TORONTO — FRIENDS (formerly known as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting) announced today Marla Boltman (above) has been appointed as the organization’s executive director and spokesperson, effective immediately.
Boltman’s hiring follows the departure of FRIENDS’ former executive director Daniel Bernhard last summer.
“With the imminent arrival of key pieces of legislation, Boltman will serve as a powerful advocate for Canadian voices at a critical time for the country’s cultural media policy,” reads a FRIENDS press release announcing her appointment.
Under her leadership, “FRIENDS will continue to engage Ottawa on CBC’s mandate and budget while working to ensure that social media and streaming…
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TORONTO — The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and CBC announced today the 2022 Juno Awards will take place in-person this year with Simu Liu (above, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, Kim’s Convenience) hosting the live broadcast on Sunday, May 15.
The Juno ceremony has not been done in-person since 2019 due to the pandemic, and for the first time in Junos’ history the show is moving to an open-air venue at Budweiser Stage in Toronto.
The 51st annual Juno celebration will be broadcast and streamed live across Canada on May 15 at 8 p.m….
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NEW YORK — Sports-first live TV streaming platform fuboTV Inc. announced today CBC and ICI Radio-Canada Téléchannels are now available on fuboTV in Canada.
“The new partnership brings CBC/Radio-Canada’s wide range of high-quality, engaging programming and newscasts to the fuboTV platform,” reads a press release.
fuboTV’s launch of CBC and ICI Radio-Canada Télé channels “comes just in time for the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, for which CBC/Radio-Canada hold the broadcast rights in the Canadian market,” the release says.
“CBC/Radio-Canada’s offerings, which include important news coverage, reinforce the core value that fuboTV provides as a live streaming TV platform,” said Ben Grad,…
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OTTAWA — The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) today announced more details for its virtual Prime Time event, which gets underway Wednesday, Feb. 2.
The conference’s opening reception will be held online at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT on Feb. 2 and will feature comedy from Debra DiGiovanni, appearances by Mark Critch (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Son of a Critch) and Andrew Phung (Kim’s Convenience, Run the Burbs), and trivia from the cast of Amazon Prime Video’s LOL Canada.
On Thursday, Feb. 3 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT, CMPA president and CEO Reynolds Mastin will moderate a virtual session…
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TORONTO — CBC announced today it has hired Leaticia Kaggwa (above) for a newly created role as environmental sustainability lead.
This new position was created to support CBC’s new carbon footprint requirement announced in November 2021 (which Cartt.ca wrote about here).
Kaggwa will report to Lisa Clarkson, executive director of business and rights and content optimization at CBC.
“We are putting environmentally sustainable thinking into everything we do, and creating this new role is part of that commitment,” Clarkson said, in a press release announcing Kaggwa’s appointment.
“Leaticia brings a unique combination of education in sustainability management, industry knowledge and practical…
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TORONTO – CBC announced yesterday a new animated series Uprooted: The Plantemic, starring Andrea Bang from Kim’s Convenience, will launch on CBC Gem on Friday, Jan. 28.
The five-episode series “follows the daily challenges and triumphs of five houseplants confined with their human at home during the pandemic lockdown, as they adapt to a new way of living,” a CBC press release says.
Uprooted: The Plantemic was written and directed by Betty Xie, who “found comfort in caring for her plants and watching them flourish throughout the pandemic,” the release says. “She observed that she wasn’t alone in this activity as…
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OTTAWA – CBC’s Media Technology Monitor announced today the release of two reports on anglophone radio and podcast listening habits.
“Radio is one of the longest standing technologies and continues to be used by the majority of the Canadian population,” an MTM press release says.
“As technology develops, radio has shifted to newer media and is now readily available through our online devices in addition to the traditional AM/FM receiver. Podcasting has also become a sizable piece of the audio market with widespread availability.”
Key findings from the radio report include that radio is still an important medium for both news and…
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CBC ANNOUNCED TODAY executive producer of CBC Podcasts Arif Noorani (above) has been promoted to the newly created position of director of the podcast division at the public broadcaster.
“In this role, Noorani will drive the impact and success of CBC Podcasts, leading content strategy and development, and identifying new opportunities in this rapidly evolving and highly competitive space,” a press release announcing the appointment says.
“Additionally, Noorani will head up initiatives that continue to grow audiences and take Canada to the world, such as spearheading partnerships with global podcast partners.”
Noorani has over 30 years of experience in journalism and has…
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TORONTO — CBC/Radio-Canada announced yesterday veteran CBC journalist and longtime radio host Carol Off (above) will be stepping down from hosting the CBC Radio One program As It Happens (AIH) to focus on developing new original projects for CBC.
Off has hosted the national current affairs show since 2006. Her last day as host will be Friday, Feb. 25.
“It’s been a wild and wonderful ride but it’s time for someone else to take AIH for a spin. After a decade and a half and — I estimate — 25,000 interviews, I want to do something else,” Off said in a…
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CBC ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY two new “groundbreaking” podcasts, Welcome to Paradise and Nothing is Foreign, hosted by Anna Maria Tremonti (above, left) and Tamara Khandaker (right) respectively.
Welcome to Paradise is being launched Feb. 15.
The podcast is a six-part memoir during which “Tremonti reveals the deep trauma of an abusive marriage,” a press release says. “The result is a profoundly intimate portrait of a powerful woman confronting the source of tremendous pain and trauma and, remarkably, freeing herself from a life-long sense of shame.”
“For a long time, I thought what happened to me gave me the empathy to help other people tell their…
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