TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced today it released its 2020-2021 annual report, which shows its funding triggered $1.5 billion in production activity.
“Every $1 of CMF funding generated $4.29 in production activity, slightly higher than last year’s $4.12, despite historic challenges as a result of the global pandemic,” a press release says.
The CMF fosters, develops, finances and promotes Canadian content production. The Government of Canada and the country’s cable, satellite and IPTV distributors make financial contributions to the CMF.
In 2020-2021, the CMF funded 1,309 projects, according to its annual report. It’s program budget for the year was…
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Office life unlikely to return to what it was in 2019
By Amanda Oye
AS COMPANIES AROUND the country make plans to bring employees back into offices, and grapple with how to do so safely, Cartt.ca asked a variety of Canadian telecommunications and broadcasting companies about their own plans.
Few companies Cartt.ca reached out to have, at this point, decided to require staff to be fully vaccinated. Fourteen companies responded to our request for information on back to office plans, only three of which indicated they were requiring some or all employees to be vaccinated.
OUTtv is one of those companies. While…
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Includes 200+ hours of TV broadcasts and 1,000+ hours livestreamed and on-demand
OTTAWA – The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) announced today over 200 hours of coverage from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will be televised on CBC/Radio-Canada, Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) and Sportsnet from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5.
Additionally, over 1,000 hours of coverage will be livestreamed and broadcasted on-demand on Paralympic.ca/Tokyo-2020, cbc.ca/tokyo2020 and Radio-Canada.ca/jeux-paralympiques, the CBC Sports app, CBC Gem, and the Radio-Canada Sports app, according to a CPC press release.
“CPC will also premiere two digital shows a day on Facebook and Twitter featuring live competition and top highlights…
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OTTAWA – Media Technology Monitor (MTM) released a new report today that shows younger Canadians are more likely to turn away from or mute ads than older Canadians.
MTM found when a television commercial comes on, 53% of viewers look for something else to do and 45% of viewers turn to another screen. “Younger TV viewers aged 18-49 are more likely to do so than are older ones,” a press release reads.
People aged 18-34 are twice as likely as those 50+ to mute the sound on online advertisements that come on with 25% having reported doing so and are almost…
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QUEBEC – Quebecor announced today it will air a debate between four political party leaders on Sept. 2 at 8 p.m. on TVA, LCN, QUB Radio, and their digital platforms.
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-François Blanchet and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh have all been invited to the debate. TVA’s Pierre Bruneau will host.
There will also be a pre-debate broadcast aired at 6 p.m. and a post-debate broadcast at 10 p.m. with analysts.
Earlier this week, the Debate Broadcast Group announced French and English-language debates will be held at the Canadian Museum of History in…
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Conservatives release 83-page electoral platform
By Denis Carmel
The recently announced federal election officially signals the death of Bill C-10.
In dissolving the House of Commons, any “incomplete business is terminated, including government and private members’ bills,” reads the House of Commons website.
This includes Bill C-10, the legislation intended to modernize the Broadcasting Act.
So much work for nothing is distressing but it also illustrates the difficulty of legislating in today’s world, especially with a minority government.
Assuming a new government reintroduces the same bill or a new one, they will have to start from scratch. So those 159 witnesses, 55 briefs tabled, 28 meetings…
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CBC’S DIGITAL AND STREAMING platforms grew record-high audiences over the course of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with Canadians streaming more than 37 million video views, a 62% increase over the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, according to a CBC press release today.
CBC platforms include CBC.ca, the CBC Olympics App and CBC Gem. Live views made up 61% of all video views across CBC’s digital platforms, and connected TVs accounted for about 68% of the total time spent streaming Tokyo 2020 content on CBC Gem, the release says.
“In total, Canadians consumed nearly 17 million hours of digital Olympic content on…
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TORONTO — It is no surprise to anyone the pandemic has seen an increase in streaming among Canadians, but a new report from Roku reveals just how ubiquitous streaming services have become.
Based on its own research conducted in collaboration with Fuse Insights, as well as estimates using Media Technology Monitor (MTM) data up to fall 2020, as cited by CBC, Roku says in its report 77% of Canadians were watching streaming TV services by the end of 2020.
In the last 12 months, 46% of Canadian TV streamers have signed up for a new streaming service, and 60% of Canadians…
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TORONTO — Canada-based global distribution group Blue Ant International announced today it has acquired the international licensing rights to Spirit to Soar, a one-hour documentary inspired by Tanya Talaga’s award-winning book, Seven Fallen Fathers, which brought attention to the uninvestigated deaths of seven Indigenous high school students in northern Ontario between 2000 and 2011.
The documentary looks at how the book came to Talaga (above), an Anishinaabe storyteller and journalist, when she travelled to Thunder Bay on a federal election assignment and discovered the story of the seven Indigenous youth who had either died or gone missing.
“This documentary examines the…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC announced today in Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2021-266 it has administratively renewed the CBC’s broadcasting licences from September 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022, and extended the distribution orders for CBC News Network, ICI RDI and ICI ARTV until March 31, 2022.
The Corporation’s licences were previously administratively renewed from September 1, 2020, to August 31, 2021, and the distribution orders for CBC News Network, ICI RDI and ICI ARTV were previously extended until August 31, 2021.
The public hearings for the CBC’s licence renewals took place in January.
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