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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TORONTO – Speakers for the 8th annual Digital Media at the Crossroads (DM@X) conference, including those from BCE, Quebecor, Corus, CBC and Rogers, were finalized earlier this month, according to the conference steering committee.
DM@X, which will be held virtually this year from Jan. 21-22, will cover several topics, many of which are particularly timely given the priorities indicated in the federal government’s minister mandate letters released last month.
Topics include the regulation of streaming services and the role of the CRTC, the options for addressing online harm and fake news, new developments in support for Canadian news from digital…
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TORONTO — CBC/Radio-Canada today announced the programming details and broadcast team for its upcoming coverage of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, which will take place from Friday, Feb. 4 to Sunday, Feb. 20.
CBC will provide more than 2,400 hours of live content across the public broadcaster’s multiple platforms, according to a press release.
“In addition to TV broadcasts on CBC and partner networks TSN and Sportsnet, audiences will be able to stay connected and informed via CBC Gem, the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices and CBC’s Beijing 2022 website, which will feature…
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GATINEAU – Revenue from Canadian broadcasting services declined 6.6% to $15.8 billion in 2019-2020 compared to 2018-2019, the CRTC says.
This is highlighted in the broadcasting portion of the CRTC’s Communications Market Report (CMR; formally the Communications Monitoring Report), released last month, which covers the broadcast year spanning from Sept. 1, 2019, to Aug. 31, 2020, and as such includes around six months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The $15.8 billion in revenue does not include revenues from Internet-based services, known as over-the-top services (OTT), operating under the CRTC’s digital media exemption order.
Over half of the revenues were generated by broadcasting distribution…
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OTTAWA – CBC’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) announced today it has released a series of reports looking at media and technology use by those aged 18 and older for 12 different markets.
The reports highlight “similarities and differences across regions, provinces, the North and major cities,” an MTM press release says.
“With a focus on ownership and use of media devices, these reports provide in-depth information on their respective markets and contrast them with the anglophone or francophone marketplace.”
The series includes “city-level reports for Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec City and Montreal (with separate Montreal anglophones and francophones reports in both languages); provincial-level…
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