blue Ant Media company, today announced several appointments as part of the production company’s continued expansion in North America.
Betty Orr (above, left) has been appointed to senior vice-president of production, Pam McNair (centre) is now a production executive, and Elizabeth St. Philip (right) is now a senior producer at Saloon Media.
“These personnel moves will see Orr take on an expanded executive role, and bring McNair and St. Philip, who have worked with the company on award-winning projects, including Canada’s Drag Race and 9/11 Kids respectively, to the production team in a full-time capacity,” reads a press release announcing…
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By Christopher Guly
OTTAWA – On Family Day Monday in Ontario, Carol Off (above) was in her CBC office boxing up books and other tangible memories of her time as host of CBC Radio One’s As It Happens (AIH).
On Friday, her CBC family, with help from some past AIH guests – including Margaret Atwood and Romeo Dallaire – will pay tribute to Off on her final day after spending nearly 16 years at the helm of the public broadcaster’s must-listen-to weeknight current events radio program.
She will miss accumulating more intangible memories from interviews with people who touched or angered…
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OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) today released a series of new reports focusing on media and technology adoption and use across generations, from millennials (18-40) to Boomers (56-75) to seniors (76+), in Canadian English and French markets.
Among the highlights from the English generations reports, MTM found subscription video on demand (SVOD) services are very popular among millennials with more than 9 in 10 subscribing to one or more service.
“On the other hand, anglophones aged 40+ show greater interest in traditional TV and are nearly twice as likely to be paid TV subscribers than millennial anglophones,” reads an…
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TORONTO — Content syndication group Orbyt Media, a subsidiary of Bell Media, announced today it is partnering with Corus Entertainment to bring Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap program back to Canadian radio.
The legendary radio program hosted by Bachman (above) ran for 16 years on CBC Radio until it was cancelled in 2021.
Nearly a year later, on Sunday, March 6, the two-hour Vinyl Tap program will launch on several Corus Entertainment classic hits and rock stations across Canada including Rock 101 Vancouver, BIG 101.1 Barrie, Q107 Calgary, Boom 101.9 Cornwall, The Chuck 92.5 Edmonton, Y108 Hamilton, BIG 96.3 Kingston, 107.5 Dave…
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Awards show to air on CBC and CBC Gem on April 10
TORONTO — The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced today the nominees for the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards in 145 film, television and digital media categories.
The first season of the CBC series Sort Of leads both television and overall 2022 Canadian Screen Award nominations with 13, followed by CBC’s Pretty Hard Cases and CTV Sci-Fi Channel’s Wynonna Earp, which each earned 11 nominations. CBC’s Coroner and Kim’s Convenience were each nominated for 10 awards.
In film, Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s Scarborough and Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders…
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Also urges everyone to keep the C-11 debate “on facts”
By Amanda OYE
MINISTER OF CANADIAN HERITAGE Pablo Rodriguez (above, right) wants his daughter to grow up with Canadian music and Canadian productions – and the newly announced Bill C-11 can help ensure this, he said today, during a fireside chat on the final day of the Canadian Media Producers Association’s Prime Time conference.
Rodriguez joined Erin Haskett (above left), president and executive producer at Lark Productions, for a conversation that addressed a range of topics including the importance of Bill C-11 (also known as the Online Streaming Act), and gave…
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